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Hi Chris, thanks a lot for taking the time to respond.  It almost doubles our page load time (again, 95% of the page is loaded, but the FB friends widget takes just as long again).  Our programmers are blaming slow page speed on the FB widget.  If we think about Google's goal of creating good user experiences, one would think they care more about the core content than a widget that appears on every page on the site.  But I'm not sure if they're accounting for that.  Our page speeds are bad (often 5-7 sec or more), but its hard to know if that is having an SEO impact.  I couldn't find any concrete answers online.  We're going to opt for a simpler version of the widget and hopefully that has a positive effect.

Ah, ok got it, thanks.  From an SEO perspective I definitely wouldn't worry about it since the link goes to a registration form and doesn't have any SEO value.  You might even decide that its better to keep the page out of the index altogether (but again, I wouldn't spend much time on it).    The better alternative for redirects is a 301 redirect on the old URL, and updating all your internal links with the new URL.  If this was an important page I'd consider doing it, but for this page it would be last on my never-ending list of priorities.

Ok, I still don't understand when the redirect happens.  Does the /features page always redirect, or only when someone is not logged in?

Hi Jonathan,

If you can honestly say your backlink profile is natural, then I definitely wouldn't use the disavow tool.  I would only use it if I was feeling guilty about something.  So how did it end up that 18,000 links that all say the same thing?  I'm guessing that you have one or two domains with thousands of pages pointing to you using the same anchor text?  If thats the case, then I wouldn't worry about it and focus instead on new links.

Hope that helps!

Hi, why does the redirect happen?  When someone clicks "register", why doesn't it just go directly to the secure page?

Our site's Facebook Plugin is really slowing page speed down.  As far as users are concerned, the page loads fast enough and they can already start interacting with the page before the last sidebar widget has loaded.  But the FB widget is really slow to load and is dragging the performance down in Google Analytics Page Speed for example.  Any thoughts on whether this should be an SEO concern, and whether Google differentiates between different elements of the page when deciding whether a page is a bad user experience?

Thanks!

That's helpful, I will do that.  Thanks Marcus!

Hi there,

Our site's forums include permalinks that for some reason uses an intermediary URL that 302 redirects to the URL with the permalink anchor.

For example:

http://en.tradimo.com/learn/chart-analysis/time-frames/

In the comments, there is a permalink to the following URL;

en.tradimo.com/co/50c450005f2b949e3200001b/  (there is no content here, and never has been).  This URL 302 redirects to the following final URL:

http://en.tradimo.com/learn/chart-analysis/time-frames/?offset=0&limit=20#50c450005f2b949e3200001b

The problem is, Google is indexing the redirect URL (en.tradimo.com/co/50c450005f2b949e3200001b/) and showing duplicate content even though we are using the nofollow tag on these links.

Ideally, we would directly use the last link rather than redirecting.  Alternatively, I'd say a 301 redirect would be preferable.  But if both aren't available, is there a way to get these pages out of the index?

Is the canonical tag the best way?  I really wish I could just add /co/ to the robots.txt file, but I think they would still be in the index, right?

Thanks for your help!