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This is way I love the SEOMOZ community no matter how stupid the solution to your problem might be people will let you know.

I feel like an amateur (cause I'm) I think I overtrusted yoast's plugin, Because whenever your are blocking the robots it will tell you, hoewever this time it didn't and the site, through wordpress config, was blocking the site.

I changed it, resubmited the sitemaps, checked the code and updated yoast's great plugin....

Thanks guys... I SEOPromise to check always the code myself

Dan

Great tool I'm taking a look right now

thanks

Dan

I check GWT everyday, not even one page has been indexed... Nor We have any manual action suggested by google

http://canchas.com/robots.txt

Thanks

Dan

I did once I noticed it...

http://canchas.com/robots.txt

thanks Dan

Hello... We have a client, that had arround 17K visits a month... Last september he hired a company to do a redesign of his website....They needed to create a copy of the site on a different subdomain on another root domain... so I told them to block that content in order to not affect my production site, cause it was going to be an exact replica of the content but different design....

The developmet team did it wrong and blocked the production site (using robots.txt), so my site lost all it's organica traffic, which was 85-90% of the total traffic and now only get a couple of hundreds visits a month... First I thought we had been somehow penalized, however when I the other site recieving new traffic and being indexed i realized so I switched the robots.txt and created 301 redirect from the subdomain to the production site.

After resending sitemaps, links to google+ and many things I can't get google to reindex my site.... when i do a site:domain.com search in google I only get 3 results. Its been now almost 2 month and honestly dont know what to do....

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Dan

Thanks for the response.

Point 1 already did...

Point 2 might be a solution,I was kind of blind with the mess so I tried to block that domain.... Will try with redirects now

Any other suggestion it's welcome

Dan

I got a site with 98% (not provided)... Overall among 28 sites that I checked I got a 87% avg.... But the trend line it's exponential on the las 10 weeks.

EGOL I've checked what you said about Safari traffic, I'm using GA and got as well a lot of direct traffic, however 95% was from IOS devices.... maybe the issue it's related to only mobile devices?

Dan

Hello....

I got to tell that I feel like a newbie (I am, but know I feel like it)... We were working with a client until january this year, they kept going on their own until september that they contacted us again... Someone on the team that handled things while we were gone, updated it´s robots.txt file to Disallow everything... for maybe 3 weeks before we were back in.... Additionally they were working on a different subdomain, the new version of the site and of course the didn't block the robots on that one. So now the whole site it's been duplicated, even it´s content, the exact same pages exist on the suddomain that was public the same time the other one was blocked.

We came in changes the robots.txt file on both server, resend all the sitemaps, sent our URL on google+... everything the book says... but the site it´s not getting indexed. It's been 5 weeks now and no response what so ever. We were highly positioned on several important keywords and now it's gone.

I now you guys can help, any advice will be highly appreciated.

thanks

Dan

I agree with you.

I think down here in venezuela people are not as aware as maybe other countries to figure out that the domain changed.

My main worry, as i told moosa is that the client does not have the resources to maintain both sites. I guess using the .com domain was the only way to combine both.

The Client it's offers several consulting services, business plans, financial planning, legal consulting etc.

thanks

Ok... thanks for your answer.... However the client does not have the manpower o resources to produce content for both sites.

What would you do in that case?

dan

I know this might sound as a newbie question or maybe not, here it goes.

I've had a client for the past 2 years, and we have accomplish many good things for his local website .com.ve (venezuela). It's been so good that he is opening a branch in Dominican republic .com.do.

The content, strategy and even the services are exactly the same, but the owner  wants to have different site for each country. Of course he only wants to pay for one domain.

I do want to share our success ont the .com.ve with the other domains and he actually owns the "global" domain .com with his brand name.

So, what should I reccomend... Develop a second site and start from scratch? Migrate my blog from the .com.ve site to the .com site and give each country a separate folder? /ve /do?.

What it's the best scenario for me to have all the traffic we have earned transfer to the global brand and to have separate info for each country...

Thank you so much for your answer that I kno would be great.

Dan

Yes, Canonical OR alternate

So probably the best choice would be to use the canonical an alternate tags so Google understands my site's structure and make my life easier

great resources

thanks Alan

I have 2 subdamains intented for 2 different countries (Colombia and Venezuela) ve.domain.com and co.domain.com. The site it's an e-commerce with over a million products available so they have the same page with the same content on both sub-domains....the only differences are the prices a payment options.

Does google take that as duplicate content?

Thanks

Yes... haha realized that too way more frustating but if you improve that, you are doing a global goog job as it seems.

thanks

Andres, first thank you so much for the wonderful help...

didn't know the pw parameter... And I totally agree with you that looking at SEO according to my sites objectives it's a better follow up. It makes more sense to me anyway, last year got my Google Analytics Qualified Individual certification so i feel much more confortable looking at my analytics...

I will be looking at the avg position at Google and Bing and I guess matching them with the proper analytics.

Thank you so much

Saludos

Maybe there's even a more interesting question....

Should I care for the exact position?... at the end of the day, all the factors that google takes into consideration to present the best SERP to me it changes on every computer, even browser?... should I be looking instead for some KPI, that cares about, search volume, ranking avg position, traffic and converstion rate on my keywords???

Love to hear your thoughts

Hello, here something interesting

I'm Using Rank Tracker from SEOMOZ And from the link-assistant's Rank Tracker as Well... I need to track Google.com and Google.co.ve (venezuela) so I did... i got my keyword an here are my results.

1 Keyword A at google.com (united states)

Rank Tracker SEOMOZ = pos 6

Rank Tracker OTHER = pos 6

Manual Query on google.com = 9 (I used the exact url seomoz tells me its using)

2 Keyword A at Google.co.ve

Rank Tracker SEOMOZ = pos 8

Rank Tracker OTHER = pos 7

Manual query on google.co.ve = pos 8

So.... Why it's that?, so far I think that google.com for me down here (it actually says "Español") it's a different index? for latinamerica? only spanish pages?

maybe it's because there's a couple of minutes between looking with one tool and the other...

any help, would be great...

Dan

It's been two hours since the tweet, and already went from 5 to 33 pages indexed on google, It's possible that only the tweet helped?, or it's just that we tweeted 2 hours before the scheduled crawl haha,

it's interesting

Excelent!!! thought of that but did not know it was on real time ... wonderful advice....

already following you on twitter and sent you the tweet.

Daniel

Hello... i just started with a new client this week, before working with us his last domain-hosting-webdev provider cancel their account and took off the entire site and left them with a nice "under construction page" (NOT) and added the noindex, nofollow tags.

4 weeks after that, we come into the scene and of course our client it's expecting us to reinsert at least for branded terms the site, and he wants it done on a matter of hours...

I tried my best to explain that it's not possible and we are doing everything we can't.... now i ask you guys..

I already created de GWT account, Created a well structured Sitemap and submitted it to google and bing, did the onpage optimizitation at least the basics... there is a way to speed up the process? kind of like "hey you! google bot, forget about the noindex nonsense a come crawl again?"

Any help would be great

Daniel

Hello, I have what a I think it's a noob question..

I have a medium size website and need to put it into maintenance for the next 2 months, and afterwards activate a completly new site. My client asked me to do this, cause the same people whoe run the constant flow of information on the site, are the ones who are going to develop the new site, so he wants to just close it out

So... what are the steps for doing this with minimum impact on any SEO advances made this past months?..

How do I tell the search engines, Hey, just under maintenance for a while....then... i'm back in the game but this is my new structure. and the old one should go here