If the comments are appearing in the same page, you can set this page as canonical –

_http://thankyouregistry.com/blog/remarriages-and-gift-registries/

Ref: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html_

_It is perfectly normal to use - &trade and I do not think that it will make any impact on the visibility whatsoever. _

_I have not implemented this tag in any news site but I have implemented this in a couple of websites and the impact was impressive.

However, I have found that if the profile is great, I mean if the profile is active in social circles, have a strong Google Plus profile etc. I have found a strong correlation between the number of people have added that profile in their circles and the visibility of the post integrated with that Google Plus profile. Moreover, if you can make some guest posts on some leading sites with that profile and get a link back to Google Plus author page, chances are that the profile will add to the overall visibility of the website in the SERP. I have seen significant increase in ranking in not-so-popular key phrases after the authorship is implemented and of course you cannot rule out the fact that authorship increases CTR in the SERP. _

_I can feel your pain here. Since we cannot count on the ranking only because of its unpredictable nature, you can compare and contrast things like the number of total visitors, total organic visitors, referral visitors etc. I think these metrics are good enough to figure out how things are faring. _

_Hi, _

_Can you please show us the URLs.. They are not opening .. You can use bit.ly if you wish to mask the URL. Though I believe that this problem can be solved by blocking certain parameters via robots.txt file or by adding canonical tags in some pages. _

_I do not think so. But if your website is getting some visitors from this directory, then you may renew the listing and of course I do believe that Google do not take into account this paid listing kinda thing. So, it is your choice. _

I think it is a plug-in in the play. Check the list of plug-ins and get the unwanted ones removed and please share your website so that we can give you some suggestions.

You do not need to remove it. You need to check whether or not it has been implemented correctly. Check this - http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

If you need further help, please let me know.

_There are thousands of ecommerce websites doing exactly the same thing, so how on earth your website is going to rank high leave aside getting natural links? Moreover, I am really concerned about the quality of the write-ups? Do they read good? Are they offering any interesting perspective?  Do readers find them usual? I hope not. When you are restricting the word count to 500 words – a sweet SEO spot for majority of SEO companies, it leaves little room to the writers to go crazy with it, leaving aside doing proper market research.

rather  than focusing on adding low quality content, why not come up with a 2000 words well researched content that people would love to share with their friends. _

_Though email marketing is a legitimate way to reach out to potential customers, spamming inboxes of people in the sheer hope of getting them converted as customer is the height of stupidity. If you would ask my humble opinion, I would not care a fig of them. They are just another bunch of spammers and what I feel is that spammers are not doers.   _

Ok got the issue. You need to try this rel prev and next for the pagination series –

_Ref: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html

However, it also makes sense to include the page number in the [pagination series mate data._

_Page 1 - http://www.in2town.co.uk/benidorm/benidorm-news/Page-2

Title: Benidorm News | Page 2
Meta Description: Our Lifestyle Magazine and Celebrity Gossip magazine is your no1 online Lifestyle Magazine for Fashion and Beauty, Holiday Reviews, Ladies Underwear and Holiday News .. Page 2

And for these two pages -
http://www.in2town.co.uk/benidorm/benidorm-news
http://www.in2town.co.uk/benidorm/benidorm-news/Page-1

Set this URL as canonical - http://www.in2town.co.uk/benidorm/benidorm-news

Ref: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html_

_Sorry for the confusion .. Here is what I think. Article directories are those sites which were heavily affected by algo updates. Panda almost torched them so that being said, it will be just wasting your time and effort as you are going to get links from sites that are already under Google’s scanner. And do not even think about posting the same content twice or thrice in different directories.. it will not do any good to your website _

I want to know if it is ok to submit the same articles to more article directories?

_I am not a big fan of article submission or directory submission or any of the common low hanging SEO fruits. What I believe is that when you get a link easily, the purpose of earning that link is lost forever. Rather than wasting your time doing these cheap things. You need to do real marketing. And it is up to you how you are going to define what real marketing is. _

ohh sorry did I mention the URL -

http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.google.co.uk/en/uk/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf

take your time, read this first ..

Please please do not kill that website. Whatever, you are doing is killing the website. As the website is in automobile industry, there are loads of things to do. Do you have a social media marketing plan ready? What about the local seo strategy? How is the online structure of the website? Do you have a content driven marketing plan? Are you reaching out to your targeted audience by blogger outreach? Are you utilizing the power of email marketing? What you are doing in the engagement front? What plan do you have to improve the usability of the website?

It is perfectly OKAYED as long as you are not doing it with some malicious intention in mind to manipulate the ranking of the SERP. However, if you are concerned that Google might take it otherwise, you can apply no follow attribute against the links. Believe me no animals will be harmed [just kidding]. However, what I believe is that when you are doing it with the sole intention of sharing something interesting with your visitors, there is nothing wrong with it. Just do not go extreme and start offering 10 or 15 links to any websites that come your way.

