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I have a vanity URL domain that 301 redirects to my main site.  That domain does have a robots.txt to disallow the entire site as well.

However, for a branded enough search that vanity domain still shows up in SERPs and has the new Google message of:

A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt

I get why the message is there - that's not my , my question is shouldn't a 301 redirect trump this domain showing in SERPs, ever?

Client isn't happy about it showing at all.

How can I get the vanity domain out of the SERPs?

THANKS in advance!

Thanks - we do have a separate campaign for the sub-domain specifically and it does not indicate duplicate pages as a concern.  They aren't 100% the same, but certainly over 90% if not more like 95-98%

Would greatly appreciate some opinions on this scenario.

Domain cruising along for years, top 1-3 rankings for nearly all top non-branded terms and a stronghold for branded searches.  Sitelinks prominently shown with branded searches and always ranked #1 for most variations of brand name.

Then, sub-domain launches that was over 80,000 local pages - these pages are 90-95% similar with only city and/or state changing to make them appear like unique local pages.  Not an uncommon technique but worrisome in a post Panda/Penguin world.  These pages are surprisingly NOT captured as duplicate content by the SEOMoz crawler in my campaigns.

Additionally about that same time a very aggressive, almost entirely branded paid search campaign was launched that took 20% of the clicks previously going to the main domain in organic to ppc.

My concern is this, shortly after this launch of over 80k "local" pages on the sub-domain and the cannibalization of organic clicks through ppc we saw the consistency of sitelinks 6 packs drop to 3 sitelinks if showing at all, including some sub-domains in sitelinks (including the newly launched one) that had never been there before.

There's not a clear answer here I'm sure but what are the experts thoughts on this - did a massive launch of highly duplicate pages coupled with a significant decrease in organic CTR for branded terms harm the authority of the main domain (which is only a few dozen pages) causing less sitelinks and less strength as a domain or is all this a coincidence?  Or caused by something else we aren't seeing?

Thanks for thoughts!

Does anybody have examples of a restaurant chain that is doing local SEO effectively?

So there is not a way to put some kind of catch all re-direct without doing it at the root and redirecting everything to the homepage?

KLLC,

From a big picture perspective you want to think about ways to make your article visually easy to digest. Anything that you can make the important information stand out on the page will be appreciated by readers.

Although there is not a technically correct answer to this question, these are a few things that I try to do to keep my articles simple to read.

Keep your paragraphs short. The majority of online readers browse for the right answers and may not read every word of your article. Short paragraphs will make it easier for them to find the information that they are looking for.

Use sub headings in your articles. This allows users to scan your information and start with the information that is the most important to them.

You could also consider using bullet points and lists. This visually breaks up the flow of your article and will help users get to the most important info.

Hope this helps!

I am implementing page level re-directs for a large site but I know that I will inevitably miss some pages. Is there an additional safety net root level re-direct that I can use to catch these pages and send them to the homepage?

Thanks for the response Irving.

http://www.kelloggs.com/teamusa/#/teamusa/athletes/kerri-walsh.html

The hash is above in this location (teamusa/#/teamusa)

What is interesting is that in this example, individual athlete stories are ranking separately in the SERPs, despite the fact that they use a # to break up the URLs.

I have several clients who have begun to ask questions about sites that are designed to look like a single page. When you click on a link, the URL changes but it uses a # before (i.e. http://www.kelloggs.com/teamusa**/#**/teamusa/athletes/kerri-walsh.html. What are the SEO implications of having a page set up this way?

I noticed that Google has indexed this page but the indexed URL does not include a #. Is Google indexing a separate version of this page?

Any insights would be really helpful!

Thanks

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We've got a client building a site using node.js (http://nodejs.org/) I'm not at all familiar with this and of course need to know how nodejs impacts SEO?   Are you familiar with it?  Any sites you know of using it?  But as I said, bottom line - how will it impact the SEO on the site?