Including FAQ as Invividual Blog Posts Without Duplicate Issues

khi5

My website's FAQ section has a lot of detailed answers, of which I want to upload most on an individual basis to my blog. Example: I may have 30 FAQ and I want to upload 28 of these FAQ as individual blog posts, as it could be good additional search traffic.

Question: how do I deal with duplicate content issues? Do I Include canonical? The FAQ are all on the same URL - not separate URL's - which means each blog post would only represent a small % of the entire FAQ section, though each blog would be a 100% copy of an FAQ.

BlueprintMarketing

If you want to learn all there is about SEO I would go to Moz.com/perks then find https://www.distilled.net/u/

As you can save on the cost you can also

With a Distilled U membership it can be paused meaning you do not pay when when not using it. I believe the cost is around $40. And you get 25% off with Moz perks The amount of knowledge that you get access to finish into the videos alone worth $400 each that you have full access to our well worth it

The fact that it is so complete and allows you to take tests that you own speed that require you actually learn what you have seen and read I found it to be fantastic.

Combining Moz Academy with
Distilled.net/U
Is probably the most powerful way to learn

http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo

http://moz.com/learn/seo

http://moz.com/academy

These are other places I would look to strengthen my knowledge on search
Please continue asking me as many questions as you like I am more than happy to answer them I really do enjoy it. When you mentioned that you were learning a lot from the SEER blog I thought this would help you as well.

Sincerely,
Thomas

BlueprintMarketing

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_1) I will keep growing FAQ in its current format. On my Blog I will make a Wistia video out of the FAQ and from the FAQ I will link to the Blog Video matching the FAQ. _

I would not continue to grow what's going to be duplicate content it would be much better if you simply answered the questions with the video and transcription via blog. So I have a question I go to your FAQ which stays in the same place it is now instead of clicking the question and having the answer popped down it takes me to the video/text answer on your blog. If you do not do it this way you will build up way too much duplicate content and your FAQ will work just fine by being a link to your blog ( interlinking to relevant content adds a lot of power to your site) if you are going to continue adding to the FAQ it should just be links to the answers on the blog.

2) "Speech Pad" is there a tool which automatically gives me the content spoken accurately or how does it work?

The speech tool is extremely accurate it is performed by real human beings, and the pricing varies on how long you want to wait. For instance they charge by the minute and if you want to wait more than 24 hours it gets a lot cheaper.

on whiteboard Fridays when normally Rand or another guest speaker does a presentation every Friday they use

Video transcription by Speechpad.com

you can even take a look by going to one of the whiteboard Fridays and looking at the bottom of the text underneath the video

http://moz.com/blog/weighting-the-clusters-of-ranking-factors-in-google-analytics-whiteboard-friday

Google and human beings like the ability to read if it's an option. Especially the deaf a group that is left out of a lot of websites using video unfortunately but remember Google wants you to have an accessible site for everyone so if it's handicapped accessible it's not only good for and user it's also great for you because of the text it creates and the proof that you are trying to make the end-user experience the best you can.

I would only use the 2nd level in the pricing I would not consider using just translate because you want to have it captioned inside the video as well.

I would use their "Standard Captions"

https://www.speechpad.com/offerings/services/compare

https://www.speechpad.com/captions

Wistia Has their own tool that is described

"Pair captions with your video to boost SEO and improve accessibility.

Upload your own time-coded captions or have us create one. Then, display as captions on top of the video. The captions text will be included with the embed code to help with SEO. "

_3) I will 301 redirect sub-domain current blog posts to new URL's in sub-folder. _

_ exactly you will_

http://white.net/noise/5-wordpress-seo-subdomain-to-subfolder-migration-steps/

http://pixert.com/blog/moving-wordpress-blog-from-a-subdomain-to-a-subfolder/

Who is your hosting provider? this matters because some will do it for you others will not.

4) http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/100-panda-recovery-what-we-learned-to-identify-issues-get-your-traffic-back - this was a GREAT read. Easy to understand and makes sense. I liked concept of linking to deep pages, as way to often we all focus on inter-linking to BIG keywords, which isn't always most natural way…

Interlinking is a fantastic method of getting link juice to flow through your entire site and helping users navigate your site more easily. It's a win-win

there is a tool called scribecontent.com you can get it for free if you use websynthesis.com as a WordPress host however you can just buy the plug-in it really does wonders.

