If you are adding value to the category pages and making them useful places for the user to land and not just a list of links, then by all means, you should keep them indexed. And yes, in this case you still need for each page to have a canonical URL, so you will have to pick which category a recipe best fits in. (You can still have the link on two category pages, one of them just needs to be the canonical.)
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Posts made by Linda-Vassily
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RE: I have a recipe food blog and use wordpress, but my recipes are usually in more than one category...?
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RE: Google Analytics showing my Adwords campaign bounce rate at 0%
Yes, you will have to wait a bit to see if that changes anything. But in the meantime, take a look at the source code of one of the pages that is reporting a zero bounce rate and see if the Analytics code is on the page twice. (Here is an article on bounce rates that has additional information, if that is not the answer.)
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RE: Google Analytics showing my Adwords campaign bounce rate at 0%
Going back a step, have you linked your Adwords and Analytics accounts? Here's how.
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RE: Google Analytics showing my Adwords campaign bounce rate at 0%
Is your Analytics code present twice on the page? That could do it. And in Google Analytics, the medium for Adwords would be "cpc" or if you look in channels, it is "paid search".
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RE: My Domain authority dropped 9 points... Does anyone have any suggestions to fix this significant drop.
You should not look at Moz's domain authority as a fixed number; it will change, depending on their index that month. A good way to look at this number is relative to a couple of your competitors. Track them, and if their number also goes down when yours goes down, it is probably the index.
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RE: Removing duplicate content
Yes, as Patrick said, surprisingly often something like this is a result of a simple oversight because we have been looking at the same code over and over...
Do you have access to Screaming Frog? You could crawl your site and see whether redirects/canonicals are behaving as you expected.
Have you taken a look at the html of one of the incorrectly indexed pages when it is loaded in your browser? Can you see the canonical? If you try going to a redirected page, does it redirect? [I know--way to obvious, but sometimes it is good to start at the beginning again when we can't root out an issue.]
Another culprit in these cases can be internal links. Do you link internally using any of the undesirable URLs? That can send a message to Google that those URLs are still in play. Again, you can use Screaming Frog to find those strings.
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RE: Moz Bar Not Showing DA?
I haven't thought about it a lot because my issue resolves itself when I reload.
Have you tried entering the URLs in question directly into Open Site Explorer? What do you see there?
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RE: Moz Bar Not Showing DA?
This might have nothing to do with your particular problem, but I have seen a similar thing on my site. When I see that, I reload the page and the Domain authority populates.
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RE: I changed my home title and meta description but on google, i still see the old title and meta description. Whats the problem here?
We never know exactly why Google makes the determinations it does. Maybe your competitor's site is better optimized for luxury cars, or maybe it has to do with links to the page. SEO is always done in a bit of a black box...
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RE: I changed my home title and meta description but on google, i still see the old title and meta description. Whats the problem here?
Google tries to show the result that is most specifically relevant to your search. When you search for "Exotic Car Rental Miami", "Exotic Car Rental Miami" is the most relevant part of the title. [Google uses the title and description you supply as strong suggestions, but it does not always use them.] Since you were not looking for Luxury Car Rentals, Google figures that part is not relevant to you.
I am not sure which parts of the rest you didn't understand?
When you do a search, you can click on the little green triangle next to the URL in the search results to see what the page looked like the last time Google crawled it, and the date on which Google crawled it.
As far as anonymous search, Google learns from your searches, so the results you see can be different depending on what you have done in the past. If you use an anonymous browser window (like Incognito on Chrome) you can avoid this.
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RE: Meta Robot Tag:Index, Follow, Noodp, Noydir
Yes, for the most part "index, follow" is what you want on your pages.
But no, the "noodp, noydir" tags do not prevent you from being in the directories (though as Alan pointed out, the Yahoo one isn't around anymore), they just prevent the descriptions from being used.
Google does not always use the title and description found on your page, it sometimes chooses something it deems more relevant. Sometimes this is the description from the Open Directory Project (DMOZ). Sometimes this is not a good thing to choose.
Maybe your site was quite different when it was submitted to the directory, and the information there no longer applies. You want to tell Google not to use what is in there, so you use noodp in the header.
Whether you use or do not use "noodp, noydir", it won't hurt your rankings.
The only reason you might want to make sure to use them is if you saw unexpected content in the descriptions of your pages in the search results pages, and you had reason to believe the descriptions came from DMOZ. In that case, to prevent that from happening, you would use those additional tags, along with "index, follow".
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RE: Meta Robot Tag:Index, Follow, Noodp, Noydir
Noodp= No Open Directory Project
Noydir= No Yahoo DirectoryThese are used if your website is listed in one of these directories with information you do not want used in the results pages. This might be the case if you have old, outdated listings that no longer apply. They tell robots not to use information from these sources, and they are optional.
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RE: I changed my home title and meta description but on google, i still see the old title and meta description. Whats the problem here?
Is your site prestigeluxuryrentals.com (from your sig)?
If I search on that URL, I see:
Title: Exotic Car Rental Miami
Description: Prestige Luxury Rentals offers the newest exotic & luxury cars for rent. Book an exotic car rental or luxury car rental in Miami, Miami Beach, and South.If I click to see the cached version (it was cached on May 12) and look at the source, I see the same thing, with a slightly longer title, Exotic Car Rental Miami - Luxury Car Rental Miami Florida.
It wouldn't be odd for Google to shorten the title in the case of my search on the URL. (When I search for the full title, I see the full title in the SERP.)
Did you do an anonymous search when you were checking? You might be picking something up from your own history...
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RE: How do I deindex url parameters
Put a canonical tag on site.com/products to itself and the parameter versions will go away. (They eventually will anyway--duplicate content does not cause a penalty, it just causes duplicate versions to not be indexed, which is what you want anyway.)
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RE: In the Google search results, the company name (with the drop down arrow) next to the result URL is incorrect. The company being displayed here is a company we acquired many years back. How do I adjust/fix this?
And I forgot to specifically say that I would definitely choose to update these if possible, rather than delete them, because they would also be strong signals for your current company name.
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RE: In the Google search results, the company name (with the drop down arrow) next to the result URL is incorrect. The company being displayed here is a company we acquired many years back. How do I adjust/fix this?
You request an update in DMOZ, explaining about the change. They are much quicker at updating an entry than at adding a new one. (I know, because I had to do an update myself.) There is also a handy meta tag you can use on your site, , which tells robots not to use Open Directory information.
For Wikipedia, if you know a friendly editor you can ask them to make the change, or else you can request an edit on the company talk page.
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RE: In the Google search results, the company name (with the drop down arrow) next to the result URL is incorrect. The company being displayed here is a company we acquired many years back. How do I adjust/fix this?
Along with Patrick's great ideas, take a look at Wikipedia and DMOZ (Open Directory Project). Is the old company listed in either of those? Sometimes signals from those sites can be very strong.