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Just to add a little bit to the previous responses. Assuming each rug is truly different, then you could have on each product page: a general paragraph about the collection and an unique paragraph about each individual product. I would advise using schema tags (http://schema.org/IndividualProduct) and try to figure out which fields can truly be unique per item. Unique photos and videos for your products is also helpful in providing uniqueness to your pages. I realize that 4k is a lot of product to have unique descriptions and you can noindex non-unique pages until you update them.

The type of visitor attracted to your site would be different demographics than another site so just because one format works better for someone doesn't mean it would perform the same way on your site.

The main goal is probably to capture leads (emails) right? So site placement/location of serving up the offer, optimization of lead gen (ease of registration), and messaging are more important to the success in my opinion than the format which the information is available in. Both formats can be read by any device so if people want the info they're grab it regardless. You could offer both formats to cover both bases too.

Definitely remove the pages from the server and 404 them, you are lucky they linked to internal pages and not the homepage or you would have many many hours of reaching out to webmasters on your hands.

This is a simple fix. and 404s are ok if the 404's are not a result of dead links pointing to no longer existing pages on your site. external sites 404ing to you is fine.

Looks like your plugins settings need to be adjusted to remove GA tracking like Yoast and SEO Plus.

WAY too many instances of "nail files" on that home page. Twice, the the title tag, twice in the meta description, way too many instances in the copy. I would remove at LEAST half of those instances so Google doesn't think you're keyword stuffing.

That could not be your issue. I would look elsewhere. If you provide the actual URL we could take a look at it and see what could be done to improve rankings for the product pages.

So you have four different sites, on different TLDs? Basically clones of each other? That's not the way to go - basically you can do two things:

a) Use only the .COM domain and Geo-Target the different language/country folders in Google Webmaster Tools. (my recommendation) or

b) Have your four different TLD's each with unique content. This is more work and more maintenance, and no longer the preferred strategy now that Google Webmaster Tools lets you assign different directories for your .com to different regions. Also, if the languages are different, such as French, German Etc Google knows already by virtue of the language which Google.xx engine to show those results in.

yes,it can be considered spammy  especially if you have tons of navigation links/anchor text all with apple in them.

You can add some but I would remove them in places that don't make sense for the reader.

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This site does not look that bad to me, why should it not rank?

a) pr3 homepage

b) a large amount of pages indexed with unique anchor texts and title tags

c) good breadcrumbs and decent url structure

d) no obvious keyword stuffing

I've never heard of this, i'd be surprised to hear it is true. You can use a standalone player like Flowplayer and host this videos yourself pretty easily.

Folders with language/regions are the better way to go, put it all under one .COM site, easier to maintain.

If you need both /be/fr/ and fr/fr/   sections on your site then i would advise you to rewrite the content in one of those sections to make it unique. Use country and language meta tags, include different addresses and other signals indicating region.

why is it hard to restate the content in a different way? reword it. If it's products then change the order and write unique content on the bottom. By east west north south exactly what types of regions are you talking about and why do you need three sites to accomplish this instead of one with geo targeted LPs?

Give it a bit more time. You can request Google to recrawl your site in WMT and also speed up the crawl rate on your site a bit in WMT.

links are just part of it, on page optimization is the other major factor and probably the answer as to why one outranks another for a particular keyword(s)

domain age, page load speed, social media activity, etc are other lesser factors that all contribute as well.

Embedding your Youtube video on your site will help promote your Youtube video on organic results in Youtube and Google. The number of embeds is definitely one of the factors that is looked at in the Google algorithm.

Years ago it used to be a  factor, now Google understands you might be hosting in the USA because of better services so location is no longer a major part of the equation like it used to be.

how is this for good measure?

"Sites share the same template/look and feel too AND are accessed via same IP - just for good measure :)"

Make them as unique and separate as possible. Different templates, different hosting, different email contact, different contact info on  domain registration, write content on the page and geo target the wording.

I would recommend taking a look at slash vs non slash pages and seeing how many non slash pages on your site are listed as 404'ing. Look at your 404'd pages in Google Webmaster Tools. If this happened to one URL chances it happened to many across your site and if so this is a big issue but can be resolved very easily by appending the slash to the end of all URLs.

