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it's a tough one. There isn't a one-size solution (as with any SEO).

My advice would be to bulk out your site as awhole, for example lots of deal / voucher sites have whole pages for particular brands and talk about the brand to bulk out that content rather than just say here is a voucher.

If you site is literally just a blog you could take the same idea and put maybe 100 words describing the company the deal is for, twist it each time and sometimes not use it at all - but it will bulk out your content without getting in the way.

The other thing could be to list the "necessary" stuff like name, code, expiry and link etc and then just use the space below that won't be read by users but will be by search engines to talk about something related to that deal - bulk out the content even though users won't read it and show google what quality is.

Hope that helps

what CMS are you using, usually there are plugins to help you do this. Another alternative is to change the URL back to the old URL but the name stays as the new one - this is a common thing that can happen. But it all depends on your CMS - search its name and 301 redirect, you will get there

Whilst some of it is better than it was, the way it deals with pages is still flawed.

For example most pages are using the url format .au/#!chauffeur-hire-perth/c1ay9

#! is a "hashbang" it means it's being dealt / served through javascript and as such isn't readable via search engines - in addition to this all pages have a canonical of the homepage and so would never rank anyhow...

As much as it may not be what you want to hear, its never likely to rank well - i certainly don't forsee it ever ranking in the top 3... sorry

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Being transparent: I have never been one to support the likes of WIX or others of a similar nature. The templates they use are built to cover so many bases that it will never really please anyone completely. Also the way in particular WIX deals with pages is concerning in particular - others do it too i should add.

sorry to be the messenger of bad news.

would be good to get .com/category/name if possible

obviously if you do that becareful about using canonical urls as things may appear in more than one cat

You won't have any issues with this. Most SEO's don't use the same account for webmasters and analytics as they do google+, docs or other things. Google can cope just fine with it.

As tom says you can now add users within g+ brand pages and GWT, this is a good way to say these are all connected - you've also been able to do this for a while with analytics.

i've had that once before, if you archive the campaign and then re-activate it - it fixed mine though not sure it fixes everything

would be neat feature to force it to crawl though... in the mean time in research tools go to seo web crawler you can set one off in there - It doesn't appear to feed into a campaign but it will give you the same results even if in excel format

could be somethingto do with not being able to load your homepage to start with

screaming frog is your best bet

what url are you testing to get an A? and I assume this is using the SEOMoz tool for on page optimisation?

There could be many many reasons you don't rank above your competitor, from links to age, to authority and even quality of content. among other reasons....

only you can really test the position out, for different ads the conversion rate will change as for keywords i think.

You'd be best to check every 24 hours i would think rather than wait a few days - especially if you are paying more.

1200 is a small amount of 22000 of which 5300 were indexed. its possible that your new 1200 sitemap has links to almost anything but those which are already indexed. As chris has said a sitemap is a suggestion, on big sites google tends to do what it wants to get the data it need.

44 relates to the number of pages with the same urls as in your sitemap - it is not everything that is index. Your old site is still indexed and being found, as Google visits those pages and gets redirected to a new page it is likely that number will increase (from 44) and the number of old indexed will decrease.

Google doesn't index sites on a one-off go around because then if may take say 4 months to come back and index again and if you've a new important page that gets lots of links and you don't get indexed and ranked for it because you've not been visited you wouldn't be happy. Also if this was done on every site it would take forever and take much more resources than even google has. it is annoying but you've just got to grin and bear it - at least you old site is still ranking and being found.

requires http i believe

should point out there is also a difference between crawled, indexed and ranked.... though the later two are closely related. crawling is "hey look a new page" or "oh new content great" and it's then saved within google, this is then indexed - looking at what the content is about and it's relevance - then ranking comes along which is comparing.

in terms of categories, they are more reference points than definite areas, that is why you can actually input anything you want into there. so yes taxi is a go-er

the difference between the two is that one dictates you saying "we serve within 5 miles radius" it includes every city and town in that area... the second says we only serve this town or city ... (state country etc). the radius is more for local businesses and locations for companies who have multiple offices or shops.

it would be hard to do without knowing the system really well, though that plugin maybe able to help. The reason is that if those codes change they could mean any category - the last bit is likely not an issue of product name as url, but the category bit isn't so easy - unless it can be ignored and pulled from the CMS - again not being a magento expert I don't know how this would be done. sorry.

oh erm sounds a little odd set up - maybe worth trying http://shop.ecomdev.org/url-rewrite-indexer.html

I think that as your sitemap reflect your new urls and this is what the index is based on you are likely to have more indexed from what you say. I  would suggest going to "indexed status" under health of GWT and click total index and ever crawled, this may help clear this up.

ok this needs clarifying

so your old urls want to be of the format /default/category/bags.html yes?

does the category relate to the 6 digit number in some way?

