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Thanks Craig, appreciate your help.

Hi,

I have 270x blue notices within crawl diagnostics in SEOMoz Pro labelled rel=canonical.

My site has the rel=canonical tag set-up as I was advised to do so.

See www.comparecurrency.co.uk

Are these notices suggesting I have to remove the tag?

Can somebody please explain this notice to me ..

Thanks

Olly

I have several situations where one of my sites rank organically in 4th or 5th place for a specific search term relating to a 'big brand' .. I usually fall in behind the brands main website .. commercially this is very good for me.

Let me give you an example .. in google.co.uk type in 'thomas cook exchange rates'. I rank position 4 (comparecurrency.co.uk). Position 1-3 are thomas cook's own pages. Naturally.

However, my question is .. could I outrank them and how could I initially measure the effort involved in getting to position 1?

I noticed Google recently put me into position 1 for this term and then quickly (within a few days) pulled me back down to position 4.

Does anyone have any experience of this type of search positioning and have any information that may help me?

My gut feel is that I have maybe maxed out the economically viable potential of these keywords and that I should invest my SEO $s into other phrases?

Thanks in advance

Olly