Do you have access to .htaccess on your server?
You could set a simple redirect to redirect all traffic to your website root to the domain you want.
Try this.... http://www.affiliatebeginnersguide.com/domains/redirection.html
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Do you have access to .htaccess on your server?
You could set a simple redirect to redirect all traffic to your website root to the domain you want.
Try this.... http://www.affiliatebeginnersguide.com/domains/redirection.html
I'd love to but it is a bit sensitive. There is no difference between the coding of the too pages or the structure. The only difference is the on-page content and perhaps some internal links.
Thanks, I'm kind of leaning towards the problem not being panda related.
Has anybody ever experienced such major drops for any other reason?
Hi Guys,
I'm just looking for confirmation on something.....
In the wake of Panda 2.2 one of my pages has plummeted in the rankings whilst other similar pages have seen healthy improvements.
Am I correct in thinking that Panda effects individual pages and doesn't tar an entire site with the same brush?
Really I'm trying to see if Panda is the reason in the drop on one page or whether it could be something else. The page in question has dropped 130 positions - not just a general fluctuation.
Thanks in advance for your responses!!!
Hello,
Just opening a quick discussion to see what you guys think are the best practices and tips for Google news article optimisation?
Looking forward to hearing your suggestions.
Thanks,
Elias
Thanks for the replies both. A bit more investigating will have to be done before we make the final decision.
Hello,
We are looking at creating an eCommerce section to a website and we are just weighing up the options:
There are two issues that have arisen from this situation....
Is it worse for SEO to host your store in a different country or to host in your country but your store potentially run slower?
I'm swaying to the side of the argument that says give your users a good and fast experience instead of worrying about where you host the store. Bearing in mind that the main website will be hosted in the UK anyway and it is just the subdomain that will be hosted in the US.
Just wondered if anybody has had experience with this or if I'm missing something?
All feedback greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Elias
Thanks for your reply - I don't think I've phrased my question correctly.
I'll try to figure it out and ask again once I have a clearer question
Hello,
Does anybody know how I can segment visits who entered my site via subdomain?
For example:
I want to know people who entered via subdomain.example.com/*****
and not include people who entered via www.example.com
Thanks in advance!
Does anyone know if we can expect keyword rank tracking in Google mobile?
It would be a cool feature for SEOmoz Pro.
Does anybody know of any reliable software that does this at the moment?
It really depends where the links are. If they are on deep pages then they will take longer to be discovered.
Google Webmaster tools will show you links to your website too. Have you tried that?
I think there's an SEOmoz linkscape update every 4-5 weeks so they might show up then.
Hi Jason,
Although 302's are bad internally they shouldn't effect your rankings if you are 302ing externally.
I'm sorry I can't recommend any plugins, as I haven't used any.
It will if you add r=301 to the last line like so:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /blog/$1 [L,R=301]
You might want to look into what Google do themselves.
They automatically redirect people in the uk who type in www.google.com to www.google.co.uk
If it's good enough for google it's good enough for us. Just make sure you do not look like you are cloaking.
You need to give users the ability to change language when they are on the website though. As Vince mentioned just because a user is visiting the website from Italy it does not mean that they are Italian.
Hello,
I'm pretty certain it will be to do with back links. The more relevant back links you can get then the better you're indexing will be.
I run a similar small website which has 12 pages but only 4 are indexed and the one thing it has in common with yours is the lack of links.
Have you thought of adding some of your wedding videos to youtube and going down the social route to attract links?
.htaccess is the way to go in my opinion.
Always use 301 redirects over 302 redirects.
Google passes on about 90% of link value through a 301 redirect and no link value through a 302.
I hope this answers your question.
Hi Jonathan,
This is difficult....You have to balance the benefits for the visitors and the search engines.
Although, having relevant domain names still works for gaining good rankings it is not as powerful as it once was. It may eventually not be part of Google's algorithm at all with future updates.
Due to that fact alone I would go with the short name and concentrate on targeting Vancouver web design on-page and with links. I think this would help to future-proof your website and would be more user friendly.
On a side note - I would avoid hyphenated domain names as it is widely believed that Google uses this as a spam indicator.
I hope this helps!
Do all of the pages receive back links? It would be a laborious job and perhaps not worthwhile but you could look at which of the pages receive a substantial amount of links or links from high quality websites. Then just include the "Good" pages in your new site.
Like you say, I think you would benefit from losing some low value content that doesn't rank well and doesn't have many quality links pointing to it.
Whatever you decide it would be interesting to know how that effects your site. Perhaps even worthy of a YOUmoz post?!
Hi Thomas,
That's very odd! I've just checked some of our sites but none of them have seen anything like that.
As you haven't changed much in terms of layout then it would appear that there is a problem with your analytics tracking.
Is the change in bounce rate constant across all traffic searches i.e. search, direct etc?
