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If it is a negative user response it will be a negative SEO response in most cases.  In your case there could be very negative affects.  An instant 'back' click is a bad sign to Google, especially it being the homepage.

$550k and google is not treating it well at all...damn.

Thomas did what we did and it worked fine.  We lost a ton of Yahoo rankings for significant keywords though.  I now personally never change /url/keywords unless I don't care about the Yahoo traffic (or there is none).  Google has no problem with it.

This was just mentioned in Rand's white board video, tip #3.  The only thing is it conflicts with SEOmoz's linking, as they have about 20 links on the footer.  Are they there because they are getting clicked on?

I'm pretty sure nobody clicks on my footer links and am in the process of removing them and adding customized side navigations on specific pages to add a better navigational structure.

To SEOmoz, why so many footer links on SEOmoz if it's a 2012 no, no?

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Right.  I was just thinking and I don't know if this is blackhat but because the news posts always rank better than pages, I'm going to test 301 redirecting a news post to a new page and see what happens.

Normally I would just leave it be, but I would like to set up navigational columns within these posts and can not do so because of their structure.

Basically:  Make a news post => let it rank for a week => 301 it to its permanent 'page' home.

This is not something I would normally do except for somewhat aged sites where not much new static content is added...

EGOL - Any way to tell google that for the 'pages'.    Or, do they just categorize 'posts' to deserve this and rank higher even if they don't deserve the freshness/news boost?

Hi guys, thanks for the input.

Sean - The url structure is the same, except for it is in a /news/ folder and I tend to leave the path the same as the page title (for whatever reason that actually helps it even if its long).  But not using any time sensitive permalinks on any of the sites.

Sha - I definitely hear what you're saying, when we are the first to post about something it definitely continues to rank highly even after the competition comes in.  The thing is, we could put up a 'page' and it wouldn't.

Just seems to make no sense how google treats posts vs pages whether they're in G news or not.  I haven't tried it, but I'm pretty sure I could just post a 'post' with no content and it would rank good whereas a 'page' wouldn't get indexed likely.

I use wordpress for most of my sites and generally have a post 'news' section.  What I've noticed is that just about every time a post will always rank much higher and much faster than a 'page'.

As long as I don't let it get buried in the news archives it continues to rank well, better than if I were to create a 'page'.

Is there any sort of reason this might occur?  I'd like to be able to just create 'pages' but at this point in time it makes no sense.

Hi Istvan.  Thanks for the response.  When I checked both urls I seem to be coming up with the same link count and overall metrics using opensiteexplorer.  All my sites are wordpress and I use all-in-one SEO and it appears to automatically add the /  via rel canonical so maybe this won't allow me to check which is best?

Thomas did what we did and it worked fine.  We lost a ton of Yahoo rankings for significant keywords though.  I now personally never change /url/keywords unless I don't care about the Yahoo traffic (or there is none).  Google has no problem with it.

If it is a negative user response it will be a negative SEO response in most cases.  In your case there could be very negative affects.  An instant 'back' click is a bad sign to Google, especially it being the homepage.