_5) I have a LOT of "read more" which expands when clicked on. It is best for user as you can see here: http://www.honoluluhi5.com/kahala-homes-real-estate/ - do you see that as a potential issue? _

I would make it more conspicuous because you want readers to be able to understand what's going on. I would not have known personally that page had a read more because of its placement it's very small, and it's on the top right most "read more" links are at the bottom of a page and you easily find them because when you're done reading you click read more. I would restructure that or make the link into a button that is much more conspicuous

** the feed the bot tool was able to find your text however I found some pretty big problems your developers decided to make one of your photographs 3000 pixels?**

** that's crazy it's just going to slowly down, and it's a very bad idea to make oversized photographs you need to make the photographs the exact size that they should be. 3000 pixels is too large for almost any monitor in the world except for those ridiculously sized 4K monitors if you use Google analytics you'll see most people use under 1200 pixels total width in their entire monitor**

** another issue is that they failed to use alt text properly or put it in**

** take your URL that you gave me and put it into this**

http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/alt/

http://www.honoluluhi5.com/kahala-homes-real-estate/

** you will find that the developers did not put alt text in and when they did they sometimes made it 9 words it needs to be a very short quick description of a photograph**

"

Above image has 12 words in the alt text.

The ALT text of this image appears to be following the Google guidelines, but has a lot of words. You may want to ensure the ALT text is describing the image, not just repeating key words."

You have a problem with your developers why would they put something like this in your site?

** then you have this issue it's a big one it looks like they're trying to profit by getting Google plus clicks for themselves on your website I've seen people put their URL on a sight built by so-and-so but a pop-up Google + wow if that was put there by your developers to give them Google + points you should call them and ask them exactly how that will benefit your site to have them put something that is against Google's guidelines on your website so that the developer ranks and you don't? I would be very upset with them if this is the case. Look at the screenshot below.**

http://f.cl.ly/items/3x451j0F0z1n1T411l40/Screen Shot 2014-02-16 at 3.51.24 AM.png

and another big problem

sorry to have to tell you this really quickly your using Wistia and not using its SEO/ super embeds therefore your not allowing Google to see that you have a video therefore no ranking for videos in Google you need to go into to Wistia and go into the embed choice choose SEO embed and place that where you have an i frame something that cannot be read by Google

you have a choice and your choice should always be SEO embed for your own website with the ability to allow people to copy your IFrame embed because they will simply drive links back to your website if they put it on theirs

look at a screenshot I just took of one of my Wistia accounts see how you have the choice this is how you should choose

http://f.cl.ly/items/2E0Y3u441k3f3A2I1E1T/Image%202014-02-16%20at%203.21.05%20AM.png

I hope I have answered everything.

Sincerely,

Thomas

khi5

thanks a lot, Thomas. These are fantastic responses. Let me establish: I am not a web developer and I am not an SEO expert. I am the architect behind my site's layout and creative ideas of what should be on the site. I am slowly learning the SEO…..step by step, but the technical stuff is tough on me. Let me break down in simple terms what you have described in fantastic details:

I will keep growing FAQ in its current format. On my Blog I will make a Wistia video out of the FAQ and from the FAQ I will link to the Blog Video matching the FAQ.
"Speech Pad" is there a tool which automatically gives me the content spoken accurately or how does it work?
I will 301 redirect sub-domain current blog posts to new URL's in sub-folder.
4) http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/100-panda-recovery-what-we-learned-to-identify-issues-get-your-traffic-back - this was a GREAT read. Easy to understand and makes sense. I liked concept of linking to deep pages, as way to often we all focus on inter-linking to BIG keywords, which isn't always most natural way…..
I have a LOT of "read more" which expands when clicked on. It is best for user as you can see here: http://www.honoluluhi5.com/kahala-homes-real-estate/ - do you see that as a potential issue?

I will be studying more on those other links you sent. For now I need to get the blog right and make sure there are no other BIG issues. I don't think so, but…..

BlueprintMarketing

You do have some links pointing at your blog only 3

https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/backlinks/domain/blog.honoluluhi5.com/wp-content/themes/nevada/javascripts/jquery.isotope.min.js?ver=1.5.09

here is a copy of every link in your blog and a full export using the paid version of screaming frog so you have all the benefits of knowing exactly what your link structure was.

