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It should.If that does not work for some reason, try Yoast. One of these 2 plugins should be able to deindex these pages for you. I presume you are using the latest version of Wordpress as well as the Plugin.

I am sure they did, but we were never able to have a read on it because price data was never added to the site. We just started measuring the Call to Action / Conversion as a successful RFQ or a visit to the contact page from these product level pages.

If you use All in One SEO Plugin, you can enable a setting where you can set a Noindex on all the Archive level pages. I hope this helps.

Is this data coming from Google Analytics or another stats from your hosting platform ? I would check them both to make sure it's in sync. If your rankings are stable and nothing on the site is wrong (or maybe it was broken or stats / tracking had some issues) depending upon what analytics/stats program are you using to track it. I would watch it next couple days to see what's going on.

I worked on a B2B with a similar problem sometime back. The business decided to implement a Request for Quote system. And there was no impact on the rankings.

Are those links visible in Google Webmaster Console ? Are the pages where you links are, cached in Google ? When you look at the cached version of that page, do you see your link ?

I would block m.domain.com from all crawlers except Googlebot-Mobile. At the same time, I would block domain.com from Googlebot-Mobile.

I hope that helps.

Based on what I see I would recommend you use this one: http://www.hylunia.com/pure-hyaluronic-acid-solution Here are my reasons: 1. http://www.hylunia.com/products/face-care/facial-moisturizers/pure-hyaluronic-acid-solution is way too long. 2. It 2 levels down in terms of folders. 3. You already have the category names in the Page Title as well as the Breadcrumbs, so you are not really missing out on the On-page by having the category names removed from the URL. That's just my 2c. I hope that helps.

If you think about it, anybody could hire a company and start buying bad links for competition. If it would be that easy to penalize a site, won't everybody be doing that ? But to answer your question directly, in order to get links that help you, you got to have a good understanding on the kind of links you are actually going to get. Will they be permanent links that are being built or are they rented links ? Depending upon your current link profile and the competition, I would suggest you evaluate what exactly needs to get done before reaching out to a Link Building Company per se.

m.example.com is definitely better but if you have responsive design, you can also adjust based on user agent detection and I am seeing a lot more success with that. However, if you do decide to go m.example.com, don't forget to Deny Google Mobile access to your Main Website and Only Allow Googlebot-Mobile access to your mobile site. That way you won't run into duplicate content issues between your main website and mobile site.

XYZ Sandals is definitely better. You might also want to consider doing something even more descriptive and doing XYZ Sandals for Women ABC Leather Shoes for Men XYZ Evening Shoes There are ton's of brand searches followed by type/category of shoes.

If you want to rank multiple domains for the same content, in that case canonical tag won't do it. Also, keep in mind that with your current structure you are risking everything including the main-website. I am sure you read what EGOL mentioned. Its not worth the risk. I would concentrate on the main-website first and do whatever it takes to separate it from the rest of the websites. If you still really really have to do the other domains/websites, I would do the following: 1. Change the Product Names, Descriptions, Image file-names etc as much as you can. Make them unique. Honestly, there's no shortcut to this. 2. Separate the sites in terms of domains and hosting and do not interlink the sites to each other. 3. As much as possible, use a completely different CMS/URL structure.

Would you essentially have the same set of products with exact same product categories, product names, product descriptions ? If yes, this could lead to duplicate content issues. Also, since your "microsites" will be powered by the shopping cart on the main site, I am guessing all these microsites will have to be hosted on the same server ? In my opinion, there's definitely "some" value in trying to do this with this approach. It just depends on how big scale are we talking. I mean are you talking about 5 microsites or 50 ? It would be worth if you could build a wedding or a baseball related niche site with lots of good, unique content that is only on the microsite along with the products from the main site but having a different unique description that is different then your main-site. I would also start thinking about how would you build the domain authority / links to the microsites ? IMO this is a bigger discussion that you need to spend some time on.

CTR, Bounce Rate, Time spent on a page/website, site speed etc they all add up. As Google and other Search Engines mention that they have 200+ ranking signals, these things are definitely part of those. Also, these influence your Site Score/Quality Score which might also affect how you rank in PPC. If you have a higher CTR, therefore a better site-score, Google Adwords might show you ad at #1 even though the site at #2 is paying more per click.

