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301 it to the original and noindex it. That should do the trick for both users & google.

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In this case, yes. You shouldn't have content that would be deemed as "duplicate content" by google in your sidebar if it's a sitewide one.

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Hey there. Google doesn't care you're running WP, HTML, Joomla or a standard HTML site. It cares even less if something is in the main page or in the sidebar (as long as it's not a sidebar that's common on each page). If this sidebar is on each page the proposition changes a bit Otherwise - long story short - it doesn't matter!

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Heya! A great tool to "follow" your redirects is http://wheregoes.com/ . Simply insert your url in there and see how/where/from it hops.

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Hey there,

One thing is for sure - js and css files have no value to your site's SEO. If your site is looking good and working well under the new design there's no point in worrying about this.

Good luck!!

Hi there,

Sorry but I'm not sure what you mean by that Why would you redirect them? What exactly are you looking to acieve?

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Hi there,

You forgot the most important thing. You're disallowing a lot of things but not allowing access in the first place.

Allow: /

add this on line 2 of your robots.txt file.

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Have you tested with some brand url's like moz for example? Perhaps it's that website's technical problem and not something relating to your own url.

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You're very welcome! Do feel free to reach out if you need any more help.

301 A 404 can be harmful.

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Hey there,

It's definitely not that good of an idea to re-do the old url's. Have you submitted the site to be reindexed? Make sure you update your sitemap if needed (and/or robots) and reupload these to google. Then wait. Any additional changes might confuse G even more. Make sure to 301 the old pages to the new ones.

If you still need help with the schema code drop me a PM.

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Andy

Hi there.

Yes there is quite an easy way of doing this. Have a look here

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It's unlikely. It may help a bit if your traffic's experience on the site is really good, but otherwise no. Sure, if you now have 100 visits/month and you'll get 1000 more, which have good analytics stats, it may improve your case. But if you're already doing pretty well it won't improve your case too much.

Moz did claim in a few Whiteboard Friday videos that they were able to prove Google does take grammar/spelling into account.

In my opinion, I would also noindex nofollow since these pages don't provide any true value when compared to the main one. I'm actually curious to see what others say here.

Rand did a really good whiteboard friday on this recently -> https://moz.com/blog/rel-canonical it may solve your question.

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Hey.

No, it's not a new property. No need in my opinion. Let's see if others see otherwise, but I never do this.

For the first - It won't cause a loop. Just make sure to set all links to https. If you run WP - install a plugin called something like "simply http to https" if you don't have the coding skills or a dev team to handle the migration properly. It's a clean solution.

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No worries. Let me know if you still need help

Can you please include your real URL so we can have a look?

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Well yeah sure...but why not fix it in the first place? Too many redirects are not a good idea

Hey there,

1. Google won't be affected, no worries.

2. I'd recommend moving the whole thing.

3. All you need to do is make sure that all internal links (from / toold posts/categories/etc) will now be set to https so they don't redirect from http to https.

4. GA code remains

5. No. Just tell G to reindex when you're ready.

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I agree with you. By "answer query" i meant that people would not go back to ask google the same exact thing, but move on to something else (even if related). Keep building your site up, not necessarily for this link, and you'll increase rankings. It sometimes fluctuates a bit until G sets a fix-ish position for a page. You might see it jump to page 1 in a couple of weeks. We've started working hard a month ago and we keep seeing jumps of 5-10 positions for 5-10 kwds every other week tops.

The question is much more intricate than you think. It all depends on how your search traffic does. If those that do come from Google do really well and you solve their query, you'll go up. Otherwise you won't.

This can also be influenced by new links, referrals, mentions, etc. Of course.

The more your post gets mentioned the better it can do. It may also be a result of it being mentioned somewhere good that you're able to rank well.

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Hi.

Check how your organic traffic compares. If it's farely steady, no reason to worry. It may simply be that  your referral traffic has reached its "peak" in terms of new visitors they can send.

