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Originally Posted by inertia
The entire commercial section is blocked from Google so that section of the site should be completely regarded. I did this so I didn't end up with 2 pages targeting the same keyword and there were also some duplicate pages so the easiest option was to block the whole section, rather than re-writing a lot of content. The duplicate content issue with the two pages Palindrome mentioned will be sorted out pronto.
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My bolding. Are you sure that you have done this blocking correctly? What you see may be different from what a bot sees.
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Originally Posted by inertia
The www vs no-www thing is an issue but as the site is hosted on shared windows hosting without ISAPI we have no option but to live with this (were in the process of sorting out a new host provider). I have made sure that all internal links avoid any canonicalisation issues and we are trying to police the external links to do the same.
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My bolding. May be a good solution.
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Originally Posted by inertia
On Google.co.uk we've observed lots of directory listings / job vacancies etc returning to the SERPs. These were pretty much erredicated in the last 12 months but theyve come back with a vengance! That makes me think that G are messing about with the index (roll-back?). My conspiracy theory head is telling me "here we go again, G start messing about with SERPs just before xmas". Hhhm...?
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My bolding. I don't buy your conspiracy theory.