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I would like to track how keywords rank across blog.website.com and www.website.com without setting up separate campaigns for each. We don't care if the blog, or the main site rank, we just want something to rank and therefore want to track both sites  in 1 campaign. Is there a way to do this without setting up a separate campaign for the subdomain and the main site?

Thanks so much

It's become a common refrain that social media is critical to SEO. Taking this literally, I have been examining the impact of social media on specific pages and topical areas within my site. Specifically, I am looking at pages and content areas that we promote and link to via social media and I am seeing zero correlation to SEO success. Social media is not impacting my rankings at all. And we have a sizable social footprint.

Has anyone else done this type of analysis and seen different results?

Hi,

I am researching SEO plug ins for Wordpress - WordpressSEO by Yoast and All-In-One SEO Pack - and I have a question about implementation:

In general, what is the impact these plug ins have on blogs with a large archives? Will they make any changes to old posts that may break incoming links or require me to go back and make edits to each of the old posts?

Also, the main thing I want to do is allow for custom total tags. Is there another way to get this functionality? Or should I stick with a plug in because of all the other SEO benefits?

Thanks

Thanks...would you say this page has too much code?

http://www.dana-farber.org/Adult-Care/Treatment-and-Support/Treatment-Centers-and-Clinical-Services/Stem-Cell-Transplantation-Program.aspx

yeah, it's strange...if you look at my reply to the first response, you will see the urls.

the page that copies content shows up #1 for "stem cell transplant boston" while the original page shows up for "stem cell transplant" (page 3) and other searches.

Thanks for your reply. The target pages show up.

I recognize that the canonical tag will basically give all teh exposure to the target page. I'm just wondering if the target page will see an improvement in rankings.

Thanks very much.

Yes, most of the content on the two sites is unique

The sites do interlink but not on these pages

Not on same IP

Yes, both sites have good authority

Here is the site originating the content:

site that originates content

site that copies the content

My understanding of duplicate content is that if two pages are identical, Google selects one for it's results...

I have a client that is literally sharing content real-time with a partner...the page content is identical for both sites, and if you update one page, teh otehr is updated automatically. Obviously this is a clear cut case for canonical link tags, but I'm cuious about something:

Both sites seem to show up in search results but for different keywords...I would think one domain would simply win out over the other, but Google seems to show both sites in results. Any idea why? Also, could this duplicate content issue be hurting visibility for both sites? In other words, can I expect a boost in rankings with the canonical tags in place? Or will rankings remain the same?

I am working on optimizing a page that utilizes a template that generates an excessive amount of code - 4 to 5 times what I am seeing with competitor pages. The entire site seems to have this problem and we have, according to webmaster tools a a medium to slow load time.

In general, given the content and teh strength of the domain, I think this page should be performing better. I think the  entire site should be performing better. Would it be worth it to replace the template I am using and replace it with a more lightweight page design? I would obviously keep the content and the url the same.

Typically I want to try everything I can to improve rankings, but this change would take some time, so I don;t want to rush into it.

Looking for some answers based on experience, not general best practices. Thanks

I would like to track how keywords rank across blog.website.com and www.website.com without setting up separate campaigns for each. We don't care if the blog, or the main site rank, we just want something to rank and therefore want to track both sites  in 1 campaign. Is there a way to do this without setting up a separate campaign for the subdomain and the main site?