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Just an update. I showed this to a friend of mine who is a SEO expert. He also doesn't know either.

I run a directory and some search queries give almost 1000 unique results.

My moz campaign tells me that I have around 1,300 duplicate title tags etc.

I read online about canonical, rel=next/prev, also about having a 'view all' page just for google (page links, not search queries), but if I do this, wouldn't the slowness mean google won't index it?

So the question is what is the best thing to do?

I was away so couldn't respond to this.

Thank you very much for the response. Actually I wrote the 'stop smoking' from memory, but if I do 'stop smoking hypnosis', another highly competitive keywords, it shows on the 2nd page,

If this is a red flag tactic, how do they rank so high for such a competitive words???

Thanks

I'm new to SEO, so somebody needs to explain to me what is kosher or not.

Playing around with opensiteexplorer I came across a network of websites that all link together from a page of links, only the linking page is hidden to the viewer, with an empty anchor tag or something small like a period.

example http://zinasdayspa.com/ links to http://zinasdayspa.com/links_baltimore_hair_salon_day_spa_fells_point_federal_hill_canton_maryland.phpwith a tag at the very bottom, that links to http://www.6611111.com.

It's interesting because some of these websites rank high with google, but when I do link:http://www.6611111.com, google shows no results!

Something very strange is about this, and I wanted to know how http://www.6611111.com ranks so high for such a competitive keyword such as stop smoking, and if this is blackhat. My intuition tells me it is, but I'm also curious how it ranks high.

Great, thank you for your speedy responses.

I actually did all the web tools for Bing and Google, so I am going to resubmit my sitemap just in case.

In terms of privacy settings, how much does this influence? I ask because I am not trading an d have not set up an official company as of yet, so I don't want to expose my personal details to spammers and the like.

What do you think?

Thanks again

I am scared that somehow the search engines are penalizing me for something, but I don't know what.

The site can be found at http://www.hypnotherapy-guide.com

It is a business directory/advice/guide site listing a lot of hypnotherapists (9000). Is it possible that such a large site popping up over night is flagged by the SE as spam?

I don't know what I am doing wrong.