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Check your Google Webmaster Tools and see if you need to use the Parameter tool.  There are settings there that you can use to tell google not to index parameters.  You can also confirm that Google is not under-indexing your site, in which case you don't have to worry about the parametered URLs at all. If you have canonical tags in place that will do the trick.

I have a site which is using canonical tags on all pages, however not all duplicate versions of the homepage are 301'd due to a limitation in the hosting platform.  So some site visitors get www.example.com/default.aspx while others just get www.example.com.  I can see the correct canonical tag on the source code of both versions of this homepage, but when I search Google for the specific URL "www.example.com/default.aspx" I see that they've indexed that specific URL as well as the "clean" one.  Is this a concern... shouldn't Google only show me the clean URL?

Yes, it's answered.  Thanks to Streamline, I appreciate the response.

I'm setting up a site to display a different site header graphic depending on which U.S. State the IP address is coming from.  In theory we may end up doing 50 different images, although we'll probably start with 4 or 5 and then the other states will get a "default".

How will the SE's treat this... if it's just an image change, but the text on the page is the same, will it affect anything?  Any best practice advice out there?

thanks!

Hi,

My client's site has GA tracking code gathering correct data on the site, but the pages are listed in GA as having /index.php at the end of every URL, although this does not appear when you visit the site pages.

Even if there is a redirect happening for site visitors, shouldn't GA be showing the pages as their redirect destination, i.e. the URL that visitors actually see?

Could this discrepancy be adversely affecting my search performance?

Example page:  http://freshstarttax.com/innocent-spouse/ shows up in GA as http://freshstarttax.com/innocent-spouse/index.php

thanks

In Wordpress your main blog page is likely using one template while an individual blog post is using another.  If you are using a plugin, it may be adding the rel code to one template but not the other.  If you did a manual edit, which is usually what you have to do in this situation, then you may have only edited the blog template, or the "loop" code, but not the "single.php" document which is usually the default template for a single post page.

Wordpress will run the loop on an archive page but not on an individual blog page, so this is a separate instance of the author link and has to be installed on its own.

If you have the Firebug tool in Firefox you can look at the HTML of the page and see which template is being used by Wordpress, because most themes will put a "body class="templatename" to match the name of the wp template, so you'll know what document to edit.

If you need the markup for rel="author" you can find it here:

good luck, let me know if you want me to take a look.

I ran an anchor text report for my client today, which shows that their site has some incoming comment spam links using totally unrelated phrases (pharma products).  However, when looking for the live link, the linking page no longer contains the link to them.

Maybe the webmasters removed these, but I can't track down a single one... how old is this data?

thanks

HI, thanks for the input.  Actually, both blogs are business-focused, it's just that the main blog is targeted to business folks who are non-techie, but I have a lot of technical content I want to blog about too, so I'm going to do a "technical blog".  Just trying to decide how best to do it.

I would like to start up another blog which has more of a "technical" topic coverage vs my regular blog, which appeals more to non-techie business folks.  If the goal is to drive traffic ultimately to the main site, should I do this second blog on a different domain, a subdomain, or try to incorporate it as a separate-but-equal blog on the same domain as the currrent one?  What would you do?

Check your Google Webmaster Tools and see if you need to use the Parameter tool.  There are settings there that you can use to tell google not to index parameters.  You can also confirm that Google is not under-indexing your site, in which case you don't have to worry about the parametered URLs at all. If you have canonical tags in place that will do the trick.