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Hi Davin
The best thing in this situation is to wait for sometime more.. Because you just done the redirection of wrong url's to right url's so it will take some time. In webmaster tool you will see the changes later because the data in webmaster tool are updates on 15 days or monthly basis, depends on the website so you need to wait. The url that was 301 redirected should not appear in the search results so the problem of duplication will be sorted out shortly so dont worry. Also you can verify the redirection are done correctly or not from this redirect checker tool http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/redirect-check/.
I have one suggestion to crawl your website pages fastly : Maximize the "Crawl Rate" under Settings option of webmaster tool.
Hope my response would help you. If need any help feel free to ask.
Hi Reggie,
You should try out http://www.web-site-map.com/ which 3500+ pages XML sitemap.
Yes David your link is very helpful..
Hi Guys,
Do you know this ???
Matt Cutts of Google said in a Google Webmaster Helpforums that links from press releases shouldn't have a positive impact on your rankings.
More information: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-press-release-links-16136.html
Hi Alankar,
We have recently discussed your topic here:
http://www.seomoz.org/q/same-content-pages-in-different-versions-of-google-is-it-duplicate
Hope this help you out....
Hi Paul
Below are some interesting Link Building Strategy posts :
Hope some of the strategies will secure us from Panda, Penguin and any further google updates.
Hi Dan,
I recommend you to create new campaign for it because people searching for your brand knows you so you can show different ads to them focusing on your brand. And in "Guitars" and "Drums" campaigns you can shows ads focusing on your product offer.
Hi Joanne
Nofollow attribute is very important , "Nofollow" is generally used to tell search engines Don't follow links on this page. You don't trust on links which are linking to your site. So you can discourage untrusted user comments or guestbook entries in your comment page . If you want to use "Follow" then you have to moderate each and every comment on your page so Nofollow is batter option.
Its not going to harm your website but if you really want fix it out then put "noindex" meta robot tag into those pages ( 4th option).
Hi Diane,
As far as your content is awesome it will not going hurt you. Write blogpost and inter link to your targeted landing page, it will improve website navigation as well as ranking.
Hi Iqbal,
Seomoz has just alert you about canonical tag it might not be a error. Can you share your website URL here or PM for checking error ?
Hi Frederic,
Its like keyword meta tag, some people still uses it. Archives and Tags helps visitors in navigating website, I personally prefer to put noindex meta robots tag on those pages because they will not look good in SERP.
Hi Fredric,
If it is about local seo, then you should read latest post from seomoz blog on Citation signals. Here is the URL:
Hi Shaun,
Instead of pointing to canonical to first page its better to implement relation "next" and "prev". To more about this go through below Link from Google webmaster central:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html
Hi Nile,I have made code for you... please this code in .httaccess fileRewriteEngine onRewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ index.cfm?id=$1 [L]Rewritecond %{http_host} ^nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/$ [nc]rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/$1 [r=301,nc] RewriteRule ^index.cfm http://www.nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/ [L,R=301]
Hope this help you out.....