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Thanks Paul,

On custom crawl setting, I just verified and they remain same same across all our sites.

Yes, sitemap is dynamic but rendered via cache which refreshed when new content get published, will check on the load time.

thank you

Thanks Robert,

All our sites are getting indexed for sure, but one site ( coed.com ) sitemap.xml on GWT says it was processed only on the day it submitted, while other sites ( collegecandy.com and bustedcoverage.com ) sitemap.xml GWT was getting processed everyday

Our sitemap.xml on all sites updates automatically when new content get published so I believe it has to be processed every day

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Hi,

We have multiple sites under our google webmaster tools account with each having a sitemap.xml submitted

Each site's sitemap.xml status ( attached below ) shows it is processed everyday except for one

_Sitemap: /sitemap.xml__This Sitemap was submitted Jan 10, 2012, and processed Oct 14, 2013._But except for one site ( coed.com ) for which the sitemap.xml was processed only on the day it is submitted and we have to manually resubmit every day to get it processed.Any idea on why it might?thank you

Hi Jacob,

Thanks for elaborating on advanced queries, those help us to see how many of our pages are indexed thus far. It alarming that we see more than 120K pages on old domain unlike 40K on new domain even after 6 months.

We zeroed on not having a consolidated site map with all the new urls fed to google might be the reason as for the limitations of our CMS, we were not able to generate that at domain change. But we are in the process of generating and see where it takes us.

thank you,

We figured that the drop we observed is across web for mobile and is attributed to changes on google analytics behavior in interpreting direct traffic v/s search traffic.

[ verified the change with couple of other publisher partners ]

thank you

Hi Steve,

We refresh the sitemap.xml on the regular basis and submit it to google with the latest content and hence had all links referencing new domain.

thank you

Hi, In Apr'13, Within 'Change Of Address', I verified both coedmagazine.com and www.coedmagazine.com to coed.com which resulted in 'option to withdraw request' and a message saying the notification will remain in effect for 180 days. But after your reply, I went back and checked the status but it is back to a normal 'change of address' page accepting a new request.

How do I know the status of the earlier request as I was not sure if it is successful or not?

Regarding crawl and index reports on old domain, they have considerably dropped but still 100K pages are indexed on old domain and crawl reports show around 100 404 pages but when i click those links, they redirect me to 404 page on new domain.

Thanks for robots.txt verification tool, will work to resolve them.

thanks again

Thanks for the re-direct checkup tool. I verified the URLs and it says 'Search Engine Friendly'

Regarding parking domain: We are on wordpress hosting which provides us an interface to choose a primary domain, which was updated to coed.com from coedmagazine.com. This update automatically does fetch content referring to the new domain.

What I have not done: Hard redirect of coedmagazine.com to coed.com at domain level with my registrar ( godaddy ). Will doing this have any effect?

Hi,

We changed our domain from coedmagazine.com to coed.com in April'13.

Applied 301 redirects on all pages, submitted 'change of address' to google but we still see site:coedmagazine.com fetching 130K results on google as opposed to site:coed.com fetches 40K results.

Can anybody here throw some light on what might be going wrong?

[ Site runs on wordpress, hosted with wordpress as well ]

thank you

We noticed a significant drop in our direct traffic in Google Analytics for mobile on July 30th but all our other traffic remains the same. What is the possible cause of this?

Hi,

We are on wordpress platform with category permalink structure site.com/category/categoryname.

To pull in more SEO traffic, we created pages with structure site.com/categorynameand pulled in all the content from category pages to these new pages followed by applying no-follow on category pages within robots.txt.

While it has been a week we applied these changes, we still see old category pages on google search with weird description ( A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt... )

How could we make search results to replace old categories links with the new pages?

thanks in advance

Hi,

I would like to know if appending site name at the end of page title ( page title -_ Site Name/Site URL_ ) is a good/bad practice in reference to SEO?

If a good practice which is better ( Site Name or Site URL )?

Example:

20 Things you didn't know about zombies - coed.com

Thanks in advance

Thank you.

We have all our stories published today ( 20-Jun-2013 ) got indexed by google except this ( http://coed.com/2013/06/20/heres-a-video-of-kate-upton-topless-on-a-horse/ ). Do anyone out there have any clue about that?

Thanks in advance

Just looking to remove it. Thanks for the info, will see if this works.

For a Wordpress site that has the ending / in the URL with a ? after it... how can you do a 301 redirect to strip off anything after the /

For example how to take this URL

domain.com/article-name/?utm_source=feedburner

and 301 to this URL

domain.com/article-name/

Thank you for the help