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  • ChrisHillfd


    Hi, I've recently had the misfortune of my site's ip address being crawled and indexed by Google, which is causing some duplicate content issues. Due to the nature of the site we're not able to implement a canonical tag to fix this at present. Would a 301 redirect do the trick, and if so, could someone point me to what I'd need to add to our .htaccess file? Many thanks Chris

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | ChrisHillfd
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  • ltom


    Hello everybody! Quick and short question: What is better when you want to rank for your your brandname? www.jobsbrandname.com or www.brandnamejobs.com I think for SEO it's better to use the last one but marketing has the wish to use the first one. Thanks for your responce!

    Technical SEO | | ltom
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  • nick.leech


    Our website offers an affiliate program and every affiliate gets a link http://www.ourwebsite.com/?affiliateID. Because we get many such links we use redirects to avoid duplicate content. Unfortunately we have 302 redirects set up and I want to make them 301. Many of our affiliates build backlinks using their http://www.ourwebsite.com/?affiliateID as the URL. If such links were redirected through a 301, would they pass any juice? Can our site get penalized by search engines for having backlinks to URLs that contain affiliate IDs, URLs that are 301 redirected to our homepage lets say?

    Affiliate Marketing | | nick.leech
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  • nyanainc


    Hi there Today I had the following question from a client Why my pages are only listed with a title (but no snippet) in the search results. What could be the possible reason? Can anyone help me to answer him? Thanks

    Technical SEO | | nyanainc
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  • LeeAnn30


    I have read a number of changes in Google (see:http://searchengineland.com/too-much-seo-google%E2%80%99s-working-on-an-%E2%80%9Cover-optimization%E2%80%9D-penalty-for-that-115627)
    But as of late I am having some problems with my website, and I am curious if anyone of you are also experiencing the same.
    The problem is this in SEO it is a SOP that you use your target keyword as your anchor text having the url as the landing page for the page you want to rank for.
    But recently the pages I want to rank for specific keywords are going down instead Google is ranking my homepage for keywords I don't want to rank for.
    So instead of having my target pages rank it is my homepage that gets shown in Google, now this is what is really interesting the keywords I rank for are not in the meta title, description, keywords of the homepage in fact there are no specific keywords at all in the content!
    I checked the backlinks and I have never created any backlinks to my site using those keywords I rank for.
    And this is happening at a very fast rate, rankings and pages going down and only the homepage is showing up in Google.
    I really want to know your thoughts.

    Link Building | | LeeAnn30
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  • Metropolis


    Hi Mozzers, I have a site that has returned 5,168 issues with duplicate content. Where would you start? I started sorting via High page Authority first the highest being 28 all the way down to 1. I did want to use the rel=canonical tag as the site has many redirects already. The duplicates are caused by various category and cross category pages and search results  such as ....page/1?show=2&sort=rand. I was thinking of going down the lines of a URL rewrite and changing the search anyway. Is it work redirecting everything in terms of results versus the effort of changing all the 5,168 issues? Thanks sm

    Technical SEO | | Metropolis
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  • mandinga


    Hello, It is three weeks I have begun link building to a client website through partnerships and neither Google (link:mysite.com) nor Roger are seing any of these backlinks Any idea what is the time commonly needed for small and new websites (no trafic at the moment) to see domain authority growing ? Loïc

    Link Building | | mandinga
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  • AlexParish


    Hi there! I'm new to Seomoz and am really pleased with the service so far. I've been doing some On-page optimizations and am gradually getting most of my pages to an A grade, but I wondered what the next steps would be? For example I have been looking at the search term "the shins fans". I have an A grade for my page (http://tastebuds.fm/artists/the+shins) but it lists on the 2nd page of SERPS for the term (in the UK at least). Can anyone recommend any tips for taking my page to the 1st page of SERPS? This site seems to do well: http://www.fanpop.com/spots/the-shins I am aware of the importance of link-building, but I'm specifically looking for tips on optimizing the page itself. Many Thanks, Alex

    On-Page Optimization | | AlexParish
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  • Markyseo


    Hi All, I have been working on a car  insurance site which targets US market. we have been doing all types of links to the site like - good related directory links, related blogpost and reviews. the site is updated daily with a fresh unique content. what more is needed to get it to the first page. we are currently ranking in the range of 40 - 50 on the page 4 or page 5. we have also recently done a redesign with a new cms, done a good press release but not seeing much of changes. please if anyone in the same industry or with some experience can suggest us. we are using all white hat seo & I can understand the amount of competition in this niche. Thanks

