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this isn't an exact answer, but i might be able to point you in a correct direction . you might be able to do a mod-rewrite by doing a redirection based on rewrite conditions.

for example, we once used the following to send users to our non-https, www page if they enter on a https: url. fyi we use helicon's isapi mod rewriter at www.isapirewrite.com/

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} (on)?
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Host} ^(?!www.)(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)
RewriteRule .? http(?%1s)://www.%2%3 [R=301,L]

I'll just add to Kevin's comment - the turfy part of this is that the "3rd party" website probably had terrible metrics, so it's probably not doing much for the target sites ranking.

It's frustrating to see, but don't worry about it too much. Hopefully google algos will eventually catch it. In the mean time, concentrate on building high quality links in relevant areas of interest to your site. Quality links will crush this sort of lameness from competition.

Not sure you can or that it's really worth the effort. I requested once right when i was getting familiar with things, and the crawl test had finished by the time support got back to me. Crawl credits are monthly on paid accounts i believe.

I'd suggest checking with your host. I'm not sure if your reference to reg ex means "reg ex" in the sense of it being reforwarding software, or in the sense of using regular expressions to type syntax to handle it.

most hosts will have reforwarding software of some sort installed with their user accounts (the 301 thing is pretty common). once they let you know what it is (for example it might be apache's mod-rewrite or isapirewrite.com), you can figure out the format you need to write the rewrite commands in.  some of them use IIS, some of them use .htacess, it all just depends.

if your old url and new urls are in respective "structures" you may also be able to put in wildcards to handle the directory words all at once.

yes, it's  possible. it would really depend on what keywords you are ranking for and the relative strengths of the sites listing on that keyword compared to your site.

keep in mind, on-page SEO is only part of the larger picture. building links will make a difference.

as to indexing, you can view what google is indexing/caching by mousing over a search results in the SERP page, and clicking "view cached result". within the cached page there is also usually a text result link as well.

Our ranking report super - swayed a couple weeks ago (all rankings dropped, were not what i was seeing in manual checks) but it seems to have corrected itself on the next week's report.

I'm not having issues with the page report cards.

the hash "#" is sometimes used as a link reference to a specific spot on a linked page

i.e.  www.companyname.com/category.index.php#specificspot

do you have access to google webmaster tools? in there, you should see a section about duplicate content that google is seeing. that might be of some help to you.

if by chance the # is not used in the way mentioned above, and it's some weird content management system character to manage pages, you may want to implement canonical tagging so that when someone views

www.companyname.com/category.index.php#

the canonical reference is for :

www.companyname.com/category.index

hi

Sure you could. We use it to export link reports to excel and then filter by  moz page rank. we'll do that for every site that comes up in google under terms we want to compete for. next, we'll add a column in excel for yes/no to qualify the links in terms of whether we can/should go after them. It's a great tool to wrap your head around what other sites are doing and where you are relatively and to get in that "link circle" so to speak.

I would map them out, see what the itineraries are for each and go from there. I know SEOMOZ sells videos for download of their past sessions. perhaps reviewing one of those would give you a better idea! :>)

Do you have access to a referrer URL  field in your website's logs? or perhaps via an "orders table" in your website's database that records the referrer ?

you may be able to filter it  out orders and then by affiliate in the URL.

https://www.google.com/search?q=SEO+toronto+onatrio&rlz=1C1CHKZ_enUS460US460&aq=f&oq=SEO+toronto+onatrio&aqs=chrome.0.57j65j60l2j0.4384j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

https://www.google.com/search?q=SEO+toronto+onatrio&rlz=1C1CHKZ_enUS460US460&aq=f&oq=SEO+toronto+onatrio&aqs=chrome.0.57j65j60l2j0.4384j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&rlz=1C1CHKZ_enUS460US460&sclient=psy-ab&q=site:seomoz.org+toronto+seo&oq=site:seomoz.org+toronto+seo&gs_l=serp.3...6693.9405.4.9681.15.15.0.0.0.0.192.1320.13j2.15.0...0.0...1c.1.8.psy-ab.zkB30hnMVyA&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.44990110,d.dmg&fp=11279a5a4563ae8e&biw=1051&bih=725

