Yes it may, but I thing you still need to beef up the unique content rather then just hide the duplicate content. may be explain to them, that a one page may rank well in all these towns, but Google is going to look at these 1,000 page s and say we are only going to rank one of them and not very well.
Posts made by AlanMosley
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RE: Replacing text with images
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RE: Link juice site structure?
You wont waste any link juice it will come back to you, these are internal links with links back to the home page, linking to these pages and back to the home page will increase the PR on the home page
Please read this page http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerank
the have a play on this calculator http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank_calculator.php
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RE: Replacing text with images
Maybe this should all be on one page that may rank well, turn a problem into a win
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RE: Does the proximity to the center of the city have anything to do with higher rankings in local results ?
I would say yes it does, simply because displaying outliers on the map is difficult.
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RE: Doubleclick and NoFollow
All links use up link juice. By no following a link, you do not save any link juice, you just don't pass it to the linked page. So the website owner has nothing to gain by no following you. The most common use of no-follow these days is to discourage spammers placing links in comments and forums.
did you place the links there? then it may be that the owner of the site will no follow you, Did he pace them there, then he has nothing to gain by no-following you.
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RE: Is my text readable? I don't see it in the page source
Could well be, try viewing as googlebot or bingbot in wmt
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RE: Link juice site structure?
If you put them in the footer may be better. you certainly don't want the, on every page.
This is a god read on how page rank works. http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerank
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RE: Doubleclick and NoFollow
I have no knowledge of doubleclick, but the page will be leaking link juice thought al those links no matter what he does., so there would be nothing to gain from the website owner by no-following you.
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RE: Replacing text with images
Maybe get some international tld domains. There is no problem with having a duplicate site if they are in different tlds
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RE: Server redirect query
Azure does Linux also. Best set up a virtual machine and select an image, there are many to choose from, windows and Linux.
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RE: New jobboard: Can redirecting folder (site.com/jobboard) to subdomain (jobboard.site.com) hurt SEO?
I have had the argument over and over, most say subdirectories are better, but none have produced any evidence to back this. On the contrary
Deb, it really is a pretty personal choice. For something small like a blog, it probably won’t matter terribly much. I used a subdirectory because it’s easier to manage everything in one file storage space for me. However, if you think that someday you might want to use a hosted blog service to power your blog, then you might want to go with blog.example.com just because you could set up a CNAME or DNS alias so that blog.example.com pointed to your hosted blog service. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/What's the difference between using subdomains and subdirectories? When it comes to Google, there aren't major differences between the two http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2008/01/feeling-lucky-at-pubcon.html
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RE: Server redirect query
My suggestion get a new host.
I work on windows servers not Linux, but on windows you can load balance quite easily without the ww2 idea.
I also wonder about the too much traffic, I host at Azure and you can easily upgrade your server at the press of a button, but if the site is written well you would have to be very very busy to need to. Are you using a cms?
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RE: 301, 404 or 410? what is the best practice
404, 410 it does not matter, you have removed the pages that is the main thing.
But to be correct you should use a 410, as they are gone forever, while 404 just means not found.
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RE: Should I report this to Google and will anything happen ?
Yep report it to Google and Bing. Hidden text is against Google guidelines. I would not contact the owner or they may try to get you back with spam likes or something.
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?hl=en Bing also once had a page, ubt I can no longer find it
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RE: Why do small changes in keyword phrasing have such big SERP impacts?
DA and PA is worked out by SEOMoz, it is not the same as how SE's would do it. Its just a guideline. There are also other factors. a website about dogs with low DA, may outrank a website about cats with high DA for the term puppies.
It may be that one site is seen as more relevant than the other, or do better in some other factor.
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RE: Indexed pages
as Sheldon said.
A page that is in the Search engine index.do a search for site:mydomain.com and you will see your indexed pages
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RE: Using H tags and its maximum Limits
I agree, bing for example say only one H1, but for other tags there is no limit, my concern is that it sounds like you my have a problem with keyword stuffing if the page reads un-naturally.
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RE: Why do small changes in keyword phrasing have such big SERP impacts?
I think you were correct in the first place, there are probably many more pages using the "IN" in their content, so more compeditive
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RE: Meta Geotag - two locations on one website
I would not, no on the same page at least. I would expect that the last tag is used the previous tags will be dismissed, but there could also be a spam signal who knows.
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RE: href="#" and href="javascript.void()" links. Is there a difference SEO wise?
All links consume link juice even nofollow links.
What happens to the link juice is the question, does href="#" just flow back to the same page, first thoughts are yes, but then if that is the case, you would be able to manipulate how much link juice flows out of other links but adding more. so I think they may waste link juice. JavaScript links use link juice and there is no guarantee that Google is able to pass that link juice on.A lot of CMS use this type of links href="#" on a A tag then use the A tag for some other reason, such as a button to fire JavaScript. I believe that if you want a button use a button, if you want a JavaScript link then attach the event to a SPAN or DIV, use A tags only for real links and be sure you know what is happening to your link juice.