_Honestly speaking you are going to take huge risk here. I hope the www.webshopdomain.com is faring well in the SERP and since you are going to move the entire domain in the directory structure, it will still lose some link juice and PR value. And yes of course, some of the rankings of your website is going to suffer. And may take some time to recover the ranking. So, it is up to you. _

Yes, you are courting controversy here. There is no need to feature the same content in other external website. If you can manage to convince the website owners to place a rel syndicate tag on every article that gets published there [pointing to the original article], you would not have to fear anything.

_Ha ha ,.. nice to know that you have lost the rankings .. but still there is way to recover by doing 301 redirect .. yeah I can remember the day when I did a horrible mistake. I changed all the files from html to php. And when I rank report, I realized that I have done a wonderful thing. Not a single page was in first 10 pages of Google. What was a remarkable achievement.   _

How long you have set this? I think it may take up some time before you can see some changes in Google Webmaster Tools. But again I personally do not like Google Parameter handling tools because it is meant only for Google and therefore, your website will appear duplicate to other search engines. So, I would rather use robots.txt file to fix this. A simple tag like – Disallow: /?sort=*

_Ideal solutions would be using Meta refresh tag but the problem is search engines are against this practice. So, as things stand, you have to use 301 redirect to fix this issue. I know there is a possibility that ranking may suffer a bit. So, here is the suggestion -

What about making a bit changes in the body content to use this page as a landing page for a new product. I hope you just have to make some changes in the specification or the title will have a slight modification. If you can manage to do this, you will be in a win-win situation. Let us know what you think about this. _

_Hold the fort for a while. I am not concerned about the menu or the way you are going to feature the links. What concerns me is that you are going to make your website very much vulnerable to Panda updates. By creating pages that are solely built for ranking high in some Location specific pages, you can make your website very much susceptible to algo updates. Build a website for users and not for search engines. This is what I would like to suggest you. However, if you still want to create location specific pages to rank high in location specific keywords, you need to make sure that you are not adding run of the mill content. Focus on what kind of exciting things you are going to offer to people of that location.  _

_Rather than copy and pasting the same thing over and over again, you can create a FAQ section in your website and each answer should have a dedicated landing page. Once done, whenever you see someone has posted a question that matches with FAQ section, you can place the URL and ask the asker to gather more information from there. _

Of course, Google will be adding more weight on Google Plus because it is their products and they have got all the data. Tweets and Facebook likes also help gaining more online exposure but what I believe is that social signal is important but it is not as powerful as links. Google, just like any other search engines depends heavily on links. Social signals are important but they cannot override the importance of links.

Moreover, the sample size of the test is small and therefore, a definite conclusion is hard to draw from this.

Try this tag instead since you are going to use exactly the same content on your website –

_However, you are free to set Google Cross domain canonical. For more information - _

http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/credit-where-credit-is-due.html

_I think if the article is not excessively long for say 10000 words long and available in a single page, both the links will share same value. Of course the number of out bound links matter here. If you have included 50 or 60 out bound links in the domains, definitely the link juice will get divided. But as we cannot tell how search engine algo works, we can only assume here.  _

What I feel is that when you are adding authorship markup against the website, there is a possibility that the ranking of your website is going to get reevaluated based on the Author Rank of the profile. So, if you have set up authorship mark-up against the website, you need to make the author profile look active. Promote it with Guest posting, keep it fresh with regular updates and all. Hopefully the ranking will recover, unless the website has been affected by any other algo change otherwise.

_Unless the blog is a news site and unless you would not wish to make the most of Google Freshness update, I would rather suggest you go for only post name as URL.  _

_After the penguin update you have to be careful while linking with anchor text. It is now like following a middle path and this is the kind of anchor text policy I would like you to implement -

Natural Anchor Text: 25%
Click Here
More Info
Click to Know More

Branded Keyword and Long tail keyword 30**%**
Example.com web design company in Birmingham
Example.com – best web design company in Birmingham_

Example.com Birmingham

Related keyword 30% One of the best web design companies in Birmingham

Award winning Birmingham based web design company

Creative web Design Company in

Targeted keyword 15% web design Birmingham

_From pure link building perspective, commenting on the same IP blogs may not be adding that much value to the link profile of your website. But do not take it this way. Blog commenting is more than just link building, it is about engagement and believe me when you are commenting on reputed sites that match the theme of your website, it can really drive real traffic to your website. So, please do not post thinks like this – “Great Post”, “Awesome mate, keep posting like” etc. You need to do post comment that adds value to the conversation. _

_Ok if he/she was an SEO expert, he/she would not have suggested you do this. This will kill your website, rip it apart and make it vulnerable to search engine algo shuffle. Ok thing may not be that severe as I have said, but it will make your website’s link profile dirty and of course a colossal waste of time and money. _

Seems like some of the pages of your website are now returning 404 server side response code-

http://selfdirectedira.org/blog/search/pensco+trust

http://selfdirectedira.org/blog/about/

Suggest fixing them.

Suggest blocking the test pages like this -  http://selfdirectedira.org/shortcodes/tabs-accordion/

Your Google Plus Profile lack image - https://plus.google.com/118416969633262389449 .

Though I am fully aware of the fact that the design of a website has got little to do with the ranking, I believe that you need to change the look and feel of your website. Probably, the interface is causing people bouncing back. So, please let us know the bounce rate of your website.

