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Unfortunately there is no real easy way to do this at present because as far as im aware (may be wrong) facebook keeps its search volume data to itself.  Although this may change in the near future as they have recently rolled out their own PPC platform for sponsored results.

Instead I would keep an eye on other metrics such as brand mentions and likes and the rate at which these are gained during your social medial campaigns.

Ok, well if you are using linux apache then you can use the following rule in your htaccess file provided you are keeping your URL structures the same on the new site as the old site:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.com$
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

If you are using new urls you will have to create rules for each individual URL which can be done using an excel spread sheet which i can provide you with.

So are you planning on redirecting examplesitea.com -> examplesiteb.com?

To a certain extent, yes. The site will be very dynamic based around performance of particular pages of the site so this section is essentially to give some structure to the site. The pages will also be accessible through a categorisation section of the site also but most of the time they will be accessed through redirection from using certain keywords in the search function.  Its quite a tough one to explain without giving too much away!

Well in any scope of IT training I think a sandbox is always essential... Some cheap hosting on a similar environment for a trial period might be worth investing in to learn the ropes initially.  If you know your linux hosting then you should be able to adapt to an MS environment fairly quick.

Not at all, like I said, apologies for being presumptuous.  Im guessing you want information on SSL and DB on an IIS platform?

Judging by the lack of meat on this post you have just started a new position that you dont know much about? Apologies if im presumptuous on this

Well if you think you have the means to undertake such a migration project then why not, would be a fantastic bit of experience and potentially a good earner.. Just be careful because it could be a big risk if you dont have the resource to do it properly.

Use:

ErrorDocument 404 /404.html

where 404.html is your error document page!  If the page does not exist then it should return a 404 status code and then automatically redirect to this page.

There is usually a way to code around it if you know your SQL and php or .Net,  Impossible is never usually in a coders vocabulary...

I would say this is an instance where you need to go to the client and tell them there CMS is outdated (and sucks) and they need to progress into the current era of web, [UPSELL ALERT]

You will need to 301 redirect the none www version of your site to the www version.  By the sounds of things you are not using a CMS that will usually take care of this for you.

How you implement the redirect will be dependant on your webserver: linux apache or MS IIS.  Information for both can be found at the following URLs.  Keep me posted on how you get on.

Apache: http://jonsimpson.co.uk/log/2006/301_redirect_www_no_www

IIS: http://www.mcanerin.com/en/articles/301-redirect-iis.asp

You are living in a post penguin world and the above mentioned methods now hold little to no value and could even damage your site.  Have a look through the SEOmoz blog for TONNES of great info on the sorts of practises you should be undertaking in this day and age.

Hi,

Within WMT you should only really need to set on version of each subdomain, i.e

www.verdantly.com

blog.verdantly.com

as at present, the root domain is currently redirected to the www sub domain.

In terms of the dns issues, this link should help you diagnose the issues and get you on your way to solving the problems which your registrar or hosting company will be able to aid you with depending on where your DNS is held.

http://www.intodns.com/verdantly.com

If you need further assistance feel free to PM.

Cheers

You can use the ignore URL parameters in WMT to stop duplicate pages being indexed, however in the URLs you have provided your query string doesnt use variables! if the URLs were of the following format:

www.website.com/category/product-name.html?colour=red

you could use the WMT URL params tool to ignore the "colour" variable.

I would also recommend using the rel=canonical tag on the product-name.html pages:

So the canonical tag on the  www.website.com/category/product-name.html?=red URL would be

Hitting the A grade in terms of on page, in most cases, doesn't mean your site will make it to page one. So the next step is to delve deeper into your off page.

Couple of Suggestions:

• Maybe support the page more by linking through from your own blog (http://thesandersonweatherallblog.com/) with useful content.  Have your social team spread the message to your target audience and you should earn a few back links for this.
• Take link data pulls from OSE or Majestic of your competition who are ranking on page one for your target term and have a look at the types of links they use and see if you can "piggy back" of their methods.
• With the geographic nature of your target search term, you will always be up against places listings within the SERP, it may be worth optimising you places listing at your office in the centre of Leets around this search term.

I would be cautious about of putting a volume of 200+ keywords as this could be interpreted as a spam signal.  It might be wise to take search market share stats (G v B v Y) back to the client and put forward for and against arguments to the client.

Another option could be to see if your hosting company have a backup?

Providing a screen shot of the admin screen where the goal is set up may be of use.

Unfortunately the support is locked down to account holders only.

Login here: https://account.freshstorebuilder.com/support/

and ask if they would be so kind as to send you a copy of the default htaccess file for the version you are using and then upload it to the root.

Hi,

What content management system are you using? You will be able to pull a default one from a fresh download of the same CMS and then just upload the .htaccess to the html root.

PM me if you know your CMS and i can probably manage to send you the file over.

Well it is the main mechanism to avoid orphaning any of these particular pages within the site as there are approximately 5000 of them. This A - Z is a section is not a map of the entire site but just one section of it, so I think that all pages will need to be linked to as they are, in essence, priority pages of the site in terms of SEO.

Im creating an a to z type directory of internal pages within a site of mine however there are cases where there are over 500 links within the pages. I intend to use pagination (rel=next/prev) to avoid too many links on the page but am worried about indexation issues. should I be worried?"