I would look at the pages and ask myself the question: Does this page really have more then 1 "Primary" heading ? Can you do 1 primary heading and then sub-headings ? If all such options are exhausted and the only way to address the structure and layout of the page is by having multiple H1 Tags...do it. But I would do it as a last resort or when it's absolutely necessary and it makes sense from a user perspective.

Donnie, I agree. However, we had the same problem on a website and here's what we did the canonical tag:

Over a period of 3-4 weeks, all those print pages disappeared from the SERP. Now if I take a print URL and do a cache: for that page, it shows me the web version of that page.

So yes, I agree the question was about blocking the pages from getting indexed. There's no real recipe here, it's about getting the right solution. Before canonical tag, robots.txt was the only solution. But now with canonical there (provided one has the time and resources available to implement it vs adding one line of text to robots.txt), you can technically 301 the pages and not have to stop/restrict the spiders from crawling them.

Absolutely no offence to your solution in any way. Both are indeed workable solutions. The best part is that your robots.txt solution takes 30 seconds to implement since you provided the actually disallow code :), so it's better.

I agree with Egol's comment. That's the way to go. Optimized Filename, Anchor Text and any surrounding text...think of trying to describe the image in 3-4 words. It works wonders. And if people share your image or the page the image sits on, it helps. Also, I have not seen a clear evidence of Images XML Sitemap helping or not helping, but it can't hurt to do an XML Sitemap of Images/URLs along with their captions/titles if you can.

<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" <="" span="">xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1">
  
    <loc>http://example.com/sample.html</loc>
    image:image</image:image>
        image:lochttp://example.com/image.jpg</image:loc></urlset>

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/adding-images-to-your-sitemaps.html

Yes, it's strongly recommended. It should be fairly simple to populate this tag with the "full" URL of the article based on the article ID. This approach will not only help you get rid of the duplicate content issue, but a canonical tag essentially works like a 301 redirect. So from all search engine perspective you are 301'ing your print pages to the real web urls without redirecting the actual user's who are browsing the print pages if they need to.

If you can have another website link you from somewhere on the web, that could also help speed up the indexing, getting you a deeper crawl.

Think of the following:

1. Press Release containing an active clickable hyperlink to your website
2. Leave a testimonial or something on a service provider's website with an active link
3. Find niche directories and try to get a listing

These links will not only help you short term in getting you a deep index, but also help long term towards your link profile (Off-page Optimization).

I actually remember Lore from a while ago. It's an interesting, easy to use FAQ CMS.

Anyways, I would also recommend implementing Canonical Tags for any possible duplicate content issues. So whether it's the print or the web version, each one of them will contain a canonical tag pointing to the web url of that article in the section of your website.

Are you talking about a Wordpress Blog ? What are you trying to do by exporting site content/meta data into an XML File ? Are you trying to use it as a backup or what ?

You can become an RSP with Tucows/OpenSRS and then Domain Privacy is available for free by default on all domains under that RSP. You can then transfer all your domains there. RSP is like a reseller account (Registration Service Provider). It all depends on how many domains you own.

As Francisco and Ryan said, they will for sure be counted. This is not an anchor text link, but it will still help you towards domain authority as well as page authority. If this domain/IP subnet has never linked to you before, it will also add towards your link profile in all those areas. It also looks like a natural link, a mix is always good and "natural". I would recommend having these as a part of a link building strategy. Too many anchor text/good/value passing links is always "not natural".

Everything adds up

Yes, go ahead and PM me. I will review them and let you know what I think.

What about the age of the 2 websites as well as the age of the backlinks to them ? 
Also, I am sure you have already, but I have to ask: Have you targeted to get links from sites that are linking to your competitor ?

How large is their site vs yours ? Is their site updated regularly ?

Other then your primary keyword, do you outrank them on a lot of other keywords ?

Great questions. Let me try and answer them in the sequence you asked.

1. Don't worry about the PR. Consider PR for entertainment. Although PR does give you a "brief" idea on the quality of the directory, as to how many quality links does this directory have to itself. Again, don't look at just the PR.

2. Yes, all links are good links. It does not matter if it's unranked, because it might be indexed tomorrow. That's fine. If this is the case, I would look for PR on the homepage and PR on some inner-pages (atleast).

3. Look for how strong the directory is in terms of backlinks to itself. Are very related sites listed in the directory ?

