Okay, thanks Alan!
Posts made by brad-causes
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RE: Do search engines crawl links on 404 pages?posted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
Yes it will continue crawling or yes it will stop the crawl?
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RE: Do search engines crawl links on 404 pages?posted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
Hey Matt,
Thanks for the reply. I'm aware of all the best practice stuff but thanks for sending through. It didn't quite answer my question so let me rephrase...
Will a bot follow a hyperlink (like the example below) on a 404 page or will it stop the crawl on that page (not on the whole site) because the header response code is a 404?
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Do search engines crawl links on 404 pages?posted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
I'm currently in the process of redesigning my site's 404 page. I know there's all sorts of best practices from UX standpoint but what about search engines? Since these pages are roadblocks in the crawl process, I was wondering if there's a way to help the search engine continue its crawl.
Does putting links to "recent posts" or something along those lines allow the bot to continue on its way or does the crawl stop at that point because the 404 HTTP status code is thrown in the header response?
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RE: Moving to subdirectory from subdomain, where subdomain PR is equal to root domain PRposted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
That logic seems incorrect since it doesn't account for root domain links that point to the subdomain. This would only apply if all the inbound links were from other root domains.
For example, my blog on the subdomain has 1.4M inbound links, 1.35M of which come from the root domain. I'm guessing this is because it's a footer link. So, the PR6 of the blog seems largely inherited from the root domain, which has a PR of 6.
Were you just trying to oversimplify it?
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Moving to subdirectory from subdomain, where subdomain PR is equal to root domain PRposted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
Hi all,
I'm currently in the process of revitalizing my company's blog. Currently, the blog sits on a subdomain (blog.rootdomain.com). SEO best practice dictates that I should move this (and 301 redirect the old URLs) to rootdomain.com/blog to concentrate link equity and avoid the risk of having search engines treat the subdomain as separate from the root domain.
However, the PageRank Status extension for Chrome is reporting that the PR for the blog on the subdomain and the root domain are the same. Is there any benefit to migrating the subdomain to a subdirectory? Is that data accurate enough to base decisions off of?
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How to do a site migration followed by a domain migration and avoid 301 redirect chains?posted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
Hi all,
The current roadmap for our Eng team has us performing a site migration (redirecting one subfolder to another subfolder) and then a domain migration shortly after. The way I see it, I have 2 scenarios (the 1st involves the site migration THEN the domain migration and the 2nd is the site migration and domain migration being done simultaneously):
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olddomain.com/subfolder-old to olddomain.com/subfolder-new THEN olddomain.com/subfolder-new to newdomain.com/subfolder-new AND olddomain.com/subfolder-old to newdomain.com/subfolder-new
I also understand that there are two best practices for a domain migration and they are 1) keep everything the same that you can to help Google understand it is the same page, just on a different domain and 2) avoid chain redirects.
As you can imagine, scenario 1 requires more Eng costs than scenario 2. So, my question is, is scenario 2 a perfectly viable option or should I make the push to go for scenario 1?
Any advice is greatly appreciated!
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