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nope logged out of google searching using google.com/ncr
Good to know I am only seeing this craziness

Ok,

I love Wikipedia as much as the next guy but the amount of weight that google puts on this site is getting crazy. My search terms that I am going after are "speakers" and "loudspeakers"

Can somebody tell me why wikipedia needs the top 8 -10 spots for those terms? is that really a good search result for users of google?

More of a rant then a question I know. I just needed to get that off my chest!.

Thanks for your great suggestions.

Although BC has 6000 + pages the vast majority seem to be pdf's of their parts catalog. with no pr at all.

Nether one of  BC or PSB have many links back with anchor text as "Speakers" the vast majority are the company names:

<a class="clickable title link-pivot" title="See top linking pages that use this anchor text">b c speakers</a> - 250+

PSB Speakers - 3000+

Do you think that google is seeing "psb speakers" as the company name and ignoring "speakers" as a relevant term?

Not really concerned on what page each one is on, or how generic the term is...

the question is why is one listed and the other is not when the metrics point in the opposite direction.

www.bcspeakers.com/

vs

www.psbspeakers.com/

with the search term "speakers" why does BC speakers show up in around #50-60 and PSB is not in the top #1000?

From all metrics on seomoz PSB kicks BC in every area by a large margine! can anyone see why BC is listed for that keyword and PSB is not?

don't know why I did not see it before but my server "Expires:" tage is set to: Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT Also I have no "Last-modified" http header either Crazy! How much do you guys think this type of thing hurts a site?

Personally if i was searching for "Office Refurbishment" company i would type in "Office Refurb"

If I type in Office Refurb" i get results for "Office Refurbishment" so I think google treats them at leased close to the same way.

So I have a few pages with the same content just with a different URL.

http://nadelectronics.com/products/made-for-ipod/VISO-1-iPod-Music-System

http://nadelectronics.com/products/speakers/VISO-1-iPod-Music-System

http://nadelectronics.com/products/digital-music/VISO-1-iPod-Music-System

All pages  rel-canonical to:
http://nadelectronics.com/products/made-for-ipod/VISO-1-iPod-Music-System

My question is... why can't google + (or facebook and twitter for that matter)  consolidate all these pages +1. So if the first two had 5 +1 and the rel-canonical page had 5 +1's. It would be nice for all pages to display 15 +1's not 5 on each.

It's my understanding that Google +1 will gives the juice to the correct page. So why not display all the +1's at the same time.

Hope that makes sense.

I am wondering if they are talking about the paid version cus I run it on my site. www.psbspeakers.com and it comes up with all kinds of dup content.

<loc>http://www.psbspeakers.com/products/image/Image-B6-Bookshelf</loc>
  <loc>http://www.psbspeakers.com/products/bookshelf-speakers/Image-B6-Bookshelf</loc>

with this code siteing on both pages:
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.psbspeakers.com/products/image/Image-B6-Bookshelf"/>

I am wondering if they are talking about the paid version cus I run it on my site. www.psbspeakers.com and it comes up with all kinds of dup content.

<loc>http://www.psbspeakers.com/products/image/Image-B6-Bookshelf</loc>
  <loc>http://www.psbspeakers.com/products/bookshelf-speakers/Image-B6-Bookshelf</loc>

with this code siteing on both pages:
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.psbspeakers.com/products/image/Image-B6-Bookshelf"/>

I think you should read facebook legal page. It says you can't run a contest based on likes or shares. The way to get around this is to run a third party contest app on your facebook page.

Correct me if I am wrong, but if a user shares a facebook contest page they are not made fans. So if you want more fans I would suggest making it a "like" contest.

Personally if i was searching for "Office Refurbishment" company i would type in "Office Refurb"

If I type in Office Refurb" i get results for "Office Refurbishment" so I think google treats them at leased close to the same way.

Thanks Ryan.

That's the one I already use, but it does not take canonical's into account so i end up with 2-3 links for the same page.