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I would add meta "noindex, follow" to author, categories , archives and date archives, tags.

and i think Wordpress SEO by Yoast is one of the best so far. and of course All in One SEO plugin

Monique,

1)Let me explain something about adding rel canonical

it doesnt mean that it will INDEX quicklearn.com . But what is going to happen is when you will serve googlebot the /default. you will tell him that the canonical version of this page is quicklearn.com. and it means all SEO value will be credited to quicklearn.com and you will not have duplicate content between them two.

Now concerning what Google Analytics will show you exactly whats the user is landing on. and IMO it will still show you the /default

2. i was checking your site and i cant seem to find the URL with default.aspx indexed?

and seems URL structure is working good

If ISAPI rewrites didn't do the trick, did you try using rel=canonical ?

Yes you should block these pages.

This is a quote from Matt Cutts concerning this issue

Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don’t add much value for users coming from search engines

Disallow: /search

Hi Tom ,

• Front

1. Amount of Links (inaccurate)
2. rel=canonical
3. add RedirectMatch 301
4. ISAPI Rewrites

• Back

1. BingBot
2. Robots.txt Syntax (adding the wild card and example)
3. xml-sitemaps (note thats up to 500 pages only)

And Microformats?

Hi Mark,

Yes SEOmoz provide a directory of companies that provide SEO services , included a recommended list

www.seomoz.org/marketplace/companies

Megan ,

Please check with your hosting company,

about this code to be included in htaccess

ErrorDocument 404 /404.shtml

/404.shtml its your 404 page

Megan,

See here

http://markup.io/v/fyd9w4w9wmjr

Googlebot when It crawls this page, you remote server is telling Google Bot that its a Live page and this page Exists

The solution to the upper problem, might help you in fixing the actual problem.

If the Pages with the mystery folder Does not Exist .. your remote server should show google bot a 404 not found (http header).

Megan,

noticed something also for example this page http://www.burlingtonmortgage.biz/contact.htm . its showing a 404 error from title and content ... but the HTTP header is showing 200 ok. u need to fix that.

and would assume maybe thats why google started indexing weird URLs generating from your site... and if its true is a 404 page ..google is not picking it up because its showing its a Live page (200ok)

Which CMS are you using?

Dear hiphound,

1. Yes its correct the syntax used is whenever there is in the URL /shop/ will be permanently redirected to the correct URL.

2)Yes

3)Yes

4)No need to additional, current redirect is enough.

Lol,

Sure, so what i showed you now, that you are serving 2 URLs with the same content. this is will be a severe problem when people will link to you to shop/moss-control/ for example. and you are focusing your link building, internet linking to this shop/moss-control/index.html. a Duplicate content filter will be flagged and will loose ranking for both.

the steps needed now, are to 301 redirect your shop/moss-control/ to shop/moss-control/index.html

Todd,

your not, its my bad, need to input more into my answers.

so here is a screenshot of an http header response for shop/moss-control/

http://markup.io/v/fvjrfw5a3te5

and this is another screenshot of an http respons for shop/moss-control/index.html

http://markup.io/v/ggt61a170rfw

Both are showing a 200 response, means no redirect. please feel free to ask more

Todd,

When you access www.pitchcare.com/shop/moss-control/ it will show you the exact content if you go to www.pitchcare.com/shop/moss-control/index.html.

Google See these two URL as 2 different URLs with same content, hence your content is duplicated

this is an article of how to deal with DC from Google Blog http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/12/deftly-dealing-with-duplicate-content.html

He might have a site that its actually have a PR6 301 for a couple month then remove the redirect.

Google will pass that pagerank to the new site.

but eventually in the next PR update PR6 will be gone.

It teach us something too that PR is not everything !

Your site is indexed by Google:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=site%3Ateacherprose.com

SEOMoz Crawler test it didnt pick it up as indexed because you 301 non www to www. it might take time to see the changes in the index. but you are fine. you have nothing to worry about.

Todd,

One URL have /index.html and the other URL is without.

and i dnt thing you have been penalized for excessive internatl links.

and I would add more content to accommodate additional links.

I found multiple issues that can help you serve Google with the page you want to rank.

• I think there is an issue of Duplicate content your having with your website.

your page can be accessed by going to http://www.pitchcare.com/shop/moss-control/ and http://www.pitchcare.com/shop/moss-control/index.html so what i would do is either 301 redirect or rel canonical

• In side Moss Control category items and pages try to do internal linking to the main directory.

For example http://www.pitchcare.com/shop/hard-surface-moss-killer/index.html i would link from this page to the main category

• try do to some link building to these Main category pages, (social bookmarking) blogs, articles, etc.

Definetly Not,

i would rather invest my time searching for potential niches that have exact searches of more than 6000 per month.

cheers

if you check the exact people doing a search for :champagne champagne: its only 1600  searches worldwide.

sorry i didnt make it clear

SEOMoz Have its own Keyword Difficulty tool and it have a very good and powerful analysis for the top 10 rankings.

http://www.seomoz.org/keyword-difficulty

Hi,

your keyword search was based on a broad match.

that means "champagne punch" and "champage cocktails"  will be counted for the search volume of a broad "champagne" keyword.

you need adjust and pull the search volume for exact keyword .

