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The "dance" results you are seeing can also be contributed to where you are checking the positions from, platform (o/s, computer type, laptop, mobile etc), the country/city you are in when checking, whether you are signed in to Google etc.

Clear cookies/cache/ip address each rank check and try to replicate the same variables at all times, this might give you more stable feedback.

All the best :).

Good luck with this George, google places is a tiresome part of Google many have lengthy issues with.

Try anything and everything, you can stop when it finally works.

I've see similar concerns from others, it seems "rogerbot" does ignore certain things that other bots consider.

Don't worry about it, if it's not being flagged in WMT it shouldn't be an issue.

Take Roger as a guide rather than an iron fist bot like googlebot.

Hi Will,

I would be more inclined to put them on their own sub domains.

All the best

I would say stop the guest blogging link building, pretty sure I read somewhere it's frowned upon if you have a lot of links coming in from blogs, especially if the blog is not related to your theme/products.

Reason being I believe is that people can easily set up automated linking systems to take advantage of blogs. Especially don't be pointing links to your site from a page if it is blatently being used by link spammers even if it's relative to your site, G will see these spammers and your link will be getting mixed in with the crud.

Make sure there is no overo-ptimization on your site either.

Hope this helps, all the best

You basically have to change up the phrases a lot, don't just stick to specific phrases because G is getting good at filtering out blatent over use of phrases and keywords and will penalize, try and think of ten ways to say the same word or phrase then scatter that throughout your text. Of course it is better to have a targetted phrase or keyword per page only, don't expect one page to rank highly for 5 different kw's or phrases, so you may need to devleope more pages/content. Hope that helps, all the best

Hello,

It is generally used when you have two or more pages with very similar or the same content.

It basically tells the bots that you know th othr pag has similar content and it is bing don on purpose.

You use it in the link from the first similar page to the second simliar page, take a look here for a full explanation.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

Hope this helps, all the best

When that happens it's usually about relativity IMO, G sees the other page as more fitting to the search term but it can also be over optimisation, carefully with your keywords, don't over do them if you can avoid it.

I'm sure there are other considerations like linking but thats what I have found previously.

All the best.

I respect Francisco's response however if it were me I would go for the longer url as the main one and redirect the older one to it. If you are building links you shouldn't be doing it to a url that get's redirected, of course that is just my opinion, but hope I could give you something to consider.

All the best

Mark's suggestion was quite good and yes I would say if the site isn't written properly (putting caps where they should be) google might see it as a sign of poor quality content.

All the best.

Mark's suggestion was quite good and yes I would say if the site isn't written properly (putting caps where they should be) google might see it as a sign of poor quality content.

All the best.

Basically, what everyone has said, take a wide angled approach, which will take time.

"in google webmaster tools we have targeted the shop domain to United States, which may be another factor"

That's your problem right there.

If you tell google that your site is aimed towards the U.S market, you will have to put up with "Unites States" next to your site.

Sorry but there is no way around it, that's google for you.

I really don't think there is much of a difference - both the same page, although perhaps a landing page is a direct hit from either a URL typed in or a link, whereas an entrance page could be used when they are specifically reading other pages directed from that page.....if that makes sense.

Best guess of mine simplified, same page, just thought of as slightly different for analytical reasons/metrics.

The tag is usually used to indicate you have duplicate/very similar content on the same site.

So if you have the tag pointing to an offsite site/page it could be the reason you are getting the warning?

Hello Alan,

I'm from QLD and on a very poor wireless connection, it took about 6 secs for the page to physically load and about another two for the rest of the non physical loading/communication with the server/s.

A very decent load time IMO, and it would really depend on the speed of the connection that the end user has, but there are websites and tools that measure your speed against most of the other sites on the net.

All the best, I hope I was of some assistance

It's a bit tricky, because google could still deem a spammy link even if the DA or DT is relatively ok.

Consider adding nofollow to links you may think google could see as suspect, these will usually be to sites that are heavily optimized, actively advertise/offer link exchanges/highly non relevent sites etc....

Basically Google and other search engines will calculate the total number of words on a page and say for instance 20% of those words are written EXACTLY the same it will be classed as duplicate content.

Basically think of copying a paragraph, and pasting it on another page = duplicate content.

Hope that helps, all the best

I would say most likely yes. US sites still show internationally so if your main target audience is in the U.S I would keep that as the target rather than risk anything. All the best.

4000 links from any site would look a bit unatural. Over at the google forums they preach that inbounds links will not hurt you unless you have previously got a boost from them, and if they get discounted you will then lose any benefit they gave. But 4000 links could look intentionally shady.