1. 1.         __ - this is not the correct way to represent Title tag – it should be this –
   <title>Counseling Denver, Broomfield, Westminster, Thornton Colorado – Home</title>
2. 2. I would rather suggest you to get rid of keywords tag
3. 3. _Fivestarcounselingservices.com has got the following number of pages indexed - 24, Frontrangecounselingcenter.com has the following number of pages indexed – 157. _

It seems like the latest Robots.txt file has not been cached by Google so far .. this is what it has –

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CRaSSwlGyiQJ:www.kozelben.hu/robots.txt+site:http://www.kozelben.hu/robots.txt&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

So, you need to use Fetch As Google Bot and Submit this Robots.txt file to index to fix this issue at the earliest.

What concerns me that defunct URLs like this - http://www.kozelben.hu/login?r=%2Fceg%2Fdrink-island-bufe-whisky-bar-alkotas-utca-17-1123-budapest-126126%23addComment  or http://www.kozelben.hu/supplier/nearby/supplierid/127493/type/geo are returning 200 Ok server side response code whereas they should be returning 404 server side response. The problem would have stopped here for once and all.

However assuming the fact that the CMS of your website does not offer you any such option [in that case, this is a bad CMS], you need to apply Meta noindex tag against them and wait patiently for search engine to catch them.

_Can’t you fix the 404 thing? Let us know. _

Can you show us examples of URLs that are causing you trouble? That would be easier for us to provide a solution.

Ok if the previous job posts are causing your concern, you can easily fix this by setting up meta data expiry:

_It will automatically remove the content of the page from search engines index as soon as the job becomes unavailable. _

Content of your website still bears some similarities with some external websites - http://digitalcatwalk.co.uk/store/product/lady-loose-coat/ - content of this page bears some similarities with the following URL - http://goarticles.com/article/Fashion-Advice-You-Shouldn-t-Pass-Up-On/6997768/

H 1 tag is wrongly implemented –

_All the internal pagination series have duplicate content:

http://digitalcatwalk.co.uk/category/968016/sandals-flat/2
http://digitalcatwalk.co.uk/category/968016/sandals-flat/148
http://digitalcatwalk.co.uk/category/968016/sandals-flat/147 `_

_Suggest removing the content from all pagination series. _

_You are offering - “Custom Made Fake Diplomas, Fake College Degrees and Transcripts”? In that case, I fear most of the SEO professionals would not help you in one way or the other. This is what I believe is not a legit business model. _

_Nope, it is not going to affect it as far as my knowledge is concerned. Unless you are making a 301 redirection to the new domain, there is no such possibility of carrying on the legacy of the penalized domain. Keep up the good work and you will be just fine. _

_Hi, _

_Just wondering .. Did you save the txt file in ANSI format? Sometimes, people mistakenly save it different format and this is where the problem creeps in. _

Nope, new landing page is not that much required.  However, since it is a paid promotion kind of thing, you need to add no follow tag against the anchor text if you wish to be on the safe side.

_It is a worthless practice and believe me, you are not going to get any benefit out of it. After Penguin and Panda update, this practice is now being treated as another spammy SEO technique whose sole purpose is to push the rankings of the website artificially.

Rather than wasting your time on shoddy techniques like this, you should try your best to invest your time and money to come up with great quality content that adds value to your website. _

_I hate the idea of considering Press Release as another form of Link Building. It has a simple and straightforward purpose and that is – helping you promote a new service or product.  So, when you are trying to promote your website via Press Release, you need to make sure that you are not making any kind of compromise on the quality front. And for God’s sake do not use exact matched anchor in the press releases as it may make your website more vulnerable to algorithmic updates. _

Yes, you can try but there is no surety that it will start showing a snippet of your website at the right side panel.

_This is known as Knowledge Graph and it is still in its infancy. I do not think that it is that easy for a company to make the Knowledge Graph working for a brand. We need to wait few days more before we get more details about this.  _

I think you are over emphasizing the keyword – “San Diego Newborn Photographer”. Titles of almost all the individual blog posts start with one or two general words describing the photograph and then followed by the key phrase – “San Diego Newborn Photographer”. Would be great if you can add some varieties here.

And add alt tags against the images [do not focus on keywords solely here; rather you should add descriptive alt tags here]. And create an image sitemap if you do not have one.

What I have learnt from my personal experience that Bing is not as smart as Google in locating unnatural link patterns, spammy practices, heavily keywords specific pages and other sneaky things that some webmasters still do to increase the ranking of their website in search engines. Now, as Google is getting smart at their algo,  you may less likely to find spammy sites that often in Google as compared to Bing and probably for this reason, your website is on 4^th page.

However, I am not saying that all the first pages websites in Bing are spammy. Just a thought J

Ohh sorry.. In that case, you do not need to implement canonical code .. sorry my bad ..:(

_So, what I understand is that you are concerned about boiler plate template and what I personally feel is that you do not need to worry about them because this is not going to affect the visibility of your website in one way or the other. _

yes .. it is fine as long as you are not using it for the sole purpose of giving a push to your website's visibility.. take it as an attempt to make it easier for people to navigate your website.