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1. your site should have a very simple, tree-like structure
2. your visitors should get to the product page in 3 or less clicks
3. you don't want to have tons of links of product pages on your main page, see #1
4. the more pages with unique content you have - the better
5. the bigger the page - the slower the loading speed. Keep that in mind, you want as fast loading pages as possible.
6. for the rest - use common sense. Imagine you are a visitor of your website. Do you like what you see?
1. Create an article.
2. Rewrite it manually 2-3 times.
3. Spin it manually, so you would have 9 versions of the same article.
4. Put the original article on your website.
5. Manually submit the other 8 copies to different sites with links back to your website.
Sites like that can benefit you in 2 ways.
1. Just as another link back to your website.
2. As a piece of content valuable for the community.
The 2nd option is more preferable. Write something that has value to the audience of that website and link back to your website, if your site is related. You put yourself in the same ecosystem, and have a high chance to increase the conversions.
I use 2-3 tags. You can get without them at all - this don't prevent me to get high rankings.
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I am working with insurance sites myself.
I would redirect and move forward. Here is why:
If you decide not to redirect - you will never learn what will happen and how will Google react. If you never learn - you will stay where you are now. If you redirect and something bad/unexpected happens - you will learn from it.
If a business doesn't develop - it decays.
In fact, by redirecting, you connect both sites, merging link juice from both sites into one.
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Do you use rel=canonical meta tag? I think if you use it, it will solve your problem.
I believe that DA is more important than PA.
As far as I know OSE takes some long time to show you the backlinks. I would rely more on the stats in Google Webmaster (Links to your site.). There, links are being updated like once every 3 days, but all depends on the Google Bot crawl rate. So don't worry, keep doing what you are doing, and check Google Webmaster periodically.
1. Have you tried it without product_compare?
2. Bad CMS?
if possible, disallow the pages that cause problems in your robots.txt.
I vote up for keyword cannibalization. They should also check their Webmaster panel to see which pages get more link love than the others.
Google:
Science "web directory edited by humans" "submit link"
The more pages you have on your website - the better. For every page you want unique title and text/images on page. Create custom description for every product you have on the site. It's up to you how to do it. Also, add Customer Reviews block on product pages.
I haven't hear anything clear about that yet, but I would definitely use schema.org standards and HTML5.
I predict that in the future Google will be considering websites that use older versions of HTML and older technologies as stale or neglected, especially with a combination of other signals.
So the answer is: maybe not right now, but in future you will most probably benefit from using HTML 5.
Transfer all your existing sites to that format right now.
Hi Raymond,
try one 301 a week. I don't think you should get penalized. As long as you adhere to Google's rules everything should be fine.
Also make sure you have a diverse and balanced link profile of your main site.
Slava
Chris,
Since my first language is Russian, I have access to the information on Russian SEO websites and forums.
Here is the tool they use: http://xseo.in/indexed
This is how it works:
I am not pretending that this method is correct, but this is just what is popular over there and can be one of the additional methods that can be used to get some additional insights on the SEO health of your website.
Try to re-purpose your article. For example you can make an infographic out of your original article. Then you can make a Google+ submission. Then you can make a video slideshow out of this infographic and submit it to YouTube. Then you can create a poll or a survey at the end of your article and convert the answers you get into a new post on your website.
Better invest in your own website than in other people's sites.