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You could become my new religion. Your answer is as profound and as moving as scripture, it makes me believe i could almost aspire to Heaven...then i look at the ground beneath my feet and wonder which foot first and where!

Thank you for your answer.

It is frustrating as they have now gained the coverted no1 ranking spot for some very powerful keyword phrases and the revenue drop from 1 to 2 is significant.

I wouldn't embark on this type of campaign however i need to find a legitimate way that gains tangible results to compete with them -  In other words i need to find a fly swat!!

A competitor of our ours has, paid to have specific links from what looks like real websites but they're not real at all they're full of fluff.

Does this practice have a name and does it have longevity as a ranking technique?

Hi everyone

Our industry has a particular keyword phrase that is very popular. We currently own this as a domain name. How can we make use of this to our main websites advantage?

Thank you very much.

Its looks so simple but when you've not done this before it can be scary.

I also didn't want to get it wrong and miss roger on his crawl tomorrow!

We have a development site that we want google and other bots to stay out of but we want roger to have access.

Currently our robots.txt looks like this:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /development/

What would i need to addd or change to let him through?

Thank you.

As an ecommerce site, one of the tabs on the product description is filled with delivery information. This tab is populated the same way on every product page. I think this is contributing to an increased score on my pages similarity to each other. Is there a way to obscure this info for se's and is it worthwhile doing so?

There was a problems with Q&A over the weekend and this question seems to have posted several times!

Hi long title i know!

We are moving on to magento and have chosen to allocate a specific colour to each category using corresponding tabbed navigation for user experience.All products within each of the coloured tabs then inherit the repective colour, giving the products a category identiy within the store. This layout has had a positive feedback from our "testers"

As a lot of our products are seasonal and can be represented in different categories there is a significant amount of duplicate content.

ATM i see our options as being:

1. Alter the site structure so that the category is not shown in the url, therefore eliminating our duplicate products. The downside of this is that the colour co-ordination of the categories would not work at product level as its the category path that assigns the colour.
2. create canonical links for every duplicate, can this be damaging?
3. keep the duplicates and do nothing let google decide the most important version of a product.

any guidance would be appreciated!

If we decided not to optimize would it be better to 301 or canonical link. I've read arguments for both?