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I don't really understand what you're saying. Maybe I should have mentioned that the main term I'm looking up in Google Trends is our brand name and that we show up #1, and #3 for that term. We have for more than a year. So if Google Trends see's that, that specific keyword is increasing in search volume over the year, shouldn't we see similar trends with traffic coming from that keyword?

When looking at Google Trends and my Organic Traffic (using GA) as percentages of their total yearly values I have a correlation of .47. This correlation doesn't seem right when you consider that Google Trends (which is showing relative search traffic data) should match up pretty strongly to your Organic Traffic.

Any thoughts on what might be going on? Why isn't Google Trends correlating with Organic Traffic? Shouldn't they be pulling from the same data set?

Thanks,

Jacob

Hey Everett,

My dev team says it's extremely difficult to do a 301 with the reverse proxy because the reverse proxy needs the domain in order to create the reverse proxy. If we place a 301 redirect it won't be able to access the domain and will be broken.

We're unable to do a server to server process because we're using load balance applications. Do you have any recommendations with this situation?

Thanks,

Jacob

That's good to know. I'll follow that.

Some of the articles I read made it sound like reverse proxy was another form of 301, but it didn't make sense. Now I know why.

Cheers,

Jacob

My dev team would prefer a reverse proxy. Is there a reason you'd rather do a 301 than a reverse proxy?

When reading this article https://moz.com/blog/what-is-a-reverse-proxy-and-how-can-it-help-my-seo it seemed that doing a reverse proxy would be preferable to just a bunch of 301's. Is that not the case?

My company is looking at consolidating 5 websites that it has running on magento, wordpress, drupal and a few other platforms on to the same domain. Currently they're all on subdomains but we'd like to consolidate the subdomains to folders for UX and SEO potential.

Currently they look like this:

• shop.example.com
• blog.example.com
• uk.example.com
• us.example.com

After the reverse proxy they'll look like this:

• example.com/uk/
• example.com/us/
• example.com/us/shop
• example.com/us/blog

I'm curious to know how much link juice will be lost in this switch. I've read a lot about site migration (especially the Moz example). A lot of these guides/case studies just mention using a bunch of 301's but it seems they'd probably be using reveres proxies as well.

My questions are:

1. Is a reverse proxy equal to or worse/better than a 301?
2. Should I combine reverse proxy with a 301 or rel canonical tag?
3. When implementing a reverse proxy will I lose link juice = ranking?

Thanks so much!

Jacob

My company is looking at expanding internationally, we have sudomains in the UK and Canada currently. I'm making recommendations on improving SEO and one of the parts that I'm struggling with is the benefits of ccTLDs vs using folders.

I know the basic argument about Google recognizing the ccTLDs as being geo specific so they get priority. But I'd like to know HOW much priority they get. We have unique keywords and a pretty strong domain, is having a ccTLDs so much better that'd be worth going that route rather then creating folders within our current domain?

Thanks,

Jacob

I have a website with over 30,000 pages. But only around 100 are getting traffic from Google/being used by the company. How safe is it for me to kill the other pages?

Usually I'd do rel canonical or 301's to scrap as much link juice as I can from them, but at 30,000 we just don't have any place to 301 the pages that makes sense and rel canonical to irrelevant pages seems... wrong? So my hope was to just kill the pages, reuse their content when needed, but pretty much start fresh.

Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks,