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Yes, I bet.  I just want to be able to know what I'm asking.  lol

Thanks again for your help!  

Thanks Oleg!!!

-f is for file and -d is for directory, correct?

I found a 5 hour course on Lynda.com on RegEx so I'll be doing that this evening.

Thanks again for your quick response.  Much appreciated!!!

I'm going to have to do a rule, aren't I?  Basically to include (faq|faq.php) or something like that, huh?  So a RewriteRule is going to have to be used instead of Redirect or RedirectMatch.

Please help!

Hey!

I am having a tough time figuring this out, and I have already signed up for my RegEx course.  So in the mean time, could you please help me?

I have two old URLs:

/faq

/faq.php

The new one is /faqs

How can I write a 301 redirect to include faq & faq.php in the same line?  I basically want to capture /faq and anything beyond the q including the .php.

I thought this would work:

Redirect 301 /faq. http://www.blah.com/faqs

Using the period to catch everything after the q and redirect it to the /faqs page.

Extra credit: And why Redirect 301 vs. RedirectMatch 301?  It is an Apache server and mod_ rewrite is on.

Thanks in advance!

Yes, thank you.  We size them all to what we want on the site so we are good there.  Just got done doing it, and it did make a difference.  Thanks guys!

Perfect-O!  I completely get it now.  Thanks Paul.  You da man!

I thought it would be faster as in my mind it was more to read, but now that I understand the loading, I get it.  Guess I need to start researching how a website loads.  Have any resources I can read, to up my experience with this?

I've been in development but on an application side not website side.

Currently working on a sitespeed issue, and was wondering if not having width and height for images actually do cause a problem.  We simply Photoshop the resolution we require for the image and add it to the page as is.  I though this would actually speed it up, but I am getting from www.gtmetrix.com that we should have them.

What's your experience?  Thanks!

Yes, we do some "how tos" and how muches".  Was just worried about DA if we turn up the frequency.  Thanks again for your insight!

You're saying your new image has the old name?

Thanks Content King!

We're just going to have to get creative.  If someone has already reported it as news then we are no longer in the unique, original department.  For example, if a company announces a new product, we'll report it.  But so is everyone else...

Guess if they want the gold, they're going to have to pay with gold.  lol

Thanks meme.

This is an interesting niche.  We've shared tips, but seem to be running out of them.  Now we're getting more into the providing news arena.  Nothing news worthy in their niche, but plenty in the element they provide the service for.

So you are basically saying, if the content just sits, it won't do anything for us which may result in a lower domain authority.  We need some sharing or content marketing going on with each and every piece we write.

Guess we're just going to have to get a little more creative.

Are the images ranking because of the page or because of the image?

As we continue our content marketing efforts, and increase the frequency of posting to the blog, would this impact our domain authority?

We are assuming that when you add new pages, their low authority contribute to decreasing the domain's authority.  Is this the case?

It might not hurt a big site like SEOmoz that's already in the 90's.  What about a site in the 20-30 range?

It's the king of content himself!  It's been awhile.  Hope things are great with you!

I think I'll take the "bite my lip" approach then deep breath then try to explain it one more time.  Wish me luck!

Thanks Greg!

I educate until I'm blue in the face then they read some black hat strategy, go look at their SERPs, and see it working for their competitors.  LOL

But yes, preaching the long term is what it's all about.

You're two cents is worth a dollar, my friend!  

Here's the thing.  There is no limit to buying LLCs.  So if they match the domain to the LLC, how in the world will Google be even able to detect the manipulative brands that are brands but not really brands.

Thanks again!

Let me add that they will also buy the LLC to match the domain...

Fantastic day!

I am seeing exact match domains still dominating.  SEOmoz has some insight: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/exact-match-domains-are-far-too-powerful-is-their-time-limited

But that's from two years ago.  Is Google ever going to target the manipulators that buy up all the exact match domains?

One of our partners is getting the itch, and I am running out of explanations on why we don't manipulate.  But if these practices are dominating their industry, what to do?  I have to get paid to feed the family so just telling the client buh-bye isn't going to work.  At least not in this stage of agency building.