4. That actually depends on your current backlink profile ? Do you have atleast 500 non-directory links to your website already ? Are a majority of those from Blog Comments/Article Directories/PR Submissions etc kind of link techniques ? If yes, I would not do the Directory submissions and concentrate on some natural link building techniques ? Can you create some content that could go viral ? If you decide to do that, don't expect success in the 1st try. Just keep doing it.

Overall, whether to do directory links or not, depends on how your existing link profile looks like. If it's mostly natural links, do a bunch of directory links every once in a while.

Also, I would recommend finding niche directories pertaining to your industry and see if you can get yourself listed there before the "general" internet directories. I hope this helps.

The descriptions you see in the SERPS are tweaked, changed and snippets of text from your page are used and what gets displayed depends on the user's query. Lets say your page is ranking for two keywords. Red Widgets and Blue Widgets. If Google thinks your Meta description is related to Red Widget's, they will use it. For Blue Widgets, if they find something else on the page that might be better, they'll use that.

I agree with Bail and Keri. The takeaway is that the phrase is always important but so is surrounding text. Mix and match and do it what makes sense for a user, not for a Search Engine. It will always work out better in the long-run and you won't have to worry about over optimization kind of penalties.

Design your website for the user as well as the Search Engines, not just the Search Engines. Search Engines like what the user's like. As it leads to more users engaging with your content, website, therefore improving your site-score, helping you not only in SEO but PPC if at all you do PPC.

I think there's no way to get a real answer. Think of this. Let's say Microsoft.com wants to rank for Debt Consolidation as a keyword which has a keyword difficulty of let's say 75. Another keyword they want to rank for is Software, which lets say is 95.

Considering their domain content niche, the nature and relevancy of the links pointing to Microsoft, which would essentially be related to Software, it would be very easy for that domain to rank for Software then Debt Consolidation even though Debt Consolidation might be a lot easier in terms of keyword difficulty.

I would read the keyword difficulty in terms of what kind of keywords you currently rank for, the keywords you want to rank for, search volume and the niche of your website to figure out which keywords you should be targeting. I hope that makes sense.

SEOMoz's OpenSiteExplorer.org should do the trick. 400 links is actually not too many. You should be able to run the reports from OSE and then download the CSV. What other data are you looking for beyond what OSE already provides ?

Do you want both the pages to show up in the SERPS ? If yes, no, this would hurt you. The only way to do this if you only want to do it for the users / user experience is to have a canonical tag pointing to the one that you don't want to rank in the search engines.

Is there a way for you to use a programmatic change instead of a 301 redirect ? Since these are brand new URLs, it would make sense to investigate if that is doable. I am sure there's a way out there. All the current logic is doing is getting rid of the space, however it should be replaced with a hyphen. The data is there, it's just a matter of replacing it with a separator.

Definitely submit (it's a high quality link). However, do not have any hopes. Spend 5-10 minutes doing your submission in the right category. If you are a regional business, don't forget to submit in your regional category. That works really well, only if your contact page has the physical business address listed as well as in the whois (Yes, the editors check).

Submit it, Forget it. If you get a link. Celebrate.

Slow and Steady is always a good sign. However spikes every once in a while should not be an issue at all. Let's say something from your website goes viral and you get tons of likes and other social activity related to your website for like 3 days and then it dies down. That's the nature of social media. Don't worry about it

I have seen certain "monster" brand-names doing stuff like shrinking their drop down menu's or completely disabling them on inner pages vs the homepage. IMO that is a big usability issue.

Imagine going to a homepage of a website and selecting Green Widgets from the Dropdown Widgets.

Now once you are on Green Widgets, you again mouseover on Widgets expecting the same dropdown, and it works. Good.

However, if you want to browse to a different product category, from the Green Widgets page, which lives under a different Tab, it doesn't work. I think that's a usability nightmare.

From Search Engine perspective, having the same redundant set of links in Header and Footer on every single page devalues the internal link juice you are passing from one page to another. It's a Catch 22 situation here.

In my experience, moving the repeating header and footer lower in the HTML helps. Other then that if the domain has decent authority and you are not facing any indexing issues, which you shouldn't I would not worry about it. It also depends on how many are too many

Are the pages that are linking to that old domain "indexed". I guess they are, that's how you found them in the 1st place. How much of a compromise is it to use the old-domain ? Is it a compromise ? Personally I have seen varying successes with old and new domains, same topic. There are just too many factors that influence the rankings. I would look at the top 20 websites that are ranking for atleast 5 variations of your primary keyword and check their domain age. That should lay it out for you. Feel free to post the new domain, old domain or PM me the URL in private and I can check it for you.