Did you make changes to your site? I.e. when ranking and bounces rates changed, was it (looking at analytics) at a specific time that you made structural changes to your site?

have you looked in google analytics to see where the traffic decline is coming from? i.e. have you looked to see if hte decline is in organic search or adwords traffic? just google? just bing? or across the board. looking at these things will give you an idea as to whether this is a wholesale issue, or perhaps a technical issue with one service.

your open site explorer metrics look decent.

How much time/data do you have in Adwords?

We've lowered our highest bid and seen the same amount of traffic/conversions even though we aren't the "top bid" anymore.

I suspect this will vary greatly depending on what niche you are in and how much you mess with your bid (i..e top bid gets a LOT of eyeballs, middle bid gets some, low bid may not even display).

you have to decide if that sweet spot where the ad displays in the middle generates a better bid price and conversion against the "paying full price" for the top spot.

so in short, test both over a period of time and then go back and check the conversion data! :>)

Check your spam folder. When did you set up the rank tracking report? sometimes it may take the report a couple cycles (a week or so ) to generate the report which would explain why you haven't received anything. If it's been a few weeks, you may want to email into support at SEOMOZ to have them double check.

This sounds like a Drupal/CMS issue. if Drupal doesn't have a fix natively, i'm sure a 3rd developer may have a solution:

https://www.google.com/search?q=drupal+title+tag+duplication&rlz=1C1CHKZ_enUS460US460&aq=f&oq=drupal+title+tag+duplication&aqs=chrome.0.57.9415j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Only thing i would be to add is to review your google webmaster account and seomoz spidering results to see if any of this is already showing up as duplicate. that way, you know for sure that you have a problem "right now".  You're ahead of the game though in recognizing that the thin-ness of your product pages will cause an issue.

Are you doing any other kind of weird formatting (schema.org formatting perhaps?) to that h1 header tag? google's robots might be jumping over it .

run that page through the on page grade evaluation in the seomoz tools page.

Optimization is only a small part of ranking well in with SEO. Think of it as a piece of a larger pie.  Use the open site explorer tool to understand your backlinks against your competitors and the keyword analysis tool as well. This will give you a better overall picture of why you are not ranking better.

Lastly, i understand where you are coming from. it's really seductive to get crazy about page optimization, but all the page optimization in the world isn't going to compare to a bunch of high quality, really great links with anchor text.

hi -

you need to set up a 301 redirect from index.htm to the straight domain URL (www.domain.com). this usually needs to be done from the server end. have you explained the specific issue to yahoo? customer service may be able to do this for you if it's not in the yahoo hosting/admin interface.

EDIT: see you've done canonical which is good. have you given google enough time to spider that change into SERPs?

Perhaps they are basing their code off a larger more common CMS? might be worth getting in touch and explaining your issue. This is a pretty common issue so it shouldn't be a big deal (re: using categories/sections/departments to sort, or using tagging).  Good luck!

Andy is correct. It's going to vary by conversion rate and your specific area of business. What kind of metrics do you use for your website in terms of period of time?  The bottom line is you need a little time to "smooth out the averages" of your data to get a realistic sense of how it's going to behave. This is especially true when considering if your business is seasonal or not.

For us, we look at season (quarterly) metrics, and then again on a week to week basis.  If it's early on and you are looking at dailies, it's useful to use that data to filter out keywords you don't want that are costing you money.

It's not going to be a 4-5 day thing. It'll take some time to tune in.

hi -

what kind of content management system (CMS) is your website using? perhaps you could categorize your videos into an additional category/department etc/

also, if your CMS uses a tagging system it may just be as simple as tagging videos relevant to a topic (i.e. "sunday meetings") and then providing a sort link.

if you use a turn key CMS, there may be a 3rd party solution that will help you plug in organization functionality.

