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What happens when you add a new article by Author3 ?

/blog/author1 is a list of 4 articles

/blog/writer2 is a list of 6 different articles

/blog/writer3 is a list of 1 article?

/blog is a list of recent 10 articles (the 1+4+6 from the two writers), /blog/page2 getting the 11th article ?

If this is the case, I would not worry too much about it. Homepage is set to recent articles and each author has it's own page. As you add/update more articles, more authors maybe, it's more different. It's a dynamic blog. A typical structure. I would not worry too much about it.

If you are concerned, you can set a noindex on your write pages.

I see you have 2 responses from SWD and SanketPatel. They are both different strategies and you need to decide what you want to do as a Business. Here's why:

If you adopt SWD's solution, you could technically get rid of the problem, by telling Google that do not index page 2, page 3 and so on and just index your page 1. My question would be, do you have a View All page ? Do you want search engines to index and rank each one of your paginated pages ? Do they have unique collection of products and does it help the user if they land directly on Page 2 or would you rather then have land on Page 1 always ?

SanketPatel's solution definitely gets rid of the problem from a GWT perspective, however, the bigger question is, what you are trying to achieve and what your users would prefer.

Instead of looking it it from what's right in GWT or SEO, find what's right for your user first and then implement that in an SEO Friendly way.

I hope that helps and makes sense.

The question remains open for answers anyways...but you may want to post it as an ongoing discussion instead of a question. I don't think there's anything that can be done except to post it again.

No, unfortunately not. There's no way to get a read on these keywords. You are right, since the users are logged into Google account, starting October 2011, Google started doing their searches for logged in users by default on SSL, which means the data is secure between the user's browser and Google. The search query is not passed onto the website.

However, one almost sure shot way of calculation is to take the 80% of the data you have available and see what (%age of Total 80% those keywords are and just convert the data into 100%. In most cases, those 20% users are also typing the same sort of queries (relatively) as your 80% traffic.)

I hope that makes sense and helps.

What's the different between the 2 links you posted ?

1 and 2 you posted in your question are 100% same.

In this case, I'd ask you, is your domain .za ? Is it hosted in South Africa ? Does it make sense to do either of these ?

Just look at the kind of keywords people use to hit your internal / deep pages from Search. Specially your brand keywords and you could target some of those. Just make sure you are not doing too many of the same kinds of links.

You could also do:

"My Brand Name" + Red

Red + "My Brand Name"

Red Widgets at My Brand Name

Red Widgets by My Brand Name

My Brand Name Red Widgets

Red Widgets Partial Brand

and so on.

Looks like a whole bunch of Webinars are coming and there was a PRO webinar today which is available and since you are PRO, you should be able to access it.

You Probably Think This Citation Source Is About You, Don't You? - 1:12:00Added November 6, 2012 - Presented by Dana DiTomaso

I agree with Kristina one 100%. She rocked with the 2 perfect solutions you ought to be looking into.

The pages that the webmaster tools are reporting, when you click on them, do you see the 404 pages ? Are these pages supposed to be 404's ? Something like Out of stock, discontinued products or services etc ? Also, click on the details and see how is Google finding these pages. Are these included in the sitemap or are they linked from somewhere ? Are those links internal that you control or external ?

If internal, change/update/remove those links. If external, can you send a request to the website owner to update them or do a 301 redirect for that page to a relevant page if you have one.

I hope this helps.

John

In that case, unfortunately there's not much you can do. If their main domain or network has been penalized and you are part of it, there's not much you can do about it unfortunately.

Keyword rankings for your homepage =  Yes. Because your homepage technically does not exist and is redirected to an inner page, which is focused on a particular city. So if your keyword is Bharat Desi, which is your website brand name, it shows:

<cite>www.bharatdesi.com/</cite>

Hyderabad Classifieds, Hyderabad Yellow Pages, Free Classifieds Hyderabad, India, Free Hyderabad Classifieds Online Classifieds Hyderabad, Free **...**And if your keyword is a regional keyword, like Houston Desi, then that page is not affected. In this case, this redirect is helping your Hyderabad page, because technically you are telling Google that hyderabad page is your homepage.Does that make sense ?

You are right on being concerned about it. It's not an issue. The tool is making sure you are aware that there's a canonical tag. That's why it's a warning, not an error, specially because this is a very very important directive and something that the bots see, not the user's and can also sometimes cause hacks and other malicious attempts.

Again, there's nothing wrong with it. No need to worry.

It really depends how they are being served to the users and the bots. do you always display them ? Why is it causing a 403 / Forbidden error code ?

Post / PM me the URL and that would make it easy to check and suggest accordingly.

It looks like it's your images or something like that generating that link within Wordpress. Looks like image attachments to me.

Right below the first paragraph on your page (Right after This continues the healthy growth seen in September, and for most of this year.), you'd notice a Grey box. That's a missing image linking to the page you are talking about.

