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I got this message March 2nd and last week several of my main keywords dropped off completely. I've been getting paid links removed all week and just tonight my main keyword is back but 3rd page back from #6. I've noticed that only keywords I heavily build links to were affected by this algo. update. 700k people in same boat I heard I thought having fresh, great content & high authority back links I would rule .. not so much now.

Hey there - I've been reading about rich snippets and was thinking of hiring a programmer to implement this. In my industry I would be the only one thus far on front page with a highly competitive keywords and would be displaying 5 stars based on our testimonials etc, would that be acceptable? These testimonials are not on my homepage so if I implemented would it be a misuse of these tags?

My site is mortgage / financial company and I don’t see much in available tags yet except for “location” and “reviews” I could implement. I'm just trying to figure this out and I greatly appreciate any feedback!

I found out that my robots.txt file was blocking this page. The odd part is that I had setup robot to block a folder mortgage-calc/ and even through my page was not in this folder the spider must have thought they were connected, I don't know why but my page was indexed again.

Couple weeks ago I changed a url on my site from using underscores to using hyphens

I setup a 301 redirect and added appropriate canonical to the new page. My site is crawled daily and I've done this on several other pages with good results but this page is just not being indexed right…

I see my page #8 with some random title Is there some "interim index" that Google has? It's just bazaar to me, any thoughts?

Thanks! - Cliff

So cross canonical is reasonably acceptable do you think links that point to the other website have any value since there is a canonical or are they disregarded? Hopefully they're not treated as spam. Using the exact phrase domain has brought down my CPC nearly 50% I'm wanting to add another 20 or so domains in the same fashion. Thank you! -Cliff

I've recently noticed in my adwords campaigns that using exact match domains improves my quality scores so I've been snatching up all kinds of domains which include different keywords. On these new sites (which I only use to bring down my CPC) I've been tossing up a landing page, scraping some content form my main site and direct a canonical tag to my organic site so google doesnt penalize me for duplcant content. It is ok to use a canonicle to an outside website and Is there any precautions when doing this? I just want to be sure I'm not hurting my main site where we rank well organicly on and I was also wondering if any of these sub sites which also have links to my main site carry any vaue. Appreciate any feedback! -Cliff

Thanks guys for this input it's really appreciated. So even with the canonical that I have and setting preferred domain in webmaster which I did when I setup the site I am still splitting links up and should redirect to get the full benefit. Best practice I see. Thank you!!

Good afternoon –

I was wondering if someone could help me with regards to my site @ allrmc.com

I have been generating good content and building links for some time and we're getting great results but I was wondering if my site may be suffering from not redirecting to the www.

I have heard that google treats “website.com” & “www.website.com” separately and wanted to know if this has been true in anyone’s experience?

For instance through site explorer I am finding that using site explorer without the www. We have a 39 PA but with www. It’s 63. If I redirected all visitors to www. Would my SERPS potentially improve?

I know this is probably a SEO101 question but would love feedback on this I’m too afraid to do anything drastic without asking first.

Thank you for your input! – Cliff