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I have a custom website where if you type in companyxyz.com/_any-made-up-url _it displays the homepage.

So then you will see the homepage and in the URL bar the made up URL path remains visible "companyxyz.com/any-made-up-url"

Is this good or bad or not an issue?

I have a custom made blog with boat loads of undesirable URLs in Google's index like this:
.com/resources?start=150
.com/resources?start=160
.com/resources?start=170

I've identified this is a source of duplicate title tags and had my programmer put a no index tag to automatically go on all of these undesirable URLs like this:

However doing a site: search in google shows the URLs to still be indexed even though I've put the tag up a few weeks ago.

How do I get google to remove these URLs from the index? I'm aware that the Search Console has an answer here  https://support.google.com/webmasters/topic/4598466?authuser=1&authuser=1&rd=1 but it says that blocking with meta tags should work.

Do I just get google to crawl the URL again so it sees the tag and then deindexes the URLs? Or is there another way I'm missing.

thank you good sir.

Thanks Andy!

OK, imagine you have a blog, and you want to make each blog post authoritative so you link out to authority relevant websites for reference. In this case it is two external links per blog post, one to an authority website for reference and one to flickr for photo credit. And one internal link to another part of the website like the buy-now page or a related internal blog post.

Now tell me if this is a good or bad idea. What if you nofollow the external links and leave the internal link untouched so all internal links are dofollow. The thinking is this minimizes loss of link juice from external links and keeps it flowing through internal links to pages within the website.

Would it be a good idea to lay off the nofollow tag and leave all as do follow? or would this be a good way to link out to authority sites but keep the link juice internal?

Your thoughts are welcome. Thanks.

Thanks for the insight Patrick.

For many reasons the websites must remain separate, good suggestion though.

Rich

My client owns a brand and came to me with two ecommerce websites. One website sells his specific brand product and the other sells general products in his niche (including his branded product).

Question is my client wants to rank each website for basically the same set of keywords.

We have two choices I'd like feedback on-

Choice 1 is to rank both websites for same keyword groupings so even if they are both on page 1 of the serps then they take up more real estate and share of voice. are there any negative possibilities here?

Choice 2 is to recommend a shift in the position of the general industry website to bring it further away from the industry niche by focusing on different keywords so they don't compete with each other in the serps.

I'm for choice 1, what about you?

So I have this website that got hacked with cloaking and Google has labeled it as such in the SERPs. With due reason of coarse. My question is I am going to relaunch an entirely new redesigned website in less than 30 days, do I pull the hacked site down until then or leave it up? Which option is better?

My I just verified 2 new locations via "Google My Business" (G+) for a client. - the purpose is to get visibility and rank in the google maps for those 2 new areas.

These locations are not storefronts but are verified in G+ as branches of the business. The G+ listings are set to display zip codes and not show the address to the public - this is akin to showing a service area radius.

Normally I'd just do citation building. But I dont want the address to show up to the public. Most listing websites need the address and don't really allow for service area radiuses.

Since they are not storefronts, I do not want to display their addresses online. My question is can I see traction to just get links other than business listing citations pointed to the G+ pages?

I think that since Google trusts it's own web pages above all else so pointing links to those G+ pages should work.

Who's got an expert opinion?

Thank you for the reply. A quick update, my client just informed me they purchased a new 800 number for the second business (instead of a local number). What are the implications with a toll free number?

Its guesswork, I've seen algo updates raise client's website traffic and it sticks - other times it drops back after a week or two.

One of the recent patents purchased by Google was essentially to be able to change a websites' serp rank seemingly at random - specifically with SEOs in mind. Speculation says it's to possibly see how the SEO responds to the change - I would assume this is not the case and it's just minor updates that are jumping your ranks.

I'd consider it a bonus for being awesome but since it jumped up I would not be surprised if it fell back down - also for no particular reason.

Update for everyone. It took a few hours but you can see same day metrics for goal conversions here in GA: Conversions > Goals > Overview

My client asks me a valid question:

"Can we tie Authorship to YouTube?"

My response was: "Great Question. Authorship shows a thumbnail of your headshot in the SERPs. Regarding universal search results, YouTube videos are displayed with a thumbnail of the video.

What may be of benefit here is attributing authorship to a video in order to build AuthorRank. I think what could be done to signal Google would be to link with the rel=author attribute to your Google + profile from the description ..  [profile_url]?rel=author.

The only hangup is determining if the rel=author attribute is applied in the YouTube description link or not, and If Google recognizes the attribute because Youtube pushes the link through a redirect before connecting with the Google + profile."

Can anyone speak further to this?

Hello, you will first and foremost want to peruse this beginners guide http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo.

I do not rely on their on page optimization grader.

Regarding the Grade "F" --  it says F because your page is not aligned with the keyword that moz software is grading your page for. ie your page ranks #1 for "farm raised pearls" but the page gets an F because the keyword moz software is grading you on is "farm raised pearl necklace".

Ok thanks Ricardo.

I set up goals to track Unbounce landing page form submissions (using regular expressions).

I wanted to see if I could see a tally for all of today's conversions under Conversions > Goals > Overview and if that took 24hrs to see.

It would make sense that the same idea behind Authorship for the written word would eventually be applied to video content.