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Thanks mate. That was a very informative answer.

It's not that I am making some hand made items as the example of Matt was but I have a very small amount of deals that come and go every now and then.

I will not redirect or give a 404. I think that I will keep the page but explain that the deal is over and that there are more deals relevant to this one.

Forcible redirecting in my opinion is the worst in every situation except if the intent of the next page is Exactly the same as the previous which 99% of the times is not.

404 could be ok but the deals i offer are hard won and i dont want the traffic to just go into a 404 wall.

Adding the relevant deals seems like the best way to go.

Thanks again

Hey there Mozzers,

If I have a site that is translated in 5 languages with main language as English ( most pages are only template translated top menu and footer ) is this correct?

Right now the main page which is example.com/en is mentioned 3 times in the href code 1st as a canonical later as alternate and 3rd as x default which seems a bit weird.

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Hey there Awesome team of Webmaster Forums,

Lets assume that I have a page that have deals in it. Those deals after a certain period of time expire. What should I do with the expired pages?My opinion is this.The page keeps the same URL but inside there is a content saying "Sorry but this deal has expired .... "and have some relevant deals beneath ORRedirect to a universal expired page. Kind Regards

Hey there Patrick,

Thanks a ton for responding to my question.

I too indeed have the hreflang tags within my site but still use a redirection. I will try changing that as soon as possible then.

Also what kind of redirection should i use if someone chooses another language in my site?

Right now the redirection is set as a 301. I have heard a lot of chatter talking about a 302 redirection.

Any opinions?

Hey there awesome Mozzers,

I have a site that it automatically redirects people by using geolocation ( i know that probably is not good ) to the various languages of the site.

I just wanted to know

1. Is 301 or 302 the best option? ( I've heard that for language re-directions 302 is the best case scenario )

2. My main page for example is www.example.com and it automatically redirects with a 301 to www.example.com/en for any language that is not there. What is the best case scenario? Leave it to redirect to /en or just leave it go to the root page www.example.com.

Why use a 302?

Hey there mate,

Sorry to hear that you are having issues. You can actually ask Screaming Frog to use more RAM. If you haven't done that yet please give it a go.

You can find more here http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/user-guide/general/

If you want to crawl part of your site it can surely do that. You can exclude pages or whole sections.

Find more here http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/user-guide/configuration/

Hope this helps!

Hey there awesome people of Moz

I have this site that has many languages in it.

The main language is English and my developer did the following

www.example.com ( is the main site ) which redirects with a 301 to www.example.com/en

if your geo location is supported by our languages then you will automatically be redirected to whatever language you have in your country but does the first language with is english have to 301 redirect to www.example.com/en ?

I thought that the right way is to just leave /en at the root file.

Thanks in advance

You could actually create one Question for Twitter and Facebook instead of creating two.

Well my advice will be simple.

Read Bufferapp Blog and Social Media Examiner.

Cool to awesome advice in there.

Recently I had that problem also mate.

Thing is if you have any server issues you might get 503.

If your site is on maintenance you might get 503.

If your site gets high traffic and goes down you might get a 503.

Best thing to do is check with Fetch as Google tool from WMT to see how Google sees it.

Hey there Don thanks for the answer.

No i am not referring to the domain on my profile thanks for searching though.

You are right i am having some server issues that are causing many many problems. Anyway I will probably come back with another question soon enough!

Thanks again !

Hey there Mozzers,

I have a site that few months ago went from being http - https.

All the links redirect perfect but after scanning my site with Screaming Frog i get a bunch of 503 errors.

After looking into my website I see that a lot of links in my content and menu have as a link the http url.

For example my homepage has content that interlinks to the http version of the site. And even though when I test it it redirects correctly after scanning with Screaming frog it reports back as 503.

Any ideas what's going on?

Thanks in advance

It is indeed a great article but certainly does not answer any of my questions ( or i havent read the article correct )

My first question is: Do i have to do this

<loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>

<xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="<a href=" http:="" www.example.com="" "="" target="_blank">http://www.example.com/"/>

<xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="<a href=" http:="" www.example.com="" de"="" target="_blank">http://www.example.com/de"/>

<xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" href="<a href=" http:="" www.example.com="" fr"="" target="_blank">http://www.example.com/fr"/></xhtml:link></xhtml:link></xhtml:link>

for all my 200.000 + sitemap pages?

