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Hi David,
Thanks for your reply. The site I am going to build has about 500 subcategories under around 15 main categories. Length of categories and sub categories are tiny. And about 50,000 product pages. So in this case which way is better? 1st or 2nd?
And why you said "If they are quite long your URLs can get long and ugly and you may be better off with the second option"? Is that means the 1st option have something better than 2nd?
Thanks
Prasad
Hi Everybody,
Which URL structure is much better?
Type 01.
http://www.domain.com/category-a/
http://www.domain.com/category-a/subcategory-a-1/
http://www.domain.com/category-a/subcategory-a-2/
http://www.domain.com/category-b/
http://www.domain.com/category-b/subcategory-b-1/
http://www.domain.com/category-b/subcategory-b-2/
Type 02.
http://www.domain.com/category-a/
http://www.domain.com/subcategory-a-1/
http://www.domain.com/subcategory-a-2/
http://www.domain.com/category-b/
http://www.domain.com/subcategory-b-1/
http://www.domain.com/subcategory-b-2/
How these 2 types can affect for Ranking, Site Links in Google and passing PR from root to other pages?
Thanks
Prasad
Yes, That is the best thing you can do. Because seems there have some other issues in configs. And we can not see from here about your all the configs. Anyway the codes we have given you will successfully work once you solve your other problems.
Best Regards
Prasad
Hi,
I think you are doing so many mistakes. First take out all the other codes from your .htaccess file. Then copy only one code from me or from Ersin. While you have some other codes related to this domains redirection there may have conflicts. And your current code work for your root domains mean your .htaccess redirection is working. The problem is you have not used it correctly.
Yes, 100% agree with Thomas. Then spider will go to sub pages through the main optimized page and will not occur any keyword cannibalization. So after you have done sub pages and linked them to main page, you must check the main page using On Page Optimization tool using your keyword. So, it will show if there any keyword cannibalization.
Hi,
When compare you give urls seems someone have posted your shortened urls. As an example on some websites they are shortening the actual url and using as Anchor text.
As an example http://www.seomoz.org/q/wei.. but it correctly has linked to the correct page. But some users with less knowledge, they just copy the Anchor text and post those at blog posts or some other places. Because that anchor text looks like an url.
And also it can be happen because of some other site's activity.
Anyway 404 not found errors will not affect your ranking. So you do not have to worry about this problem. Also suggest you to read this help document about 404 errors.
But I can see some another problem can happen because of this kind of activity. Because if you will get any traffic from a url like that with some suffixed which you have not created. As an example a url like this
www.domain.com/latest-reviews/?refferer=some_reffer
can be have a duplicate content issue. So, I strongly recommend to add rel canonical url in to your page.
Regards
Prasad
Hi,
Do not worry about the differences about the code provided by me and by Ersin. Both are same in functioning. He have just added module activation tags in to the code. So you may use any code which you prefer and works for you.
And the answer for your question about the code you were using, it may not be initiate a wildcard redirection.
Are there more codes inside the .htaccess?
If you can post the exact code without hyper-linking any url then I can tell you the exact reason why your code does not do the job.
Prasad
You must optimize only one page. Not multiple pages.
You will have a clear idea about that after you read this great blog post, posted by Rand
How to solve the keyword cannibalization
Regards
Prasad
Hi,
The supplied url for interior page of old domain which you have mentioned not redirecting seems not correct. Because you have linked that text with the new domain. Anyway I have understand your problem. Your problem is
is redirecting to
but
http://www.ccisound.com/StoreFront/category/cd-duplicators
is not redirecting to
http://www.ccisolutions.com/StoreFront/category/cd-duplicators
If I have understood correctly, the solution for your problem is, Do a wildcard 301 redirection. It will redirects all the inner pages to the new domain's inner pages. But all the inner pages in new site, must have the same paths as the old site. Hope you understand what I mean.
Anyway when look in to the example urls you have provided it seems both sites have the same content. So there is nothing to worry about. Seems you have just changed domain name.
So anyway use the following code in your .htaccess file inside your root folder
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^ccisound.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.ccisound.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http://www.ccisolutions.com/$1" [R=301,L]
First and second line do not write again if those already written inside your .htaccess file.
the above code will initiate a wildcard 301 redirection and will solve your problem. Hope you can improve the code for all the other domains you have. Otherwise post here. I will do it for you.
Regards
Prasad
That is a one of the main things you shouldn't do. So forget about this trick. Make pages for users not for the search engines. Then search engines will find it for them.
Regards
Prasad
Hi,
I also agree with Kyle. I do not know how these pages has created. But anyway all the contents are same on all the pages. So there not only duplicate meta descriptions. There you will have Duplicate Contents and maybe with penalty also from Google. And as there is no any harm by adding a canonical url, do not be late to add a canonical tag before you get more issues.
the correct canonical tag for this is
Then the other urls will not be show in Webmaster Tools. But it will take few weeks to disappear from Webmaster Tools.
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Prasad
Hi,
301 Redirection and Canonicaling are 2 different methods. But both can help you to avoid duplicating contents.
Hope you need to know how to do those, right?
301 redirection is using to direct one url to another url permanently. That means if you will redirect http;//www.yourdomain.com/images.php to http://www.yourdomain.com/images/ using 301 redirection, all the search engines will understand your page have permanently moved to a new location. So search engines will index your new page instead of the old page. And about 95% of link juice on old url will be redirected to new page.
