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I see a Pinterest button with a heart on it. What does it do? What benefit do I get when someone clicks on the [Love] button on my board?

Our Google Webmaster Tools reports 18 duplicate page titles. Mox crawl reported 931. ????

Thomas; Thank you for looking at this issue. You are correct that each page title is the same.

A PHP based "Review" module creates a form allowing folks to enter their review and then assigns a page address. We have no direct ability of assigning page titles for reviews.

Our page http://www.audiobooksonline.com/Cell_Stephen_King_unabridged_compact_discs.html has ONLY one review however the MOZ crawl is picking up fifteen different page addresses. Evidently the Review module is creating all these page addresses.

Any idea if these multiple product review pages are hurting our SERPs?

Our most recent MOZ crawl campaign is reporting 931 duplicate page title errors, most of which are "Product Review" pages like the following. Although there is only one review on this page, http://www.audiobooksonline.com/Cell_Stephen_King_unabridged_compact_discs.html, MOZ is reporting 15 duplicate page title, four of which I present below.

http://www.audiobooksonline.com/reviews/review.php/full/0743554337/0/name/desc
http://www.audiobooksonline.com/reviews/review.php/full/0743554337/0/rating/asc
http://www.audiobooksonline.com/reviews/review.php/full/0743554337/0/rating/desc
http://www.audiobooksonline.com/reviews/review.php/full/0743554337/0/state/asc

Why is MOZ reporting these "pages" as duplicate page title errors?

Are these errors hurting our SEO?

How to fix?

Do Search Engine Spiders Read Commented Out Content?

Is commented out content detrimental?

Why not keep leave the old page alive in the hopes that some will click on their links? Use a 304 redirect to your new site.

We have hundreds of audiobook titles that have gone out-of-publication. For those who may come upon the original page while searching the web and click on the link we use a 304 redirect to this common page: http://www.audiobooksonline.com/out-of-publication-audio-books-book-audiobook-audiobooks.html

Matt, Chris; Thank you for your comments.

Certainly I don't want to over include keywords into any of our pages.

The On-Page Grader report I received showing 15 uses of the keyword phrase made no mention that I was close to or had exceeded recommended usage. I would think that the On-Page Grader report would let me know if I was over using a keyword phrase. Correct?

Is there such a keyword use recommendation?

I don't see the "Factors Overview" box that Matt refers to.

I see that On-Page Grader reports include a numerical number such as the following:

Keyword Usage for audio book gift certificates = 15

I improved this page (http://www.audiobooksonline.com/audio-book-audiobook-gift-certificates.html) from 3 to 15 today.

What is the maximum "grade" possible?

We have 1000s of audio book titles at our Web store. Google's Panda de-valued our site some time ago because, I believe, of duplicate content. We get our descriptions from the publishers which means a good
deal of our description pages are the same as the publishers = duplicate  content according to Google.

Although re-writing each description of the products we offer is a daunting, almost impossible task, I am thinking of re-writing publishers' descriptions using The Best Spinner software which allows me to replace some of the publishers' words with synonyms.

I have re-written one audio book title's description resulting in 8% unique content from the original in 520 words.

I did a CopyScape Check and it reported "65 duplicates." CopyScape appears to be reporting duplicates of words and phrases within sentences and paragraphs. I see very little duplicate content of full sentences
or paragraphs.

Does anyone know whether Google's duplicate content algorithm is the same or similar to CopyScape's?

How much of an audio book's description would I have to change to stay away from CopyScape's duplicate content algorithm?

How much of an audio book's description would I have to change to stay away from Google's duplicate content algorithm?

Which social media plugin does Moz use?

Google WMT reports more than 198,000 backlinks to our site (www.audiobooksonline.com) from http://dilandau.eu/?

We have never been notified by Google of any penalty, malware notification... but continue to struggle to get our page 1 Google ranking back since Panda.

Could these backlinks be hurting our Google ranking?

Should I implement a disavow rule for http://dilandau.eu/?

We sell 1000s of audiobooks and get our cover images and descriptions from the publisher’s sites. When I download a cover image such as this one (http://www.audiobooksonline.com/media/Alex-Cross-Run-James-Patterson.jpg)
I always rename and re-size it before installing at our Web store. Would this process result in any publisher’s metadata in the image we use at our Web store and/or anything else Google would not like?
Is there an online utility that would allow me to see metadata in our images?