• Input your keyword in the text Box
• click Search
• Under "Match Types" uncheck broad and check Exact

This way you will have the search volume of the people that will only type "champagne" and nothing else

Hi Nick,

I use sometimes GSiteCrawler (http://gsitecrawler.com/)

After Crawling, you can dissect your sitemap the way you want and export them

Hi Robert,

Basically when you load your website, all the content that shows without scrolling down is called "Above the fold", Hence the term Below the fold, means all the content that will appear when you scroll down to see the rest of your site.

take a look at this article (http://andrewhansen.name/affiliate-marketing/google-checkmates-me-but-reveals-internal-secrets/) it shows that Google have the ability to know what is above or below the fold and can calculate the ratio of content / Ads.

And Concerning Ehow, Josh Hannah (Former Owner of Ehow) gave his 2 cents of why EHow didn't get hit with the Panda Update. (http://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Google-push-down-low-quality-results-from-sites-such-as-eHow-the-same-way-it-pushes-up-results-from-Wikipedia/answer/Josh-Hannah)

I am going to quote what Google said concerning your issue:

" Our indexing process often handles this case for webmasters and users. While it’s not totally optimal behavior, it’s perfectly legitimate and a-okay. "

reference (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html)

I don't know if you stumble upon this Extension,

but it may resolve your problems.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/EcommerceTeam/extension/4420/layered_navigation_seo

Ok Andrew,

just Checked your site headers, robots, meta tags and every is Ok!

Try these and wait for few days:

• Submit your site to Pingoat.com
• try to tweet your website threw your account
• under Diagnostics in Google WT there is fetch as Google Bot, run it threw the website and check the page if google crawled.

I believe in the next few days, ur site will be crawled and indexed

In this case you need to use rel Canonical

His your reference from Miva Merchant

http://www.mivamerchant.com/blog/google-addresses-duplicate-content

Its no Spammy, but in the long term, people will link to you using the lowercase URLs and u may risk a duplicate content issue.

If you have full access to Apache configuration,

RewriteEngine On
RewriteMap  lc int:tolower
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} [A-Z]
RewriteRule (.*) ${lc:$1} [R=301,L]

(you need to define RewriteMap in HTTPD config so you can call it out from htaccess)

Redirect Loop is when you create 2 opposite redirect rules.

and basically your site will never load at al,l because the browser will time out

did you try ?

RedirectMatch 301 /STNT.html http://www.domain.com

First you would like to search for blogs in your niche that will allow guest posting

you can use these queries

• inpostauthor:”guest author” {your keyword here}
• inpostauthor:”guest post” {your keywordhere}

Yes it will more beneficiary to have the URL

Hi Goodnewscowboy,

To block the whole folder you dont need to use the wild card (*)

and I advise you to also do these steps:

1. Verify your ownership of the site in Webmaster Tools.
2. On the Webmaster Tools home page, click the site you want.
3. On the Dashboard, click Site configuration in the left-hand navigation.
4. Click Crawler access, and then click Remove URL.
5. Click New removal request.
6. Type the URL of the page you want removed, and then click Continue. Note that the URL is case-sensitive—you will need to submit the URL using exactly the same characters and the same capitalization that the site uses.
7. Select Remove page from cache only.
8. Select the checkbox to confirm that you have completed the requirements listed in this article, and then clickSubmit Request.

Cheers

Oh ,

Did you try this ? http://suggest.thinkpragmatic.net/

Hi Joe,

I wont go after 2 hyphens, usually if the .com is not available i go after a .net.

But in your case, i would go with a .co

Would advice these:

• Sign up with Bing Webmaster tools
• Submit Sitemap
• "Relevant" Links
• download SEO toolkit from Microsoft @ http://www.microsoft.com/web/seo and do site analysis

I think because its a Free SEOMoz API,

So there is a restriction for the information that you can pull for this API, as stated here

"

The SEOmoz Free API can tell you:

• Domain Authority

• Page Authority

• The top 1,000 links to a page or domain, sorted by Page Authority. Stop scraping for links! Use ours for free! 

• the mozRank of the page requested

• the number of external, juice-passing links

• the subdomain mozrank

• The total number of links

• The top 3 linking domains sorted by Domain Authority

• The top 3 anchor texts to the site or page, by phrases and terms

"

ref: http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/13991148/SEOmoz-Free-API

Did you try Market Samurai Keyword Analysis Tool?

http://www.marketsamurai.com/

To be frank,

We did apply, to one of our clients some microformats and did show up in the results after a month.

What i suggest you to do and might find a better response and recommendation, if you post your question in the Google webmaster forums.

It might take like a month or so,

check attachment for Matt video on Rich Snippets

watch?v=thS5ryMXN88

De rien cher ami

Matthew,

Yes, but it depends the crawl rate that your website is being crawled by search engines.

I would advise removing DC and replacing with unique.

When finished, ping individual pages threw pingoat.com

Eric,

I found out also that you didnt choose what canonical version you want for your website.

means that ur site can be accessed threw www version and non-www version

in order to fix that

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

place it under rewriteengine on .

I just checked federalprose and its working

Ok

Insert it in htaccess

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^/]*/)index.html?.\ HTTP/

RewriteRule ^(([^/]/))index.html?$ http://www.example.com/$1? [R=301,L]

Try this , which CMS ur using?

Oh yeh this is good for query strings, will not crawl non SEF URLs

So your are good

this is a sample of a Joomla Site that i have for robots.txt.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /media/
Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /templates/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /xmlrpc/

If you need to Index your website and gets rankings, yes this is bad for your website.

This is means that you don't want any Search engine to index your website, hence, people wont find you in the search engines.