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or should they be seperate?

Here are a bunch below; choose which you like and Thank you in advance!

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| http://www.betheboss.ca/franchise-news-august-2012/PizzaPizzaAhuntsic745.cfm |
| http://www.betheboss.ca/franchise-news-august-2012/PropertyGuysNewFranchisees744.cfm |
| http://www.betheboss.ca/franchise-news-august-2012/Quesada-5-locations743.cfm |
| http://www.betheboss.ca/franchise-news-august-2013/4-Pillars-Helps-Canadians830.cfm |

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| http://www.betheboss.ca/featured-opportunities.cfm |
| http://www.betheboss.ca/franchise-industry.cfm |
| http://www.betheboss.ca/franchise-investment.cfm |
| http://www.betheboss.ca/franchise-province.cfm |
| http://www.betheboss.ca/franchise-resales.cfm |

We have over 1,330 pages that say we are "Missing Meta Description Tag" when I spot check all of them have meta descriptions? Can you please explain to me why Moz is picking up that we do not have meta descriptions when we do. Our website  http://www.betheboss.ca

Please help. I would like a accurate measure of meta descriptions that are missing.

Just a follow up to your suggestion.

I created sitemaps for the pages I want removed using the google spreadsheet importXML functions, which saved a lot of time.

It took a couple weeks but all of the pages, and similar pages, have successfully been removed from the index. Even the similar pages I didn't get a chance to put in the sitemap yet (importXML limits the results to 100).

Your suggestion worked!

I can't 404 dynamic search pages.

There are a mix of search pages and old mobile pages.

The search pages I've been testing out having the canonical point to the default search page. I've seen a slight drop in these pages - but I guess I just have to be more patient.

For the other pages the path is no longer there like you were mentioning. I like the idea of setting up the XML sitemap, I never even thought of making a bad/indexed page sitemap. I will give that a shot! Thankfully this will be a quick job with the importXml function in google spreadsheets! Great tip, hopefully it'll work.

6 months ago my clients site was overhauled and the user generated searches had an index tag on them. I switched that to noindex but didn't get it fast enough to avoid being 100's of pages indexed in Google.

It's been months since switching to the noindex tag and the pages are still indexed. What would you recommend? Google crawls my site daily - but never the pages that I want removed from the index.

I am trying to avoid submitting hundreds of these dynamic URL's to the removal tool in webmaster tools. Suggestions?

Yeah I have no idea how I missed this haha - I think because I couldn't see it in the rich snippet testing tool.

Ah I got more information from http://www.seomoz.org/blog/hosting-and-embedding-for-video-seo - I just had a hard time finding the proper information.

Ah yeah - that looks very cool! But it was also showing up in the web search… which I haven't seen before. The formatting is different.

For the past few years I have been publish press releases on my site for a number of business. I have high traffic on my site.

I noticed that with the Google Panda 2.5 update PRNewswire.com dropped visibility by 83%.

Should I stay away from publishing press releases now? Does Google consider Press Releases to be "content scraping" since multiple sources are publishing the release?

With Google releasing that instructional on proper pagination I finally hunkered down and put in a site change request.

I wanted the rel="next" and rel="prev" implemented… and it took two weeks for the guy to get it done. Brutal and painful.

When I looked at the source it turned out he put it in the body above the pagination links… which is not what I wanted. I wanted them in the .

Before I respond to get it properly implemented I want a few opinions - is it okay to have the rel="next" in the body? Or is it pretty much mandatory to put it in the head?

(Normally, if I had full control over this site, I would just do it myself in 2 minutes… unfortunately I don't have that luxury with this site)

Spec work is terrible and undervalues the industry. I say you get what you pay for. http://www.no-spec.com/

It is pretty much covered in this article by Danny Sullivan.

Excerpt: So use the tag? Sure, if you want to take a chance that by overstuffing it, you’ll cause Bing to think you’re spamming. Be safe, be smart, save your time. Don’t use it.

Ah perfect! Thanks for the recommendation on the 302.

I got more out of todays webinar than any other seomoz webinar to date. Great job.