Google's first Panda de-valued our Web store, www.audiobooksonline.com, and our traffic went from 2500 - 3000 (mostly organic referrals) per month to 800 - 1000. Google's under-valuing of our Web store continued to reduce our traffic to 400-500 for the past few months. From 4/5/2013 to 4/6/2013 our traffic dropped 50% more, because (I believe) of Google's "exact domain match" algorithm implementation. We were, even after Panda and up to 4/5/2013 getting a significant amount of organic traffic for search terms such as "audiobooks online," "audio books online," and "online audiobooks." We no longer get traffic for these generic keywords.

What I don't understand is why a UK company, www.audiobooksonline.co.uk/, with a very similar domain name, ranks #5 for "audio books online" and #4 for "audiobooks online" while we've almost disappeared from Google rankings.

By any measurement I am aware of, our site should rank higher than audiobooksonline.co.uk. Market Samurai reports for "audio books online" and "audiobooks online" shows that our Web store is significantly "stronger" than audiobooksonline.co.uk but they show up on Google's first page and we are down several pages.

I also checked a few titles on audiobooksonline.co.uk and confirmed they are using the same publisher descriptions we and many other online book / audiobook merchants do = duplicate content.

We have never received notice that our Web store was being penalized.

Why would audiobooksonline.co.uk rank so much higher than audiobooksonline.com?

Does Google treat non-USA sites different than USA sites?

Good question. The canonical tag may be part of our solution.

I am also planning on having a "main" product with the description and any variations (abridged, unabridged, CD, MP3 CD) as subproducts which would use the main products' description. I.E. There would only be one product page with the description, not multiple. This will still result in our main products' page having the same description as the publisher. We have 1000s of audio products. Paying someone or doing it ourselves to create enough unique content on these pages would be prohibitive. Some high ranking competitors of ours have the same description as the publisher so Google must be taking something else into consideration to value them much higher than us.

When SEOmoz identifies pages at our Web store with duplicate content is SEOmoz saying one of both of the following:

1. More than one page at our Web store has the same content.

2. One or more pages at our Web store has the same content as another page on the Web.

Our latest SEOmoz crawl reports 1138 instances of "duplicate page content."

I have long been aware that our duplicate page content is likely a major reason Google has de-valued our Web store.

Our duplicate page content is the result of the following:

1. We sell audio books and use the publisher's description (narrative) of the title. Google is likely recognizing the publisher as the owner / author of the description and our description as duplicate content.

2. Many audio book titles are published in more than one format (abridged, unabridged CD, and/or unabridged MP3) by the same publisher so the basic description on our site would be the same at our Web store for each format = more duplicate content at our Web store.

Here's are two examples (one abridged, one unabridged) of one title at our Web store.

Kill Shot - abridged

Kill Shot - unabridged

How much would the body content of one of the above pages have to change so that a SEOmoz crawl does NOT say the content is duplicate?

I want to make sure that Google is indexing all of our pages we want them to. I.E. That all of the NOT indexed URLs are valid.

Liz; Perhaps my post was unclear or I am misunderstanding your answer.

I want to find out the specific URLs that Google says it isn't indexing because of our Robots.txt file.

Google Webmaster Tools says we have 17K out of 34K URLs that are blocked by our Robots.txt file.

How can I see the URLs that are being blocked?

Here's our Robots.txt file.

User-agent: * Disallow: /swish.cgi Disallow: /demo Disallow: /reviews/review.php/new/ Disallow: /cgi-audiobooksonline/sb/order.cgi Disallow: /cgi-audiobooksonline/sb/productsearch.cgi Disallow: /cgi-audiobooksonline/sb/billing.cgi Disallow: /cgi-audiobooksonline/sb/inv.cgi Disallow: /cgi-audiobooksonline/sb/new_options.cgi Disallow: /cgi-audiobooksonline/sb/registration.cgi Disallow: /cgi-audiobooksonline/sb/tellfriend.cgi Disallow: /*?gdftrk

Sitemap: http://www.audiobooksonline.com/google-sitemap.xml

We use only one URL for the OOP pages. It is 301 redirected from the each unique OOP title's page. Based on what you said, I am understanding that this is fine. Correct?

Our Web store, http://www.audiobooksonline.com/index.html, has struggled with duplicate content issues for some time. One aspect of duplicate content is a page like this: http://www.audiobooksonline.com/out-of-publication-audio-books-book-audiobook-audiobooks.html.