:>)

11-10 is fairly low for page authority or domain authority.

what do their external links look like? are you sure you are showing ALL external links (any links to anything on the domain abc.com)  and not just ones to a specific page (abc.com/specificpage.html).

if they are just linking to their domains from skeleton pages, to other skeleton paged domains, google will see that (which may explain the low authority). they should not be out-ranking you purely on the basis of links from their own domains, internal linking, and domain name matching.

if the authority scores are actually that low ("11-10" as you say), link building, building great content on your pages, and page optimization should help you pass them.

hi

these are all relatively high ranking /authority websites, so you will have a lot of work to do before you will rank above them.

what is the purpose of your website? are you a food blog? do you just really love breakfast cereal? are you really into the history of cereal? those are the kinds of things you can write about. if you are passionate about what you are talking about, you should be able to figure out the content end of it.  if you're just trying to rank for a term, and don't have the content to back it up, it's going to be REALLY difficult.

community may also have a place on this. let's say you can tap into fans of kellog's cereals. go find them on facebook and twitter and pull them into your website content.

good luck!

hi

it could be a lot of things. google may be a/b testing changes and collecting data. any other seo related changes to your site may be "re-spidering" and temporarily swaying rankings while the new data "settles in".

additionally, if you are viewing this in your personal browser on google, cookied information (i.e. you are logged into google) may be affecting personalization results which can mess with the order of competitive results.   location may be doing it to.

Did you just add your competitors to the list? it'll take a week or so for it to update.

somewhere on your root folder you will have a .htaccess file

.htaccess is a small server file that you can put conditions in. some conditions will redirect to a "new"  location (your new folders) when the .htaccess detects a url to an "old" location. this is commonly called "mod rewrite".

the software used to issue these commands varies based on your web site host. contact them and ask them what rewrite/redirection software is on your account (for example, one common one is  ISAPI rewrite:

http://www.helicontech.com/isapi_rewrite/

Moosa is correct!

It may be tempting to "start fresh", but don't give up all that great information and link juice when you switch! 301 every product, and category page you can. these will be (301) permanent redirects that will tell google this is the new home of your website.

as to removing the hyphen, you may be able to do a 301 in your server's .htacess file. depending on what redirection software your host offers, the code for this will vary slightly.

hi
we've seen similar in our field, and yeah, it is pretty annoying. you are right in saying that the keyword match domain has less value than it used to.

have you taken the time to review their metrics in opensiteexplorer? (http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/). this may help you understand their backlink and trust metrics a bit more to understand if their site is ranking better beyond things like exact match domains. additionally, it will give you an idea for what "pocket" of links they've put their site in at which point you can go after those as well.

above all: build. great. content.

hi

to make sure i understand, you are putting more than one meta-description on a single page of content?  generally you want one per page.

Agree with Tbrems here. The more info the better (see the zappos page here and click the "about the brand" link)  http://www.zappos.com/nike-roshe-run-squardron-blue-sport-turquoise-gamma-grey-fiberglass#prdBrand

as to an actual link, i don't think i would link out as that takes the visitor off your site which you don't want.

i would cull some info from here:

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

additionally, i would explain the very basic idea of spidering, countered with the size of the job, to explain that ROI isn't going to be an overnight/1 month think.

hi,

you can do more than one page:

http://www.sundayschoolnetwork.com/pageaboutscheduls">

http://www.sundayschoolnetwork.com/pageaboutbustimes">

you wouldn't want http://www.sundayschoolnetwork.com"> on every page.

the point of this is to say to google "hey, this is the authoritative page about this  specific topic on our site - if you see other URL's similar to this one, use this"

Also, should you do option #2 and your content system appends the URL with the "variant" (ex. ?product.php&whitestone), make sure the system is updated to post a concantation URL in the header.

Language is a pretty clear divider. I would do 2 company pages and just make it clear in the links to them which is what. That way you have 2 specifically targeted audiences.