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Markyseo
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  • neooptic


    OK, bit of an odd one. The SEOmoz crawler has flagged the following pages up as duplicate content. Does anyone have any idea what's going on? http://www.gear-zone.co.uk/blog/november-2011/gear$9zone-guide-to-winter-insulation http://www.gear-zone.co.uk/blog/september-2011/win-a-the-north-face-nuptse-2-jacket-with-gear-zone http://www.gear-zone.co.uk/blog/july-2011/telephone-issues-$9-2nd-july-2011 http://www.gear-zone.co.uk/blog/september-2011/gear$9zone-guide-to-nordic-walking-poles http://www.gear-zone.co.uk/blog/september-2011/win-a-the-north-face-nuptse-2-jacket-with-gear-zone https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/googlebot-fetch?hl=en&siteUrl=http://www.gear-zone.co.uk/

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | neooptic
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  • VertiStudio


    Hello everyone, My website : www.pentrucadouri.ro, despite is a .ro with romanian content and is hosted in Romania appear for google.ro as a english targeted website.Google see internal pages as romanian ones but main page as english . In order to change this , I added : Also few days ago I uploaded a geositemap and I submitted this to google. Do you have suggestions ? Website ranks 2nd for "cosuri cadou" on google.com and 3rd on bing, but on google.ro ranks 11 . Thanks!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | VertiStudio
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  • Ravi_Pathak


    Hi, I am using LinkScape API to get follow and nofollow links . I use cron to get data for each url of sitemap.xml. However while cron is running, the extraction of data hangs on some pages which i later need to delete manually for re starting the execution. Do anyone have any idea why this is happening ? How can i ignore such pages ?

    Moz Pro | | Ravi_Pathak
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  • B-man


    For example, what if I was to conclude each meta-description tag with the line... "Free shipping for orders over $90." The rest of the meta-description tag on every page is unique, but the last sentence would be the same or at least similar. Thoughts?

    Algorithm Updates | | B-man
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  • bcarp88


    I am a new pro member and have noticed that a lot of my keywords are very similar. i.e. "piano movers Atlanta" vs. "Atlanta piano movers" vs. "piano movers in Atlanta" Is there an accurate way to see search counts for each of these terms do determine which one I should target? Does anyone have any recommended tools or strategies?

    Keyword Research | | bcarp88
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  • david305


    howdy SEO peeps, quick question. If i get a back link from two different pages from one domain, and both pages have different PR values. does google take both into its value PR or does google only take one of the links as PR juice to your site. thanks guys

    Link Building | | david305
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  • mike3185


    new pro member. great reports! but with only 8 hours in a day and hundreds of hours of work ahead (610+ site pages,) where to start once i have my reports? thanks 🙂

    Link Building | | mike3185
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  • Thos003


    It seems that real estate sites have at times been under heavier scrutiny from the search engines. But real estate agents get networking, which makes acquiring those links a little bit easier. Plus with localization of search, I think real estate sites may give off a good GEO scent. Should SEO's go for links from real estate websites? Does a reciprocal link devalue said links?

    Link Building | | Thos003
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  • clickfactory


    Howdy Mozzers! If I do a 301 redirect from a domain that say has 200 linking root domains, to a fresh domain will the fresh domain now (when updated) have a linking root domain count of 200? Also, is it beneficial or detrimental to do a 301 redirect for an unrelated website i.e. garden hose website, to a children's playgorund equipment website in order to capture the link juice? Best

    Technical SEO | | clickfactory
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  • ProjectLabs


    When targeting a keyword phrase that contains an apostrophe (in the correct spelling), is it better to use the non-apostrophe version if it has higher search volume.

    On-Page Optimization | | ProjectLabs
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  • DotCar


    I've come across a case where I'm asking myself what the best direction would be to go and while there is no right direction I would like to here some feedback from others. I'm working with some great content pages all about wine.  As you probably know the difference between a 07 wine and a 95 is vastly different and up to this point I'm using the full year in the url much like this: grapesinyourtoesexample.com/2007-cellar-pod-viognier-adelaide-hills/. What I'm worried about is my use of the year in the URL.  I feel it's very important for it to be used in the page title and on page but I'm concerned that it might be setting me back with my use of it in the url.  My concern is that search engines might be interpretting it as a datestamp rather than as a informational piece of data describing the asset. Looking at my competitors, my content is one of the only sites using the year and in most searches for various wines my content is in the second half of the SERPs. If you were creating this content would you use the year?  If you were working with current content would you drop the year across all of the site and implement to necessary redirects? Just to be clear this is a client related project so my use of "my site|my content" refers to the client's content.

