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Hi everyone,
one of my sites has about 1000 'nofollow' links from the footer of another of my sites. Are these in any way hurtful? Any help appreciated..

In the course of the last 18 months my sites have lost from 50 to 70 percent of traffic. Never have used any tricks, just simple white-hat SEO. Anyway, I am now trying to fix things that hadn't been a problem before all those Google updates, but apparently now are. Would appreciate any help..

I used to have a network site map page on everyone of my sites (about 30 sites). It basically would be a page called 'our network' and it'll show a list of links to all of my other sites. These pages were indexed,  had decent PR and didn't seem to cause any problem. Here's an example of one of them:
http://www.psoriasisguide.ca/psoriasis_scg.html

In the light of Panda and Penguin and all these 'bad links' I decided to get rid of most of them. My traffic didn't recover at all, it actually went further down. Not sure if there is any connection to what I'd done.

So, the question is: In your opinion/experience, do you think such network sitemap pages could be causing penalties for link spam?

I was wondering if a page (a blog post, for example) that offers links to external web pages along with abstracts from these pages would be considered duplicate content page and therefore penalized by Google.

For example, I have a page that has very little original content (just two or three sentences that summarize or sometimes frame the topic) followed by five references to different external sources. Each reference contains a title, which is a link, and a short abstract, which basically is the first few sentences copied from the page it links to.

So, except from a few sentences in the beginning everything is copied from other pages.

Such a page would be very helpful for people interested in the topic as the sources it links to had been analyzed before, handpicked and were placed there to enhance user experience.

But will this format be considered duplicate or near-duplicate content?

thank you, that's what I need too, something I copy across multiple sites without having to change the domain URL every time. Appreciate your help.

Hi:
I'm in the process of making sure I have a single URL that gets all link juice for every page. As the first step, I'm implementing 301 redirects. My question is:

After 301 redirect is in place will it still be necessary to update links on my site(s) that point to the old URLs.

For example, I just 301-redirected mysite.com/folder/index.html to mysite.com/folder/ - and it works fine, but I still have many links on the same site and other sites that link to mysite.com/folder/index.html. Is it important to change those links to mysite.com/folder/ as well or could I just leave them as they are since the 301 is taking care of the redirect anyway..

I mean, I will probably change them in time, just to keep things tidy. But if it's important I would definitely do it sooner rather than later.

Thank you in advance.

what's the difference between:
RewriteRule (.) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]  and
RewriteRule ^(.)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

any significance in using the root domain URL there instead of just www.%

Hello:
I'm trying to consolidate all the link juice and see that some of my pages are linked to by using both www.mysite.com/whatever.html and mysite.com/whatever.html.
Is there a safe re-write rule that not just redirects non-www(s) to www(s), but designates the redirect as 301, so link juice will be transfered as well.

If not RewriteRule, are there any other ways to accoplishe this?

And the last question: can this be solved by simply setting Preffered domain in google webmaster tools to display www URL?

Any help will be appreciated.

that seems to be working well. thanks a lot for your help.

thanks, that was quick!
A couple of questions before i go ahead and implement it:

will this rule re-direct all index.html(s) to their appropriate roots or will it work just for the home page?
Also, as far as user's expirience is concerned this will take care of redirecting requests to show index.html to the root, but what about the juice transfer. Will Google treat it as 301?

Hi, I was wondering if there is a safe way to consolidate link juice on a single version of a home page. I find incoming links to my site that link to both mysite.com/ and mysite.com/index.html. I've decided to go with mysite.com/ as my main and only URL for the site and now I'd like to transfer all link juice from mysite.com/index.html to mysite.com/
When i tried 301 redirect from index.html to the root it created an indefinite loop, of course.

I know I can use a RewriteRule.., but will it transfer the juice??

Please help!

Hi, I was wondering if there is a safe way to consolidate link juice on a single version of a home page. I find incoming links to my site that link to both mysite.com/ and mysite.com/index.html. I've decided to go with mysite.com/ as my main and only URL for the site and now I'd like to transfer all link juice from mysite.com/index.html to mysite.com/
When i tried 301 redirect from index.html to the root it created an indefinite loop, of course.

I know I can use a RewriteRule.., but will it transfer the juice??

Please help!

thanks, that was quick!
A couple of questions before i go ahead and implement it:

will this rule re-direct all index.html(s) to their appropriate roots or will it work just for the home page?
Also, as far as user's expirience is concerned this will take care of redirecting requests to show index.html to the root, but what about the juice transfer. Will Google treat it as 301?