This URL on giving you will only be good for 5 clicks and the last one week so other people can not download your site. I should tell you that when I say your site I mean your blog that's the only thing that I crawled. Please be certain to put this in a safe place all to the MajesticSEO pack links which I could not find any of however the majestic SCO bucket I set up is here too.

https://blueprintseo.sharefile.com/d/s67080b684264c5c9

we are going to have to redirect the old URLs to the new URLs please read this article about architecture problems caught early we do want to redirect old URLs to point to the new URLs

http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/architecture-issues-caught-early

because redirects are so easy I would also use one of the best Permalink redirect tools

https://yoast.com/wp-content/permalink-helper.php

Here is the main redirect page where that tool is found a little tip you can use the URL above to go directly to the tool or you can simply right-click on it and have it open in a new tab if you're using chrome otherwise it will show up as a white window. I checked it on other browsers

https://yoast.com/change-wordpress-permalink-structure/

you can put in your old URL and as the example shows that in your new URL at way Google will not give you 404 problems, and they will be happy please understand your new links will be 200's they will just have additional links pointing to them from where they were before this is the best way to do it.

sincerely,

Thomas

BlueprintMarketing

If you feel that they belong in the FAQ and as an individual blog post that you're going to add your own unique content for People using the blog and would like to use your FAQ answers in order to enhance the blog. I can tell you the only thing that would be confusing is to go to a site and try to find something then find it twice. However if you believe in yourself and the visitors shoes you would prefer to have a layout like that then yes it's okay. Google will only give you credit for the content in your FAQ once that's it after that it's not worth anything to Google. So it will index your blog and give credit to your FAQ therefore your added information could benefit the blog of your and you're saying well even though it's already on the website it would benefit the end user if I had into places on my website I would say yes do it

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/demystifying-duplicate-content-penalty.html

I noticed you are already using Wistia, and I would suggest using "speech pad" to have your Wistia videos become even more viable by pasting the content spoken about in the video below the video.

http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/100-panda-recovery-what-we-learned-to-identify-issues-get-your-traffic-back

I agree it looks like your developer had yet to add the text the feedthebot.com tool is very good at figuring out rather not it can be read by Google and from what it tells me it will deftly be read and indexed by Google.

I want to say that I think you should 301 redirect just because if you're blog has been indexed by Google it will be a hard 404 meaning it will show up in your Webmaster tools, and it only makes sense 301 redirect the old link to your new link. It will not take away from the value in any way it will only add to it. And if you keep track of your links which you should do then you can set up the redirects very easily.

can I ask you if you are doing most of the work on the site?

the reason I ask is if you are there is a fantastic tool you should probably be using right now screaming frog SEO spider has a free version it will index 500 pages and a paid version which in US dollars is about $160 that will index your, entire site all the links will be there for you to have, and you will not worry about site architecture issues when you make the change to the new structure.

here is an example of what you can do and if you do download it which I recommend you get the free one no matter what use this guide with it

http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/screaming-frog-guide

you can download it for Mac, PC and Linux free here

http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/

http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/screaming-frog-guide#How_to_rewrite_the_crawled_URLs

If you like I have the paid version I can crawl your site and send you the entire link profile?

lastly can I ask would it make sense to simply have a brief description under the FAQ with a link to the blog for the full text?

I realize it sounds like you're going to be adding to this FAQ and you want to be very easy for people to use. Clicking on the accordion like drop-down is not much harder than clicking on something that takes you to a new page and answers the question there. Then put a large call to action allowing them to return to the FAQ that's what I would do however if you would like to have your blog on their it will not destroy your site because you will be creating a lot of unique high-quality relevant content that will be for one part of the site only right?

if that's the case then do it. Do not bother with the no index no follow Google will simply only give you credit for one copy of the 7000 words.

Does that answer your question?

also please don't be alarmed about the penguin stuff in the other links there just relevant to duplicate content so I hope you will find them helpful in this case.

Long story short as long as you're not going to continue to create duplicate content you will be fine.