    On-Page Optimization | | DotCar
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  • AsafY


    Currently for every page I automatically add my brand name Ie: poduct xxx - brand name product yyy - brand name. is this considered good or bad practice?

    Technical SEO | | AsafY
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  • theghost10


    This would be really helpful. I need to do some SEO in Mexico and am looking to work with a good Spanish-speaking SEO but have found the pickings slim. Any recommendations and observations would go far. Thank you.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | theghost10
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  • ProjectLabs


    If you were creating an informational website, how many words on a typical page do you think would be ideal for achieving the best organic traffic and rankings? Why?

    Content Development | | ProjectLabs
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  • GregoryHaze


    I'm doing SEO for a site.  It uses Media Queries and the CSS to automatically resize the site for the screen size in use.  I.e. the site detects the screen size of say an iPhone and the CSS knows which elements to hide for that screen size and still make it look good. This is great because it will automatically cut down the content to display nicely on small screens - obviating the need for a separate mobile site. What kind of sitemap should be generated since the urls are for desktop and mobile use?  Yoast (sweet SEO) said it should have both regular and mobile style sitemap to get both the regular and mobile bots to visit, but didn't elaborate on how that sitemap should look. Do you have a recommendation for how exactly the sitemap should look?  Should the sitemap have the urls all twice, i.e. once regular and once with the mobile indicator?

    Web Design | | GregoryHaze
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  • AlightAnalytics


    Some of the pages on my client's website have too many on page links because they have lists of all their products.  Is there anything I should/could do about this?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | AlightAnalytics
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  • ocelot


    Hi I am looking for some advice / lists of recommended local search directories / citations that I can add my hotel/restaurant to - as part of our strategy to improve local search rankings and increase our visibility on the web. For example I have added the business to the likes of Yelp
    Qype
    Urbanspoon
    Tipped
    Ufindus
    Hotfrog
    Freeindex
    Brownbook
    Trip Advisor But are there any specific hotel, wedding, conference and restaurant specific sites that I should add the business to also. Many Thanks

    Image & Video Optimization | | ocelot
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  • Ben-HPB


    I now that microsites have been frowned upon by may marketers as well like by many marketers. One of my ideas is say you have many different products on one website but sometimes it is a bit difficult to really find. We have built an shopping cart that allows our vendors to build a store and use the cart as their own but running off our servers. What if you take that and combine it with an affiliate marketing strategy but could control the content for each site. Let's say we build a site themed for Weddings and only had those products available in the cart for that theme and it catered information about the product for use for Weddings. Another example would be Baseball: We did the same concept with the shopping cart only having the baseball products on that site. We would provide the details that this is powered by the main company and is a sister site. Could this type of idea be beneficial to extend our products for people looking for the product via nitch vs just random? No link would go back to the main site as it would be it's own site. I am calling a microsite only because it is like one in combination of an affiliate site but without a tracking code link but a place where the customer can buy directly from without leaving the site.

    Affiliate Marketing | | Ben-HPB
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  • moondog604


    I help develop an online shopping cart and after a request from management about some products not showing up in the SERP's I was able to pinpoint it down to mostly a duplicate content issue. It's a no brainer as some times new products are inserted in with copied text from the manufacturers website. I recently though stumbled across a odd problem. When we partially re-wrote the content to seem unique enough it seemed to remedy the issue for some keywords and not others. A) If you search the company name our category listing shows as #1 ahead of the manufacturers website. We always did rank for this term. B) If you search the product name our product page is listed #3 behind two other listings which belong to the manufacturer. C) If you search the keywords together as "company product" we are still being filtered out as duplicate content. When I allow the filtered results to show we are ranking #4 It's been a full month since the changes were indexed. Before I rewrite the content even further I thought I would ask to see if any one has any insight as to what could be happening.

