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I think the first response was spot on.. I didn't think to use just a classic google search. I was really trying to narrow down what the highest ranking articles were on a given website to get ideas for content.
Is there a tool where you input the URL and then get a list of top ranking keyworks?
Thanks for your help!
What is the best tool or method to find the highest ranking posts and content on a message board or forum?
What is the best tool or method for finding the highest ranking keywords for a message board or forum?
could be from their link/content farm updates; that came before the farmer update.
The problem has to do with every page loading a big .htaccess file, therefore slowing down the speed of the server. I probably wouldn't exceed 25, but sometimes you have no choice. Sometimes the PR is more important than the loss in speed.
I'm sure someone can answer this with a more official response, but that's my understanding of it.
Just try to stay away from any fishy looking redirects, as big daddy G will penalize you big time for stuff like that.
It effects it more than just very slightly, and depending on what kind of site you're running it should either be the blog post title, the sitename, or product name.
It won't be penalized officially; the only penalty is that you could get more juice if they weren't duplicates.
I agree with not repeating company name, unless it's a different company than in the base url. Try only making those deep links if you absolutely have to! Good luck!
Google really doesn't pay attention to footer links much anymore. Because of that exact reason: they know they're commonly used for spam and keyword stuffing. Write for humans; not for robots. Good luck!
Google won't use the keyword anchor text in those links so much, but will follow them. They're also very user friendly, and are pretty much expected now a days.
It's definitely worth it! Try changing it to surround page/post title, and keeping it as name/logo only on the homepage.
The guy that worked on this site before was for some reason trying to set up a multiple domain security certificate.
The site's like 10 years old, and of course I have sitemap that is linked through robots.
Any answers related specifically to my question would be appreciated
Great question. I don't think the algorithms go so far as to take this into account for ranking, but that's not to say it couldn't have any effect. I'm not exactly sure how it works, but verisign has the seal-in-search for enabled browsers that shows users secure sites from search. If the seal's link contains some specialized URL that is specific to your site than I wouldn't tamper with it; otherwise I think it's safe.
Searching for any variation of the companies name or domain name returns the correct www.domain.com/ as the result domain, but searching for any variations of site:domain.com/ returns HTTPS://www.domain.com/
Even if I search site:domain.com -blog -product -forum -store -everything -etc
I've done that all the way down to 3 results, none of them are HTTP://www.domain.com/
WTF?!?! does this mean?
I know it means duplicate content, but beyond that. If I 301 to correct domain, or remove the HTTPS version in google webmaster tools will anything drastic happen?!!?
Thanks!
I couldn't imagine it getting flagged if it didn't contain more adult content than just the domain name. As for reduced rankings, you're not gonna catch me givin out bad advice, but I'd definitely look into it further. Good luck!
Haha funny, thanks for the link!
You've pretty much confirmed my suspicions. I can set the redirects up myself, its just been about 5 years since I've done any SEO work. What I meant was should I mod_rewrite or "redirect 301 /oldurl /newurl" ...I've forgot a lot of stuff that I used to do with ease. My own sites were always started off right and weren't as bad as the one I'm working on now, so I'm in unfamiliar territory. Thanks for your advice, I appreciate it
Thanks I appreciate the advice. So you don't think having 2 seperate domains pointing (or redirecting) to each other occasionally will hurt anything? I have like 1000+ URLs I need to redirect already on the completely separate domain.com, as for the keyworddomain.com forum I don't think I need too many redirects as just one from seperate.domain.com to keyworddomain.com, and then one there from nonWWW to WWW should fix all the broken URLs right? When you say 301 do you mean "redirect 301" or mod_rewrite? Thanks for the help
Working on a forum site that has multiple versions of the URL indexed. The WWW version is a top 3 and 5 contender in the google results for the domain keyword. All versions of the forum have the same PR, but but the non-WWW version has 3,400 pages indexed in google, and the WWW has 2,100. Even worse yet, there's a completely seperate domain (PR4) that has the forum as a subdomain with 2,700 pages indexed in google.
The dupe content gets completely overwhelming to think about when it comes to the PR4 domain, so I'll just ask what you think I should do with the forum. Get rid of the subdomain version, and sometimes link between two obviously related sites or get rid of the highly targeted keyword domain? Also what's better, having the targeted keyword on the front of Google with only 2,100 indexed pages or having lower rankings with 3,400 indexed pages?
Thanks.
Yeah I might have to seek help on the magento boards.
There are both indexed and internally linked urls that need to be redirected properly. Using two CMS's WP and Magento and I'm not too much of a php wiz so I really am not following. besides the product pages still being linked there are like 1000 more 404 pages that need to be redirected to the homepage. Would mod rewrite be better here?
And Barry, yes I guess so, just found out about it, trying to understnad wth is goin on here. Looks like mage redirects a couple times on its own as well? Who knows, it's puttin me to sleep lol. Hopefully I can find out more tomorrow. Thanks for the answers guys +1
It could take a couple of days before you see results, Google has to step back and reassess most likely, or your web developer has no clue what he's doin haha.