When an audio book title goes out-of-publication we keep the page at our store and display a http://www.audiobooksonline.com/out-of-publication-audio-books-book-audiobook-audiobooks.html whenever a visitor attempts to visit a specific title that is OOP. There are several thousand OOP pages.

Would Google consider these OOP pages duplicate content?

I just got an email from an SEO "expert" who says Panda #25 update hit last Friday. No further explanation except an invite to a telephone presentation tonight.

I understood that Google was implementing a major Panda refresh this past weekend.

Did it happen?

Anyone notice any impacts?

What changed?

In your examples of homes for rent in orlando & jacksonville, would the formats with the highest results (2400 & 3600) ALSO include all the results in the lower number formats?

In cases where you want to mention the state, would presenting it like this be harmful?

VT | Vermont

Should State names be abbreviated and/or fully spelled out in title tags, meta descriptions and body content?

Does Google know that VT = Vermont?

We have 1000s of audio book samples for visitors to listen to as part of their buying decision. Will Google Analytics tell me how often and what specific audio files have been listened to?

Are there grade levels such as A+, A, A-?

With GA's Real Time view of visitors to our Web store I see how many are "shopping" at our site. It's a bit frustrating to watch and then NOT get very many orders.

I am wondering about the value of shopping cart recovery services and which one is the best.

I would also like to know what the best ecommerce converting sites are.

One of our two prime goals is to increase visitor --> shopping cart --> order conversions. I would appreciate any advice on how we could improve our conversions from product pages like this one: http://www.audiobooksonline.com/Alex-Cross-Run-James-Patterson.html

All our product pages are presented in the same format.

We have a duplicate content challenge that likely has contributed to us loosing SERPs especially for generic keywords such as "audiobook," "audiobooks," "audio book," and "audio books."

Our duplicate content is on two levels.

1. The first level is at our web store, www.audiobooksonline.com.

Audiobooks are sometimes published in abridged, unabridged, on compact discs, on MP3 CD by the same publisher. In this case we use the publisher description of the story for each "flavor" = duplicate content.

Can we use our sitemap to identify only one "flavor" so that a spider doesn't index the others?

2. The second level is that most online merchants of the same publisher's audio book use the same description of the story = lots of duplicate content on the Web.

In that we have 11,000+ audio book titles offered at our Web store, I expect Google sees us as having lots of duplicated (on the Web) content and devalues our site.

Some of our competitors who rank very high for our generic keywords use the same publisher's description.

Any suggestions on how we could make our individual audio book title pages unique will be greatly appreciated.

I'm not getting any information on On-page Optimization reports. I.E. All the Grade A - F reports are empty.

How do I get On-page Optimization reports?

What premium directories do you recommend?

Our web store, www.audiobooksonline.com has good PageRank (6) compared to some competitors for the keywords audiobook, audiobooks, audio book, audio books. One big difference is that most top ranking competitors have significantly more back links including from .gov and .edu sites.

Our domain URL has been on the Web since 1997 so naturally occurring back links likely has run its course.

What is the best way to get more back links?

Best tool to get back links with?

We have 1000s of links coming from www.wn.com. I have no idea why they link to us and our GA stats don't show any traffic from wn.com.

Could I disallow www.wn.com in our robots.txt file?

Does that mean the content between comment tags get spidered?

I have a change, perhaps temporary, to my web store that I will be making. I am wondering if the code that I will comment out () gets spidered?

I ran a LinkDetox report and it found 61 toxic back links and 960 suspicious back links to www.audiobooksonline.com. We have NOT received any messages from Google WMT about bad links.

According to the report I should immediately get rid of the 61 toxic links. Can our robots.txt file be used to disallow these links?

Although NOT included in the LinkDetox report, Google WMT shows 30,198 back links from wn.com. Google Analytics shows we have received no visitors from wn.com (1/1/2012 - 1/25/2013). I have no idea why wn.com would be linking to us. What benefit do they get?

Is there benefit to registering a domain name for multiple years from a SEO standpoint?

Google reports and I have confirmed that the following old page is presenting on the Web.

http://www.audiobooksonline.com/The_Great_American_Baseball_Box_Greatest_Moments_from_the_Last_80_Years_original_audio_collection_compact_discs.html

This page hasn't been in our site's directory for some time and is no longer needed by us.

