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Hello,

I have a lot of low quality pages on my site, many of which have very similar URLs and cover similar topics.

I want to tidy up my site by using 301 redirects as Rand suggests here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-solve-keyword-cannibalization

1. As a rough rule of thumb, how many internal 301 redirects is too many?

2. Can lots be to the homepage if they're relevant?  (I could have as many as 30)

Thanks,

Kevin

Hello,

I'm confused about the recommendations for avoiding keyword self cannibalization.

I have a niche blog and some of my sticky posts on the homepage contain my site's main keyword in their title.

For example, say if my homepage has "dog training" as it's main keyword, then there are going to be links to more longtail pages with titles such as "dog training London", "dog training Liverpool" etc.

When I do this SeoMoz's on-page optimization tool tells me that this is keyword self cannibalization.  I am building links to the inner pages using the longtail keywords only.

1. Do I need to rename pages with just "london" and "liverpool" etc and remove "dog training" from those links?

2. What is the best thing to do in this situation?

Thanks,

Kevin

Thank you very much for your answer.

I do have the all in one plugin installed, and my excerpts are not originally written, but taken from the articles so i will leave it no index.

Thanks again!

I am new to SEOmoz & trying to work my way through the ca-trillion errors that have been found on my site, but for each one I want to ensure that I am helping rather than harming my site.

The tool has (as a "notice") said that my category pages & Archives are NO-INDEX, is this how these pages should be dealt with?

In addition, the crawler has also (as a "warning error) discovered that my categories, and Archives do not have a meta description..is this of great importance for non indexed pages of this type?

Thanks so much to the SEOmoz forum members, you have so far been of invaluable help to me.

Thank you for taking the time to respond, and with such well thought out answer.

I suppose the original author would not be so bothered about 3 Quarks Daily as at least they link to & request readers to visit the original site for the full article, which is obviously more than The New Dawn Liberia Site.

Do you feel that creating such a site (3 Quarks Daily) as a readers resource of the best articles on a specific topic from across the web is a legitimate way to build a website (for personal pleasure not profit)? and what are your thoughts on copyright issues?

How would you feel if others re-posted your content in this way?

It is interesting that Google does not penalize duplicate content websites, and in this specific example surprising that those re-posting others content can rank higher.

(sorry for asking so many questions)

Does anyone have a theory as to why this site does not get hit with a DC penalty?

The site is great, and the information is good but I just cannot understand the reason that this site does not get hit with a duplicate content penalty as all articles are posted elsewhere.

Any theories would be greatly appreciated!

I am new to SEOmoz & trying to work my way through the ca-trillion errors that have been found on my site, but for each one I want to ensure that I am helping rather than harming my site.

The tool has (as a "notice") said that my category pages & Archives are NO-INDEX, is this how these pages should be dealt with?

In addition, the crawler has also (as a "warning error) discovered that my categories, and Archives do not have a meta description..is this of great importance for non indexed pages of this type?

Thanks so much to the SEOmoz forum members, you have so far been of invaluable help to me.