    Technical SEO | | moondog604
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  • DanielFreedman


    Okay, so based on common sense re: author name and generic comment... ...I'm pretty sure this blog comment awaiting approval is aimed at getting users to a phony site in hopes they will make a donation to a fraudster impersonating Johns Hopkins. But if you check out the URL, you'll see they are not idiots. It's an .edu address with a high DA. Two questions: Are my suspicions well founded? How would I go about proving this, in a less clear cut case? Author : how to grow weed (IP: 173.208.91.231 , 173-208-91-231.ipvnow.com)
    E-mail : Diekema@gmail.com
    URL    : http://apps.pathology.jhu.edu/blogs/pancreas/?p=121
    Whois  : http://whois.arin.net/rest/ip/173.208.91.231
    Comment:
    After study a few of the blog posts on your website now, and I truly like your way of blogging. I bookmarked it to my bookmark website list and will be checking back soon. Pls check out my web site as well and let me know what you think

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | DanielFreedman
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  • esencia


    I am running a campaing for three weeks now and first two crawls was ok but the last one is showing only one page crawled. the subdomain I am tracking is: www.cubaenmiami.com I have everything correct in my site. Regards Alex

    Moz Pro | | esencia
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  • caliboyz


    I have a main domain name and 20+ related alias domains pointing to it. Is there a danger, penalty or concern that I should be aware of related to alias domains? I saw something on Google "Apps Administration" under "What is a domain alias" saying  "you can add up to 20 domian aliases" but I don't use Google Apps.  Please advise... Thank you, Chris

    Algorithm Updates | | caliboyz
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  • thomasfasting


    I get the following message when I try to start a new campaign. "We have detected that the domain www.shewula.nl and the domain shewula.nl both respond to web requests and do not redirect" In the q&a I found answers to this problem and tried to fix it. No success yet. This is what I have in my old ht.access file: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}    ^www.shewula.nl$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !^/STICHTING_SHEWULA/ RewriteRule (.*)    /STICHTING_SHEWULA/$1 [last] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}    ^shewula.nl$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !^/STICHTING_SHEWULA/ RewriteRule (.*)    /STICHTING_SHEWULA/$1 [last] I changed it to ( got it from the answers 😞 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^shewula.nl
    RewriteRule (.*) http://www.shewula.nl/$1 [R=301,L] This gave me a 500 internal error in the server header checker tool. Does anybody know how I can fix this? The website is in a folder in the root of my other website  www.fastingfotografie.nl Could this give me a problem? Thanks. Thomas

    On-Page Optimization | | thomasfasting
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  • Probikeshop


    We recently deleted all the nofollow values on our website. (2 weeks ago) The number of pages indexed by google is the same as before? Do you have explanations for this? website : www.probikeshop.fr

    Technical SEO | | Probikeshop
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  • dhk5018


    My website has MANY duplicate pages and content which are both derived from the MANY 404 pages on my website.  While these are flagged in SEOmoz as "Warnings," should this be of concern to SEO effectiveness?

    Moz Pro | | dhk5018
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  • MyNet


    Does anyone know how to make WordPress "tag" pages automatically generate a description based on the posts included in the tag?  I have a lot of tags, and most of them rank well for long tail keywords.  However I have noticed that although they have a dynamically generated "title meta tag" they do not generate a "description meta tag".  I know WordPress lets you customize the description for each tag, but I have way to many for that.  I need the description meta to be auto generated from the posts that are being tagged, rather than not including one at all. Does anyone know how to do this?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | MyNet
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  • pixel83


    I had an issue where I was getting duplicate page titles for my index file.  The following URLs were being viewed as duplicates: www.calusacrossinganimalhospital.com www.calusacrossinganimalhospital.com/index.html www.calusacrossinganimalhospital.com/ I tried many solutions, and came across the rel="canonical". So i placed the the following in my index.html: I did a crawl, and it seemed to correct the duplicate content.  Now I have a new message, and just want to verify if this is bad for search engines, or if it is normal.  Please view the attached image. i9G89.png

    Technical SEO | | pixel83
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  • McTaggart


    Hi, My very well known and widely respected developer is using multiple H1 tags I see - they like using them in their code and they argue multiple H1s conform with HTML5 standards. They are resisting a recode to one H1 tag per page. However, I know this is clearly an issue in Bing, so I don't want to risk it with Google. Any thoughts on whether it's best to avoid multiple H1 tags in Google (any evidence and reasoning would be great - I can then put that to my developer...) Many thanks for your help, Luke

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | McTaggart
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  • TheGrid


    As you know, Google tracks CTR on keywords for your website visible through google Webmaster Tools. How much if at all do you believe this affects your rankings on the tracked keywords?