BlueprintMarketing

If you feel that they belong in the FAQ and as an individual blog post that you're going to add your own unique content for People using the blog and would like to use your FAQ answers in order to enhance the blog. I can tell you the only thing that would be confusing is to go to a site and try to find something then find it twice. However if you believe in yourself and the visitors shoes you would prefer to have a layout like that then yes it's okay. Google will only give you credit for the content in your FAQ once that's it after that it's not worth anything to Google. So it will index your blog and give credit to your FAQ therefore your added information could benefit the blog of your and you're saying well even though it's already on the website it would benefit the end user if I had into places on my website I would say yes do it

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/demystifying-duplicate-content-penalty.html

I noticed you are already using Wistia, and I would suggest using "speech pad" to have your Wistia videos become even more viable by pasting the content spoken about in the video below the video.

http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/100-panda-recovery-what-we-learned-to-identify-issues-get-your-traffic-back

I agree it looks like your developer had yet to add the text the feedthebot.com tool is very good at figuring out rather not it can be read by Google and from what it tells me it will deftly be read and indexed by Google.

I want to say that I think you should 301 redirect just because if you're blog has been indexed by Google it will be a hard 404 meaning it will show up in your Webmaster tools, and it only makes sense 301 redirect the old link to your new link. It will not take away from the value in any way it will only add to it. And if you keep track of your links which you should do then you can set up the redirects very easily.

can I ask you if you are doing most of the work on the site?

the reason I ask is if you are there is a fantastic tool you should probably be using right now screaming frog SEO spider has a free version it will index 500 pages and a paid version which in US dollars is about $160 that will index your, entire site all the links will be there for you to have, and you will not worry about site architecture issues when you make the change to the new structure.

here is an example of what you can do and if you do download it which I recommend you get the free one no matter what use this guide with it

http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/screaming-frog-guide

you can download it for Mac, PC and Linux free here

http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/

http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/screaming-frog-guide#How_to_rewrite_the_crawled_URLs

If you like I have the paid version I can crawl your site and send you the entire link profile?

lastly can I ask would it make sense to simply have a brief description under the FAQ with a link to the blog for the full text?

I realize it sounds like you're going to be adding to this FAQ and you want to be very easy for people to use. Clicking on the accordion like drop-down is not much harder than clicking on something that takes you to a new page and answers the question there. Then put a large call to action allowing them to return to the FAQ that's what I would do however if you would like to have your blog on their it will not destroy your site because you will be creating a lot of unique high-quality relevant content that will be for one part of the site only right?

if that's the case then do it. Do not bother with the no index no follow Google will simply only give you credit for one copy of the 7000 words.

Does that answer your question?

also please don't be alarmed about the penguin stuff in the other links there just relevant to duplicate content so I hope you will find them helpful in this case.

Long story short as long as you're not going to continue to create duplicate content you will be fine.

BlueprintMarketing

If you feel that they belong in the FAQ and as an individual blog post that you're going to add your own unique content for People using the blog and would like to use your FAQ answers in order to enhance the blog. I can tell you the only thing that would be confusing is to go to a site and try to find something then find it twice. However if you believe in yourself and the visitors shoes you would prefer to have a layout like that then yes it's okay. Google will only give you credit for the content in your FAQ once that's it after that it's not worth anything to Google. So it will index your blog and give credit to your FAQ therefore your added information could benefit the blog of your and you're saying well even though it's already on the website it would benefit the end user if I had into places on my website I would say yes do it

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/demystifying-duplicate-content-penalty.html

I noticed you are already using Wistia, and I would suggest using "speech pad" to have your Wistia videos become even more viable by pasting the content spoken about in the video below the video.

http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/100-panda-recovery-what-we-learned-to-identify-issues-get-your-traffic-back

I agree it looks like your developer had yet to add the text the feedthebot.com tool is very good at figuring out rather not it can be read by Google and from what it tells me it will deftly be read and indexed by Google.

I want to say that I think you should 301 redirect just because if you're blog has been indexed by Google it will be a hard 404 meaning it will show up in your Webmaster tools, and it only makes sense 301 redirect the old link to your new link. It will not take away from the value in any way it will only add to it. And if you keep track of your links which you should do then you can set up the redirects very easily.

can I ask you if you are doing most of the work on the site?

the reason I ask is if you are there is a fantastic tool you should probably be using right now screaming frog SEO spider has a free version it will index 500 pages and a paid version which in US dollars is about $160 that will index your, entire site all the links will be there for you to have, and you will not worry about site architecture issues when you make the change to the new structure.

here is an example of what you can do and if you do download it which I recommend you get the free one no matter what use this guide with it

http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/screaming-frog-guide

you can download it for Mac, PC and Linux free here

http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/

http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/screaming-frog-guide#How_to_rewrite_the_crawled_URLs

If you like I have the paid version I can crawl your site and send you the entire link profile?

lastly can I ask would it make sense to simply have a brief description under the FAQ with a link to the blog for the full text?