Hey.

Rand had a recent whiteboard friday about this topic which I think will answer your question back 2 front. Here's the link: https://moz.com/blog/ranking-fluctuations

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There's actually loads to read between the lines Both are right.

Bottom line - newer sites will struggle more. It depends on how often you publish content, and how well does that usually do. If you're MOZ, your whiteboard friday post will probably rank within a couple of weeks for all target kwds. But that's only after years & years of creating great quality content which solved the queries of millions upon millions of searches. 

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Hello,

Just a disclaimer - I don't speak italian, but do understand some parts.

For the question about non-related kwds...the kw explorer finds these through some algorythms between what people search before/after they search those keywords and what content pages that rank for those keywords have.

For the other question, you need to run a good analysis and create a list with your kwds. Then, make sure to carefully skim through it, assign your own priorities for each kw judging by how important they are for your business (ex if you sell bikes the kw "italy bike tour" or "italy bike rental" might not be important for you at all, but might still be suggested by moz). After doing this, you need to order your kwds by overall priority rating. This will make an average between how hard it is to rank for it, the volume of search that kw has, and your priority rating.

For the very top kwds you absolutely want to include the exact kw string at least once in your content (this can be as an alt tag on an image). For the top 2-3 results you'll want to include those exactly in h1's , titles, meta titles, meta descriptions.

For the rest of the kwds, things like including the work "tuscany" will help, but it won't give you a 90+ rating of "keyword optimisation" on that page. Of course you won't be able to be at 90+ for all kwds, but it's ideal to be there for the most important 5-7 kwds you want to rank for (at first at least).

After you create your campaign you'll be able to check how optimized your page is for each kw.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

Hah! Go for it Trevor, this is a totally natural link from a really great resource. it's highly unlikely for G to look at any links coming from Forbes as being nasty. Just go ahead and go for it, albeit nofollow or dofollow, it's going to be a great resource for you either way. And yes, the link is definitely dofollow. Super awesome.

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Andy

Sure they will, but it will likely take a bit of time

Good luck!!!

That's a valid point, however without reaching out to them you're unlikely to be able to completely change the branding. You need to see things from their POV too - perhaps somebody would promote a charity at first and then switch to porn one night. They need to have control over these.

I think that if you start looking at your internal linking a bit, and create a couple more links internally that point to the target page from the homepage (with relevant content ofc), you should be able to see a switch in results soon.

There's also the question of PA vs DA. Your homepage ranks because it's much older than the target page, and if you just created the landing page then it will take a while to rank. Doing the right things will eventually get you there.

Thanks so much for the help Noah. Just what I thought!

I don't think you'll be able to change everything (the URL for example) yourself, but you should definitely log a support ticket with both sites and ask them to do this for you. Facebook might not be possible at all - but I think Linkedin will.

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Can you provide an example?

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Absolutely not. Google reads a text view (view source) of the page, where it doesn't matter if that content is "hidden" first of all. Unless it's being dynamically loaded with ajax when you click on the button. If it's there from moment 0 when the page loads, but just hidden with CSS you have nothing to worry about.

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I wouldn't suggest redirecting a homepage to another site if you still want to rank that original domain for stuff. It's just showing G that you're not taking that domain as serious as you are others.

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Hey there,

You always need to make sure that your pages don't try to rank for the same keyword otherwise you're basically competing against yourself. One thing you could try is dial down this keyword on your homepage to help boost your target page, or start sending more links towards the target page with the target keyword so that G knows that there's where the most valuable info is.

Also make sure that you have enough internal links from your own site telling G that this is the page where this content is best addressed.

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Hey guys,

Sorry for posting this again but the last thread got a bit too wayword. I'll sum it up better here.

