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Todd,

When you access www.pitchcare.com/shop/moss-control/ it will show you the exact content if you go to www.pitchcare.com/shop/moss-control/index.html.

Google See these two URL as 2 different URLs with same content, hence your content is duplicated

this is an article of how to deal with DC from Google Blog http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/12/deftly-dealing-with-duplicate-content.html

Your site is indexed by Google:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=site%3Ateacherprose.com

SEOMoz Crawler test it didnt pick it up as indexed because you 301 non www to www. it might take time to see the changes in the index. but you are fine. you have nothing to worry about.

Todd,

One URL have /index.html and the other URL is without.

and i dnt thing you have been penalized for excessive internatl links.

and I would add more content to accommodate additional links.

I found multiple issues that can help you serve Google with the page you want to rank.

• I think there is an issue of Duplicate content your having with your website.

your page can be accessed by going to http://www.pitchcare.com/shop/moss-control/ and http://www.pitchcare.com/shop/moss-control/index.html so what i would do is either 301 redirect or rel canonical

• In side Moss Control category items and pages try to do internal linking to the main directory.

For example http://www.pitchcare.com/shop/hard-surface-moss-killer/index.html i would link from this page to the main category

• try do to some link building to these Main category pages, (social bookmarking) blogs, articles, etc.

Definetly Not,

i would rather invest my time searching for potential niches that have exact searches of more than 6000 per month.

cheers

if you check the exact people doing a search for :champagne champagne: its only 1600  searches worldwide.

sorry i didnt make it clear

SEOMoz Have its own Keyword Difficulty tool and it have a very good and powerful analysis for the top 10 rankings.

http://www.seomoz.org/keyword-difficulty

Hi,

your keyword search was based on a broad match.

that means "champagne punch" and "champage cocktails"  will be counted for the search volume of a broad "champagne" keyword.

you need adjust and pull the search volume for exact keyword .

• Input your keyword in the text Box
• click Search
• Under "Match Types" uncheck broad and check Exact

This way you will have the search volume of the people that will only type "champagne" and nothing else

Hi Nick,

I use sometimes GSiteCrawler (http://gsitecrawler.com/)

After Crawling, you can dissect your sitemap the way you want and export them

Hi Robert,

Basically when you load your website, all the content that shows without scrolling down is called "Above the fold", Hence the term Below the fold, means all the content that will appear when you scroll down to see the rest of your site.

take a look at this article (http://andrewhansen.name/affiliate-marketing/google-checkmates-me-but-reveals-internal-secrets/) it shows that Google have the ability to know what is above or below the fold and can calculate the ratio of content / Ads.

And Concerning Ehow, Josh Hannah (Former Owner of Ehow) gave his 2 cents of why EHow didn't get hit with the Panda Update. (http://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Google-push-down-low-quality-results-from-sites-such-as-eHow-the-same-way-it-pushes-up-results-from-Wikipedia/answer/Josh-Hannah)

I am going to quote what Google said concerning your issue:

" Our indexing process often handles this case for webmasters and users. While it’s not totally optimal behavior, it’s perfectly legitimate and a-okay. "

reference (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html)

I don't know if you stumble upon this Extension,

but it may resolve your problems.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/EcommerceTeam/extension/4420/layered_navigation_seo

Ok Andrew,

just Checked your site headers, robots, meta tags and every is Ok!

Try these and wait for few days:

• Submit your site to Pingoat.com
• try to tweet your website threw your account
• under Diagnostics in Google WT there is fetch as Google Bot, run it threw the website and check the page if google crawled.

I believe in the next few days, ur site will be crawled and indexed

In this case you need to use rel Canonical

His your reference from Miva Merchant

http://www.mivamerchant.com/blog/google-addresses-duplicate-content

Its no Spammy, but in the long term, people will link to you using the lowercase URLs and u may risk a duplicate content issue.

If you have full access to Apache configuration,

RewriteEngine On
RewriteMap  lc int:tolower
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} [A-Z]
RewriteRule (.*) ${lc:$1} [R=301,L]

(you need to define RewriteMap in HTTPD config so you can call it out from htaccess)

Redirect Loop is when you create 2 opposite redirect rules.

and basically your site will never load at al,l because the browser will time out

did you try ?

RedirectMatch 301 /STNT.html http://www.domain.com

First you would like to search for blogs in your niche that will allow guest posting

you can use these queries

• inpostauthor:”guest author” {your keyword here}
• inpostauthor:”guest post” {your keywordhere}

Yes it will more beneficiary to have the URL

Hi Goodnewscowboy,

To block the whole folder you dont need to use the wild card (*)

and I advise you to also do these steps:

1. Verify your ownership of the site in Webmaster Tools.
2. On the Webmaster Tools home page, click the site you want.
3. On the Dashboard, click Site configuration in the left-hand navigation.
4. Click Crawler access, and then click Remove URL.
5. Click New removal request.
6. Type the URL of the page you want removed, and then click Continue. Note that the URL is case-sensitive—you will need to submit the URL using exactly the same characters and the same capitalization that the site uses.
7. Select Remove page from cache only.
8. Select the checkbox to confirm that you have completed the requirements listed in this article, and then clickSubmit Request.

Cheers

Oh ,

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