No trouble I'm quick with the mouse. That's why I like doin this stuff around 4am haha. Thanks anyway Barry.
You might be onto something, it's magento which I have limited to no knowledge of how it redirects, I'm sure that's the deal I'll look into it but after I need sleep soooo tired
redirect 301 /store/index.php /store
redirect 301 /store/electronics1 /store/electronics
that's pretty much it
Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): There were too many redirects.
I might be wrong, but I think Google WMT can accomplish this with ease. I'm looking at 1000 right now. Externally you'll probably have to use xenu =/
Yeah there's certain cases, sometimes all, where /old will go through the first /index.php redirect to be able to get to /new
Yeah I guess you have a point, but for some reason it feels wrong. Google hasn't crawled this site for almost a month lol. So when it finally does, everything's gonna be so different it might just be like AHHH.
Thanks for the help.
I agree. It's also always so hard to rank against those older domains. Stay consistent, diligent, and try to break some bigger stories. Keep on writing the articles, and get as creative as humanly possible to get those stories that bigger sites want to link to. Reach out to as many site owners as possible to form a small group that you can fall back on when distributing your content. And like Martin said, definitely leverage community on your site, and maybe even UGC/contributors to help write the articles. Good luck!
I don't think they need to circulate their content anymore as it's highly distributed already. I'm also not completely sure about this, but I think google ignores the pound # tag. As it's so commonly used as an anchor and for ajax/javascript. Try searching # in google
Aw, yeah you may have to make a new campaign, but don't take my word for it.. you've been here longer than I have haha. Good luck Tom
Wow, I'd say your ideas are pretty good, but they're getting wise to stuff like this. I guess they want the name to actually mean something lol. You could possible use the private mailboxes and have them forwarded to the central location, but I really have no experience with this. Good luck though whatever case!
You may be forced to export keywords, and start a new. I'm not 100% sure about this though. Have you given it enough time to update?
I need to redirect a ton of duplicate content, so I want to try
redirect 301 /store/index.php /store
redirect 301 /store/product-old /store/product-new
redirect 301 /store/product-old1 /store/product-new1
redirect 301 /store/product-old2 /store/product-new2
redirect 301 /store/product-old3 /store/product-new3
redirect 301 /store/product-old4/file.html /store/product-old4/new4/file.html
and then a whole bunch of old dead links to homepage.
So we've had /index.php redirected to / on other parts of the site for awhile, and for the most part /store is a friendly URL, but then we have tons of dup content and work arounds that preceded my job here. I'm wondering if those redirects above would be considered a redirection chain? Since the all the redirects below the /index.php -> /store count on that one redirect.
Thanks for any insight you may be able to give!
Rand Fishkin did a study on it. It doesn't have a lot to do with on-page factors, but more with keywords in the domain as well as a having lots of diverse in bound links. Read about it more here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-vs-bing-correlation-analysis-of-ranking-elements
Your root domain may have been penalized, but you could probably get a better idea if you could look at the traffic or keywords that your domain ranked for before the update. I know this sounds stupid, but make sure your results aren't being personalized. Googles really been skewing all of my results with that lately, and doesn't let me disable it.
I use Google webmaster tools. Go to diagnostics, then crawl errors.
Are you searching site:domain.com with no www? I'd say that's not good if it's other competitiors, and not other pages of your site. Which one does your domain redirect to, and did it do this before the update?
I'd attempt to contact Google. I know it's really hard, but there are ways. Good luck man I feel for ya.
I don't believe it's a penalty, but seems a lot of people have this same question. Google: "There's no such thing as a "duplicate content penalty." At least, not in the way most people mean when they say that."
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/demystifying-duplicate-content-penalty.html
If I remember correct Rand Fishkin says in this webinar that it's gonna hurt, but you may want to watch it to be 100%! I remember it being sometime after 40-50% of the webinar I think. http://www.seomoz.org/dp/pro-webinar-october-2010-with-rand-fishkin
Good luck!
I see you just joined this monday. Since the on-page ranking report updates every Sunday, it looks like you just missed it! Not all is lost! You can look forward to your keyword rankings updating this Friday. Best of luck.
The only thing I can suggest would be Ajax, but I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than myself will have a better answer for you. In any case, good luck.
Technically it's not duplicate content. If he gets traffic to particular keywords phrases from the test content then canonicalization would hurt his traffic. The traffic from the keywords might not be targeted to test takers, but if that's your only form of traffic then rel canonical would hurt; BAD. Please, correct me if I'm wrong though.
From google:
Yes. The rel="canonical" attribute should be used only to specify the preferred version of many pages with identical content (although minor differences, such as sort order, are okay).
You should probably research for yourself before you take anyone's advice: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394
Personally though, I'd look into ajax. There are many freely available resources that you can use. Hope that helps.
Thanks I had no clue about this. Better check my feed more eh? That guy definitely thumbed down you lol