We're producing a WordPress theme every 3-6 months. Each is differently niched (eg: ecommerce, restaurant, magazine, etc...) Which option is better for our products going forward (even the ones we've yet to launch...eg...which method will get future projects more "trust juice" from google):

A: create a subfolder for each theme eg: http://bigbangthemes.net/TicketLab_WP/wordpress-ticket-system & http://bigbangthemes.net/Showoff_WP/landing-page/

**This is currently what we're doing.**B: have them all under bigbangthemes.net/wordpress-themes/ eg: bigbangthemes.net/wordpress-themes/wordpress-ticket-system & bigbangthemes.net/wordpress-themes/showoff-startup-agency-theme

Thanks for the help!

Hey Thomas,

Sorry - not sure I'm getting it? Kw friendly would be the case for all landing page names. so...sub-folder, or main domain?

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Thomas, thank you for the answer. Much appreciated. However I feel that I may not have accentuated the essence of my question too well.

Let's address it in a very brief way.

Is there any benefit from having all landing pages for wordpress themes we build under the same category, eg domain.com/wordpress-themes vs having them each be in a sub-folder for that specific theme, eg http://bigbangthemes.net/TicketLab_WP/wordpress-ticket-system & http://bigbangthemes.net/Showoff_WP/landing-page/

My gut feeling is that right now the fact that we're building links for individual sub-folders means that we're basically starting from scratch with every new item, and that much more link juice & "trust rank" would flow if all would be under the same category within the main domain.

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Hey guys,

I have a somewhat silly question that I probably know the answer to - but would still like to hear your POV's. We're a WP theme making company but we also build other stuff. Context:

1. All demos for themes currently go under domain.com/Theme_A/ The demo is lorem ipsum so is marked noindex nofollow. That being said we get rocking analytics data usually (not sure if it's still valuable for G after the noindex).

2. Currently we need landing pages for themes and we're running them under domain.com/Theme_A/optimized-landing-page-title.php dofollow and indexed ofc.

My question is...Would we be better off to include all landing pages under a domain.com/wordpress-themes/ category/tax and then go for the optimized-landing-page-title.php page? Does it make any difference either or? Right now we're not REALLY running them on subdomains (though the structure seems like it), they're just folders. We're thinking that more seo juice would flow through the different pages if we have them all under the same category, rather than basically starting from scratch each time under a new folder. Right?

Thanks!!!

Why exactly would moz not do that? Ok if you don't like moz then look up majestic, ahrefs. Basically the same thing packaged differently. cheers

It's unlikely that they'll stop counting at all. I think that at least part of the value should still flow to the domain. i think it would be better if you could create a better version of those pages with good links and canonicalize the old ones.

Is he using relevant anchor text kwds? If not, they might be ignored I think. not an expert thiugh, i'm curious to see what others say.

Hey there,

some of the natural things to look for are of course content quality and on page optimization for those kwds. Did you check these? If these are good too - then google migt not rank you because of the user experience metrics. If this is the case consider changing the design, menus, links, etc. ux is very important nowadays.

Hi there,

you can use the Open Site Explorer moz tool to search a site and see its spam score. If it's a high one keep away

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Hey. The best thing you can do here is canonicalize everything to poitn to the new domain. It's inedbitable to lose some juice since it's actually a different domain name. If it were blog.example.com and example.com - there would have been no losses.

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I Wouldn't bet on that working. Why not use the exact same code in .htaccess format, or even PHP? Javascript is a coding language that is parsed after the window starts loading, it's not like PHP where it gets parsed before the load.

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Hey. Send over your url so we can have a look. This might be as easy as having a php problem.

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Hey. If you rel=canonical I don't see how these pages would rank anymore. You're basically telling google that the other pages are the better ones. Is there no going around the duplicate content? This is a really strange / problematic situation.

I think your best bet is either using some sort of iframe if that's an option (it doesn't necessarily need to look bad). Or do your best to change content.

Hey there. Have a look at this post please. I believe it has everything you'll need to know. Thanks again for the help, Don!

https://moz.com/community/q/different-wp-taxonomies-seen-as-duplicate-content