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Our concern is that the search result for au pair was, at one point, the correct title tag. However, it changed a few weeks ago to Au Pair - InterExchange and we can't figure out why.

Thanks for the response. We are seeing Au Pair - InterExchange for result for the 'au pair' keyword search, but other terms such as "au pair agency" are producing the designated title tag Au Pair | Top Au Pair Agency for Live in Childcare | InterExchange. Why would there be a difference?

We are trying to figure out why the search result for the term "au pair" is not matching our designated title tag or anything on our page. If you search "au pair", please see the result for the domain interexchange.org. We do not see this problem with other search terms.

Yeah it's an odd market

Cool - just wanted to solicit an opinion or two. So to be clear, redirecting to somesite.com/search/cows

is the same to google as redirecting to

somesite.com/seach/cows?utm_source=redirecteddomain.com

Right on Andy,

So you're calling into question volume of redirects? Well, we are basically redirecting a unique item to another unique item. In this case we're dealing with stock photography and media, so there are TONS of items and category pages that have relevant identical pages between domains.

The redirect mapping has been set-up very carefully using both manual and automated checks.

We just merged with another company and are redirecting their domains (competitive/similar content) to our own.

We'll have several domains, redirecting (301) several hundred thousand URL's to our domain (not all the same page, very unique mappings). Will adding utm_source, et al parameters to the URL's have a negative impact on how google transfers value to the pages based on the redirect authority passed?

Any points of view? We have a self referencing canonical, but given that we have 90 million pages on the current domain (and climbing), seems like cleanest approach would be to not use redirects.

Thanks,

Jeff

Google Analytics Premium still samples your data, in some cases quite heavily to the point of the report being unusable.

Hmmm - good thought. I wonder if Google is giving out deliberately bad advice for dealing with paginated sets, in that they never mention <noindex, follow="">as a viable alternative to next/prev. </noindex,>

If each paginated page is all unique assets (photos), why would it be dupe?

J

Thanks Mark - if you disable javascript or impersonate Google-bot using a browser extension, then click on one of the main categories on the homepage bottom nav, you arrive here:

http://www.shutterstock.com/cat-5-Education.html

and click next, you get a URL like this: http://www.shutterstock.com/cat-5p2-Education.html

which is noindex,follow

if I arrive at the site without impersonating google-bot:

http://www.shutterstock.com/cat-5-Education.html#page=2

with a canonical back to http://www.shutterstock.com/cat-5-Education.html

So it seems they are trying to literally game Google - is there any evidence this works?

Look at what www.shutterstock.com/cat-26p3-Abstract.html

does with their search results page 3 for 'Abstract' - same for page 2-N in the paginated series.

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

Why is this a better alternative then using the next/prev, per Google's official statement on pagination? http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1663744

Which doesn't even mention this as an option. Any ideas? Does this improve the odds of the first page in the paginated series ranking for the target term? There can't be a 'view all page' because there are simply too many items.

• Jeff