I realize it sounds like you're going to be adding to this FAQ and you want to be very easy for people to use. Clicking on the accordion like drop-down is not much harder than clicking on something that takes you to a new page and answers the question there. Then put a large call to action allowing them to return to the FAQ that's what I would do however if you would like to have your blog on their it will not destroy your site because you will be creating a lot of unique high-quality relevant content that will be for one part of the site only right?

if that's the case then do it. Do not bother with the no index no follow Google will simply only give you credit for one copy of the 7000 words.

Does that answer your question?

also please don't be alarmed about the penguin stuff in the other links there just relevant to duplicate content so I hope you will find them helpful in this case.

Long story short as long as you're not going to continue to create duplicate content you will be fine.

khi5

thx. Since all my FAQ are answering relevant real estate questions (and none of my FAQ answers general questions such as "I lost my password, what to do?") I feel they belong both in FAQ and on blog.

Let me clarify: what is issue in placing a "no index no follow" on the FAQ section and instead uploading 1 by 1 to the blog? I still don't see this? Each blog would include a video where I share answer to an FAQ and below video would be the written data which currently is on the FAQ section. Let us assume Google can look through by collapsable structure on FAQ section, which I am 99% sure they can (Google just hasn't indexed that page since I uploaded the data).

BlueprintMarketing

I'm happy I could help you.

many times people have these issues when their site is a year or two old, and they have hundreds or thousands of links pointing at it. So it's always nice to speak to somebody when their site is brand-new and has the freedom to make changes before they're would be traffic loss or other things like that.

Please let me know if I can be of any more help you at all.

sincerely,

Thomas

khi5

Hi Thomas, Just woke up here! Your insight has been terrific and I can tell you are spot on regarding these matters as I research. thx again. I wouldn't have notice moving the blog from sub-domain without your details

BlueprintMarketing

trust on this one but I encourage you if you have the slightest doubt and it is wise to get a 2nd opinion. But I do know that currently Google will give a penalty to a www. and not to another subdomain that means they're treated differently. Not to mention the fact that all of the incoming links are split if you're in a get any going to one part they're not going to go to the other. The video was old please start a new question saying I have a brand-new site I would like anyone's opinion on this.

"Should I make my blog in this format www.example.com/blog or blog.example.com ?"

I guarantee you will get a lot of people with a lot of knowledge telling you to use the subdirectory.

If you are interested in ranking with video Wistia is the way to get people to actually come back to your site. It ranks like YouTube unlike YouTube it will not help you get people to convert on your site. The reasons why are explained right here

http://wistia.com/learning/advanced-seo-with-distilled

something I would strongly recommend doing is signing up for Distilled U

I have been on there since the beginning here is what I have learned it is constantly updating

http://www.distilled.net/user/blueprint/

I don't want you to think I misled you so please get a 2nd opinion from everyone at Moz you will get a lot of answers very quickly during the daytime. If you want to learn more about why this would be the best way to go I suggest Moz Academy along with Distilled U

Wistia the video host that will give you 5 free videos then you pay reasonable prices which you can save on by using Moz.com/perks in addition you can save on distilled U with Moz.com/perks

Sincerely,

Thomas

khi5

got you, Thomas. thx

BlueprintMarketing

Google treats them as 2 separate sites now the Google sites treats them as 2 separate video you referenced is 2 years old. You can get a penalty on a subdomain and not on another subdomain meaning blog or www

It does not work like that anymore. it is very strange to see subdomain blog because it makes no sense to use one In almost all cases.

Please read this and then I encourage you to ask the question to everyone should I make my blog a subdomain or should I make it a subdirectory?

http://contentlead.com/blog/whats-your-seo-ally-the-subdomain-or-the-subdirectory

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/

khi5

thx. Content was uploaded Feb 2nd. I will observe. Probably next time indexing it will be included. the structure of FAQ is similar to some of Google's own pages and I am sure they can read the content…..