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RE: How to Handle Sketchy Inbound Links to Forum Profile Pages
If I understand you, you have spam links pointing to profile pages, from there you link to your site.
then noindex,nofollow or removing the intermediate page will solve the issue.
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RE: Why might Google be crawling via old sitemap, when the new one has been submitted and verified?
you may still have links pointing to those 404 pages on your site or externally. If not then eventually they will fall out of the index
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RE: Noindex,follow is a waste of link juice?
If you no index a page, link juice will flow to that page still. if you no follow it, it will still flow but will not flow out of it again.
you should always add noindex,follow if you want the link juice to return to your index pages. Even then some link juice will be lost that stays on that noindex page
I tried also could not find it. but here is a quote from Matt Cutts "Eric Enge: Can a NoIndex page accumulate PageRank?
Matt Cutts: A NoIndex page can accumulate PageRank, because the links are still followed outwards from a NoIndex page.
Eric Enge: So, it can accumulate and pass PageRank.
Matt Cutts: Right, and it will still accumulate PageRank, but it won't be showing in our Index. So, I wouldn't make a NoIndex page that itself is a dead end. You can make a NoIndex page that has links to lots of other pages.
For example you might want to have a master Sitemap page and for whatever reason NoIndex that, but then have links to all your sub Sitemaps.
Eric Enge: Another example is if you have pages on a site with content that from a user point of view you recognize that it's valuable to have the page, but you feel that is too duplicative of content on another page on the site
That page might still get links, but you don't want it in the Index and you want the crawler to follow the paths into the rest of the site.
Matt Cutts: That's right. Another good example is, maybe you have a login page, and everybody ends up linking to that login page. That provides very little content value, so you could NoIndex that page, but then the outgoing links would still have PageRank.
Now, if you want to you can also add a NoFollow metatag, and that will say don't show this page at all in Google's Index, and don't follow any outgoing links, and no PageRank flows from that page. We really think of these things as trying to provide as many opportunities as possible to sculpt where you want your PageRank to flow, or where you want Googlebot to spend more time and attention."
http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-matt-cutts.shtml
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RE: Canonical needed after no index
I tried also could not find it.
but here is a quote from Matt Cutts
"Eric Enge: Can a NoIndex page accumulate PageRank?Matt Cutts: A NoIndex page can accumulate PageRank, because the links are still followed outwards from a NoIndex page.
Eric Enge: So, it can accumulate and pass PageRank.
Matt Cutts: Right, and it will still accumulate PageRank, but it won't be showing in our Index. So, I wouldn't make a NoIndex page that itself is a dead end. You can make a NoIndex page that has links to lots of other pages.
For example you might want to have a master Sitemap page and for whatever reason NoIndex that, but then have links to all your sub Sitemaps.
Eric Enge: Another example is if you have pages on a site with content that from a user point of view you recognize that it's valuable to have the page, but you feel that is too duplicative of content on another page on the site
That page might still get links, but you don't want it in the Index and you want the crawler to follow the paths into the rest of the site.
Matt Cutts: That's right. Another good example is, maybe you have a login page, and everybody ends up linking to that login page. That provides very little content value, so you could NoIndex that page, but then the outgoing links would still have PageRank.
Now, if you want to you can also add a NoFollow metatag, and that will say don't show this page at all in Google's Index, and don't follow any outgoing links, and no PageRank flows from that page. We really think of these things as trying to provide as many opportunities as possible to sculpt where you want your PageRank to flow, or where you want Googlebot to spend more time and attention."
http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-matt-cutts.shtml
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RE: Magento Redirect Loop
where have you set this redirect, via magneto? or in the .htaccess file?
I would look in my htaccess file and see what redirects are there
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RE: Magento Redirect Loop
It would not mater what it sees it as, its what renders that is important. but web servers can tell what is a directory and what is not, I assume search engines can too.
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RE: Canonical needed after no index
Where did you hear this
Matt Cutts as I remember stated that that link juice will flow thought if you use a follow, if I remember correctly it was in a interview with Rand on SEOMOZ
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RE: Big problem with my new crawl report
When you no index a page, any links pointing to those pages pour away link juice from you indexed pages. you should never no-index pages IMO
I assume you are using a CMS or some sort of plug in, this is a common cost when you do so. CMS create very untidy code, not good for SEO
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RE: Magento Redirect Loop
I would need to look at your code.
but why redirect to .html, it does nothing for you, and does not read as well.
my preferred url is with the slash at the end and no extension, I don't like the slash because people rarely write a slash when manually typing your url, causing a redirect to the slash.
to get rid of slash you need something like
RewriteRule (.)/$ $1 [L,R]
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RE: Google not showing the proper title
I noticed tis on one of my sites also. How long have they been doing this? I know they have been doing so for a long time if you have no title or a generic title like "home", but it was only recent that I noticed putting the brand at the front.
