Hi,

I don't think there is a way to find out who the admin is since Google is not providing an option for that at the moment.  However, if you have an Account Rep for Adwords or any Google products, you can contact that person and your rep should be able to direct you to the right person.  If not, you can always reach out to analytics-support@google.com and they should be able to help you contact the admin since they're not able to provide you with the email due to privacy issues.

Hope this helps.

Hi William,

Yup, totally understand that what's best for user is best for search engine.  I also agree that having a simple and clean URL www.yoursite.com/category/keyword is definitely better and has more benefits than www.yoursite.com/category/keyword?id=1234%Keyword-_-......

Let's not compared them to the optimized URL but what do you effect does it have on SEO?  Does it harm the site in general with this type of URL?  Or no effect at all since it also included the keywords in the front and the parameters don't play a role.

Hi,

Thanks for the article, it help answer some of my questions. However, the examples in the article compared 2 not optimized URLs with 1 keyword included URL. It makes sense that the 3rd URL will perform better as it includes keyword for search engine, users to understand what the page is about and all the other benefits from optimizing the URL.

1. Amazon.com - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007TJ5OG/102-8372974-4064145?v=glance&n=502394&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&n=3031001&s=photo&v=glance
2. Canon.com - http://consumer.usa.canon.com/ir/controller?act=ModelDetailAct&fcategoryid=145&modelid=11158
3. DPReview.com - http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canonsd400/

However, in my first example:  www.yoursite.com/category/keyword?id=12345&Keyword--Category--cm_jdkfls_dklj

The URL included keywords which tell users what the page is about but it also included additional dynamic parameters.

I'm just wondering if these additional dynamic parameters play any role in SEO.  Harm or benefit?

Hi fellow SEOmozers,

I noticed that a lot of websites have additional characters and words at the end of the URL in addition keyword optimized URL.  Mostly for E-Commerce sites

For example: www.yoursite.com/category/keyword?id=12345&Keyword--Category--cm_jdkfls_dklj  or wwww.yoursite.com/category/keyword#83939=-37292

My question is how does the additional characters or parameters(not necessarily tracking parameters) affect SEO? Does it matter if i have additional keywords in the additional stuff in the URL (1st url example)?

If you can provide more information, that would be helpful.

Thank you!

Hi,

One thing that comes to mind is using the Disavow tool.  The UK Flower company might have used the Disavow tool to remove all the referring pages that they thought were spam.

Hi Daniel,

Another option may be use java on your filter page so that however customers filter the product, the URL will remain the same with extra parameters in the URL to filter out the products.  I find this the best way as you have the same URL for all sort of customization/filter and able to avoid duplicate content.

For example: Macys

Hi Daniel,

Might I suggest using a tool to customize the content according to the referral?  So that you can keep the same URL and the same page will receive all the link juice if you get any back links.

However, creating different pages with noindex will work too.

Hi,

If you say near-duplicate and think it looks duplicate, then it is probably duplicate content in Google's eye.  If your page doesn't provide any unique content to the users, i would noindex the page.

Why are you using your homepage as landing pages.  Why not create a landing page that provides unique content and information to visitors and convert on the spot?

Like what Wiqas and Adam said.  Wiki links are nofollow so in SEO sense, it may not provide you any value.

However, it definitely brings in a lot of value in driving traffic to your site.  In the end, you are doing SEO because you want more people to notice your site and increase traffic which is what Wiki is doing.

In conclusion, i would say it Wiki links bring value to your site.

Hi,

What David mentioned in his response is the best way to remove the /category/ from the URL.  However, based on your comment, you can't remove the /category/ because it conflicts with the page URLs which kind of contradict your initial question.

I would suggest reworking on the page URL and the category URL.  If you use 301 redirect to redirect the old URL to the new URL, everything should be fine once Google crawls your site again and see the redirect.

Hi Mark,

Creating 100,000 pages is definitely good for Search Engine because you have a lot more contents for them to crawl and have more chances your pages might show up on related keywords.  However, the problem is do you have enough unique contents you can post on all those 100,000 pages.  If you use similar content, I am afraid it will be duplicate contents.  You may think changing up the town names will be enough but it might be risky.

