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It's definitely worth it! Try changing it to surround page/post title, and keeping it as name/logo only on the homepage.

You could change the title/description for each page reflecting the content, but that would take forever and probably doesn't fluctuate much page to page (on that specific test.) Optionally you could try using meta robots, but you may not rank when people search specific code snippets (or other test questions.)

name="robots" content="FOLLOW,NOINDEX" />

You might try out using ajax for the pages as in googles eyes it would only be considered one page. Hope it's helped.

Haha funny, thanks for the link!

Great question. I don't think the algorithms go so far as to take this into account for ranking, but that's not to say it couldn't have any effect. I'm not exactly sure how it works, but verisign has the seal-in-search for enabled browsers that shows users secure sites from search. If the seal's link contains some specialized URL that is specific to your site than I wouldn't tamper with it; otherwise I think it's safe.

I don't think they need to circulate their content anymore as it's highly distributed already. I'm also not completely sure about this, but I think google ignores the pound # tag. As it's so commonly used as an anchor and for ajax/javascript. Try searching # in google

I'd attempt to contact Google. I know it's really hard, but there are ways. Good luck man I feel for ya.

Google won't use the keyword anchor text in those links so much, but will follow them. They're also very user friendly, and are pretty much expected now a days.

I need to redirect a ton of duplicate content, so I want to try

redirect 301 /store/index.php /store

redirect 301 /store/product-old /store/product-new

redirect 301 /store/product-old1 /store/product-new1

redirect 301 /store/product-old2 /store/product-new2

redirect 301 /store/product-old3 /store/product-new3

redirect 301 /store/product-old4/file.html /store/product-old4/new4/file.html

and then a whole bunch of old dead links to homepage.

So we've had /index.php redirected to / on other parts of the site for awhile, and for the most part /store is a friendly URL, but then we have tons of dup content and work arounds that preceded my job here. I'm wondering if those redirects above would be considered a redirection chain? Since the all the redirects below the /index.php -> /store count on that one redirect.

Thanks for any insight you may be able to give!

I agree. It's also always so hard to rank against those older domains. Stay consistent, diligent, and try to break some bigger stories. Keep on writing the articles, and get as creative as humanly possible to get those stories that bigger sites want to link to. Reach out to as many site owners as possible to form a small group that you can fall back on when distributing your content. And like Martin said, definitely leverage community on your site, and maybe even UGC/contributors to help write the articles. Good luck!

Rand Fishkin did a study on it. It doesn't have a lot to do with on-page factors, but more with keywords in the domain as well as a having lots of diverse in bound links. Read about it more here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-vs-bing-correlation-analysis-of-ranking-elements

could be from their link/content farm updates; that came before the farmer update.