Thanks Ryan for taking the time to answer

Hey there, I have a site with many languages. So here are my questions concerning the sitemaps. The correct way of creating a sitemap for a multilingual site is as followed ( by the official blog of Google )

<urlset xmlns="</span>http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

http://www.example.com/loc>

<xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="</span>http://www.example.com/"/>

<xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="</span>http://www.example.com/de"/>

<xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" href="</span>http://www.example.com/fr"/><a href=" http:="" www.example.com="" fr"="" target="_blank"></xhtml:link><a href=" http:="" www.example.com="" de"="" target="_blank"></xhtml:link><a href=" http:="" www.example.com="" "="" target="_blank"></xhtml:link><a href=" http:="" www.sitemaps.org="" schemas="" sitemap="" 0.9"="" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></urlset>

**So here is my first question. My site has over 200.000 pages that all of them support around 5-6 languages. Am I suppose to do this example 200.000 times?****My second question is. My root domain is www.example.com but this one redirects with 301 to www.example.com/en should the sitemap be at ****www.example.com/sitemap.xmlorwww.example.com/en/sitemap.xml ???****My third question is as followed. On WMT do I submit my sitemap in all versions of my site? I have all my languages there.**Thanks in advance for taking the time to respond to this thread and by creating it I hope many people will solve their own questions.

Thanks Dirk! Awesome info

Awesome and fast! Thanks Ryan.

Hey there Mozzers,

I am a question about internal links. If I am writing a article about something and want to link to another one of my articles inside my blog, do i have to make that link nofollow or dofollow?

If possible tell me why also.

Thanks in advance

Hey there Mozzers.

I want to change the url of a certain page on my website.

Example:

www.example.com/poker-face

I want to change this

www.example.com/poker-faces

Should I create a new page and make the old one 301?

Does 301 pass all the link juice in the new page or do i have to make a rel=canonical also ?

Hey there Mozzers,

Another question about a forum issue I encountered.

When a forum thread has more than just one page as we all know the best course of action is to use

rel="next"

rel="prev" or rel="previous"

But my forum automatically creates another line in the header called

Rel="self"

What that does is simple.

If i have 3 pages

http://www.example.com/article?story=abc1
http://www.example.com/article?story=abc2
http://www.example.com/article?story=abc3

**instead of this **

On the first page, http://www.example.com/article?story=abc1

On the second page, http://www.example.com/article?story=abc2

On the third page, http://www.example.com/article?story=abc3:

it creates this

On the first page, http://www.example.com/article?story=abc1

So as you can see it creates a url by adding the ?page=1 and names it rel=self which actually gives back a duplicate page because now instead of just

http://www.example.com/article?story=abc1

I also have the same page at

http://www.example.com/article?story=abc1?page=1

Do i even need rel="self"? I thought that rel="next" and rel="prev" was enough?

Should I change that?

No indexing the rest of the pages means less results on SERP.

Canonicalising the other pages to page 1 is kinda wrong since its not duplicate content and passing all the link juice to just page 1 is not such a good idea.

My website has a forum that is using the title of the posts as a Meta Description.The problem is that when a posts becomes long and separates in pages Google tells me that i have duplicate meta description issues because the 2nd page and the 3rd page are using the same meta description.What is the best course of action here?

If you have anything for XML it would be awesome.

Screaming Frog has a 500 limit. Not that i dont love screaming frog.

What software do you guys use to generate a sitemap?

Hey there Webmasters of the Universe. So i have this problem with my forum. The platform I am using it automatically creates extra pages for every page. For exampleIf my forum had one page called forum.com/examplethe same page you can find at forum.com/example?page=1If I set rel canonical into the second one pointing to the first one will that cause a problem for me?Thanks in advance!

Hey there Dana,

To make it clear, you cannot find the url within the Youtubes Analytics panel? I guess you already know that if you chose single videos you can see where it had been embedded. Sorry if my answer is totally wrong not that good with videos

Hey Gagan

just wanted to check out if everything worked out for you.

