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There is a site I work for that has content that, when you search in Google a snippet of text from, they are not the top result for.  I believe what has happened is that they had written blogs and articles and added them to their site and article directories at the same time and the article directories got cached first.

If we're not coming up first for our article, that means we are not believed to be the original author, correct?

Should I remove all content from our site where this is happening, even though we actually did create these articles?

Don't think so.  When I search for inurl:www.nyc.gov/cgi-bin/exit.pl in Google, there aren't any cached results with any content containing a link pointing to your site.

I agree, harder to get seo value.  Better to keep things as clean as possible, seo is hard enough as it is...

So, our developer just created a player at the bottom of this site I work for.  It's not really important what it is.  The thing is, when you go to our home page now, the javascript changes the url from www.site.com to www.site.com/home

It's not actually redirected or anything (no 301, it's just the javascript doing this), but I'm worried that if someone links back to our site they're going to surely pull that URL to point back to, which is wrong.

Also, when you go to a category, the URL changes from www.site.com/category to www.site.com/home#category.  Again, it's not a redirect but I'm still worried people will link back to this since it's on the entire site now...

I'm suggesting that we turn off this new feature until we find a workaround.  I just wanted to confirm with you guys that this is best.

Thanks

I have a couple of sites using 3dcart, the ecommerce platform.  Their tech support recently told me that they do not list sub-categories in the XML sitemap, only products and top-tier categories.

Am I the only one that sees a problem with this?

Thanks

302s weren't what I was attempting, but yea, they all point to the same URL

As of a day ago, the SERPs in Google are showing our listing with NO meta description at all and the incorrect title.  Plus the Title is varying based on the keywords searched.

Info: Something I just had done was have the multiple versions of their home page (duplicate content, about 40 URLs or so) 301 redirected the the appropriate place.  I think they accidentally did 302s.

Anyone seen this before?

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I'm sorry, what I meant was you should make the pagination pages canonical themselves, like for Page 2...

200 links on a page isn't that bad.  Once you get to 250+ I would rethink the architecture.

Yes, you should use rel canonical on your pagination pages.

A good way to pass ranking between deep pages like this is to have a section at the bottom that offers similar listings in the area.  This way you are giving the bots multiple ways to find each listing, rather than just from one page/category.  Do it like this - http://www.estatesgazette.com/propertylink/advert/kensingtonrooms_hotel-_131_137_cromwell_road_london_sw7_4du-3264453.htm.  They have a "More Properties from this Advertiser" section.

Is it bad to NOINDEX, FOLLOW your pagination pages?

Ok, so I was just hired to do SEO for a company and so I did a backlink analysis.  As it turns out, they've got a pretty dirty link profile - footer links, white on white links, unrelated links, tiny font links, links from penalized sites, hardly any branded links... you get it.

I was thinking about taking the worst of the worst links, removing them and leaving the rest, just to clean it up a little.  I don't want them to get penalized.... but... I don't want their rankings to drop either.

Think I should leave them all and just start building relevant, branded links?

OR

Clean up the whole link profile?

OR

Just clean it up a little?

Does it do anything to place the Canonical tag on the unique page itself?  I thought this was only to be used on the offending pages that are the copies.

Thanks

No

I recently noticed a drop in rankings for my site shortly after the new algorithm update.  I'm not sure exactly why rankings went down, but would like to know if it has to do with having videos on our site that do not belong to us.

We have a few videos on product pages that the manufacturer of the product had created.  I was wondering if Google maybe thinks we are maliciously stealing these videos or something and penalizing us for it.  And if stuff like this has anything to do with the recent algorithm update.

We make our own videos, but some of our manufacturer's videos are just better... and they work with us and are glad for us to have their videos listed.

Thanks in advance

I searched a snippet of one of our Articles (in quotes) and got two results back in Google, one for the article on our site and one for our development/staging site.  Does that mean that our development site is getting indexed by Google, even thought we "Disallow:/" in the robots.txt file?  Is this a big duplicate content issue?

Thanks

This question is for MichaelC who was helping me with a previous question that is now closed.  Please refer to my question with Subject "Double 301 Redirect"

It was about redirecting /home.aspx to simply "/" because that was an old URL and we have some backlinks pointing to it.

If the best I could do is redirect "/home.aspx" to something like "#hm", would that work, since everything after the hash symbol is ignored?

Thanks

Clint