BlueprintMarketing

well I don't know what was there when the site was indexed

for instance I know the actual URL has been indexed by Google

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.honoluluhi5.com%2Ffaq%2F&oq=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.honoluluhi5.com%2Ffaq%2F&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.3739j0j4&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=119&ie=UTF-8

you can use the this inside the Google search box " site:http://www.honoluluhi5.com/faq/ "

in order to find out if your site has been indexed or not. However I'm getting the same info as you according to Google this is what content they show is on your site's FAQ

then click on the site link in the top right you will see an arrow come d show cached

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JB9HD1p0dLsJ:www.honoluluhi5.com/faq/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

the easy way to tell is if you would remember if the content was there on Jan 31, 2014 08:18:33 GMT

if it was then Google is having trouble reading through all the JavaScript enabled to make the folding occur.

rather not Google can read it I would stick to making that a directory to the blog posts instead of a part of your website that simply is duplicate content that way it will serve as a FAQ and point people to the right answer in the blog just be certain to interlink and allow people to go back to the FAQ when needed.

khi5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MswMYk05tk - this video by Matt Cutts seems to indicate one can use sub-domain or sub-directory, either is fine. It comes back to my thinking Google is now so advanced they probably do not care whether a blog is on a sub-domain or sub-folder. That was more something of the past….I could be wrong, but his video indicates it does not matter...

khi5

thx. I think what I will do is keep growing the FAQ and then on the blog create short videos around the FAQ. This solves the issue and offers the insight from a different angle (video).

Interesting: I see Google has indexed my /faq page but when I take a piece from my FAQ like the below it does not show up. Does that mean the page is indexed, but the written content is not?

Example of content from FAQ NOT found when pasting in to Google:
"There is considerable risk not owning the land underneath: Leasehold owners pay a monthly lease rent to the land owner. Per the terms of the lease the lease rent could increase over time and is payable above and beyond the property taxes and any possible association dues or maintenance fees. Per the terms of the Lease there may be restrictions on property usage, alterations and maintenance."

BlueprintMarketing

Okay after looking at your http://www.honoluluhi5.com/faq/ you have over 7000 words visible to Google. Simply use the

Text the spider sees
Text seems long enough. - (spiders see 7696 words)
Google can see text on your page and there is likely enough text to help users understand your page.

To check out Google sees your site use this tool with the crawl spider it also has many additional excellent tools.

http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/

I would simply use the canonical tag to let Google know that your telling them where it was found originally. However it's not a good practice to continue creating duplicate content on one site.

Here is Google's Matt Cutts on the subject but don't take it too far I think you'll be safe however I would create unique content from now on out

http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-duplicate-content-wont-hurt-you-unless-it-is-spammy-167459

Sincerely,

Thomas

BlueprintMarketing

It is a beautiful layout that you have. You would be best not duplicating content however I would be interested to see how search engines view your FAQ is being seen by the search engines because it is collapsible it's possible it's not being seen by me have a look at it with a tool I'll answer you and 2 seconds

khi5

oh, and back to confirm my initial question: after this blog "move" I can no "index no follow" the entire FAQ section and instead let each FAQ be indexed on my blog. Idea is to include a video with each FAQ and then a written version below (which is pretty much the an answer from the FAQ section).

BlueprintMarketing

Thank you that is very kind of you. When you change the site make sure you submit it to Google webmaster tools and that both the www. & non-www are entered into Google Webmaster tools. Then select your preferred site in this case www

after which you can submit the xml site map along with asking Google to index your website using this link

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1352276?hl=en

You're very kind. I really appreciate that.

I really enjoyed speaking with you and I hope that this is helped.

I'm happy that you're off to the right start. Remember you're always welcome to contact me if you get stuck on anything my information is in my profile.

Sincerely,

Thomas

PS you can thumbs up any response you wish. for instance every time someone replies you can have the option of getting a thumbs up or a thumbs down were non at all. Please don't think I'm asking you to do that just telling you what you were able to do.

khi5

thx, Thomas. Appreciated. After I have all posts uploaded to the new blog sub-folder and they are indeed indexed by Google, then I will delete the blog sub-domain. That is the order I had in mind. Hope that makes sense.