I also noticed that it is not doing so for my US sites just my Australian sites
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RE: SEO quandary advice needed
When I said links I did not mean the urls, I meant incoming links.
Assuming both pages have no links, then swapping the urls will not do anything, as Google like one page more then the other, and it will re-rank then after its next crawl.
But if the older page has incoming links then it may well work.
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RE: Simple ways to boost Domain Authority
place the word Google spelt backwards in your meta keywords.
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RE: SEO quandary advice needed
considering links are the same, swaping urls will not work as when google crawls the content it will again rank the content it thinks is best.
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RE: Hacking and security
I don't think its the server, wordpress and other cms are continually hacked. The server can not stop much at all. your code needs stop most hacks, and since wordpress is used by so many, all some one needs to do is hack their own and then they can go out and hack all wordpress sites of the same version.
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RE: Blog posts with currently no links question
If you have no links pointing to a page then it has no PR at all. It will also have no PR unless it has a outgoing link, see the original algorithm.
yes put the internal links in
see http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerank
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RE: URL redirect question
15% is in the original algorithm, it may have changed but I doubt if much, if you read the algorithm its a pretty well thought out figure of decay.
I have seen the video and it is not very clear at all, maybe on purpose.
What he says is that a 301 loses as much PR as a link, I agree. all requests lose 15%,
You can't have a 301 without first going though a link. I think where people are getting confused is they think a 301 replaces a link request, it dose not, it is an extra request.
If you read the comments of the video and much discussion around the web you will see what I mean.
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RE: We have a static sitemap and a blog...Uh oh!
As long as the pages are linked you need not have them in the site map.
a sitemap is not even necessary for most sites,but the best way to generate is http://www.bing.com/blogs/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive/2013/02/20/building-sitemaps-manually-stop-until-you-read-this.aspx
Google has something simuar
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RE: URL redirect question
That's not what Google said, they said that a 301 redirect loses as much as a link, from the original algorithm that was 15%
so you have link to page.htm you loose 15%
it is then redirected to page.html, loose 15% of what left
it is then 301 redirected to page again loose 15% of what is left.
You are making 3 requests each loses 15%
With Bing they will only pass link juice though 1 redirect
http://thatsit.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-redirection-response-results-in-another-redirection
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RE: Sill cant seem to get images indexed by Goolge
I assume you have let google and bing know where you sitemap is? if you put it at the root called sitemap.xml they will find it anyhow, or put it in your robots.txt
But really you should not need to, unless tthey are not reachable to the crawler.
What I suggest you do, is mark up not just your image but each product using schema.org, this will tell the search engine that you have a product, what its called, the description, the image of that product, the price, the maker and other stuff.
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RE: Sitemap contains Meta NOINDEX pages - Good or bad?
Bad, the sitmap is telling SE's to index, the noindex is telling them not to.
Bing for one will ignore your sitemap if it is more then 2% incorrect.
As chis said, why noindex, this means that all links pointing to the no-indexed pages are wasting their link juice
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RE: Web pages fighting over rank for one keyword. Can it be stopped?
Then if they are linked that that's ok, but if you change the title of the other pages,, that may stop them ranking but it wont help your target page rank.
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RE: Web pages fighting over rank for one keyword. Can it be stopped?
In 2 ways, both link juice and users, by linking from other ranking pages to the target page, you can funnel PR and relevancy, you can also funnel users to your target, how you do this is up to you, having not seen the pages this could be easy or hard, but I would be encouraging users to click thought to your target page somehow.
you also need to be carful on changing the content too much as you may change the ranking doing so.
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RE: Multiple on-page links to single domain
no don't think so.
Going by the original algorithm this is what would happen. and all testing I have seen since then show page rank flows much the same way still.
When we say 100% that is 100% of the PR it had to pass, as only 85% of PR is passed, http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerank
Imagine the page has only one link, then 100% would pass to that one page, would google weaken it? then why weaken it if passed to 5 pages?
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RE: Am i getting backlink benefits from sites i design and host
I also used to put a link on sites I made, because the sites were rarely relevant I did not think they would be of much value but it wouldn't hurt.
That has changed, my site dropped of the map when penguin came in, it only came back when I removed lots these but not only these types of links.
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RE: Canonical needed after no index
If its not in the index, then a canonical will have no value.
I wold no no index any page unless you have a very good reason, if I had to I would use meta tag, noindex,follow so that any link juice pointing to the page will be returned
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RE: Why do some domains out rank stronger authority domains
Mat is correct, to put it short.
A weak site about dogs, may beat a strong site about cats for the search term "dogs"