    Algorithm Updates | | TheGrid
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  • smrs-digital


    The scenario We’ve been asked by a client, a Non-Government Organisation who are being absorbed by a larger government ministry, for help with the SEO of their site. They will be going from a reasonably large standalone site to a small sub-directory on a high authority government site and they want some input on how best to maintain their rankings. They will be going from the Number 1 ranked site in their niche (current site domainRank 59) to being a sub directory on a domainRank 100 site). The current site will remain, but as a members only resource, behind a paywall. I’ve been checking to see the impact that it had on a related site, but that one has put a catch all 302 redirect on it’s pages so is losing the benefit of a it’s historical authority. My thoughts Robust 301 redirect set up to pass as much benefit as possible to the new pages. Focus on rewriting content to promote most effective keywords – would suggest testing of titles, meta descriptions etc but not sure how often they will be able to edit the new site. ‘We have moved’ messaging going out to webmasters of existing linking sites to try to encourage as much revision of linking as possible. Development of link-bait to try and get the new pages seen. Am I going about this the right way? Thanks in advance. Phil

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | smrs-digital
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  • gerardoH


    Hi, Could you please point me to a reliable resource where I can find information on US desktop browser share? I have already found info for mobile (Comscore) but not for desktop. Thanks in advance for your replies 🙂

    Search Behavior | | gerardoH
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  • D2DWeb


    I have created some websites for my company Dor-2-Dor and there is a main website where all of the information across the board is on (www.dor2dor.com) but I also have area specific sites which are for our franchisees who run certain areas around the country (www.swansea.dor2dor.com or www.oxford.dor2dor.com) The problem is that the content that is on a lot of the pages is the same on all of them for instance our faq's page, special offers etc. What is the best way to get these pages to rank well and not have the duplicate content issues and be ranked down by search engines? Any help will be greatly received.

    On-Page Optimization | | D2DWeb
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  • Tit


    Hello again, after posting below problem I have received this answer and changed sitemap name Still I receive many duplicate titles and metas as google still compares old urls to new ones and sees duplicate title and description.... we have redirectged all pages properly we have change sitemap name and new sitemap is listed in webmastertools - old sitemap includes ONLY new sitemap files.... When you deleted the old sitemap and created a new one, did you use the same sitemap xml filename? They will still try to crawl old URLs that were in your previous sitemap (even if they aren't listed in the new one) until they receive a 404 response from the original sitemap. If anone can give me an idea why after 3 month google still lists the old urls I'd be more than happy thanks a lot Hello, We have changed cms for our multiple language website and redirected all odl URl's properly to new cms which is working just fine.
    Right after the first crawl almost 4 weeks ago we saw in google webmaster tool and SEO MOZ that google indexes for almost every singlepage the old URL as well and the new one and sends us for this duplicate metatags. 
    We deleted the old sitemap and uploaded the new and thought that google then will not index the old URL's anymore. But we still see a huge amount of duplicate metatags. Does anyone know what else we can do, so google doe snot index the old url's anymore but only the new ones? Thanks so much Michelle

    Technical SEO | | Tit
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  • net66


    Hello Mozzers, One of my clients sites is "domain.co.uk" and they are looking to rank in the USA with the same domain. They are looking to change host (for unrelated reasons) and I think it may be beneficial for them to get hosting in the USA. Essentially the business is moving to the USA but they want to retain their domain name as they cannot get their hands on a domain with their company name in that is .com / .net / .org etc. . . I know that the .co.uk domain will adversely affect click through rates in the states, but there seems to be no way around this if they want their retain the company name as their domain name. Would American based hosting help them rank better for searches from the USA or is the benefit of this negligible? Net66

    Technical SEO | | net66
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  • TRICORSystems


    I've been reading a lot about keyword cannibalization and I'm worried that some of my sub pages may be pulling rank from my home page. If I'm trying to rank my home page for the keyword phrase "blue widget manufacturing" and I have sub pages with the titles "blue manufacturing services", "blue widget enginnering", "medical widget manufacturing" is it possible that those pages could be causing me to commit keyword cannibalization? I'm looking at a lot of the results for my keyword phrase and they don't seem to have additional pages with similar keyword phrases. Wondering if I should change my titles so they don't look as optimized.

    Keyword Research | | TRICORSystems
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  • kauelinden


    We have a company that create content and send as media press. We would like to use this content in our blog. We made it using RSS and having in our blog the same content. So right now we have some concern about duplicate content. How do you guys deal with deal? Would we be penalized by duplicated content?

    Content Development | | kauelinden
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