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From an SEO point of view what are the current recommendations for linking and using the same template for the same brand on a .com and .co.uk website, so both named the same, using the same template and products but one for Europe and one for the states and Australia.

Google has not Stopped there robot.text checker you can find it in webmaster tools under blocked url's.

Agreed but Create a back up prior to updating to be sure that whatever theme and plugins you are using work.

Have same issue but it is Google doing it's dance at the moment will take some time to settle :-).

could you post a link so we can look at the site info?. also you could do a site search in Google type in site:blabla.com leaving out www. this will show you how many pages are indexed.

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The domain is not first for wooden signs, in fact i cannot find it  however Google will rank a site higher if the domain has a connection to the keyword or phrase, but there are factors to consider, most sites will rank first place for there domain name although when it comes to more competitive keywords or phrases then other ranking factors come in to play, also if a site is new Google will often rank the site higher for a short time.

Hi Yes a lot of us in the same boat from this recent update which i hope will sort itself out soon, one day i am getting a message from Google in webmaster tools that the site experiencing high volumes of traffic from quality content & it recommends placing more next thing it drops about 10 pages in Google for several keywords, Like thanks Google we love you to.

Yes lets hope they put this latest dance right quickly, at the moment they are firing arrows and completely missing the target.

When you say exposure combined with paid seo tools & exposure quicker, you are almost certainly talking link building tools, rather than tools provided by seomoz which mainly give you access to data & site improvement recommendations, I will tell you this regardless of what a lot of users on seomoz may tell you there are only 2 link building tools i know of that work 100% & do will not affect a sites Google status when used correctly, I say correctly as if they are not used correctly then they also will most likely sandbox a site, these tools are expensive as they combine not only the main software but many other paid software tools combined which makes the main software  even more expensive to use, but here lies the key to your question about exposure quicker, NO USING LINK BUILDING TOOLS AND PRODUCING LINKS FOR YOUR SITE QUICKLY WILL DAMAGE IT.

Yes your quite right, I would look for other factors for this, have you been losing links, have you picked up any bad links, you could start here by checking : http://www.linkdetox.com/ .

Hi Yes updates to the algorithm are in progress right now and ongoing, I would suspect that it is going to take few weeks now to settle down before you get any real information on your actual page positions for your keywords and phrases.

If you have a webmaster tools account this can show information on keywords that drive traffic to your website, although the site page placement is not always accurate.

I have seen a very similar issue also, however the last week traffic was beginning to start to climb again only for the new Google update which you can be 100% sure has not finished yet, I think you just have to weather the storm for a little while longer and wait to see where the dice will fall after the completion of the update.

Have to agree big change looming seeing sites doing the dance big time.

At what point do you think that an inbound link becomes a bad or low quality link when it comes to the inbound links page domain Authority and page Authority.

SO as they are scored 1-100 in each case.

At what score would you attempt to get rid of such links.

As far as I am aware the canonical tag lets Google know that that page is the most useful and should get priority when being added to the index as Google sometimes ignores duplicate content pages, so this still does not stop the fact that it is duplicate content on your site.

With out logging in it would be hard to access but this one is your blog home page : http://www.fateyes.com/blog/ , so should be listed under 1 of four sections in your admin panel, post,page,all in one seo settings or theme settings.

You Should have the option when editing the page content, you may have close the tab which is below the content box, should say (ALL in One SEO Pack), so click to open it.

I can't say that i have ever provided an hours worked report or ever been asked to, more on results providing data on a regular basis.

Targeting the keyword is fine just be sure to add some diversity to your links, do not just do one keyword, add some phrases e.c.t even if they contain it.

I have just checked this in actual fact the difference in the title is just a letter : edpm e seal & edpm p seal so just one letter although two different products & are reported as duplicate titles, so you could be correct as to just one word not being counted as a duplicate.

Webmaster tools would report this as a duplicate title as I have a similar issue with 2 titles where only one word is changed in the phrase.

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You may have a canonical meta tag in the page header or please refer to this link about similar products.

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

I have used several writers on elance, Ordering just a few to begin with & getting a sample is a good idea, I would love to say that i have been 100% happy with the quality of the articles, but as yet that is not the case so always looking for someone better.

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Please look at this : http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/duplicate-content

Are you referring to duplicate page content? if so this could be down to the design template of your site. i.e same header, sidebar, footer on each page e.c.t .if so I would not worry to much about it as long as the main content is different on each page, I f you are referring to pages that are identical this can be produced by php software creating duplicate pages i.e  /page1 could also be /something else, If so you could identify the structure of the url and instruct your sitemap generator program to ignore the undesirable url, or webmaster tools has a section for this also i believe.

