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Hi Niners72,
I agree with Mark. But I would also try to ensure that you are providing a relevant yet unique title tag for each of your pages where possible (you can focus on the ones that are top level then work through as when you have the time-if you have a large site) as these can help to improve Click Through Rate also as well as the description (which needs to be within the 156 limit).
Because that is just filtering your data in your report. That will not stop this from happening.
I would stick to using the Rel=Canonical tag.
You could also check in Google Webmaster Tools and look at the URL parameter handling tool.
In this you will be able to:
1. Recognize duplicate content on your website.
2.Determine your preferred URLs.
3.Apply 301 permanent redirects where necessary and possible.
4.Implement the rel="canonical" link element on your pages where you can.
5.Use the URL parameter handling tool in Google Webmaster Tools where possible.
Further reading: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/reunifying-duplicate-content-on-your.html
I hope this helps 
Ally
I'm not a hundred percent on this-but am interested to see what everyone else thinks-So be patient:
I think it should appear as follows:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !www.abc.com$[NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) $http//www.abc.com/$1 [L,R=301]
or
Redirect 301 abc.com/index.html http://www.abc.com
Make sure you save your.TXT file with the correct name and to the correct location. I hope this helps. If I have this wrong anyone I would love to know the correct way myself.
Thanks,
Ally
Hi Shiftins,
You can use http://mergewords.com/
Also doing a Screaming Frog crawl on competitors will help you to see if you've overlooked anything.
This post below has some of the best tools from MozCon:
https://seogadget.co.uk/favourite-keyword-tools/
I hope this is helpful,
Ally
Thanks for that I have just looked that up-I didn't realise that this was such a common problem.
Hi Stefan,
You can block the Baidu crawler in in the robots.txt.
There should be no adverse affect to your site. As this is not an area you are targeting and has no future long term benerfit to your business. Blocking the crawler will mean that your server has less load to deal with from the unnecessary traffic you have been receiving.
You can block the spiders in the following ways:
User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: Baiduspider-video
User-agent: Baiduspider-image
Disallow: /
See the below article for more details on this method
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067357/Bye-bye-Crawler-Blocking-the-Parasites
You may also want to check out:
I hope this helps,
Ally
I would also use Seomoz's toolbar to gain further insight into the blogs metrics-such Domain Authority and linking Root Domains.
If you are still unsure just run the site through opensite explorer and investigate the links they have to make sure their back link profile doesn't contain anything spammy or untoward looking.
The other solution is to start your own personal search and you can find good quality writers.
It then depends on you having your own set of guidelines and requirements that they must adhere too.
Hi Nicholas,
Have you looked into hiring a copywriter?
There are plenty of freelancers out there and all you would need to do is come up with the article ideas and brief them into the writer. You should look at some freelance writer sites such as:
http://www.studentgems.com/
https://www.elance.com
This way you can get great content (depending onb quality of writer you hire). The cost of this is dependant on who you hire and what your budget is.
I hope that helps somewhat.
Hi Charlotte,
I would begin with by analysing your analytics and seeing where people are dropping out of the conversion funnel and find out the missing links/barriers to conversion.
Hope that helps.
Hi Charlotte,
Create a funnel, find out the drop off's, survey your customers, run some usability tests and this should be enough to get you started
Usability testing is good as it will show you onsite usability issues, bugs and errors. However it won't show you how to improve persuasive architecture hence why you would seek out a specialist for this.
I hope this helps
I think what Aran has suggested is great. You don't want to 404 the sold property pages as if it has been a popular property page and has accumaled links and PA, then by 404'ing that page you would lose all that value.
By doing a 301 redirect to a category page you will pass most of that value on, however you wont pass on the anchor text value and by doing this it will also tell the search engines to disregard that page in future so it shouldn't appear in the search, this can take a while.
I would stick to using the Rel=Canonical tag.
You could also check in Google Webmaster Tools and look at the URL parameter handling tool.
In this you will be able to:
1. Recognize duplicate content on your website.
2.Determine your preferred URLs.
3.Apply 301 permanent redirects where necessary and possible.
4.Implement the rel="canonical" link element on your pages where you can.
5.Use the URL parameter handling tool in Google Webmaster Tools where possible.
Further reading: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/reunifying-duplicate-content-on-your.html
I hope this helps
Ally
Hi ,
Looking at your question you are asking about two things firstly your rankings and secondly Linkscape updates as Doug Roberts has posted that is correct. Now to answer your first question, rankings are always updated and that means you often get fluctuations or no movement at all. You have said you haven’t had any movement, in that case you need look at implementing a link building strategy, you can do this by guest posting, creating your own great content and promoting it using your social channels, if you have the budget how about an infographic.
If your rankings still don’t improve this may mean you need to look closely at onsite issues and also use OSE and compare your site to your competitors-it is so insightful.
Also we use Advance Web Rankings to monitor our Rankings that maybe something you want to look at.
Good Luck,
I'm not a hundred percent on this-but am interested to see what everyone else thinks-So be patient:
I think it should appear as follows:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !www.abc.com$[NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) $http//www.abc.com/$1 [L,R=301]
or
Redirect 301 abc.com/index.html http://www.abc.com
Make sure you save your.TXT file with the correct name and to the correct location. I hope this helps. If I have this wrong anyone I would love to know the correct way myself.
Thanks,
Ally
Hi Niners72,
I agree with Mark. But I would also try to ensure that you are providing a relevant yet unique title tag for each of your pages where possible (you can focus on the ones that are top level then work through as when you have the time-if you have a large site) as these can help to improve Click Through Rate also as well as the description (which needs to be within the 156 limit).
Hi,
You can use the Google Adwords tool to generate keywords. If you then want to expand your list further use merge words http://mergewords.com/
Also if you go to the moz tools you can use the Keyword Difficulty tool "Uncover opportunities, determine how challenging it is to rank for a keyword, and get a powerful analysis of your competitive landscape."-SeoMoz.
If you need further reading this post from Richard Baxter shows some of his favorite tools for Keyword research:
https://seogadget.co.uk/favourite-keyword-tools/
I hope this helps you.
Hi Stefan,
You can block the Baidu crawler in in the robots.txt.
There should be no adverse affect to your site. As this is not an area you are targeting and has no future long term benerfit to your business. Blocking the crawler will mean that your server has less load to deal with from the unnecessary traffic you have been receiving.
You can block the spiders in the following ways:
User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: Baiduspider-video
User-agent: Baiduspider-image
Disallow: /
See the below article for more details on this method
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067357/Bye-bye-Crawler-Blocking-the-Parasites
You may also want to check out:
I hope this helps,
Ally
Hi Shiftins,
You can use http://mergewords.com/
Also doing a Screaming Frog crawl on competitors will help you to see if you've overlooked anything.
This post below has some of the best tools from MozCon:
https://seogadget.co.uk/favourite-keyword-tools/
I hope this is helpful,
Ally