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Discovered some really odd words ranking for us in WMT. Looked further and found  pages like this www.pdnseek.com/wll/canadian-24-hour-pharmacy. When you click it it redirects to the home page. The developers can't find /wll anywhere on the site. The pages are indexed and cached.

Looked at the back links in moz and found many backlinks to our site from other sites using URLs like this.  The host says there is nothing on the server, but where else could it be. We've run virus scans, nothing, looked through source code, nothing.

Anyone with some idea?  www.pdnseek.com is the URL

Soooooo, I did a crawl report on this site : www.greatwesternflooring.com and this was what was on the report. This is a dnn site. I'm guessing the site has a redirect loop given the http status code. Can anyone help me with a fix. (the developers have said there is no redirect on the site......clearly there is....)

| http://www.greatwesternflooring.com/ | 2015-01-07T21:32:25Z | 609 : Redirect to already-visited URL received for page request. | Error attempting to request page; see title for details. | 302 | http://www.greatwesternflooring.com |

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Thank you both for the reply.

I've looked at Webmaster, nothing there in way of penalty. However there was a surge in indexed pages (like huge from 700 to 7,000) that happened in this same time period (aug-september) We discovered that the developers had implemented a search function on the site that was creating essentially duplicate content. We had them implement canonical on the site to avoid issues there. Personally this is what I believe has affected the organic more so than the adwords. But the client thinks that has not had an effect, he believes that organic traffic was erroneously reported in previous months. ( I believe this to be impossible, true?)

I'm trying to figure out if there is a remote possibility, that adwords would cannibalize organic.  It seems counterintuitive to spend adwords money, but not increase traffic, just "steal" traffic from one source for another. But it also seems "reasonable" that Google would take a site out of organic results to force click thrus on the ad (too cynical....?  perhaps...lol)

Seems there would be no advantage to running adwords if that is the case. I can get the relatively the same traffic for free, right?

Thanks for your thoughts on this.

I hope someone can give me some insight here, or at least point me in the right direction.

As of September 1 we are running Adwords. We are seeing an alarming drop in our organic traffic since then. It's almost like Adwords is cannibalizing organic.

August/September

Paid 116/847

Organic 648/178

We've looked at why the Organic could have dropped (penalties, site function issues, etc.) and have found nothing unusual.

Can someone give me a reason why this might be happening, Why such a dramatic decrease just as adwords is started.

Thanks!

This is the page http://www.christoit.com/free-resources/articles. While this page isn't what I would consider to be a "resource page"  (there are no downloads or any other resources)  The question is, does a page like this that just has links to articles, hurt the overall ranking of the site.

If you have any examples to support your opinion that would be great!

Thanks so much for all awesome threads and answers on this site. There are some really smart people all in one place!

I think we can all be in agreement that one site with subdomain is the best option. Thank you all for confirming what I thought was probably the right direction, but just needed to hear it somewhere else

I have a client that sponsors  a couple of events during the year. They currently have pages within a single website for these events but are interested in creating a separate website so they can brand the events differently.  I'm not sure this is the most effective way to do it for fear of losing the "google juice" already there for these pages.Here's what I'm thinking is a better strategy: 1) Host the content both on the main domain and the sub-domain2) Make sure there is a tag on each page of the sub-domain version that points to the main version.That will give them the branding they are seeking while pushing all juice across to the main domain.What are your thoughts?

This is our thought as well. A continuous feed of fresh content is a better approach than a one off. This is how we've been doing it, but we're really interested in knowing if others have tried this other approach, with any lasting sustainability in traffic or ranking. ( we kind of doubt it, but would love to see proof that it works)

We have an internal debate, that perhaps y'all can help us resolve.

In the past "freshness" of content has been important, correct? (Google's QDF for example) In the past (to present) when we build a site with the intent to SEO the site, we build the core pages with the expectation that we will be adding more site pages as the project progresses, thus settling the "fresh content" factor.

But it has been proposed to us, from a client, that completely building the site out with all the pages you hope to rank, getting the upfront bang for your buck. The expectation is that the traffic soars right-off.

Now the client says that he has been doing this for years and has not been affected by any alog changes. (although we have not seen proof of this from him)

So our question is this: Is it better to provide a website full of fresh content at the beginning of the project, for a jumpstart on traffic, then leave the site alone ( for the most part)

or

Is it better to have core pages of fresh content at the start, and build out new pages from their, so the website remains fresh every month?

And can you prove your argument? (we need cold hard facts to be convinced

I don't currently know which one is linked to more often. I will look into that. Thanks for that little tip and your fast response.

I get that!!  Does this happen when a site is built?  Does it just happen by default, or was something not done correctly when the site was built?

Thanks for your quick response

I just put my site in moz analytics. The crawl results says I have duplicate content. When I look at the pages it is because one page is www.xyz.com and the duplicate is xyz.com.   What causes this and how can it be fixed. I'm not a developer, so be kind and speak a language I can understand.

Thanks for your help

See below and pls let us know what we have to do solve this :

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Joel Day (Moz Help)

Mar 07 05:03 PM

Hey Tracy,

It looks like there's a redirect loop on your site.

greatwesternflooring.com redirects to www.greatwesternflooring.com/ which in turn 302 redirects back into itself.

You'll likely need to fix the redirect before you can continue configuring the campaign.

Thanks!
Joel.

Moz
t: @HelpWizard

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Tracy

Mar 07 03:14 PM

I sent an email, and this is the response I got. The help forum sent me here, so here I am

An answer was posted to this question:
Question I have a valid URL greatwesternflooring.com, but when I try to add this campaign I get an "opps" message telling me it's not a valid URL. Can you help me?

Answer
This looks like a bug. Please reach out to us via support so that we can forward this along to our Developers for review. Thanks!(https://moz.com/help/contact)
See where this question was originally asked.

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