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Hi, I have an internal search results page that contains approx 200 links in total.

This links to approx 50 pages.

Each result listing contains a link to the page in the format /page.html and also has 3 more links (for each listing) to named anchors within the page. eg /page.html#section1, /page.html#section2, /page.html#section3 etc.

Should i remove the named anchors to keep my links per page under the Seomoz suggested max of 100? Will it impact crawl-ability or link juice being passed?

Thanks in advance for your response.

Hi, i have a question that i have seen some other have also had. The question is what is the best practice to serve the location specific page to the user (based on their location)?

This post (http://www.seomoz.org/q/redirecting-users-based-on-location) suggests against automatically redirecting the user based on IP address. I guess the primary concern is that Google bot will also be redirected in this case...

I see a number of well known sites use automatic redirect based on location. Take Urbanspoon for example (http://www.urbanspoon.com/), they use a 302 redirect to redirect to location specific page.

• Do they not redirect Google bot? Is there any way to test this?
• Can creating a rule to exclude crawlers from redirect cause SEO problems? How?

Another example that i am somewhat confused as to how it works effectively is groupon.com.au

It selects my closest city (i assume using IP), however the URL stays as the root URL. For example, i typed in http://www.groupon.com.au/ and it stays as http://www.groupon.com.au/ with the city chosen as "Melbourne". The canonical url for this page is the root URL (ie http://www.groupon.com.au/).

If you then select "change city" and click the same city (ie Melbourne), it redirects to http://www.groupon.com.au/deals/melbourne. Canonical URL of this page is http://www.groupon.com.au/deals/melbourne.

• How is this not duplicate content?

Can you please advise on the best way to redirect (ideally automatically), to provide the best user experience, while still having Google bot able to crawl the site effectively?

Thanks

That's a good point you make Cyrus in regards to linking to a site that has competitors on it also. I have considered this and my idea was to pass in a url param that would not show anything else only the restaurants own menu. For example, menus.com/bobs-pizza?ads=0 would not show a search bar or any other links (simply just their own menu). This page would have rel-canonical link to menus.com/bobs-pizza so as to maintain link juice...

Other option i was thinking was to include an iframe on the restaurants page that would source data from menus.com. I guess i could have a link pointing back to menus.com at the bottom of the menu in the iframe.

I think the link idea makes sense rather the redirect for the reasons you mentioned. Maybe i could have a popup on mobile devices that contains a link to the menu's site (again this would be in javascript - not sure if this is a good idea though).

Any other ideas on how i may be able to show a link (only on mobile devices) that could point to menus.com (in a SEO friendly way)?

Thanks for your response Moosa. I like the idea of shorter urls.

On a similar yet slightly different note.
Some restaurants already have an existing and well established websites (eg www.tomspasta.com). For these websites i would like to redirect to www.menus.com/tomspasta (which is mobile optimised), only if the user is viewing the site (www.tomspasta.com) from a mobile device (ie user agent detection would be used in JavaScript to do the redirect).

Would this kind of redirect have any impact on SEO (positively/negatively)? Would any link juice be passed? Would i need to notify Google that the content is different for mobile devices?

Thanks for your response Moosa. I like the idea of shorter urls.

On a similar yet slightly different note.
Some restaurants already have an existing and well established websites (eg www.tomspasta.com). For these websites i would like to redirect to www.menus.com/tomspasta (which is mobile optimised), only if the user is viewing the site (www.tomspasta.com) from a mobile device (ie user agent detection would be used in JavaScript to do the redirect).

Would this kind of redirect have any impact on SEO (positively/negatively)? Would any link juice be passed? Would i need to notify Google that the content is different for mobile devices?

Hi, I have a restaurant menu directory listing website (for example www.menus.com).

Restaurant can have there menu listed on this site along with other details such as opening hours, photos ect. An example of a restaurant url might be www.menus.com/london/bobs-pizza.

A feature i would like to offer is the ability for Bob's pizza to use the menus.com website listing as his own website (let assume he has no website currently). I would like to purchase www.bobspizza.com and 301 redirect to www.menus.com/london/bobs-pizza

Why?
So bob can then list bobspizza.com on his advertising material (business cards etc, rather than www.menus.com/london/bobs-pizza).

I was considering using a 301 redirect for this though have been told that too many domain level redirects to one single domain can be flagged as spam by Google.

Is there any other way to achieve this outcome without being penalised? Rel canonical url, url masking?

Other things to note:

• It is fine if www.bobspizza.com is NOT listed in search results.
• I would ideally like any link juice pointing to www.bobspizza.com to pass onto www.menus.com though this is a nice to have. If it comes at the cost of being penalised i can live without the link juice from this.

Thanks

Thanks. Do you have any more details on how too many domain level re-directions would negatively impact the site? I have looked around quite a bit though cant seem to find much info on this.

Would to many canonical url pointers from the various root domains have the same negative impact as to many 301 redirects from various root domains?

Thanks

Ok, that makes sense.

Is there any other alternatives to get www.businessname.com.au to show in SERP?

I was thinking of duplicating the content on the domain (www.businessname.com.au) and then having a canonical URL pointing to www.bizdirectory.com.au/businessname. My primary aim is to build the domain trust and rank of www.bizdirectory.com.au.

The purpose of using www.businessname.com.au is so i can give small businesses their "own website" that would hopefully be indexed by Google.

Do you think this approach would work? Thanks.

Hi, If I have the domain name www.businessname.com.au pointing (using 301 redirect) to a particular page on a business directory site (eg www.bizdirectory.com.au/businessname), is it possible to have the URL www.businessname.com.au displayed in the Google search results rather than the destination page of www.bizdirectory.com.au/businessname?

Thanks in advance,
Adam

Hi i have looking into ways that i can apply shema.org formatting to a website that has a collection of restaurant menus.

I found related schema.org formats (eg recipes, reviews, products etc) though can not seem to find a format set out for menu items.

I am considering using the product format (http://schema.org/Product) for each menu item on a restaurant menu though not sure if this would add much value or not.

I was hoping Google when then know more about the data collected on the website and be able to show it more accurately to the end user when they are searching for this data (restaurant menu), with rich snippets in serp results.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.