I would Aim for 155. Just being picky but I believe this is the recommended amount. Hitting the 160 mark might see you having the ellipsis (...) in your meta description.
Like you say... It's best to get links from pages with a high domain and page authority.
In my opinion, Domain authority is much more important.
The fact that a page has a page authority of 0 does not necessarily mean it is not a important. It's just that links to it might not have been discovered by SEOmoz yet and therefore the page will not have a page authority attributed to it. Therefore take into consideration the age of a page.
You should be looking at MOZrank and MOZtrust attributes too. I think these will give more insight into the quality of the page/website.
Hope this helps.
I hadn't heard of PRweb before - The product looks really good but yeah like you say its quite pricey!
Hi All,
Our dev team have just asked me a very interesting question........
Within the context of an HTML5 page, where it is supported and encouraged to use multiple H1 tags, will the use of multiple H1 tags be detrimental to SEO? or does Google fully understand how HTML5 works and therefore not penalise a website for using multiple H1 tags?
I have an opinion on this that if it helps usability and user experience then it is likely that it will be good for SEO.
It would be really good to hear views of people who have tried this or have decided against it!
Thanks
I think that the best practice is to use rel="canonical"
It will ensure that you do not lose any links.
This article will explain it better and in more detail http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps
Has Google +1 been rolled out on just google.com? It doesn't seem to appear on .co.uk
All the best with collecting the data!
The only thing about people not needing to say which agency they represent is that the company name appears next to responses.
And there are could be some prying competitors lurking
Anyway, I'd be happy to help out with your research so if you do set up a survey - send me a link!
Hey Yozzer!
It will be interesting to see your research. Although I doubt you will get many honest responses in the Q&A. You might want to set up a survey for mozzers to complete anonymously.
I'd imagine that most business for most agencies will come from word of mouth. People that are happy with your service to the extent of recommending you are always going to be more likely to provide qualified leads. Essentially the sale has already been made by the person recommending you.
Looking forward to your YouMoz post!
It might well be a duplicate content issue. If you have two pages which are almost identical with the only difference being the city name. Google may have classed this as duplicate content and chosen to rank one page much higher than the other.
Like Marcus said - it would be useful to have a bit more information.
Thanks Cocarcea Ion,
I'm sure the algorithms contain the same components but Google must give greater importance to some of those components and less to others depending on whether it is a web search or mobile search.
Surely if you have a site that is quite slow to load on a mobile device but fine with a proper internet connection Google would not display it as high in mobile search results?!
Hello,
A bit of an open question to start the week...
What do you think are the key differences between Google's mobile search and web search algorithms?
Obviously greater importance on site speed for mobile search!?
I agree with the other two response - why have 3 sites selling the same product?
This problem isn't new though. Many big sites have the same problem where they sell the same product as many of their competitors.
You should be fine as long as you make each page different to the others. Amazon got around this by giving users the ability to write reviews of the products, which ensured that each page had unique user generated content on the pages and was therefore useful for Google.
If you can, stick to one site.
From my experience...Initially, the site may drop in rankings - but over a period of time rankings should normalise and improve.
I think too often people forget that we are creating websites for users as well as search engines. I assume that currently the URLs are not optimised? Although optimising URLs doesn't have as much of an effect as it used to it should still help.
I think providing that you carry on with a link building campaign with links pointing directly to your new URLs you should be fine. It's important that the client is aware that rankings may drop in the short term so that they don't get a nasty shock!
Good luck!
iNet SEO is right! Carry on with the best practices. I wouldn't worry too much about not ranking well in Yahoo. If you were ranking well in Yahoo and not Google then I would panic.
Depending on which country you are in may make a difference. If you're in the UK Google dominates hugely. I think Yahoo has around 5% search engine market share here. So although it would be nice to rank well in Google - all is not lost!
If you've bought links and as a result been kicked out of SERPs you should start by cleaning up your link profile. Get rid of the links you bought in the hope you can be re-listed.
This white board Friday video might be a good starting point http://www.seomoz.org/blog/preventing-linkbased-penalties-whiteboard-friday
Good luck!
Hello,
It really depends on what the keywords are to be honest. If the keywords are just variations of the same e.g. caravan insurance and touring caravan insurance then yes it is possible. Although, I always feel it is better to create a dedicated page for each if possible.
Other than that I think you would struggle and could end up not ranking well for all your target keywords on that page as opposed to ranking well for just one.
If the keywords are completely different it may warrant a dedicated landing page for each. You've got to be careful not to duplicate any content though!
I hope this helps. Let me know if you want me to expand on anything.
HI Wazza1985,
In my experience keyword density is a very important factor. However, it's more important to ensure that your target keywords appear in key places, such as:
Also don't forget that content is for users as well as search engines so forcing keywords into the content to increase density could devalue it.
I hope this answers your question.