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Good idea on outsourcing! I can get someone internally to go through the manual submissions.

Does anybody recommend a company to source and submit the information?

Or any decent software?

Hello All.

Our site has 17,000 links from over 300 route domains but none from directories.

Using open site explorer i've found tons of paid and free directories but Its so time consuming manually submitting.

Is it better to take the time to check each directory manually or should I look at some kind of automated service?

Cheers

Todd

Thanks for your help!

Thats great!

Thanks again.

This is a little over my head now sorry Wissam.

Could you elaborate a little more? (in terms a lamen like me will understand)

Cheers

Sorry If I'm being really stupid here Wissam!

But when I click both the links you just provided the URLs are identical?

We have a 301 redirect set up so that both go to http://www.pitchcare.com/shop/moss-control/index.html

Again apologies if I'm missing something!

Hi Wissam,

Looking at this http://www.pitchcare.com/shop/moss-control is directed to

http://www.pitchcare.com/shop/moss-control/index.html

I cant see any duplicates?

Great! Thanks Richard.

They dont use no follows and they are ranking just fine! Must be down to some other factors.

Thanks for your help.

Todd

Thanks for the response. We certainly have duplicate content issues that I'm looking to address but none of the product or sub category pages are affected so I'm convinced it;s down to excessive internal linking.

Open site explorer shows over 1700 internal links pointing to the category pages with the same anchor text.

Unless anyway has any direct advice on accessive linking I'll have to address all of the above and see how it goes,

Thanks anyway.

Todd

Thanks again I've freshened the content on the category pages so hopefully that will help also.

Unfortunately I have no direct experience of article submission so I look forward to hearing from other members?

But I did watch this video which is from the 7th of March 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5xP-pTmlpY

Of course I wouldn't rely soley on Matts advice!

Hi Wissam

Thanks for the advice.

It appears the 2 URLs you gave me that point to the same content are identical? http://www.pitchcare.com/shop/moss-control/index.html

I've created some other internal links pointing to category pages but not within product or sub categories so i'll try that also.

I also plan on deep linking to these category pages but I'm worried that we have been penalised for so many internal links?

If we have been penalised I would imagine these additional external & internal links would make little difference.

Todd

Hello all,

All our category pages www.pitchcare.com/shop are linked to from every product page via the sidebar navigation.

Which results in every category page having over 1700 links with the same anchor text.

I have noticed that the category pages dont appear to be ranked when they most definately should be.

For example http://www.pitchcare.com/shop/moss-control/index.html is not ranked for the term "moss control" instead another of our deeper pages is ranked on page 1.

Reading a previous SEO MOZ article

·  Excessive Internal Anchor Text Linking / Manipulation Can Trip An Automated Penalty on Google
I recently had my second run-in with a penalty at Google that appears to punish sites for excessive internal linking with "optimized" (or "keyword stuffed anchor text") links. When the links were removed (in both cases, they were found in the footer of the website sitewide), the rankings were restored immediately following Google's next crawl, indicating a fully automated filter (rather than a manual penalty requiring a re-consideration request).

Do you think we may have triggered a penalty?

If so what would be the best way to tackle this? Could we add no follows on the product pages?

Cheers

Todd

Thanks both,

Oh I see you meant the first link on a single page is the most important, sure I understand this.

I also understand the link is best placed in the content area of the page (not footers etc)

The problem I have is that every single product page has a link to the category pages. ie every category page has 1745 internal links pointing to it from seperate pages.

I thought that internal linking from multiple pages was only effective for a max of around 10? so adding more links from artilces would make no difference?

If I'm correct how do e-commerce websites with dynamically generated pages combat this issue?

Thanks

Todd

Thanks for the response.

We have thousands of on topic articles that i could link from so no problem there. I also understand this will improve the user experience but I'm only concerned about passing page rank at this stage.

You say the first link is the most important so surely adding another rich anchor text link from other pages will make very little or no difference as there are already 1700 links pointing to that page?

Is there any penalty for too many internal links to a page that could have a negative effect on rankings?

Cheers

Todd

Hello All!

Our site uses dynamically generated pages. I was about to begin the process of optimising our product category pages www.pitchcare.com/shop

I was going to use internal anchor text from some high ranking pages within our site but each of the product category pages already have 1745 links!

Am I correct in saying that internal anchor text links works to a certain point? (maybe 10 or so links)

So any new internal anchor text links will count for nothing?

Thanks

Todd

Great stuff thanks!...

Thanks again! Unfortunately our system was built in house from scratch with no consideration for duplicate content

To be honest the product pages that I'm worried about have very few or no inbound links so maybe this isn't such a huge issue.

I have picked up on the fact almost all our pages including the homepage work on www and non www so maybe creating a 301 redirect for these will help also.

I will test the conical tag on a range of pages and mointor the results, hopefully our rankings will increase and I can look at some kind of strategy to roll this out.

Cheers for the help!

Thanks for the quick response chaps! So if we have 9 duplicates for example will Google index all 9 pages or decide on 1 and never revisit the rest.

I couldn't see any duplicate URLs in the top content report.

We have over 3,000 products so it will be fun adding canonical tags to all the necessary pages

Hello all

We have an e-commerce website with approximately 3,000 products. Many of the products are displayed in multiple categories which in turn generates a different URL!

Accross the entire site I have noticed that the product pages are always outranked by competitors who have lower page authority, domain authority, total links etc etc.

I am convinced this is down to duplicate content issues. I understand there is no direct penalty but how would this affect our rankings? Is page rank split between all the duplicates, which in turn lowers it's ranking potential?

I have looked for a way to identify duplicate content using Google analytics but i've been unsuccessful. If the duplicate content is the issue and page rank is divided am i best using canonical or 301 redirects?

Sorry if this is an obvious question but If i'm correct we could see a huge improvement in rankings accross the board. Wow!

Cheers

Todd