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Wouldn't this boost our Bounce Rates and slash our AAvg Time On Site...by having the majority of traffic going to a login page, then leaving the site within 30 seconds?

I like the idea of routing this traffic through our main site, but would it be more loss than gain considering these aspects?

New Development:

I don't know if this changes the game or not, but I just found out that Clean URLs are currently being used in the site. So changing a webpage with the URL www.website.com/page3 that is built in .asp should not be affected (at least not for people who provide us backlinks) by changing the same page to have the same URL, but the only difference being that it is built in .php now. Would I be correct to assume this? And would we still see the damage you mentioned above if having these Clean SEO-friendly URLs is the case?

Hi MozTeam,

We have a website that is used as our partner login for our Partners to see their stats, but it is located on a SEPARATE domain from our main corporate website. We currently have thousands of people logging into the external portal every month, which we are obviously not getting good SEO credit for. I am considering bringing the entire login portal into our main corporate website, so that Google sees how popular and useful our site becomes when thousands more people are visiting... We only get a few thousands organic visits to the corporate site per month and about 3x that to the partner login portal. This is why I originally thought we could benefit from bringing it into our corporate site.

Challaneges: our website is in .asp but we are launching a new version of it next month, switching it to Wordpress and into .php....but the current partner login website is still in .asp!

Questions:

1. How will bringing this site into the main corporate site benefit us as far as SEO?

2. What is the proper way to combine an .asp site with a .php site?

3. If we have to use an iFrame because we can't mix the two languages, will that affect our SEO benefit?

Pls advise, as if this is actually a good idea, I'd like to get it launched along with the site redesign that is currently under way.

My client is launching a new corporate website redesign. But the trick is, their old site was built in ASP and they want the new site to be a Wordpress site, built in PHP.

Their current website has A PR4/10 and MANY backlinks to its pages. I don't want to risk any SEO authority and make sure the transition is smooth. The current site only has less than 75 pages.

Can anyone give me a checklist of things I need to make sure get done? And how to do each?

For example:

1. How to forward the old domain to new URLs... (301s? DNS? HT Access?..not savvy)

2. Keep all the same URLs?

3. Don't change any content?...etc.

4. Submit new sitemap? or robots.txt file?

Also, I wanted to add a Wordpress Blog to the new site for SEO purposes, but since it's being built in Wordpress, do you recommend I have a subdomain on this site as www.blog.website.com? Or is this now not necessary since the entire thing is built in wordpress?

I would REALLY appreciate your time helping me on this. Thanks!

Derek

Hey thanks, the site is less than 30 pages. But would it be just as acceptable to just forward the entire domain, or is it better practice to 301 each individual page. And if I do 301 each page, do we ALSO need to forward the domain?

I appreciate your help!

Derek

Hey MozFolk,

I was wondering what the best and SAFEST way to handle this situation is; I am doing a redesign of our current website, but the new site will have different content. Should we just forward the entire root domain in the HT Access file? Or redirect each and every URL using a 301? I know these, terms but never actually done it myself, and cannot risk losing the SEO weight of this website.

How do I handle a group of pages that they don't want to continue to use also? Do I just leave those URLs be, or do I forward all of them to one new page (or homepage) on the new site?

Please help me look like a rockstar and save the ship from sinking itself!

What do you mean by links without keyword rich anchor text? Do you mean bulding branded links? Or use links like click here? and those sorts...?

I did see that tool for Analytics code but not sure how it fits together with the following:

When I found the Code Snippet in Google Analytics, there were 2 options, one was for "A single domain" and another variation of the code was for "One domain with multiple subdomains".

So here are my 2 Questions:

Considering our blog is in the subdomain format, www.blog.accupos.com, is this second code more appropriate, especially since we DON'T have MULTIPLE subdomains? (we only have one...www.blog.accupos.com)

If we do use the NEW code for "multiple subdomains", do we also replace the Analytics snippet on all the OTHER pages within the site which are already being tracked with the old code...?

Thanks!

DM

I am currently tracking site performance on our website with Google Analytics.

Recently, we've brought a Wordpress blog into our site as a subdomain blog.accupos.com. Though we did this a few months ago, we do not have Analytics data for these pages within the wordpress platform.

I've found where to paste the code, in the Footer block of the Wordpress template, just before the close body tag (is this the best recommended way?) and just have one question about WHICH code to paste.

Can I add the original code, same as the rest of the site? Or does Analytics have a different code for tracking subdomains? If so, do I need to replace existing code for the rest of the site?

I hope I worded this okay. Please help. I'd appreciate it!

Derek M.

Hello mozCrew

Just a quick yay or nay. We have an embeddable code on our site for customers who want to post our link on their website listed here: http://www.accupos.com/etc/embed-code-restaurants.php

But in our link, there are actually 2 separate links, one branding link that says the name of our company, AccuPOS, and another link which targets a specific target keyword "Restaurant POS Software".

My question is, does Google only give credit for the branding link, since it is listed FIRST? Or will we get double credit? Is this a good or bad practice, and what would you recommend?

Thank you!

Derek Moore

I've just watched the very helpful video on Google Local best practices at http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/all-about-google-places and see MANY areas in which we are not utilizing our local marketing efforts.

Given that we do not have TOO much local demand, I would say that the main reason for doing this work is to gain momentum in our broad-scale Google SEO efforts/results.

But I am worried that Google might see us as a local company and stop showing us in the SERPs for non-local searches. Is this a good strategy to market locally, or to stick to backlinks on a broad international-based scale.

Does it even help my overall SEO rankings (for broad keywords like Point of Sale and POS Software) to have a strong local and hyperlocal presence?

Thanks!

Derek M