Some code might have broken or been improperly or accidentally changed by a webmaster, because if the slash URL version was originally there then that used to be the standard and something technical caused it to go away. This could have broken if you changed from Microsoft to Linux or vice-versa - the .htaccess file or modrewrite would stop working if that was the case.

you can javascript the links and google won't follow them and you won't be throwing away all your PR on those pages

send over the URL

using subdomains for locations is a technique that spammers took advantage of and as a result is no longer recommended. Use directories/folders or simply targeted landing pages in the same folder.

a) You can code it so that you don't show a global phone number in the header

b) it's your site, you don't have to create links that take the user to deeper location pages if you don't want to

c) Regardless you need to create unique content anyway, if it's on a subdomain or directory it's still using the same template and you need totally unique content for each page, don't just swap out location names.

Pointing to other sites is just leaking PR to those sites and taking users off of your site and onto theirs. Might want to find out their reasoning behind doing that.

Keep in mind that your footer links are global so adding the main target to each of the links can cause an over optimization issue. For example:

hefty brand garbage bags

glad garbage bags

noname garbage bags

etc. too much repetition of "garbage bags in anchor texts globally could trigger a ranking suppression for that main keyword.

Just to add a little bit to Manischa Mittal's response. I would recommend you spend a couple hundred dollars with SEM and test out several ad variants and see which ad gets the highest CTR. Take the creative winner(s) and use it to build your meta description tag.

Another issue with excessive linking on every page is that you are diluting your page uniqueness and you may get flagged due to having a large ratio of duplicate pages. I would strongly recommend you limit the number of links on your primary landing pages to the links that people are most interested in and/or mostly related to the page content. In the same vein, any mass of content (author bios, disclaimer, etc..) that is on every page of the website needs to be examined and optimized.

You can still put it on the main domain and have it noindex,followed and orphaned. It can link back to the main nav but not be linked to from the main site. That would be completely safe and the fact that it is on the domain and not some other unrecognizable domain would help with credibility and would be one less variable which could be a culprit for causing a lower conversion rate.

"The big opportunity would be to get all 3 sites to rank for primary keywords like personal development. Of course, this strategy will require 3 times the work :-)"

also requires you to not get caught by Google or all three sites may get penalized for site spamming.

I would use the space for better readability. Even if Google disregards the / it's not going to replace it with a space so you would want that space there for separation of keywords.

What improvement are you referring to, moving the server? Is your new server as beefy as the old server? That could be the main cause

Image sizes seem to be a bit high can you optimize them better?

use yslow or google pagespeed to analyze what is slowing down the site also webpagetest.org

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/121217_GQ_JWT/

yes.

Post the article first on your site and get it indexed before pushing it out to the wire. Link back to the article on the companies site from your press release at the bottom with a "read full story" link. and have the article on your website have a few more paragraphs.

Updating old posts will not allow you the benefit of having your article getting into Google News. Here is what I would suggest.

1. Create a category page with links to all articles on that subject. Add some content and recent photos and videos to the category page.

2. On your related articles that are surfacing on top in the search results, link on top of the article to the newest article

Totally not an issue to be concerned about on any of those questions you asked - just remove the noindex tag and submit the URL(s) in WMT for Google to respider those specific pages faster, you'll be back up and running in no time.

the file name is the most important part of the url for rankings

Lose the .html and lose the other junk   /f/price/2,100

I would only post the actual review content on one page (the main or most important page) to avoid duplicate content issues and still use the aggregate ratings and microdata code on the lesser pages so that you still get the stars in the serps. If it ever gains momentum and you have a lot of reviews, the pages will become more and more similar content wise and be a duplicate content issue.

Images can be included in the regular sitemap, or you can keep it cleaner and create a separate sitemap xml file for just images if you like, either way is fine. It might not even be necessary though if your pages are getting crawled properly and you see your images getting indexed.

Descriptive filenames is the most important thing you can do for SEO, and you could also consider watermarking your images with your website address.

It should go away on it's own once you removed all the offending malware code from your site.

Call your hosting company and they will scan your site and remove the malware for you. A lof of people don't know that their hosting company will be more than happy in assisting removing hacks or viruses present on your sites at no charge. It's probably still on your site if you're still getting the message days later.