Are you using a shopping care of some kind or is this a bespoke system?

dealing with your indexing issue first - depending on when you submitted depends how soon those pages may be indexed. I say "may" because a sitemap (yes answering another question) is just an indicator of "i have these pages" it does not mean they will be indexed - indeed unless you've a small website you will never have 100% indexation in my experience.

Spiders (search robots) index / visit a website / page via another link. They follow links to a page from around the web, or the site itself. The more links from around the web the quicker you will get indexed. (this explains why if you've 10,000 pages you won't ever get a link from other websites to them all and so they won't all get indexed). This means if you've a web page that gets a ton of links it will be indexed sooner than those with just 1 link - assuming all links are equal (which they aren't).

Spiders are not cyclic in their searching, it's very ad-hoc based on links in your site and other sites linking to you. A spider won't be sent to spider every page on your site - it will do a small amount at a time, this is likely why 44 pages are indexed and not more at this point.

A sitemap is (as i say) an indicator of pages in your site, the importance of them and when they were updated / created. it's not really a definitive structure - it's more of a reference guide. Think of it as you being the guide on a bus tour of a city, the search engine is your passenger  you are pointing out places of interest and every so often it will see something it wan't to see and get off to look, but it may take many trips to get off at every stop.

Finally, Canonicals are a great way to clear up duplicate content issues. They aren't 100% successful but they do help - especially if you are using dynamic urls (such as paginating category pages).

hope that helps

Having multiple pages targeting the same keywords is not a problem, its quite common. For instance if you have a e-commerce website dealing in fashion clothing for ladies, lots of your pages will target "fashion clothing" or "womens clothing" - thats a little different though to what I think you mean of ... I just want to target "keywords" to two pages and not others - is that right?

If that's correct then as long as both pages naturally lean towards those keywords and phrases you are fine. As with any SEO work don't force the story, don't include the keyword 25 times just because you can - it's not natural.

Hope that helps

I could be barking up the wrong tree. There is a difference between the price you say and the meta price which has two trailing 00's - this could be why it is ignored?

pointing a folder would involve some DNS changes (to the CNAME record) - i think.

You would be best asking BC - it would be a similar process to pointing a subdomain to BC.

If you host a solution you are not always stuck in time, for example I use things like WooCommerce which is always being updated with new features and gives you great controls.

And just to clarify I am not saying that you cannot do the things YOU may want to do, but there are things that unless you've controls within the server you can't do - like implement GZIP for instance which can be a big deal on big sites.

moving the info site to BC is ok in general.

The reason both EGOL and I recommend having them together and on your own server is that you can control everything (see EGOL's list) and you aren't second guessing the settings on another server which you have no control over. It also means that things like templates can be made much more flexible to meet your exact needs and not just a few of your requirements.

If you can't some how point BC to a folder on your site then moving everything to BC is ok - the other option of course is to set up  a new domain and let it exist in it's own right but you wouldn't get any benefit from that just as you wouldn't from a subdomain.

remove it temporarily and see if it fixes the issue? many an affiliate site have been caught loading malware on to devices by this kind of means - be careful

if you find the problem goes away great, contact the affiliate partner and ask them what is going on and to fix the problem - you won't be the only one in this boat i'm sure

you don't want GWT to show it you want to catch it first

find the offending code and delete it, its from an advert or affiliate site of some kind - could be a plugin sneaking it in - it's happened to me before on WP sites a plugin updates and brings bad code with it.

as much as they claim to ignore things like in within actually search they don't in semantic search because it could be quite important.

