Thank you John for the tips.
We have a community on our website and could leverage that for such engagement.
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Thank you John for the tips.
We have a community on our website and could leverage that for such engagement.
In light of penguin update, is link building using badges(like "I love SEOMOZ" badge)
still considered a white hat tactic?
I have read old posts on SEOMOZ blog about this topic and wondering if this method is still effective.
Look forward to feedback from MOZers.
Yes. Definitely! HTML with CSS is way to go!!
Thank you so much Todd!
1. When I disable java-script in Firefox and load our home page, it is missing entire middle section.
2. Also, the global nav dropdown menu does not display at all. (with java-script disabled) I believe this is not good.
3. But when type in <website name="">in Google search and click on the cached version of home page > and then click on text only version, It displays the Global nav links fine.</website>
4. When I switch the user agent to Googlebot(using Firefox plugin "User Agent Swticher)), the home page and global nav displays fine.
Should I be worried about#1 and #2 then?
How to find what Googlebot actually sees on a page?
(I have tried "Fetch as Googlebot" from GWT. It displays source code.)
Thanks for the help!
Supriya.
Hi Dylan,
Thanks for the reply. The community website does not exist anymore as a standalone website. It is now a sub-domain on our main website.
e.g. Before -
we had www.mainwebsite.com and www.communitywebsite.com
After -
we have http://community.mainwebsite.com
And this sub-domain has thousands of duplicate page titles.
Will that affect www.mainwebsite.com?
We recently moved a community website that we own to our main domain. It now lives on our website as a sub-domain. This new sub-domain has a lot of duplicate page titles.
We are going to clean it up but it's huge project. (We had tried to clean it even before migrating the community website)
I am wondering if this duplicate content on the new sub-domain could be hurting rankings of our root domain? How does Google treat it?
From SEO best practices, I know duplicate content within site is always bad.
How severe is it given the fact that it is present on a different sub-domain?
Thanks Ryan!
Yes, our traffic and ranks for the roor domain have dropped after this new sub-domain was added.
Thanks Ryan for the detailed reply!
Yes, we have it as a sub-domain i.e. community.mainwebsite.com.
sorry for the typo.
I have a question about this:
"Even if you did everything perfectly, there is some loss of link juice from your redirect which will lead to some of your rankings dropping, which will directly lead to less traffic."
Even though there is loss of link juice from the backlinks that were originally pointing to community.com, how could that affect mainwebsite.com negatively? After all, those are additional links that we are getting after the migration. Number of backlinks to mainwebsite.com actually increased due to moving the community website.
Are we missing anything?
We made this huge change to get SEO benefit as well. The hypothesis behind this move was that merging of two websites will increase the authority of main website and improve ranks and traffic.
What do you think about this?
Thanks again for your help!
I'm an Enterprise SEO with a strong background (8+ years) in Technical, Content Optimization, Link Building and Traffic Acquisition.
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