What is the best way to fix this Google reported crawl error?

Should I disallow 80legs and sitebot robots?

Why might these two robots be disallowed?

I would appreciate help in understanding what the following robots.txt files are doing.

http://www.audiobooks.com/robots.txt

http://www.audible.com/robots.txt

An SEO report, not by SEOmoz, says my top two competitors have robots.txt files that disallows spidering. I suspect that their robots.txt file doesn't disallow all spidering.

How do I find out what is in their robots.txt files?

I have worked over the last several months to eliminate duplicate page titles at our site. Below is one situation that I need your advice on.

Google Webmaster Tools is reporting several of our pages with
duplicate title such as this one:

This is a valid page at our Web store:

http://www.audiobooksonline.com/159179126X.html

This is an invalid page that Google says is a duplicate of the one above: http://www.audiobooksonline.com/15​917​912​6X.​htm​l?g​dft​rk=​gdf​V21​38_​a_7​c17​7_a​_7c​432​_a_​7c9​781​591​791​263

Where might the code ?gdftrk=.... be coming from?

How to get rid of it?

A SEOmoz crawl report on 1/20/2013 says we have 530 duplicate page titles most of which are pages like this these two:

http://www.audiobooksonline.com/reviews/review.php/details/38

http://www.audiobooksonline.com/reviews/review.php/details/104

These pages are the result of allowing visitors to post their opinions and ratings about specific audio books.

Google Webmaster Tools reports we have 16 duplicate page titles none of which are a review page.

Why is SEOmoz reporting duplicate page titles?

Should SEOmoz be reporting these pages as having duplicate page titles?

Why isn't Google Webmaster Tools reporting the review pages as having duplicate titles?

Many of the 1000s of pages at our Web store that were established several years ago but still relevant today have underscores separating words in page file names. For example: http://www.audiobooksonline.com/whats_new_compact_disc_audiobooks_audio_books.html

Should I replace the underscores with hyphens like this:

http://www.audiobooksonline.com/whats-new-compact-disc-audiobooks-audio-books.html

or should I duplicate pages with underscores using hyphens and have the older pages with underscores 304 re-directed to the new pages with hyphens?

Which SEOmoz tool can analyse our home page and offer optimization advice and compare with competitors?

We sell 1000s of audio book title, many of which are published in more than one format (abridged, unabridged CD, and/or unabridged MP3) by the same publisher. Currently each title has its own page but the basic description of the title (story) is the same. Here is an example title that is offered in three formats.

44 Charles Street - Danielle Steel - abridged CD audiobook

44 Charles Street - Danielle Steel - MP3 CD audiobook

44 Charles Street - Danielle Steel - CD audiobook

Each of the above pages has a different page title, a different URL, a different meta description however much of the body (from [Listen to a FREE Audio Clip] down is the same.

Is this duplicate content hurting our SERPs?

I started a campaign 5/11/2012. It's still churning. Here's what the Crawl Diagnostics Summary has said for the two days.

• Starter Crawl in Progress!
• Processing Crawl Data
• Started: May 11th, 2012
• To get you started quickly Roger is crawling up to 250 pages on your site. You should see these results within two hours. The full crawl will complete within 7 days.

Should I / can I stop this campaign? How?

We currently have 16465 audiobook products presented at our Web store. 5411 of them are out-of-publication (OOP). Here's an example: Harry Potter Audiobook 2 : Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling - cassette audiobook

Many of the 5411 OOP products are duplicates and triplicates of one title but were offered on a different medium (cassette, CD or MP3 CD) or were a different type (abridged, unabridged, dramatized). The description (story-line) is the same for all.

Because we know once a page gets on the Internet, it can live there for years, we decided to keep OOP product pages at our Web store to:

1. Let those who may have searched for the product and clicked on a link to an OOP product's page that it was no longer available.

2. Invite them to explore our Web store.

3. Let them know that although the product may not be available on cassette, CD or MP3 CD, that it might be available as a digital download.

We know that Google does NOT like duplicate content from one site to another and even within the same site.

If we redirect all the 5411 pages to one OOP page, will this eliminate this duplicate content issue? The OOP page would explain that the title they were looking for is no longer available but that it might be available as a digital download.

Some of our top search performing competitors do NOT limit their titles to 70 characters.

How important is the 70 characters or less guideline in getting excellent search positions?

Does having titles greater than 70 characters hurt our search engine positions?