OK, all clear on Yoast. I will get it installed.

Great reponses. Wish I could give you extra thumbs up!

BlueprintMarketing

from what I can see looking at your back links or lack of back links it most likely will not hurt you if you do not 301 redirect. I would normally tell you to 301 redirect but because of the circumstances of having to call in extra people and there being no added value in 301 redirecting something that Google does not Have any Moz or page rank plus that Google does not equated with the current site now you would not be losing anything.

Yoast Has a spectacular free plug-in. That makes it much easier for you to post your site title ( one of the most powerful things in search) your descriptions which do not count in the search engines but do matter to individuals reading them. Along with just having one simple plug-in giving you authorship, the ability to index or no index anything you want the touch of a button and many more valuable features for somebody running WordPress it is a very wise decision in my opinion to use it.

You are correct Google is excellent at finding quality however with Yoast you can make it so people can more easily find your site/blog, and the golden rule is if people our happy Google is happy. It's a free plug-in I would put it in right away when you move the blog to the subfolder. it really does a lot and will not slow you down.

The ability to show authorship, the ability to have the right settings automatically in place most of the time like canonical really cuts down on your FTP time.

If your site is shared on Facebook or twitter Open graph gives you the ability to show a quick summary of the shared link along with a photograph. Twitter Cards let you do the same on twitter without Yoast you will need other plug-ins to do this work this doesn't all free.

Sincerely,

Thomas

khi5

thx, Thomas. So what you are saying is: if I see the blog in its current format has NO back links (2 months old) I can quickly copy paste all the posts to the sub-folder and after 1 week when Google has indexed all those pages then delete the sub-domain and I avoid having to get my web guys to do 301 redirects. All I have to ask them to do is set up new custom URL's that are cleaner.

Please confirm I got your point correctly.

Thx: I heard of Yoast. Why do I really need that? I sometimes wonder how important those advanced tools are as Google seems to be getting better and better at identifying quality content…...

BlueprintMarketing

how old is the website?

I would create the site so that blog information is 301 redirected to the new subfolder.

If the site has been crawled by Google you will want to be 01 redirect everything exactly where it came from. Then you will want to get rid of the blog subdomain anyway because once it's crawled by Google the links and structure will already be understood. If there are literally no links at all to blog I would say it is very safe to start fresh. And move the content to the subfolder. I would use open site Explorer to make sure you don't have any back links that might matter Pointing to the blog.

it will never hurt you to 301 redirect from the subdomain to your new spot if there are any domains linking to your old blog then you will want to keep the link juice either by asking the person to please link to your new spot if you know them or you can read this post that I think is fairly valuable.

http://moz.com/community/q/how-to-keep-old-url-juice-during-site-switch

I am very happy to hear you're just starting out because now you can start out the right way. You should also consider installing a SEO plug-in for WordPress like Yoast WordPress SEO on you blog when its moved

https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/

Slincerely,

Thomas

khi5

got you. So URL wise with my categories maybe something like
/blog/real-estate
/blog/non-real-estate

Cleaner and shorter.

As per my previous comment, delete Blog subdomain, re-upload all blog posts to sub-folder and make sure I have better structured URL as part of it. In this way I avoid 301 redirects to each blog posts. Would that make sense or how do you see it?

Site is 2months and 10 days old…..

BlueprintMarketing

just another tip you can name your categories or not use them at all. It seems like you may want to use them in this case.

When insider blog you have it set up so the URL reads "category" you could use that URL to actually describe the category therefore making it necessary to have a category. For instance

http://blog.honoluluhi5.com/category/honolulu-real-estate/

becomes http://blog.honoluluhi5.com/real-estate/honolulu/ you do not have to change the anchor text or ending like I did I just was showing you that option. Because underneath that category real estate you could list everything that has to do with real estate in your blog a simple way to get rid of the category in this 2nd link would be to keep the name from above as the category instead of the word " category"

http://blog.honoluluhi5.com/category/good-to-know-non-real-estate/

if you can use a flat site structure

if you look at perm link structure in this URL it will describe what I'm talking about

http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/10-steps-to-creating-a-wordpress-blog

https://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/why-you-should-map-out-your-sites-information-architecture/

https://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/site-navigation-for-seo/

I hope this makes sense because you can tell even the best sites use a subcategory and in place of a subdomain for a blog

http://moz.com/blog/

https://www.distilled.net/blog

http://blog.honoluluhi5.com/

needs to become

http://www.honoluluhi5.com/blog/

sincerely,

Thomas

khi5

thx, Thomas. Appreciate the insight. Let me ask: I should move the blog to /blog sub-folder. I should include a 301 redirect or, since the blog is very new and no links to any of the posts yet, how about I re-post each blog to the sub-folder and entirely delete the sub-domain?

