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Good answer, also we have seen that sometimes bots come directly to your site via a link and do not always visit the robots.txt file and will therefore index the first page they come to.

Matt Cutts has said before that the only 100% fail safe way of blocking search engines indexing something will be to have it password protected

Hi, my personal opinion is that if they were unintentional or not done by you then Google will ignore these and not penalise site (see Rans Whiteboard Friday video on Negative SEO).

However if it is a page that is not very important to you then maybe you should consider removing this page from Googles index (use GWT for this) and then getting Google to re-index a new page that has no spam links pointing to it?

Good answer, explains everything

I agree with ipositions, we have found that over 80% starts looking suspect and will be penalised

Just a thought, I looked at your sitemap and see that the frequencies are set to Daily (for home page)

Maybe try change the update frequency of the home page to Hourly for Home Page and Daily for Posts?

I agree with EGOL regarding the content, are you sure all your content is unique and not on any other sites?

Maybe part of the Panda updates?

Hi everyone, has anyone had any experience with Getshopped eCommerce plugin for Wordpress and it's permalink structure?

Currently the permalink reads something like http://www.sitename.com/products-page/product-category/product-description/

I would like to modify it to be http://www.sitename.com/product-description/ but the SEO Plugin I am using All-in-One SEO only allows me to edit the "product-description" part of the permalink and not the "products-page/product-category/" part of it

The permalink structure is set to /%postname%/ under Settings in Wordpress.

Any help/comments will be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Hi Bryce, maybe I should have said more human friendly. As Gareth says the trailing slash is not as nice looking as the URL without

Hi everyone

My question is regarding trailing URLs in Wordpress

A designer setup a site and made the URL structure something like: www.website.com/description/ but I want to change it to www.website.com/description as this is more SEF

A trailing / was added to the permalink structure in Wordpress, if I change this will google see these as new URLs and will all the current URLs become 404?

Or should I just leave it?

Thanks in advance

Something else worth looking at that we have found helpful is SEO Pressor

I agree with the comment on when multiple browser tabs are open.

Also we have found that by inserting the company title in all pages you lose 10-15 characters of your 60 within the title tag.

By starting with the company name, the keywod relevance in your title might become less as it does not appear first and we have found this to be important

Also, a good way to go is the following:

• tell search engines to go away in robots.txt
• to insert a meta noindex tag
• block in .htaccess as well

Matt Cutts stated that the only 100% sure way is to password protect the folder

I agree that writing relevant descriptions for such a large site can be a tedious and long process.

We also have an ecommerce joomla site that has over 2000 products listed. When we took over the site it had no SEF url's, almost all the meta tag descriptions and titles were the same.

The bounce rate when we started was approx. 60% and since we have started working through each product and changing SEF Links, Meta Title and Meta Description tags related to specific keyword search terms for each product our bounce rate has dropped to 25%. Thus we are getting much more relevant traffic.

So good luck with doing the changes as it will be worth while in the long term.

We have used a CMS software package called CS-Cart and have found that to be very good for SEO and is very customisable.

Hope this helps

I have a client who has a virtuemart site and all of the "ask a question on this product" had been indexed on google.

I have managed to get a noindex meta tag into the ask a question page, will these be dropped from the index next time they are crawled and google sees the noindex?