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What are everyone's thoughts on directory links now a days? I'm talking about the old tried and true ones, like Yahoo directory and DMOZ?

We had previously been on a couple and removed the links, thinking it was hurting us. But we've been falling in rankings for a while now, and I'm trying to think of some ways to bring us back up (even if they're small). Do you think it would be worth it to be added back in?

Anyone's thoughts on this would be appreciated.

I thought rel=canonical might be the answer, but from my understanding of it, I thought if we put this on the top of Page B, then Google would ignore the content on Page B and just associate any "link juice" etc on Page B with Page A.

[And we really want to make sure the Google indexes the content on Page B. Any ideas?

Am I misunderstanding rel=canonical?](PageA)

Well it's not 2 sites, it's two pages. So it's a read more page and a full content page. We want Google to index the full content page, so that it's there, but we want our users to go to the page with the "read more" first, before they see that full content page.

So we would like Google to associate the full content page with the read more page, so that the read more page comes up before the full content page.

Thanks!

Hi all,

I would like associate content on "Page A" with "Page B".  The content is not the same, but we want to tell Google it should be associated. Is there an easy way to do this?

Not a problem. Any advice on deleting all at once or deleting in bits and pieces?

This is more of a theoretical question, but if we're not getting traffic to these pages and there wasn't a way for people to get there, do we need to 301?

Adding 301's will increase the work we'll  need to do from the dev standpoint and I'm not sure if it's worth the effort. Any ideas?

Visitors can't actually get to these pages, so it wouldn't be an issue for them. We also have researched and have not had any traffic to any of these pages for over 2 years. So we're not worried about it from a user-facing standpoint.

We're planning on 404ing them because the likelihood of having any backlinks are as close to zero as possible. I'm just wondering if it's better to 404 them in batches or all at once.

We have 30,000 pages that we want to get rid of. Each product within our database has it's own page. And these particular 30,000 products are not relevant anymore. They have very little content on them and are basically the same exact page but with a few title changes.

We no longer want them weighing down our database so we are going to delete them.

My question is - should we get rid of them in smaller batches like 2,000 pages at a time, or is it better to get rid of all them in one fell swoop? Which is least likely to raise a flag to Google? Anyone have any experience with this?

I have multiple pages that I do not want to be indexed (and they are currently not indexed, so that's great).

They don't have meta descriptions on them and I'm wondering if it's worth my time to go in and insert them, since they should hypothetically never be shown.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Thanks!

The reason this is a question is because one member of our team was linking to this page through Facebook to send people to it and noticed random text on the page being pulled in as the description.