BlueprintMarketing

what I would do in this case is take your blog and not use a subdomain but use this setup.

http://blog.honoluluhi5.com/

Becomes http://www.honoluluhi5.com/blog/

that way you're not look that as 2 separate websites by Google.

Using a subdomain does not give you all the benefits of your wonderful website that you have created. So when I link to your subdomain www. the site is given the link juice and site structure is going to benefit you dramatically.

If you want to know more about how to set up the blog without creating duplicate content

you will be interlinking between your blog subdomain and your www.subdomain so I understand why you asked which one it should be on because it's like you built to websites.

I would strongly consider making the site into a single subdomain main site.

You have a beautiful website however I will have to tell you that using a subdomain is not search engine friendly using a subdirectory

as spoken about here

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-install-wordpress-in-subdirectory

http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/basics-of-search-engine-friendly-design-and-development

&

http://moz.com/blog/duplicate-content-in-a-post-panda-world

if you have any questions about integrating WordPress into the site using a subdirectory etc. the subdomain so /blog verse http://blog. always choose subdirectory in less there is a very good reason.

I like your site quite a bit did you talk to your developer about search engine optimization when they were building it?

Sincerely,

Thomas

khi5

thx, Thomas. I appreciate the details. I have a real estate website and the FAQ is mainly answering questions like "What is difference between fee simple and leashold", "What is a 1031 exchange etc". I can see some users on my blog interested in that and not necessarily looking at my FAQ for that. I plan to create a category on my blog "Learn Real Estate". I think it would make sense to "no index, no follow" the FAQ page and 1 by 1 copy paste the answers to individual blog posts. With the "no index no follow" on FAQ I am good to go, correct?

I would appreciate if you could let me know if I missed anything.

FYI, this is my FAQ: http://www.honoluluhi5.com/faq/ and this is my blog: http://blog.honoluluhi5.com

I feel the FAQ's each deserve a blog post in its own category as the FAQ will keep growing (just launched site 2 months ago).

thx

BlueprintMarketing

I would make your FAQ section contains links that go to your website's answers.

the best way to deal with duplicate content would be to put a no index no follow tag in the header of the blog posts you are making. This would not help you gain extra search traffic however it would allow you to put it in the format you would like that creating a duplicate content issue for you.

However

I would then add a part to the website where it allows the user to return to the original answers post blog tend to do post they were on.

It seems that if you were to duplicate your content in your blog you would just be hurting yourself. However it is your content.

Long blog posts with a simple table of contents that will take you to the frequently asked question. Would be ideal.

If you already have done a long blog on this exact information and you want to break it up into separate parts than do that. If not definitely use a canonical tag on your posts in order to tell Google where it came from. However it does not seem like it would be the best idea if was not a thorough and very long answer.

If your answers are under 500 words I would keep them in the same post.

Simply create a table of contents in your new setup however you're going to build these additional FAQs and by using a table of contents you can direct the visitor to your answer correctly.

If it represents such a small part of what you're doing and your idea is to create a blog post per an answer I would stick to one of the 2 formats. Remember the length of content does matter.

Honestly it's best to put your time and energy into creating fresh content or putting this content in the easiest to find manner for the end-user. Think of it this way would you as a person searching the web for this information want it in the format it's in now or would you like it duplicated and made into separate blog posts?

that's what Google is going to care about therefore that's what you should care about.

Do not do this with the idea of I will just go grab some traffic do it to make your site a better website overall.

Having not seen the site I don't know what to tell you would be the most user-friendly but trust me on this you want it to be for the people not for the search engines. Google understands this stuff well enough that time on site, pogo sticking, click through rate etc. will determine your rank and traffic just make the best site you can.

If it's because you're trying to help people access the data it more easily do it if not don't do it.

Sincerely,

Thomas

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