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Hi

We run a few websites and when we canonically tag to let Google know which is our main brand for duplicate content we use a canonical tag.

However, we are also using noindex, nofollow and noarchive.

Is this correct, will the link juice of the canonical tag still flow with these meta names, is it necissary? what is the best practice for the Robots meta name here?

<meta name="<a class="attribute-value">robots</a>" content="<a class="attribute-value">noindex, nofollow, noarchive</a>" /> 

Hi

I know I can use Twitter and latest posts on Google & Blogs, but I was wondering what are the best tools at the moment to use if you are looking to write about up to the minute information about a certain topic.

Say the topic is London, is there a website or tag cloud to understand what people are saying about London right now? Anything better than Social Mention?

Hi

We use the Cross Domain Rel Canonical for duplicate content between our own websites, but what about affiliates sites who want our XML feed, (descriptions of our products).

We don´t mind being credited but would this present a danger for us? Who is controlling the use of that cross domain rel canonical, us in our feed or them?

Is there another way around it?

Hi

Im looking at a site with multiple products available in multiple languages. Some of the languages are not complete, so where the product description is not available in that language the new page, with its own url in the other languages may take the English version.

However, this description is perhaps 200 words long only, and after the description are a host of other products displays within that category. So say for example we were selling glasses, there is a 200 word description about glasses (this is the part that is being copied across the languages) and then 10 products underneath that are translated.

So the pages are somewhat different but this 200 word description is copied thru different versions of our site. Currently, the english version is not rel=canonical, would it be better to add the english version where we lack a description and do the canonical option or in fact better to leave it blank until we have a translated description?

As its only part of the onpage wording, would this 200 word subsection cause us duplication issues?

"Your site wont get any penalties as long as your site was indexed first."

So that´s 100% the case, if we were indexed first and our content is indexed no need to worry?

Hi

The websites on which our content will be appearing also pull XML info from many websites so we can´t control them as tightly as ourselves.

Is there anything we can do on our own pages to ensure we get authorship (I though Author tags, no), so we allow them to have the content but google always understands our´s is the original?

Both your solutions mean action on another company´s site.

Hi

Some advice appreciated.  Started working on a site and found out that they are giving their unique content to their affiliates (an XML feed so appearing on another domain).

In this case, if they want to provide the data like that, how can we protect ourselves?

Should we use author tags in our html, is that necessary?

Is there any fix other than "stop doing that and give them different content"?

Thanks

The Google + company brand on the right. linking to a companies Google plus page.

The Google + company brand on the right. linking to a companies Google plus page.

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-plus-content-replaces-ads/41452/

We have a Google plus page, but the results aren't coming up there

Do you need a certain amount of people in your circles, what is the criteria to get your brand here? Any links?

Sorry, I meant I was looking for an up to date, frequently updated blog, not software.

Hi

The site I'd been following over the years last updated in May, so it's clearly not the authority it once was, I know there's a PPC post here about once a month but I was wondering where do the PPC brigade spend most of their time? My work is 50/50 atm but was once much more PPC focused, is there an SEOMOZ equiv. in the Paid Search world?

Hi Zeph,

I can turn my video into an infographic? It's a city guide, you think that will fly?

Hi

We've been using all kinds of domain endings including .co.uk, .uk.net and even .co, it doesn't seem to hurt ctr massively, what it can hurt is people coming back to site, people will forget a domain ending and, if you're uk based, assume it was .co.uk or .com. This is what happens in my experience.

Hi

We've spent a month putting together a really complete and awesome video guide, it really is a beautiful and useful thing and is hands down the best bit of content online on this subject. - Great... but

Getting the eyeballs and getting the links?

Related Bloggers and Influencers....

Egobait (anyone who is in the video)

Customers (inform those who already use our site)

But who am I missing, this is our first guide, and a months work deserves a really good push, how else can I push this content for a) links and b) views.

Whats your checklist?

All suggestions welcome, I will revert with success of this afterwards.

Think you have to throw a sitemap up and do some social bookmarking and just wait. I know its infuriating esp if you've worked on site that index the same day.

OK, so a wide range of clothing options cuts out the niche problem, WW delivery?

Guess it also depends on how far you are with DA already. With a newer, low DA site may well be worth it. As long as you're happy to never get a hit from it, and absorb it all into your link budget...

There's a few key directories that are mentioned time and again as supersafe, Yahoo, BOTW, DMOZ, Business plus a few others. I'd be interested to know what biz you're trying to promote. For example, I've heard (and someone can correct me please if im wrong) that the mor niche you are, the more likely you are to get buried and the less the link means - ie, if you run a B&B in Kensington, you'll be HOME>TRAVEL>ACCOMMODATION>HOTELS>EUROPE>UNITED KINGDOM>LONDON>KENSINGTON - this may be an ott example, but you get the jist.

anyone?

Hi Ryan,

OK, basically I have a lot (say 250,000) products open to me, but as we're doing every single product page by hand with unique content, it would take lifetimes or an army to fill out all these pages so maybe its time to get super selective. Basically, we're up against a lot of companies all with the same product, so I want to stand a chance to rank 1st page, perhaps being selective in the products we choose will help us out.

Any other ideas besides internal linking and obv external links?