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Talked to our web designer.  He said he's nervous about no-indexing as if Google will get suspicious and it will hurt more than be a solution.  Don't know what to say.

Thanks guys!  That's awesome.  Forwarding to our developer.

Our blog (www.cowleyweb.com/blog) has recently been given topic categories so we can utilize our old blogs.  Otherwise, users would only see what's new and never look back (our blogs are organized by the month they were published) and all that hard work would kind of be a waste after a while.

So we came up with a few topics (i.e. social media, internet marketing, etc.) and adding those as tags to blogs.  Now, users can click the topics and get a results page on our blog of all the previously published blogs related to that topic.  Sounds great.

BUT, it's hurting our SEO crawl report.  If the list goes beyond one page of search results, the 2nd and subsequent pages get dinged as "duplicate title" b/c they share the same title (i.e. "Social Media").  How can I fix this?

I'm not the web designer but something tells me maybe some sort of tag that says "Page 2" or something would do the trick.  We use Drupal which is good for customization.

I assume tons of bloggers and websites have dealt with this problem.

Please help.  Want to give the web guy some solutions.

Thank you.

Thank you Tom.  That is good to know.  Good to know there won't be negative SEO and yes, from a PR standpoint I will look into deleting some of the accounts.  Certain are less active just b/c they are more obscure and we'd rather focus on, like you said, those that convert.  Thank you for your reply.

I'm the Internet Marketing Manager for an ad agency and in charge of not only our social media and SEO but advising and hooking up clients with successful campaigns.

I've taken the liberty of signing us up for almost every major social media account.

Some are very successful (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, LinkedIn, Vimeo is ok (we use it over YouTube), Vine is picking up) and others are very not doing well (Flickr, Foursquare, YouTube really is low, Google+ is very mediocre).  I’ve been wondering if it would be more beneficial to just delete certain accounts.  I think I need to keep Google+ (Google values it and we are not doing terribly on it) but all the others listed in the bad column I think are really cancerous to our SEO (and make us look bad b/c we are doing poorly on them) but I really don’t know.  I used them kind of to see if they would work for us and to demonstrate that we knew what we were doing in these social networks, but I think they may be doing us more harm than good both from a PR standpoint and SEO.  Doesn't it hurt your website for Google to see poor performing social media accounts, just as the opposite would be true (good sm accounts and mention/activity would give you klout & SEO...)?

What do you think?

I'm no novice but no master either.  Love this forum.  Thanks in advance.

Thanks!  Will go with it.  Worth the try.

Thank you!  Love this community thing.

That is correct.  They don't exist as websites.  We just don't want to get penalized for doing so.  Basically after that, if anyone types in these domains, they'll go to ours.  Wondering if I should be wary but it sounds like you said it's ok.

The brand related ones seem fine but keyword?

I.e.: if the site is GoBig.com then .net & org & GoBigg should be fine.

But (ie the site is about adding on to your house via this contractor (example) and you redirect contractor.com to it and houseadditions.com are you going to get penalized?

Thanks!

A client of ours owns several domain names that are keyword similar to the domain they actually use to run their site.

They are asking us if we should 301 redirect all of these websites to the domain they use.

However, I don't want this to work against them and their site get penalized later for this.  I have heard buying out competitors and redirecting their domain to yours is frowned upon and penalized when you get caught (they did not do this).  We are also wondering if there is a limit as to how many domains you can 301 redirect and what type (keyword similar, misspellings, .net's, etc.) and if you are penalized after too many (i.e. >50).

All of the domains in question are keyword/brand name similar only and do not exist as actual websites.

We just want to do the right thing.

Thank you for your help.

Hi, an SEO guy told me to buy up domains like ours X.org, net, biz, etc. & mispellings. this could cost over $100/year. Is is worth it for SEO or is it just covering our @ss if competitors want to get stupid and buy those? I don't forsee competitors doing that. What do you suggest? Does Google actually give us points for those AND if we bought them are we supposed to redirect all of them to our site? Should I be doing this for our SEO clients? Thanks.