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Hey,

Since anybody on the web could basically copy your content and post it on their own site without you knowing, I'm pretty sure that Google knows this and has something built in their algorythm. where there's a "first come first serve" kind of rule. If your content was the first one, it's pretty clear that it will be the one taken into account, since you won't be able to continuously track your content and make sure it's not being copied.

That being said - if you can tell them to change it - you probably should at least try.

Cheers

Hi,

Definitely fix! If this is true than it means that some of your actual bisitors also encounter this, which means pretty poor page analytics, which can be very harmful for SaeO ofc.

Thanks!

Hey.

Rand had a recent whiteboard friday about this topic which I think will answer your question back 2 front. Here's the link: https://moz.com/blog/ranking-fluctuations

Hope this helps

Is he using relevant anchor text kwds? If not, they might be ignored I think. not an expert thiugh, i'm curious to see what others say.

Hey there,

You always need to make sure that your pages don't try to rank for the same keyword otherwise you're basically competing against yourself. One thing you could try is dial down this keyword on your homepage to help boost your target page, or start sending more links towards the target page with the target keyword so that G knows that there's where the most valuable info is.

Also make sure that you have enough internal links from your own site telling G that this is the page where this content is best addressed.

Hope this helps If it does please send a like. Thanks!

Have you tested with some brand url's like moz for example? Perhaps it's that website's technical problem and not something relating to your own url.

Cheers

Hi there,

You forgot the most important thing. You're disallowing a lot of things but not allowing access in the first place.

Allow: /

add this on line 2 of your robots.txt file.

Good luck

Hey Frank,

Long story short - it's never too late to hop on and compete unless you're going against something like Levi's. The thing is - at first you can target long-tailed keywords and rank really well for those, and earn a decent buck out of that until you can start growing your DA, backlinks, reputation, etc.

The way I see this - it's a question of..."will this domain get bigger at a faster rate than mine or not?". Per-se...if this domain gets 3-5-10 quality backlinks due to the quality of its content every day or two, then you probably shouldn't bother unless you have the team / skills / money needed to really come in with a bang and invest massively in your SEO.

If you think the content is average like you say - this might be worth a try.

Hope this helps

It's unlikely that they'll stop counting at all. I think that at least part of the value should still flow to the domain. i think it would be better if you could create a better version of those pages with good links and canonicalize the old ones.

I Wouldn't bet on that working. Why not use the exact same code in .htaccess format, or even PHP? Javascript is a coding language that is parsed after the window starts loading, it's not like PHP where it gets parsed before the load.

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Sure they will, but it will likely take a bit of time

Good luck!!!

Hey Frank,

Thanks for the PM. I've had a look at the domain, it's not doing bad but it's not a juggernaut either. If you know your stuff with SEO, at least as much to really optimize your own website good, then I would definitely go for it. DA 50 is not really something that would be so hard to overtake, and the thing that's really strange for me, is the keywords that send the most organic trafic to them (run the domain on alexa.com). The terms seem to have absolutely nothing in common with the site's content (short of an article or two).  I would absolutely go for it Good content and some social marketing can really help. It's the type of niche where social can play a big role.

Hope this helps.

I think that if you start looking at your internal linking a bit, and create a couple more links internally that point to the target page from the homepage (with relevant content ofc), you should be able to see a switch in results soon.

There's also the question of PA vs DA. Your homepage ranks because it's much older than the target page, and if you just created the landing page then it will take a while to rank. Doing the right things will eventually get you there.

More is obviously always better, but you should definitely milk the opportunity to your best powers. Having a reputable site mention you multiple times is a really great thing.

Hey there. Google doesn't care you're running WP, HTML, Joomla or a standard HTML site. It cares even less if something is in the main page or in the sidebar (as long as it's not a sidebar that's common on each page). If this sidebar is on each page the proposition changes a bit Otherwise - long story short - it doesn't matter!

Cheers!

Hey Frank,

In this case it's a no-brainer. If things are just duplicate and then rotated around, it's clear that content can't be THAT qualitative. In this case I certainly think that going for it, and creating the kind of content that's absolutely the best. This way, you'll get a much more natural growth, Google will pick up on it and even if your domain is lower DA, you can rank better than him for certaim keywords for which you write really good content.

Hello,

Just a disclaimer - I don't speak italian, but do understand some parts.

For the question about non-related kwds...the kw explorer finds these through some algorythms between what people search before/after they search those keywords and what content pages that rank for those keywords have.

For the other question, you need to run a good analysis and create a list with your kwds. Then, make sure to carefully skim through it, assign your own priorities for each kw judging by how important they are for your business (ex if you sell bikes the kw "italy bike tour" or "italy bike rental" might not be important for you at all, but might still be suggested by moz). After doing this, you need to order your kwds by overall priority rating. This will make an average between how hard it is to rank for it, the volume of search that kw has, and your priority rating.

For the very top kwds you absolutely want to include the exact kw string at least once in your content (this can be as an alt tag on an image). For the top 2-3 results you'll want to include those exactly in h1's , titles, meta titles, meta descriptions.

For the rest of the kwds, things like including the work "tuscany" will help, but it won't give you a 90+ rating of "keyword optimisation" on that page. Of course you won't be able to be at 90+ for all kwds, but it's ideal to be there for the most important 5-7 kwds you want to rank for (at first at least).

After you create your campaign you'll be able to check how optimized your page is for each kw.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

Hey guys,

I have a somewhat silly question that I probably know the answer to - but would still like to hear your POV's. We're a WP theme making company but we also build other stuff. Context:

1. All demos for themes currently go under domain.com/Theme_A/ The demo is lorem ipsum so is marked noindex nofollow. That being said we get rocking analytics data usually (not sure if it's still valuable for G after the noindex).

2. Currently we need landing pages for themes and we're running them under domain.com/Theme_A/optimized-landing-page-title.php dofollow and indexed ofc.

My question is...Would we be better off to include all landing pages under a domain.com/wordpress-themes/ category/tax and then go for the optimized-landing-page-title.php page? Does it make any difference either or? Right now we're not REALLY running them on subdomains (though the structure seems like it), they're just folders. We're thinking that more seo juice would flow through the different pages if we have them all under the same category, rather than basically starting from scratch each time under a new folder. Right?

Thanks!!!

301 A 404 can be harmful.

Cheers!

I agree with you. By "answer query" i meant that people would not go back to ask google the same exact thing, but move on to something else (even if related). Keep building your site up, not necessarily for this link, and you'll increase rankings. It sometimes fluctuates a bit until G sets a fix-ish position for a page. You might see it jump to page 1 in a couple of weeks. We've started working hard a month ago and we keep seeing jumps of 5-10 positions for 5-10 kwds every other week tops.

Hey there. Have a look at this post please. I believe it has everything you'll need to know. Thanks again for the help, Don!

https://moz.com/community/q/different-wp-taxonomies-seen-as-duplicate-content

Thanks so much for the help Noah. Just what I thought!

In my opinion, I would also noindex nofollow since these pages don't provide any true value when compared to the main one. I'm actually curious to see what others say here.

Rand did a really good whiteboard friday on this recently -> https://moz.com/blog/rel-canonical it may solve your question.

Have a good day

Hi Don,

Thanks for the help. The pages can't be embedded or changed by clients. They won't be able to copy the content anywhere. The problem is that some of the content is just lorem ipsum text - destined to show clients what can be done within the interface.

Thanks

Thank you so much for your help!