If you can create 100,000 unique contents, Sure go ahead.  If not, don't take the risk of duplicate contents.

Hi Scott,

Glad you getting into SEO.

Yes, you are correct that submitting articles to other sites is a great way to build links back to your site.  HOWEVER, those are strategies and tactics people used probably 3 years ago.  Google see that people are doing that instead of building quality/natural links, they rolled out Penguin and Panda to prevent people from doing that.  By doing so, you are creating something called Duplicate content and that will either harm your website ranking or your website may not show up in the search results because the website where you submitted the article has better ranking than you.  Therefore, they are showing the other website instead.

It is best to write new articles and post it in the blog under your website's domain.  Such as blog.website.com or website.com/blog.  This will give your website more benefits of freshness and more content to crawl and possibly backlinks and social signal for your blog/website.  Thus increases your chance of appearing in SERP with more content and higher ranking due to backlinks to your website.

Hope this helps.

Like what Wiqas and Adam said.  Wiki links are nofollow so in SEO sense, it may not provide you any value.

However, it definitely brings in a lot of value in driving traffic to your site.  In the end, you are doing SEO because you want more people to notice your site and increase traffic which is what Wiki is doing.

In conclusion, i would say it Wiki links bring value to your site.

Hi,

I believe your suggestion or what you have in mind is good.  Your Alt Text includes keyword and describes the image.  It is ok to have similarity in title and alt text as long as it is not exact similar.  Just make sure all your alt text and titles are different and be as descriptive as possible.

Hi Felip,

Posting on ezine and other article directories are tactics from few years ago and shouldn't be using because Search Engines see that as duplicate content on the web and if the those directories have higher authority than your site, it doesn't benefit you at all in SEO stands.  I'm pretty sure most people recommend not to use it anymore.

However, talking about any good for these sort of directories.  Yes, i believe they are still a bit useful.  For example, if your website is not getting any traffic and you have no luck in building up the traffic via Social or Search, posting on article directories with thousands of visits, it helps your article get more impression.  That is the only good I can think of for using article directories now a days.

Hi,

You should not do directory submission at all due to the low authority links it passes on.  However, if you do decide to do directory submission, I would suggest having evertyhing unique or close to unique meaning different title, different description, different content, and etc.

As long as you have a chunk of similar content, Search Engines will pick it up as duplicate content.

Hope this helps a bit.

Hi Daniel,

Another option may be use java on your filter page so that however customers filter the product, the URL will remain the same with extra parameters in the URL to filter out the products.  I find this the best way as you have the same URL for all sort of customization/filter and able to avoid duplicate content.

For example: Macys

Hi Mark,

If A,C, and E's page is similar to B,D, and F's page it is still consider dupllicate content.  Based on Webmaster's definiton:

"Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar"

Each of your pages should be unique and different from other pages.

I suggest you to continue providing quality content and target the long tail keywords.  That alone will help you generate more traffic.  Furthermore, out ranking is not a problem.  You should focus on getting to the frist page (providing quality content with long tail or regular keywords) and when you are on the first page, try to get searchers to click on your link using Title tag and Meta descriptions.

Out ranking just means they are ranked 4th and you are ranked 5th, 6th but as long as you have a better title tag and meta description. I believe searchers will click on the more attractive results.

HI Harvey,

Like Rafi said, I don't believe domain registrar location will affect SEO but the host location will affect SEO.  It will be best to host based on where your domain is targeting.  For example, it is recommended to host in UK if you have a .uk website.  Search Engines will see your host location is in UK and assume you are from UK.  Furthermore, the load time will also be faster if host location is the same.

Rand had an amazing Whiteboard Friday that explains where to host

international-seo-where-to-host-and-how-to-target-whiteboard-friday

As long as the directory is not spammy and have a decent authority, the link from it wouldn't hurt.  However, majority of the directories on the web are usually spammy; therefore, I suggest not doing it and try other backlinking strategies to earn your backlinks.

Furthermore, if you content is unique, then submitting to directories would cause duplicate content.  Overall, provide unique contents and titles if you are really planning to do directory submission.