Thanks Tom,

Have checked none of the paginated pages are driving traffic so i think No-index, follow will be the best choice.

Regards,

Anirban

I have a website http://www.naukrigulf.com and it has a lot of Paginated pages on its SERP and most of paginated pages are getting indexed in Google SERP. Is it beneficial to use No-Index, Follow to keep the link equity to main (first page),  although we have already used rel=next and rel=prev. If Answer is "yes" is their any harm by using no-index, follow with rel=next, rel=prev.

exact-match domain will not help seo rankings. EMDs are no longer as helpful as they once were.

I prefer the second option as you dont have to build Domain Authority for both the domains seperately. Building Links and DA is a cumbersome task in itself and doing it double is double the effort.

Building links for a single domain for one domain is half the task and double the profit. Both your sub-folders will benefit from the main domain authority.

Hope it helps.

Hi khi5

I analyzed your page. You are doing just fine. you are using CSS display none. You are not doing any cloaking.

You are doing the right thing.

1. not fooling google

2.not fooling user

3.giving the user a better user experience.

Don't worry you are not applying any "black hat" technique. You will not get penalized.

It used by many huge sites is to pre-load code, navigation, or content in the background so that it can be dynamically displayed as needed. The most common technique for accomplishing this is through the use of the CSS display: none attribute.

Unfortunately, you can also use display: none to simply hide text. This is where the perceived problem comes in. People worry that the use of display: none to hide content(and show when user asks for it) or for code that is really meant for screen readers can lead them into trouble. The legitimate use of this technique is so prevalent that I would rarely expect search engines to penalize a site for using the display: none attribute. It’s just very difficult to implement an algorithm that could truly ferret out whether the particular use of display: none is meant to deceive the search engines or not.

I usually use this tactics to make the page more user friendly and it is useful for the user too. User don't get bombarded by a large content piece and I am not fooling the user/google. I am giving the option to the user to read more if he wants to.

"display: none"
What it does :- the functionality is same - when user clicks "read more" it opens and when user click "less" it closes.
How it defeats the "cloaking" idea:- When google crawls your page where the full content is there (text based browser, not java enabled) and when user sees the page there is a "read more" link and by clicking it it shows the full content. So you are not showing two different things to google & user. it solves the problem.

there shouldn't be a a cloaking problem. Its tested.

Hope this helps...

Also refer :- http://moz.com/community/q/would-using-display-none-to-hide-a-section-of-text-effect-seo-negatively

Yes !!!

I recommend using the brand name at the end of a title tag instead, and there are times when this can be a better approach. The differentiating factor is the strength and awareness of the brand in the target market. If a brand is well–known enough to make a difference in click–through rates in search results, the brand name should be first. If the brand is less known or relevant than the keyword, the keyword should be first.

Personally I think Brand on titles are good for the following

1. Brand Exposure (User point of view)
2. Reputation Management (Google point of view)

Google also started putting many site's name in the title. I think the reason Google started doing it was to distinguish
many of the same titles in the SERPS. Lots of sites, me included, just put "Build Blue Widgets" in the title and the SERPS looked a bit silly with 5 of the top ten having the same title.

Nowadays, if anybody searches for your brand and you don't have your brand name in your title tag, google ignores your hard coded Title Tag shows Brand name as your title Tag in its serp.

If Google wants to add site names to the title who am I to disagree with them.

P.S - However if you do your seo right and you rank on important keywords, everytime user searches in google and find you and see your brand on the google serp, you are spreading Brand awareness and you are building your brand for Free ! and gradually the user will know that this brand sells this product and then if you are not ranked on top the user will still click on your link. So you are killing two birds with one stone. Free Traffic + Free Brand building...

Happy Selling !

Thanks David.

I hope this helps.

Hi David

Thanks for the help. Domain name is www.shiksha.com. If you can look and advise.

Open Site Explorer is reporting "0" value under "Total Internal Links" as well as "Internal Followed Links" metrics for my website. I have a good interlinking of pages throughout the site.
Is there an issue with OSE (Open Site Explorer) crawler ? OR There are some crawling problems with our Website's structure ?
Can anybody please give an idea or recommendations on this ?

You should put a canonical tag on http://aa.rental.com point to http://www.aa.rental.com. When search engines bot sees the canonical tag it will crawlyour main site http://www.aa.rental.com and hence no dulicate content issue.