301 redirection can be initiated by using .htaccess in linux servers and also in server side script in your page. If you have a plan to redirect using .htaccess file maybe this guide will help you.
If you are planing to redirect using the server side scripting this guide will help you.
Rel Canonical is a different way than redirection. It will not direct you to another location. As an example just imagine you have two pages with two different urls, first is http://www.yourdomain.com/page1.php and second page is http://www.yourdomain.com/page2.php but you have used same contents on both pages. So in this point you have a duplicate content issue. Now you have to select which page you need to be indexed by search engines. So, if you need to index the first page you the following Rel Canonical link between tags.
When using this canonical link users can visit both pages. It will not redirect. But search engines will understand the second page is just a duplicate page of first page.
Mostly this Rel Canonical link is so helpful to ignore the unwanted suffixes from url. Here is an example about that.
http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php
http://www.yourdomain.com/?refferer=some_refferer
http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php?sessid=a6yda7dafdd
Above url types (also more) can be indexed in search engines because of many reasons. But really those 3 urls will show you the contents of http://www.yourdomain.com/ So in this case there are 3 duplicate pages of http://www.yourdomain.com/ and search engines will also index those 3 duplicate pages and you will get duplicate content issue.
So, if you have used Rel Canonical tag to your home page as
then no problem there will generate how many kind of duplicates made of your home page. Search engines will ignore those and will not indexed and will not have any duplicate content issues.
Hope this will help you and ask for more help if there anything else you confusing.
Regards
Prasad
Hi Will,
First you must have a process to redirect all the current ulrs to new domain's urls, using 301 permanent redirection. It will pass about 95 % of link juice to your new urls.
And also set the new domain on Google Webmaster Tools and set the old domains settings as you have moved your site to new domain. Hope you know how you can do it.
But I have no idea about your new website. Because of the new contents on your new urls maybe different than the current contents on current urls and up to the on page optimization of the new pages can be affects to your ranking. It maybe higher or lower. Because this is not just url updating.
Regards
Prasad
Hi,
Robots.txt works mainly on 2 rules. Those are User-agent: and Disallow:
User-agent: the name of the robot you need to block
Disallow: the url or folder or other url with conditions you need to block.
As you have asked in your question you need to block a url with a condition. But you have to remember that Robot.txt is giving so critical results if you did not use it correctly.
Anyway in your question, you wanted to block url/pages with query strings like page.html?dir=asc&order=name
so you have to use following:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /*?
So the above will block all the urls with a question mark (?) for all the search robots. This will not block only page.html?dir=asc&order=name it will alos block comments.html?dir=asc&order=name
So use it so carefully.
Hope this is the what you have looked for. If need more help you may ask.
Regards
Prasad
Hi,
I have not find any place to set the domain is http or https. But you can have an idea about the reason to happen like this by go through the suggestion given by On-page Optimization tool.
Also better if you can post here, what are the suggestions you got with that C grade. Hope it will helpful for others to give you a good response.
Anyway I always suggest you to use actual url to check the on-page report when using the tool.
Regards
Prasad
Hi,
If your site have indexed well and ranking well in search engines for your targeting keywords, there is no problem your urls are dynamic or static.
But keyword rich static url is a high value factor in modern seo. Even if it is OK for now maybe static url will be helpful in future and also when you will have a competitor.
So if you need to change those to static urls you may have a process to redirect the old urls via a 301 permanent redirection.
As an example if some one typed the old url http://www.yoursite.com/oldpage.php it must redirect to your new url http://www.yoursite.com/new-page and it must be via 301 redirection. it is very very important.
And one another thing. As I know this will pass your old url's link juice 99% to your new urls. But not 100%
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Prasad
Hi,
Your problem is very easy to solve. When I look in to your source of your page. I can see those 2 canonical urls.
The first one is on line number 13 and the second one is on line number 19 (See attached image)
For you, I think the easiest one to remove is the 1st link, That means find the code to generate the 1st canonical url to generate on line number 13 and simply remove that code or change the code as suitably.
It will solve your issue.
Regards
Prasad
Yes, That is correct. If you setup root domain for your campaign it will show all the issues and on page report cards for all the subdomains within your root domain. That is not an issue.
When you go to the campaign setup page it clearly say that the root domain will track all the subdomains under that root domain. (See attached image) And also read Campaign Setup
If you need to track only the specific subdomain individually, you have to add them as different campaigns.
Good Luck
cprasad
Thanks for your response.
As you guided me to check the google update history, I have followed it well. But I could not find a related point for this matter. I have done On Page Optimizations for my pages about 1 month ago.
And after that I saw that it ranked much better in google in last week. But after I noticed that it is dropping again. In google webmaster tools I can see the number of pages crawled also started to going down.
Still confused.
Hi,
I am the site owner of http://www.lankahq.net. It is a youtube video hosted website. 95% of the video contents are daily telecasting TV shows and categorized to make easy to find the specific video of the day of preferred program of the viewer.
About 1 year ago suddenly disappeared my site from the google. Before happened that it was performing very well in search. Google showed my site contents within few minutes after I update in their search results when someone search for that.
At the moment it does not show even some one search for "lankahq". It showing only if search for "lankahq.net", "lankahq.com" or "www.lankahq.net" something like a search keyword related to my domain name.
Some other websites have added my branding keyword LankaHQ as a user of their site and they showing on top of Google. But not mine.
It is much appreciated if someone can have a look on this matter. I can not find where is the problem.