Having your keyword phrase at the top of the page, first paragraph, title is important, also at the end of the page.

I Guess it depends on how you design the site, you could just use an extra theme built for mobile devices which detects the users device and directs them accordingly. or a web site that works for all users so no hidden items, most eCommerce websites have a simple navigation view on a mobile device.

My personal point of view is if the content is 80%+ unique and has had a manual review to make sure that it is not Spam in any way so it makes sense  then it is fine for link building. How ever others will tell you this not the way to build a brand.

Actually i have seen sites thrive with the same description, How ever think of it like this when you search for a product for example say a kettle most results have the word kettle in the description and it is highlighted by Google in the search result so relevant, so if yours is the same through out the site that is not going to happen and the chances are the user will click one that has got the keyword in.

Have you checked on the competition for the keyword, just maybe they got stronger?.

Yes you can change them any time, when the page gets crawled again the description will be updated  in search results, try to avoid duplicates & I also recommend  putting your keywords in the page meta but at the same time maintaining good quality description for the end user.

Yes thank you I think far better to have unique titles, better than duplicates even though this method a lot are going to be very short but again avoids titles that are to long :-).

No Not at all, think of it like this you post a great quality article on a site that is a good fit, inside the article is say an offer or promotion, well if Google crawled the site every week or month then your article is not getting indexed until the crawl, the promotion could be over by then or the information outdated so using such services can insure your article is picked up quickly & you get your just deserts.

If you want to find all your indexed pages in Google just type:  site:yourdomain.com or .co.uk or other  without the www.

Hi can you be a bit more specific in your question.

Getting links is one thing, having them followed and indexed is another, personally i use a few indexing services like : linklliciouse just to make sure they get crawled and indexed.

They are the same url with different addresses, I can tell you on my sites i add code to the htaccess file to redirect the /index to the actual home page url, this removes the fact that you have duplicate content as both pages are the same & stops both types being indexed, recommend you Google this problem to get the right code for your host server as they do differ. Hope this helps but might not be what you where looking for.

The php code is :

<title><?php echo (@$pageTitle?$pageTitle.' - ':''). 'Trade prices,Next Day Delivery,Bulk Discount'; ?></title>

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Just going through Seomoz crawl diagnostics for one of my clients sites & see that the title tags for over 2,000 pages are the same due to the way there site software generates the titles using php, examples :

**home page** = <title>Home - Trade prices,Next Day Delivery,Bulk Discounttitle> 
other page =  <title>A0 Frames - Trade prices,Next Day Delivery,Bulk Discounttitle>

So as you can see the page titles have the page name given to the beginning of the title
which is fine as they have the keyword, then the text :
           Trade prices,Next Day Delivery,Bulk Discount
  Now if i take out the text : Trade prices,Next Day Delivery,Bulk Discount the home page is going
to have just the word Home which is rubbish & the other pages will have the keyword which is better
but not great, just wondered if any one has a better solution?.

I would refer to Egol Answer to your question when trying to rank for such a competitive saturated market, even if you do produce the quality of content you are asking for the chances of success are slim -  (excuse the pun) so the answer i gave is probably a good alternative in some ways not all, depends on how much expense and time you want put in to a market such as this.

What a great tool (golden find).

You could use article builder (search Google) which i believe covers your topic providing unique fresh content, the alternative is to write your own fresh content or employ a good writer.

I do not think i explained my self very well there so i can understand your reply totally, in truth and without explaining in depth the process, the idea is simple good quality content linking to a domain with keywords in the URL pointed to a site which is also relevant.

I guess this is an answer to seo5 & mat  below which both of you have conflicting answers, first off the links would be from say unique wiki based articles, and built like a pyramid so good quality  & mat the domains are not an exact match for the money site they are only geared towards keywords or phrases, also note i would purchase them in another name so no connection to the money site, also use a different class c to each domain, removing any connection apart from a link from a niche perspective, lets get it right here the idea of every seo pro is to beat the algerythem and think out side the box to do so.

So In theory if i added back links to the domain even though it would be redirected they would benefit the other site in this way.

I could ad more links than usual reducing the possibility of being punished for adding to many to the money site so to speak?. in affect splitting the qty of links added on a daily basis between domains.

I f i purchased a domain with keyword another one of my sites targeted and redirected it to that site are there benefits in doing so? & as long as the domain contained the keywords would it matter if the domain name contained another word?.

also would it be better to put just a few articles on the site and then point keywords in the article to the niche site?.