One way to handle this is to change the content between the pages (the descriptions, titles, etc.) enough that you are no longer seeing the duplicate content problem.

Another option would be to pull the products (white, sandstone) into ONE product page that has a dropdown or menu selector to choose color. This would probably be less work than changing tons of descriptions, but it also may depend on your ecommerce platform. most platforms have a "variant" selector on product pages as this is a common problem (think: tshirts, clothing, shoe sizes, etc.).

Hope that's of some help!

i vote for JEREMYPARKER.NET

but if you are in a specific field, perhaps something like:

Jeremyparkerpizza.com

JeremyparkerSEO.com

also, have you checked abbreviations?

JParker.com

JPark.com

JMParker.com

heck, make up a middle name letter and use that:

JZParker.com

A lot of "coments" plug ins will use javascript, which generally google is not so great at indexing. however, disqus and some of the larger players have "callback" systems that will let your comments get indexed into google for your site so you don't have to worry about it.  i would suggest doing a trial on a few product pages you know have traffic. that way you can test a small segment and see if it's improving the traction on those pages.

hi -

it looks like the links you have on there are relevant to your website. that's good.

have you review the links you have there in open site explorer? are they QUALITY websites?

furthermore, are these websites linking back to you?

if the answer to the above 2 are both no, you may want to reconsider linking.  there's nothing wrong with indicating you are a part of a community  and link to relevant content, the the key is that it is actually relevant. if those sites are low in quality and don't reciprocate links, you may want to reevaluate.

work on getting more external links from relevant websites in your field. that will have a much higher impact that a page of links on your site. :>)

have you checked to see how often google is indexing the site? these may be affecting how "fresh" the results are in your target keywords. so, if it's only indexing once a month, you may not see a lot of change in search results.

had the same issue, we direct to www. syntactically, our content is part of the world wide web, so we figured that www. was the way to go.  it won't really affect SEO one way or the other, but for a consistency standpoint (as Takeshi mentions), choose one or the other via .htaccess.

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are the site topics related? Site B, in addition to being older, has higher authority (i'm presuming) because you've built great content around the topic and attracted a community and audience.

if site A is totally unrelated, cannibalizing site B and moving everything over probably wont get you very fair. because all of the sudden, all of the things that helped site B rank well, will be irrelevant to the content that is now there!

i would consider adding social features such as seo-able comments/forums/disqus etc. to help build each sites "local"ness in kw's. get each site as far away from the "template" mindset as you can.

in terms of "templates" keep in mind that google is not looking at template code for the most part. they're looking at the content (stuff in text) on your site and it's relevance.

i'd also consider shelving 260 of those domains, and making 10 really great sites.

best of luck!

also, keep in mind that if you are ranking on secondary terms on the non-front pages, you will lose a lot of that relevance by forwarding to only your home page (esp. if it's not about that specific thing.

example:
old site about fruit  on home page - old subpage about apples

the old subpage about apples may rank really well
next, you  forward the old subpage about apples to your new front page
the search engines go "oh, this page isn't as relevant as the old apples subpage that no longer exists, let's bump down the rankings"

hence, it's always best to forward your equivalent old content to your equivalent new content.

hi -
how many pages are we talking here?

check with your website host. many of of them have redirect utilities (such as isapi_rewrite : http://www.isapirewrite.com/) installed on the server (or just "rewrite" for apache i think) that will allow you to add a set of rules to your .htacess so it filters the way you want every time someone hits an old page. you would need 2 rules:

1.) when site is contactinfo.html  --> contact.php
2.) when all others ---> send to index.php

i would highly advise forwarding more relevant pages to their new equivalents if they are available. doing it the way you've mentioned will send link juice to index.php, but you may run into relevance issues.

isapi_rewrite is a little complicated in terms of it's syntax rules, but they've got a pretty useful forum. additionally, sometimes website hosts have a pro that can help you if you can't figure it out.

hope that's of some help! :>)

dan