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Yes it is the News Ticker you provided the link to.

To be fair I don't understand what is happening with my anchor text and it may have had nothing to do with the news ticker now I look at it.

All my anchor text within my site now seems to be "HOME" at the moment!

However, I am very grateful you pointed out the ticker is OK.

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I have a javascript scrolling news ticker on my site but it seems to play havoc with my anchor text.

I like it because it scrolls through showing a new set of pages. I set it to the ones I've just uploaded and it seems to help them get followed and indexed.

However when I use site explorer I can see the recorded anchor text for a link to a page is incorrect and it's taking the text from the news ticker. Even when a link has come from the news ticker url it seems to take  anchor text from the ticker order list before or after.

It's as if it records the anchor text and then when it follows the link to the page the ticker has changed to a new link

Is this ticker bad for seo?  it certainly jumbles up my anchor text, could that be a good thing?

Is there an SEO friendly news ticker for newly added products?

Thank you,

That put my mind at rest.

I was also concerned about the wayback as I have used it many times to find out details of an old page when the google cache doesn't show me what I need.  So an extra thank you for that info link as well.

Yes, I agree , it would look artificial, which is what worries me.

What I am trying to achieve is normal and full indexing of an item page and normal coverage so people can find it.

However, once it is sold I want to remove the page as I don't want competitors to come across the page via a keyword search and then request the original cache copy with price and info from the search results.

I assumed pages hang around a while and can be found via cache, so once I remove or 301 the page that needs to make the old page information inaccessible immediately.

This is the flag to prevent google storing a copy of your webpage.

I want to use it for good reasons but in 2013 is it still safe to use. My websites not spammy but it's still very fresh with little to no links.

Each item I sell takes a lot of research to both buy and sell with the correct info. Once it's sold one I may just come across another and  want to hold my advantage of having already done my research and my sold price to myself. Competitors will easily find my old page from a long tail search.  Some off my old sold pages keep getting hits and high bounce rates from people using it as reasearch and price benchmark. I want to stop this.

So, No archive first, then 301 to category page once sold. Will the two cause a problem in googles eyes?

I have a trial of all the tools at the moment and it's a lot of fun.

I have been delving into site explorer and found that some competitors have links to them from obvious seo promoting paid blog sites.

One has no other links except a paid for blog from a site that openly admits it offers paid marketing and they shot up to 4th on page one for a main keyword phrase.

The info from moz and matt cuts video's say not to do this, but it's so tempting.

The blog is well written, while I sit here and do the right thing, my competitors have page one.

If the blog is well written and is meaningful  is it OK and if google ever decide it's paid and don't like it, wouldn't it be better to be page one for 6 months and then recover?

I'd love to give the link to the seo, blogger thingy but don't want to come across as promoting it in any way. I am sure there are loads of them anyway.

My site has a catalogue page (catalog in US) with #anchors so that customers can get straight to them.

I even link from other pages to the #anchor on the catalogue page.

so I have for example:

www.example.co.uk/catalogue.htm

www.example.co.uk/catalogue.htm#blueitems

www.example.co.uk/catalogue.htm#redtems

I understand google doesn't index after the #, here is the post I found: http://moz.com/community/q/hashtag-anchor-text-within-content#reply_91192

So I shouldn't have an seo problem.

BUT, if I navigate to www.example.co.uk/catalogue.htm and plusone the page it will show the plusone and then I navigate to www.example.co.uk/catalogue.htm#blueitems the plus one is gone. The same happens in reverse, if i plusone www.example.co.uk/catalogue.htm#redtems, then that plusone doesn't show in www.example.co.uk/catalogue.htm.

I added rel=canonical and that fixed the plusone problem, now if you plus one /catalogue.htm#redtems it still shows on catalogue.htm

This seems a bit extreme and did I do the right things??