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If we are using dynamic coding so that the search results page is just one page of code for ALL cities, then I assume that we need to just add dynamic logic at the top of the page for the tag to be dynamic based on the city URL in the URL, right?

Then when this one page loads for any city and any url parameter, it will just be custom, for example:

URL: domain.com/tx/austin?urlparameters.....
LINK: domain.com/tx/austin

URL: domain.com/ca/los-angeles?urlparameters.....
LINK: domain.com/ca/los-angeles

Is that correct?  This will just be dynamic logic in our codebase on the one template?

Where do I put the rel=canonical when the search.cfm (using URL re-write) page is the one and only page, just using url parameters to control sort, filter, view, etc.

Do I just put the rel=canonical at the top of the search.cfm page?  The duplicate content issues I am getting are:

• https://www.domain.com/tx/austin/
• https://www.domain.com/tx/austin/?d=25&h=&s=r&t=&v=l&a=

Just want to be clear since Moz Pro is picking up both URL's but it's only really one file, search.cfm

Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi Rebecca -

Thanks for the fast reply!  In my example, how would you structure the "find a business" URL's vs. the "specific business location page" URL:

website.com/anxiety-treatment/co/denver

• to browse a directory
• to allow users to work backwards to find a location in another city

website.com/johnson-anxiety-treatment-center-denver-co

• as the link to the one specific office in denver named "Johnson Anxiety Treatment Center"?

Do you feel that the specific office page needs to be in the same URL structure as the browse a directory? If so then it would be super long like this:
website.com/anxiety-treatment/co/denver/johnson1001

Appreciate your thoughts & reply.

Wondered the best URL structure, to include a major keyword phrase.  Our clients' case is that their domain name is not the main keyword.  So should we include the keyword phrase in the URL structure to list all their office locations:

A - www.website.com/anxiety-treatment/denver/1001
or
B - www.website.com/denver/1001

Would this be considered keyword stuffing?  We'd like "A" above to rank for keyword phrases related to "anxiety treatment denver", etc.

I thought about that, but I was under the impression that it's better "seo-wise" to

• have a url structure where there is a MAIN PAGE that links to SUB CATEGORIES then ARTICLES like domain.com/kidney-dialysis/articlename/ but if we are targeting 2 incredibly important keyword phrases I want to avoid domain.com/kidney-dialysis-ckd-dialysis/article since that is too long and too keyword stuffy, unless I'm wrong.

I agree with short URL's but what page would they link from if not a URL structure that supports showing the bots that there is an article library url structure like COUNTRY > STATE > CITY > NEIGHBORHOOD.

Thoughts?

What is the best URL structure for a domain to start adding a main directory for educational articles under? We want to find the best URL structure to keep articles under as a main, then category, then subcategory:

For example, if my client is going after TWO SPECIFIC KEYWORD PHRASES as their primary (let's say they are KIDNEY DIALYSIS and CKD DIALYSIS, should they start building up their article library (for educational purposes as well as ranking/SEO), should they list it under which structure for the best SEO ranking opportunities:

• domain.com/KIDNEY-DIALYSIS/article1, article2, article3
• domain.com/CKD-DIALYSIS/article1, article2, article3
• domain.com/ARTICLES/article1, article2, article3

Both KIDNEY DIALYSIS and CKD DIALYSIS are critical phrases for them.  Is it a waste of URL space to just have a home of domain.com/ARTICLES then build off that URL structure like:

• domain.com/articles/kidney-dialysis
• domain.com/articles/ckd-dialysis

Thoughts? Ideas? Thank you!

We ran a ScreamingFrog report of one of our websites and found that there are thousands of instances of a single page with a different URL parameter, for example:

purchase.cfm?id=1234
purchase.cfm?id=1235
purchase.cfm?id=1236
purchase.cfm?id=1237

and we do not need purchase.cfm to be indexed for any reason as there is practically no content on that page to begin with, but it's just part of the purchase steps in our website.

What is the best way to deal with this for Google & SEO?  Should we do a Meta NoIndex of this purchase.cfm page?

Thank you.

Yes, I think it does.  We were hoping that we could just modify all the TITLES to:

"Dialysis Center & CKD Center Los Angeles"

to include the new keyword CKD Center.  Or maybe just do:

"CKD Dialysis Center Los Angeles"

and hope that Google will rank us for both CKD Center Los Angeles and Dialysis Center Los Angeles.

Our client has medical centers all over the US and we rank really well for the term "DIALYSIS CENTER" as well as all the major markets "DIALYSIS CENTER LOS ANGELES", etc.

We need to add in a Second Keyword Phrase of "CKD CENTER" (which is an alternate term for the same medical center).

Should we change all the TITLE, H1, etc that we have done to a COMBINED term of "CKD DIALYSIS CENTER" or "DIALYSIS CKD CENTER" and all the local market variations?  We can't create 2 pages for one business in the directory, but we're not sure the right way to make sure that the pages are now targeted for 2 terms.

Thanks in advance for any help & advice!!!!

I would like to see if there is a way to add conditional logic to the robots.txt file so that when we push from DEV to PRODUCTION and the robots.txt file is pushed, we don't have to remember to NOT push the robots.txt file OR edit it when it goes live.

My specific situation is this:

I have www.website.com, dev.website.com and new.website.com and somehow google has indexed the DEV.website.com and NEW.website.com and I'd like these to be removed from google's index as they are causing duplicate content.

Should I:

a) add 2 new GWT entries for DEV.website.com and NEW.website.com and VERIFY ownership - if I do this, then when the files are pushed to LIVE won't the files contain the VERIFY META CODE for the DEV version even though it's now LIVE? (hope that makes sense)

b) write a robots.txt file that specifies "DISALLOW: DEV.website.com/" is that possible? I have only seen examples of DISALLOW with a "/" in the beginning...

Hope this makes sense, can really use the help!  I'm on a Windows Server 2008 box running ColdFusion websites.