Add canonical tags to your pages this is a must with wordpress category pages and tag pages etc.

somewhere on your site google is crawling and indexing/seeing services/57 which is really services/  - but without the canonical added to services/ google doesn't know that is the page that should be considered the representative page.

install the YOAST seo plugin for wordpress, install it and configure it to properly add canonical tags and noindex tags. it's really easy takes like 10 minutes after you instal and activate it

if this helped you out please feel free to thumbs up or mark as good answer! if you send me the URL i can take a closer look for you

"a friend of mine suggest me to nofollow all out going links in such postings. he added that it will help increase posts PRs and better search rankings."

this is not true, nofollowing the link is simply throwing away that bit of PR and not passing it to the other site. Removing it as a hyperlink and simply showing the url as text or obfuscating the link are two ways of retaining your PR.

If the links are set to NoFollow, it shouldn't have any impact. However, many SEO's feel that excessive links can set off a a spam trigger even if they are set to Nofollow. If the links are set to follow, than I would certainly be concerned if you had money keywords as your anchor text links. I would edit all the articles and eliminate all the links. Avvo lets the lawyer link to their website so adding these links in their answers isn't necessary at all. I suspect that this lawyer probably utilized this same linking strategy across other web channels. Good luck cleaning this all up.

Here is a great interview with Duane Forrester, a Sr. Product Manager with Bing’s Webmaster Program. In his interview, he has some very good tips on how to get great exposure in Bing.

http://www.stonetemple.com/search-algorithms-and-bing-webmaster-tools-with-duane-forrester/

I just saw this story today about a new Google Webmaster feature which lets you download a file of the most recent links.

http://searchengineland.com/google-now-shows-you-your-most-recent-links-127903

I downloaded the file today and I already discovered a major site issue. Our site blog was completely duplicated on a secondary domain we own and Google was showing that site as recent links. I already emailed the dev team to fix this pronto.

Anybody else using this new feature and perhaps can share if it helps you in any way.

good lord.

please mark sandip's and/or matts response as a good answer or thumbs up if they helped you

I am not keen on using the canonical tag as an upfront solution. I would say to take the time out to highlight the slightly different features of each product and put each of them on a different page. If you find that difficult to do, then you can noindex the pages you that are duplicates and nofollow all internal links to these pages. Finally, I would highlight the difference of each product in the title of the product or Google Shopping will have a very hard differentiating these products.

Latent Semantic Indexing

http://www.seobook.com/archives/000657.shtml

I think they definitely do that for spamming reasons, otherwise you could make a million pages with latin text and only put your keyword repeated in the content and get it ranked.

A real article speaking about a topic would generally have similar related words also included in the article.

I would kindly disagree, if the article is on a major publication and an editor manually included it there, it has tremendous link value. The only time these articles don't have much value is when the major media sites add these articles through some automated process, like automatically adding press releases based on certain keywords in them. Google could easily detect the difference between the two.

you were penalized, so now your main pages don't rank for your main keywords, only your inner pages are ranking for keywords which aren't your main keywords. If you're penalized you won't rank for those anymore until you fix the issue so you're probably seeing the others you are ranking for surface.

I believe this is a result of a cross breed between the Penguin and Panda updates. The Panda updates gave a lift to all authority sites and the Penguin update penalized all sites that were involved in shady SEO. The end result is a few trusted authority sites who are worthy of occupying the first few pages of search results. You can try posting on the Google Webmaster forum and see if you can illicit a response from someone at Google. I should note that Matt Cutts kept saying for years, that host crowding in the SERPS was terrible but just recently backtracked and said that it can be good for users at times. More importantly, try to figure out in which area you can become an authority and clean up all your back links.

2007 - Cutts against Host Crowding - http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/

2012 - Cutts in favor of Host Crowding - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGpEdyIcZcU

I see your site as number two in the Google rankings for designer radiators, so not sure why you're seeing it in  number 21. Try logging in as a different  user.

Some suggestions: Get rid of all your nofollow tags on all the links - page sculpting does not work in that fashion anymore. Also, you maybe overlinking on the home page, thereby greatly reducing the page juice of the home page - the nofollow tags do not stop your page juice from being diluted.

Only Desiger Radiators should be in the H1 tag. I would not put the following in a H1 tag.

<h1>Welcome to the Radiator Gallery...h1>

I wouldn't drop these pages that are bringing in a majority of your traffic and try to promote your new product on these pages.