The code on your page says:

<a href="[http://carwoo.com/blog/october-sales-robust-stateside-european-outlook-poor-for-ford/954bf0df0a0d02b700a06816f2276fa5/](view-source:http://carwoo.com/blog/october-sales-robust-stateside-european-outlook-poor-for-ford/954bf0df0a0d02b700a06816f2276fa5/)"  rel="<a class="attribute-value">attachment wp-att-7997</a>"><img class="<a class="attribute-value">alignnone size-medium wp-image-7997</a>" title="<a class="attribute-value">954bf0df0a0d02b700a06816f2276fa5</a>" src="[http://carwoo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/954bf0df0a0d02b700a06816f2276fa5-420x264.jpg](view-source:http://carwoo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/954bf0df0a0d02b700a06816f2276fa5-420x264.jpg)" alt="" width="<a class="attribute-value">420</a>" height="<a class="attribute-value">264</a>" />a><br />

If it's great content, it might make more sense to keep it on your website. Some blog posting is okay, but too much of any one kind of links will only cause issues, both short term and long term. Think about Directory Links 5 years ago. Everybody got 500 Directory Submissions for $50 and so on, and those are the kinds of links people are getting Unnatural link warnings for.

So I'd recommend evaluating your link strategy and only build quality links, rather then faster links, instant approval links, focus on quality and user engagement vs quantity.

I hope this helps.

Well, it looks like you are redirecting your homepage to http://www.bharatdesi.com/hyderabad which to me does not make sense. Think of the user here first, SEO comes next.

All your city links in the footer work fine it seems. But if somebody gets to your homepage, it defaults to Hyderabad. If I were you, I'd just do a simple page with your logo on it on the homepage, with the links to the cities you have in your footer. That should do the job of being your homepage while your real homepage gets designed.

I hope this helps and makes sense.

Do you not even own the domain name in question ? As Paul recommended, you can also add a DNS record via your domain registrar to verify your domain for Google Webmaster Console access.

Does this campaign show up in your archived campaigns by any chance at http://pro.seomoz.org/campaigns ? If not, you only have a few more hours before SEOMoz team should be able to check for you.

Good luck. I hope you get it back, although the chances look slim.

Even if you do the dynamic meta data, that does not sound like a lot of duplication can be avoided between the 30,000 city/state pages.

Is the content on these pages unique ? I mean the set of products returned, are they just unique collections or what ?

You said these pages are showing up as duplicate content ? Where are they showing as duplicate content ?

Do your stronger pages, homepage, category pages rank for your head keywords ? Do they rank very very well ?

It really depends upon the overall domain authority and what other stuff is going on your website.

I don't think you can initiate a crawl, but you can use the Crawl Test tool to see how it looks.

http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test

Ready to crawl? Our Crawl Test helps you zero in on duplicate content, summarize redirect locations, learn rel-canonical values, and more. Enter any subdomain below and we'll crawl up to 3,000 linked-to pages. In the next few days you’ll receive an email containing a CSV report with the results.

What CMS is it Mark ?

Maja

If you'd like to post the URL/share here, I would love to take a look. Also include what 404 URLs are being found etc. If not here in public, feel free to PM me. Whatever you prefer.

You can email the seomoz team at help@seomoz.org, I am sure they'd be able to help you diagnose the problem.

Maja

I am guessing these are coming from the Google Webmaster Console ? If that's the case, click on the detail and see where it's linked from. That will help you diagnose how the bots are able to find these pages in the 1st place.

I hope this helps.

Zeeshan

All you need to do is edit your .htaccess file and add the following line of code:

ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

I hope this helps.

Felim, I agree with Mark. I'd also suggest looking into copyscape premium where you can provide text that you'd like to check for being duplicate content or you can provide a list of all your pages and copyscape will run it and provide a report pretty fast.

I hope this helps.

There shouldn't be any issue. The question I'd like to ask is, do you have a lot of outgoing links ? Is this a clients/testimonials/resources kind of a page ? Are you doing it for your users or for SEO reasons for the site gaining the link ? Worst case scenario, or if you are concerned, add a rel=nofollow.

What I'd suggest doing is randomly revising some of those 404's that appear and check whether they should indeed be 404s. Are there any bulk rules / wildcard 301s you can implement to redirect the traffic for 3-6 months ?

These URLs are usually found from external links to your website. When you click on a detail of any of the reported 404s, it tells you what the error details are, whether this link is in the sitemap or where it is linked from. You'd realize in most cases it's linked from somewhere. If it's an internal link, correct it. If it's external, do you think the webmaster might update it if you contact them or is it easier to just set a 301, retaining the SEO value ?

I hope this helps.

Cornel

I suggest adding the rel=canonical tag on your page to the version you'd like index. That way both the http and https version of the same page, will display the same "http" canonical and avoid the duplicate content issue and also act as a 301 from your https to http for the bots. The user's would still be able to get to the https homepage if they are logged into your website and or browsing on https, so that they don't toggle back and forth between https and http.