Hey Robert,

In my point of view that sounds like a landing page which as far as i know is perfect.

It actually helps visitors don't fall with there faces to many information that they don't need to know and confuse them.

Check out this article on Moz which is kinda old but for me still correct.

http://moz.com/blog/landing-pages-for-seo

Hope that helps.

Hey echo1,

I am guessing you dont want the general answer "just ask your costumers politely to review your business online",

For Google and Yelp I guess making your precense online will help a lot try to be active and engage with your known costumers. Give them promo codes or stuff like that.

For any kind of Review like facebook etc.there are actually a lot of ways to make costumers review your business or services without even asking. One that I actually like is the "Gamification".

If you for example have a wordpress site there are a lot of plugins like Incrwd or Punchtab that will award your costumers with points and achievments. You know they love it.

Anyway hoped I helped even a bit.

Hey there Shanaki,

First of all the page looks nice good job with the design.

SEO is a service that takes time to give you fruitful changes.

I take it that the site is fairly new. As far as i know and I admit I am not the best out there SEO takes usually about 6 months of work. You can see small changes within few days but for the real deal you have to wait.

Social Media interaction that you said. I am certainly that not only Google but all search engines care a lot.

Now about the Pagerank you talked about. Yeah I believe it counts a lot. Here is a helpful infographic about it.

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/infographic-googles-200-ranking-factors/64316/

Domain authority will grow in time just keep up with your SEO and don't lose hope.

Hope everything turns out good!

Hey Gagan,

Ok try to use a photo with a brighter background. I quarranty it will work. Give it a day or two too.

Don't try any tools or anything, its that simple and 100% sure.

Simple question for today

What do you use to create a sitemap ( if your site is NOT Wordpress ) and do you mention your sitemap in your robot.txt?

Thanks in advance!

Its not quite answering my question but thanks it was insightful

I need to know what is the best Press Release company out there and if its still safe to use them.

Thanks in Advance

So my question is:

What's your Link Building Tactic. I always have a bit of a problem building links for my websites. Also Do you use some kind of a tool? If yes can you reccomend it?

So my question is What the best way to handle Overly Dynamic Url's.

I am working on a real estate agency website. They are selling/buying properties and the url is as followed.

ttp://www.------.com/index.php?action=calculator&popup=yes&price=195000

I am having a problem with the Keyword Analysis report that i am downloading as excell docs. There are password protected. Anyone knows the password?

I am using various browsers for search plus i am not logged in and i am disabling previous search activity and stuff..........

I was checking my ranking reports and double checking them on Google to see if it match.

My rankings was updated today on seomoz and almost none of the rankings match the real thing. For example I have a rank that in seomoz says 9th place and i am checking it at google and it says 6th. Is there a possible explanation?

I am in a need of an answer as soon as possible.

Thanks in Advance

Thanks Miranda for the answer!

Nice to know you guys are active around here!

Postcard or even a sms on your phone if you give them your number.

The problem is not that the link is new ( which is not ) it tells me that i cannot add links with /path.

The only problem is that the link i have as a competitor is www.competitorslink.com/magazine

nothing else.

I am having a problem adding a competitor at one of my campaigns...

I am not sure if I should add the link of my competitor so I wont

the link is with a /path

competitorlink.gr/magazine

Anyone knows what should I do?

Nice to know that you found my answer helpful mate.

Will be waiting for your responce of how the plugin worked for you.

Then you probably have to give it time.

Here is a link of google support for crawl time.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=34439

Here is something that I found useful

Go check the screenshot when you enter the link. It seems really helpful for that kind of situations.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/best-posts-summary/

Please keep me posted if that did not solve your problem and I will try to find something else.

Here is a link that might be helpful.

Hopefully that solves it. Keep me posted please for further assistance.

http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1151728

Oh well call me a joke if you want but nothing comes in my mind except lmgtfu.com

The best way to push someone button... Actually push the button... literally...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=literally+push+the+button....

I am assigned to a few vacation resort sites for SEO plus a Real Estate site.

I was hoping to get few suggestions from people that have worked on those fields before. Like good web directories for link building or even some good sites that I should have in mind for comparing mine.

Thanks in advance