Their root domain doesn't do much for them, however, you know we well optimize those subdomains and rank those fine.

But if my client can just buy an exact match domain, and it will take less SEO work to get it ranked then why not?  He has the SEO expert in his back pocket to clean up the mess IF they would even get a penalty or drop in rank.

Is all SEO really is find algo hole, manipulate, penalty, fix, find algo hole, manipulate, penalty, fix.  Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

Please share your experiences and insight!

Thanks,

Ben

You have to deprogram the "bath room wall" their reading out there in Internetland.  Been there.  Done that.  lol

Content marketing is probably the most effective from what I've seen.  That's for sure.

Talk to you later!

I guess it is what it is. It gives us a better opportunity for sure.  Just don't like the negativity it gives to those clients about our industry.

Talk to you later.  Now get back to work!  

Thanks EGOL! We are already seeing the effects of our better quality work.  I guess I'm just venting.  Thanks for helping me regain focus on what matters.  I just need to ignore those bad practices, and not let it take so much energy away.  Thanks again.

Thanks Istvan for commenting and reassuring good always wins in the end!

We continuously receive comments on our partners' websites which are obviously spam from a third world country trying to build backlinks that some SEO firm outsourced.

Out of curiosity, and what I've added to my prayers at night is for the search engines to apply an algorithm update to discredit comments posted under a certain time frame to help identify spam, and these garbage practices.  Do you think something like this would happen?

My most important thought is...how can we compete with companies that are doing these practices trying to get that quick buck?  Look, we want to play the game with the highest ethics and morals and not "cheat" the system because we know a "work around".

Thoughts...

Yea, they're not going to let you bog down their server with that many requests! LOL

I was unaware of the 1000s of pages and URLs you now want redirected.  And if those pages had links going to your other pages, you've officially removed any link juice they were providing for one another which would impact your rank.  Page A to Page B and so on...

Good luck!!!

If you are completely removing these pages, you also want them removed from the search engine directories.  Google has Webmaster Tools to do this, and you also have to update robots.txt so the search engines will stop trying to crawl pages that do not exist anymore.

This may help: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164734

Not sure about the "other guys".  With Microsoft creating Bing and taking over Yahoo, I'm not sure they're up to snuff yet.  However, Bing does have Webmaster Tools as well (http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster/), but I haven't played around with all of its features just yet.

Hope this helps!!!

This topic has me entirely confused, and unsure if we should keep a website focused on one keyword group, and using synonym contextual links to rank it for other keyword  synonyms. We simply have not seen enough data or run enough tests to find our answer, and wanted to reach out to the community to see if anyone has. I have seen Google rank a synonym to my search query on the first page, and is why we are confused.

Let's use an example:

We'll use "Industry" as the main keyword for our page. "Company" or "Companies" is viewed as a synonym by Google of this keyword.  When we query "Industry", "Company" and "Companies" are also found in bold.

1.) Is it best practice to also create a unique page targeting synonyms? Our thinking is that it would be best to try and target exactly what the user is looking for rather than having a synonym to their search for better conversions, but as mentioned above we feel it's best to hit exactly what they query because that's their way of thinking.  That they're looking for that exact match.

2.) Have the page "Industry", but do some link building using contextual links "Company" or "Companies" pointing back at our "Industry" page. Would this help rank our "Industry" page for "Company"  or "Companies" even though the main page is "Industry"? Just not sure we want to do this as the reasoning explained in #1.

Thanks for your help!

Yea, I just thought it was a bug in the app. I think we'll run some experiments on titles with hyphens for a month or so to see if it truly impacts conversions. Then we'll write about it!!! I think you are right though.

I am pretty sure hyphens are looked at as spaces no matter what programming language you are using for text purposes.  The On-page Report Card is not counting them as spaces in the page title, therefore, we're not getting the grade for having the keyword in the page title because it's divided by hyphens.

Is this a fix that needs to be implemented into the SEOmoz app or should I not have hyphens in the title or does it really not matter?

Up for discussion!  Thanks!