I agree. I would suggest adding the noindex on the pages and letting the bots crawl them. Blocking them would prevent future crawl of these pages, but I am guessing you would also want to remove the existing pages.

Therefore add the noindex first, wait a few days and then add the disallow (Although technically if they are noindex, you don't really need the disallow).

Sara, I agree with Bryan. If you are targeting USA, I would go for es-xx.com option. I hope this helps.

I don't think I have ever seen any data for "the most viewed" press releases. Some of those free press release websites might have a public view count, but sites like prnewswire or prweb etc, I don't think they do.

I agree with both William and Adam. I would also suggest use the various research tools at http://www.seomoz.org/tools and On-page Analysis as well as the Keyword Difficulty & SERP Analysis tools to understand what your keywords should be and the effort involved and the level of domain authority required to attain those rankings. I would also suggest using the Google Adwords tool, suggest your target market and do some keyword research.

I hope these help. Welcome to SEOMoz and you might also want to setup your campaign here at SEOMoz to see what the weekly / monthly progress is for rankings as well as any On-page recommendations from the tool. Always do your due-diligence before making any changes.

Post or PM me your website and based on that I can see what link building strategies I can recommend. The intent is to try and gain the most natural possible links...

I would try to summarize that blog post in your own words and then provide a link to it, rather then a full version duplicate. It does not help in any way. If you can find a creative way to talk about that blog post, add some more depth and insight from a subject matter expect, it adds more value to that, instead of just being duplicated across the web.

Dheeraj

I would strongly recommend you concentrate on better quality links. Article directories and SEO Only press releases do not really help build the authority required for websites to rank specially in 2012. These used to work in the past and technically all kinds of links still work, but they are all short term high risk.

Concentrate on strengthening your content, building content that user's would engage with and naturally link to. Do press releases when it's really a reason for it to be a PR. Think of it from a user's perspective. The kind of news you are putting in that PR, what would you think if you read about it in a newspaper. Would you think it is useful ? Would you call it a news ?

I hope this helps.

If it can be useful copy that is unique to every page, it might make sense to do it. If not, it might be easier to just convert it into an image as Streamline recommended and instead add other copy on the page that is more in sync with what the page is about.

Presuming that copy in the middle is something like "Why Buy From Us" kind of thing, how many different ways can you really write it, at the same time being useful to the user.

If you think about it, a lot of yellow pages essentially get the data from same sources, some even scraping other yellow-pages as well as licensing data scenarios. It's okay to use your paypercall kind of tracking on your websites, PPC campaigns, radio ads etc. It's not going to affect your local search rank-ability.

I hope this helps.

I agree with Neil. It's not bad, just a good user practice to keep them lowercase so that's there's no confusion. The best bet for you would to be to use a consistent format and mimic that in your canonical URLs so only that variation gets crawled and indexed.

Sam You are not currently using the blog/domain at fireplacedecorating.com ? I like that domain better compared to the brand URL which is hyphenated. Anyways, to answer your question directly, I see that you already have a lot of content on your ecommerce store site. How is it doing ? It might make most sense to continue to strengthen and add new content there vs adding it to a brand new domain. You could also consider adding a www.brick-anew.com/blog. I hope this helps.

You should submit an XML sitemap for the Search Engines and submit it via the Google Webmaster Console and also provide a reference to it from your robots.txt As for the HTML Sitemap, that's more for users. I'd suggest to keep it if it's usable / easy to use by the users.

It depends how strong your domain authority is and how deep within a website that page is. If you are talking about the homepage, I have seen it vary from 10 minutes to 10 days, again..based on the strength and authority of the website.

Some domain management companies let you do a 301 redirect of a domain to another domain...however they might only do domain.com to newdomain.com not specific/individual and customized redirects.

Hey Paul. Good to see you here at SEOMoz.

Are you see drop in rankings for your primary head keywords or long tail keywords or both ?

You definitely do need to work on the link building as a continous process. Think of it more as Brand Building.

I also don't see any structural issues with either of your website that would cause any major indexing issues.

Juan

A lot of factors influence rankings in different countries. For example between US and UK, the domain name extension matters. So if you were a .co.uk website, it would rank better in the UK then US. Similarly if this .co.uk site was also hosted in UK, then it would rank even better in UK. Further, if the site was targeting UK english, instead of US english (which it should), it would again get counted towards a positive strength to rank in UK, but not in US.

I hope this helps understand the reasoning behind it... atleast from a 10,000 foot view.

Ud

Here are some pointers.

1. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-6-month-link-building-plan-for-an-established-website
2. http://www.blueglass.com/blog/link-building-in-a-pandas-world/

I hope these help.

Ud, I strongly suggest you look into the latest Search Engine algorithm updates and read more about the Penguin and Panda updates. Thin, unrelated links can and will hurt you. I would instead suggest spending that money and other budgets in building and strengthening your content.

You might also want to read this article at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/web-directory-submission-danger