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Thanks Gaston Riera. Just the answer I was looking for.

Hi loganr

Thanks for your reply. Your answer has confirmed what I expected. I will leave the site on its existing domain.

Thanks again.

I have recently taken over a website (website A) that has a domain authority of 33/100 and is linked to from 39 root domains. I have not yet selected any keywords to target so am currently unsure of ranking positions.

However, website A is for a division of a company that has its own separate website (website B) which has a domain authority of 58/100 and over 1000 legitimate linking root domains.

I have the option of moving website A to a sub-domain of website B. I also have the option of having website B provide a followed link to website A.

So, my question is, for SEO purposes, is my website better off remaining on its own existing domain or is it likely to rank higher as a sub-domain of website B?

I am sure there are pros and cons for both options but some opinions would be much appreciated.

Thanks for the replies.

It makes sense to add a new product page for the manufacturers product. As you say, if I make the content as unique as possible and try to focus on the brand then I shouldn't encounter any issues - I will maintain traffic to the original page and will hopefully rank well for the manufacturers product - win win.

Thanks again.

My client currently has a page on their website that advertises one of their products. The product in question is manufactured by someone else but branded by my client.

Recently, the manufacturer have released their own version with their own branding which is available to the public. My client has decided that they are going to stock both their own version and the manufacturers version of the product to avoid losing any sales.

This have left us with trying to find the best way to add the new product to the site without it competing with my clients own product in search engine results.

We want the page to be indexed so that people searching for the manufacturers product can still find it on our site but at the same time we risk cannibalisation and essentially having two pages with what will essentially be the same content.

Does anyone have any ideas for a suitable solution? I am unsure whether we should create a new page for the new product or whether we should somehow incorporate the new product in to the existing page.

Hi,

I am currently working on a site that relies solely on it's images to attract traffic. My concern is that search engines will index our images, make them available through image searches and therefore allow our potential visitors to bypass our website completely.

I know that there are a number of methods available such as disallowing images in robots.txt or using "noimageindex" tags in the HTML etc. but do search engines always pay attention to these requests?

Does anyone have any experience with no indexing images? Or are there any methods that are guaranteed to work?

Thanks in Advance.

Thanks for all your replies.

We haven't changed anything on any of the sites. We use our own CMS which has not changed either.

Webmaster tools doesn't show the same errors as SEOMoz.

We appear to be in the same situation as Mike. We know that we have duplicate titles and content but we have taken care of our duplicate issues using canonical and no index tags, which drastically reduced our errors. For some reason SEOmoz doesn't seem to have paid heed to them on it's latest crawl.

Thanks Mike. At least we are not on our own.

Maybe I should see if this is rectified after the next SEOMoz crawl before I pursue this any further?

Hi,

Since the last time our sites were crawled in SEOmoz they are all showing a spike in Errors. (Mainly duplicate page titles and duplicate content).

We haven't changed anything to the structure of the sites but they are all using the same content management system.

The image is an example of what we are witnessing for all our sites based on the same system.

Is anyone else experiencing anything similar? or does anyone know of any changes that SEOmoz has implemented which may be affecting this?

Thanks in advance,

Anthony.

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I am currently working for a client who's back link profile is questionable.  The issue I am having is, does Google feel the same way about them as I do?

We have no current warnings but have had one in the past for "unnatural inbound links". We removed the links that we felt were being referred to and have not received any further warnings, nor have we noticed any significant drop in traffic or rankings at any point.

My concern is that if I work towards getting the more ominous looking links removed (directories, reciprocal links from irrelevant sites etc.), either manually or with the disavow tool, how can I be sure that I am not removing links that are in fact helping our campaign?

Are we likely to suffer from the next Penguin update if we chose to proceed without moving the aforementioned links? or is Google only likely to target the serious black hat links (link farms etc.)?

Any thoughts or experiences would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your answer.

This is currently just an idea so we are unable to test it as yet.

We know that the link would be visible if a user didn't have JavaScript enabled, therefore Google should see also the link. The question is would Google recognise this as a legitimate link or would it treat it as a hidden link and therefore give it less priority.

Cheers

I'm looking at making an embedable calculator and asking users to embed it to their website. I had the idea of using javascript to include the calculator which would also conatain a text link back to my site in order to gain some back links.

If it's possible Google won't see the link (as they may not execute the javascript), is it safe to place the link in the

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