IMO that's completely fine. You are passing a directive to Google telling them that whatever versions of that one URL they may come across, the correct URL for them to index, crawl and display in their SERPS is the "original-url". So you are good.

If it is a self hosted wordpress blog vs a wordpress.com hosted blog, you can definitely ste it up in a sub-folder. No doubts.

What kind of blog is it ? Is it a wordpress.com or typepad.com or blogspot.com hosted blog ? That could be the only reason why you could not use a sub-folder.

I would recommend using wordpress.org hosted blog and install it on /blog/ and then import content from your existing blog, whatever platform it is, I am pretty sure there are import plugins available in the wordpress plugin database to import your content seamlessly.

Now that's very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

I would recommend doing a On=page Site Audit to see if there are any other issues. If not, I would concentrate on building more content and natural links. You should be able to recover. If nothing happens, and you think you are penalized, submit a reconsideration request. I think you may need better quality links.

Yes, IMO it should be okay. It's like in the regular search and browse session, you might have session-ids or other user-experience related variables encoded in the URLs but to avoid duplicate content issues, you have canonical tags. Therefore all things tracking, the internal navigation links are not consistent with the canonical version of the same URL. Whenever a user land's from SE's, he'll see the canonical URLs, but as he starts clicking on other links, they would not be consistent again with their canonical versions. Again, yes, this should be okay and that's why the canonical tag was created. What would life be without the canonical tag, huh

I see that you already have canonical tags in place. If I am on either of the 2 URLs you posted or if I am on http://www.geographics.com/?cPath=183_66_327_387&custom_perpage=48 or http://www.geographics.com/?cPath=183_66_327_387&custom_perpage=24 They all lead me to the same page, which will help you get rid of any possible duplicate content penalty, because you are passing a directive to Google telling that what the correct URL is so they only rank the canonical tag URL in the SERPS. IMO, you are good. You can however take it to the next level if needed by implementing the rel canocal = next / prev and test it to see if that helps.

It sounds like you have a Noindex tag in your website source. Open up your website, View Source (search for Noindex). That's telling bots not to crawl and index your website. You might want to remove it. If it's a CMS, it might be in the header include file/template. If you post the URL of your website, I can check for you.

Andrew, to answer your question in simple words, yes...aged links help. Now, the way I am looking at it, there's also this bigger problem. Imagine scenarios below. Website A.com has 10,000 natural links. You add 50 Rented Links. Now, 1 year later, "naturally" your natural links should grow. Also, with the nature of the Internet, some of those 10,000 links will be lost...sites expire...people loose interest in their websites/blogs, clean-up efforts and other reasons. So gradually you are both gaining and loosing links on a regular basis, which is natural. So if the 50 rented, essentially 50 anchor text links are gained and lost after 12 months or so, they give a clean indication of something going on. The risk is there...on a scale of 1-10 of affecting your link profile, the risk maybe 3-4. Imagine the above scenario for Website B, which only has 100 total natural links. And you add 50 Rented Links and those links disappear after 1 year...that's a much higher risk compared to the above scenario. The risk in both situations is 2 fold. A. Loss of PA/DA B. Potential Issues with Link Profile. Does that make sense ? I hope this helps you make decisions.

Well, I think I have a different opinion here. Think from a user's perspective as well as the Search Engine perspective, here's the way I am thinking.

Let's consider I own a small company called ABC offering XYZ services. Now SEOMOZ acquires that ABC and all the services are now offered via Microsoft. There are tons of citations from Wikipedia and other new etc kind of sources mentioning XYZ. They are all linking to XYZ services page on ABC.com

Now when we redirect ABC.com to SEOMOZ.org, its all good. So till this point, we are all good, but if we have lots of deep links to ABC.com from around the web, won't it make sense to have specific redirects in place, redirecting ABC.com/XYZ to SEOMOZ.org/Products/XYZ etc provided there's a page about XYZ on SEOMOZ.

Does that make sense ? This way if I click on to a link about XYZ from somewhere on the web, I reach the desired URL, not just the homepage of a big company or corporation, where I will have to further drill down trying to find the information I am looking for.

You might also want to look at http://www.mybb.com/

Pretty easy to get it up and running. Eventually, you could consider upgrading to VBulletin.