Will do, thanks again.

Sure - I'll pm you it as these questions show in serps themselves.

Just tried this and there are no other subdomains listed in google other than www. Beginning to suspect the results shown in open site explorer are not correct.

Yup - tried that and no difference.

Gotcha, thanks again.

Thanks for the reply Alan

Thats what I thought but when I rerun the search on just xyz.com it just says no results. So how do I view all these over 21k odd links?

Hi all,

I'm a little confused - when using open sites explorer to view of link stats on one of our competitors site I get conflicting results.

For example -

Page Specific Metircs shows the url www.xyz.com has 265 external links.

But

Root Domain Metrics show they have 22,687 links

Yet the total links at the top of the report says Total links 999

Can someone explain why www.xyz.com has 265 external links and the rot domain (which is the same) has 22687 links?

I've also run the report on xyz.com rather than www.xyz.com which yielded no results.

Thanks in advance

So which part shouldI remove - the RewriteCond or/and RewriteRule?

Thanks

Thanks, you are indeed right however in this case I need to redirect the old domain and all of its pages to the home page of the new.

I just need to know how to say if anything from www.olddomain.com INCLUDING sub pages and folders hits my site then redirect it to www.newsite.com. Both domain names are pointing at the same hosting.

Can anyone help?

Thanks tired that but I just get a error saying

This webpage has a redirect loop

Ok, how would I fit that into the above htacess code?

Thanks

I have a new domain (www.newdomain.com) and and an old domain (www.olddomain.com).

Currently both domains are pointing (via dns nameserves) at the new site. I want to 301 everything that comes from the www.oldsite.com to www.newsite.com.

I've used this htaccess code

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.newsite.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Which works fine and redirects if someone visits www.olddomain.com but I want it to cover everything from the old domain such as www.olddomain.com/archives/article1/ etc. So if any subpages etc are visited from the old domain its redirected to the new domain.

Could someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks

I understand, I didn't actually mean redirect content as such but I realise I was a little unclear in my questions.

So basically I should point all 3 domains to the new one then redirect-wise, is the below correct?

redirect 301 http://www.oldsite.com/some-category/article/ http://www.newsite.com/category/article

Also, any pointers on how to achieve this?

"Above this redirect i would redirect to deep pages that do not have the same path, by checking the existing path of the link. This way you dont have chain redirects"

Hi Thanks for the reply.

Ok, so use the redirect code you provided at the end of the htaccess. I'm not sure I follow what you mean about redirecting links not content, I'm not talking about external links purely just about any old content from the old domains that may show in serps and getting these redirected to their new versions on the new site.

A clearer example of what I have is:

Old domains each cover one brand

www.brand1.com

www.brand2.com

www.brand3.com

So the new site is structured like:

www.newsite.com/brand1

www.newsite.com/brand3

www.newsite.com/brand3

So how do I handle the redirects from old pages? Like this?

redirect 301 www.brand1.com/some-page www.newsite/brand1/some-page/

Then use your redirect code last? Also the site structure (as above) is totally different than before so would that effect your redirect code?

To make it trickier one of the sites is a hosted blog platform that I dont have ftp access to but I can repoint the domain. I could repoint this domain to new hosting with a page saying moved and have a .htaccess under that domain doing the redirects.

I should add that one of the sites is hosted with a blogging platform (blog harbour) thats about to shut down therefore I can't upload a htaccess with redirects in. So I was just going to point the domain at the new domain name and add redirects to a htaccess file on the new domains like:

On new domains .htaccess:

redirect 301 www.olddomain.co.uk/category/article.php www.newdomain.co.uk/category/article.php.

Is this the best way?

Hi All

We currently have 3 old sites that have tones of content. Due to brand/business consolidation we have merge all 3 to produce 1 website. The new site contains all the old content from the old 3.

So, I know I need to 301 redirect all the old content from the previous sites to the equivelent content on the new sites but am confused how you do this with 3 domains?

One of the domains is being replaced with the new site.

So I have:

www.domain1.co.uk

www.domain2.co.uk

www.domain3.co.uk

All the content for all the sites have been imported into a new site and any duplicate content issues havce been resolved.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks

Hi folks.

A client of mine has taken to building spammy links from commenting on forgein blogs etc. Since hes started this his site has totally dispeared from the SERPS apart from company name searches.

I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts on how to bets combat this?

Many thanks in advance

Hi, in the end I didn't go with microsites. As part of the site build we optimised the urls (using a CMS) and everything else on page we could and 301'd the old URL's to the new versions. Everything ranks as well as it did or better since lanch (4 weeks ago).

Thanks for the link, the plugin works a treat! Life saver.

Thanks for the reply. I've taken a look at the plugin (don't really like usings them and normally just write my own) but it doesn't look to be able to handle historical pages - from before the site was build in wordpress.

Hi all,

I'm hoping someone will be able to help me with an extermley frustrating problem with 301 redirects in .htaccess.

Basically I'm trying to redirect some old pages (from our old website) that stil rank to the new equivilent.

For example -

old url =

www.domain.com/frames/news/company-news/news-reader.php?newsStoryID=395

New

www.domain.com/news/article-title

I've tried the simple

redirect 301 /frames/news/company-news/news-reader.php?newsStoryID=395 http://www.domain.com/news/article-title

But this doesnt work. I've also tried -

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^newsStoryID=395$
RewriteRule ^/news-reader.php$ http://www.domain.com/news/article-title/? [L,R=301]

Could anyone help? I've followed lots of tutorials that all match the above but it just doesn't work! The only other thing within the htaccess file is from wordpress for pretty permalinks -

BEGIN WordPress

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]</ifmodule>

END WordPress

Many thanks in advance!

It's not an issue - wordpress adds it into the header of all the pages and posts. As long as you have addressed potential issues with categories (I disallow them in robot.txt). The SEOmoz report is just to advice you which pages have the rel canonical tag and not that its an actual issue as such. Hope that helps

Ah, sorry, that was a stupid question. It's because must of the pages have the rel canonical tag due to wordpress.

Thanks

Hi,

I'm just going through my latest crawl since my new site launch and havce noticed almost all of my websites pages are listed under the notices rel canonical section, Why is this?

All pages have the unique pages titles followed by the site name in the title, for example:

Product | Site name

All pages have unique meta descriptions and content (although we only offer lots of differt varients of the same product).

Is this something I should be worried about?

Sounds like overkill for what we are trying to achieve. I guess Microsites are geared more to separate product campaigns etc when you want a clear separation from your main site.

Hi all!

I'm trying to decide the best way forward with regards to a large site I'm currently in the process of redesigning/rebuilding.

Basically, the site already has a lot of well ranking seo landing pages targetted to different niches. With this in mind which is the best way forward in your experience?

1. Expand upon the existing niche landing pages adding more content etc and more niches?

or

2. Keep the landing pages but set up microsites for each of the niches. (On different domain names or sub domains?)

I do not want to polute the existing site as it performs very well and ranks very well for the keywords we target. Are there any benifits to micro sites seo wise?

Personally I think it best to expand on the landing pages and keep everything onsite but any adivce you can give me would be greatfully received!

Thanks in advance!