I would suggest for now keeping an eye on it, thats assuming its only the one keyword/phrase dropping?

something I recall (though could be wrong) from the disavow frenzy is that it can take a long time for those pages to be discounted - mainly is they only get picked up the next time a page is indexed I think. Hope that helps

can you post a link so we can see what exactly you are meaning - or post an example of the offending tag

not necessarily, overall good rank factors would mean that semantically you end up in the same place - you maybe the best at your term but they are best at relating to that term (if that makes sense)

this is one to request

http://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-seomoz-PRO-feature-requests

14 including spaces

Joke, use it naturally, the same in your title and content -do not force keywords into your content or descriptions, Google knows when it's being manipulated and over the past few years has cracked down on keyword spammers hugely.

thats why i said the bit about using non-www in htaccess too

no trailing slash where you've got say .php or .html at the end

As far as I am aware that is not how canonical tags are designed to be used. That use would imply that the category page itself is where the original detail is found and this is not the case for most shopping carts, which are just "lists" of products and are not product details.

This use would just confuse matters further as it is saying "don't rank this product, rank the category page because that's where this info is from" which is not what is needing to be done here.

a link from one PR to the original is a good way to go, not all PR sites allow it though as they all of course want original content for their site - an exclusive if you will.

In terms of SEO pointing to the original means the original will be highlighted more and as the content is so similar / the same the original will appear higher in search rankings - of course this assumes the two PR sites are equally ranking.

and ... mmm there is usually one of us floating around to answer questions fairly quickly, we may not always be able to help but we will 99% of the time be able to point you to a blog or other website with info that you need.

spinning the article is an ok idea, better still completely rewrite it.

if you don't want to go to that fuss just point a link to the original content making clear that this is just a copy.

I think what EGOL means is that switching the domain to your hosting provider means you loose control of certain things within that domain which can be very important to seo. What could be a good compromise here is that you look at putting the shopping cart within a folder on the domain (not a subdomain as this would be a bad move), this means the work you've done on the domain would continue to effect the static info on there and the shop within the folder.

it may not be possible, it depends on your shopping cart provider - if it can't be done then move the domain across and ensure you have redirects in place from old domain links to new ones (eg your about pages redirect).

Hope that helps clear things up

it sounds more like a warning about something that is easy to fix and won't be harming your rankings.

I'd suggest that until the webmaster responds you add a 301 redirect including the "broken" link space to your htaccess file. see http://perishablepress.com/blank-space-whitespace-character-htaccess/ for info

I agree, canonical urls are the way to go with this - unless of course you can draw them into unique urls without variables which may also solve the issue - though not entirely

best way i've found is to use something like facebox to draw in information from another page using javascript, google just see's it as a link to that page.

you can also do a similar thing without the pop up box, im sure someone here can remember it's name / method.

twiddles thumbs look here they come

maybe better with Yoast SEO - just my experience it tops most other plugins

found the problem I think.

Malware found ona  few pages on your site

http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/www.top-10-dating-reviews.com/

In addition to those 301 rules stick this in your htacess file

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html site-down.php

it tells the browser and bots which page is the default for your folders and root.

Also ensure your non-www forward to www. using this code

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

bit odd that you see that complaint in all honesty. I wouldn't worry too much about it, just take a look at where that "broken link" points to and make sure its not going to a 404 on your site.

Just looking around your site, the code seems ok - to a large extent.

But you are missing a sitemap (handy to point to all urls) and a robots.txt file

Also just clicking around i don't see 400 pages? is there a subdomain or folder you aren't linking to from the main site?

it's possible that GA, being as it is, doesn't give whole information and is aggregate info - for example if you look on GWT about what your website keywords are it talks about variants of words and not exact words. It is possible therefore it does the same in GA and one of the "like" keyterms does rank at 3 or 4... it's also possible that the data is upto 90 days out of date on GA. Both of these can and do effect both Moz and GA

Thats correct.

Ok my suggestion is to 301 your old.domain to your www.domain AND add the whole subdomain old.domain to robots.txt to ban indexing of that subdomain. Once the domain itself is gone from search results delete the files or back them up etc etc...

As for image search as long as you've pointed old urls to new ones you should be fine

I assume that your website curerntly in old.domain was formerly of www. my question is do the 301's you have in place point to old.domain or to the new page within www.domain ?