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Thanks Rob, clear answer, much appreciated

Jez

Hi guys,

I have an established site that currently serves the same content to all regions - west and east - in a single country with the same language.

We are now looking to vary the content across west and east regions - not dramatically, but the products offered will be slightly different.

From what i gather, modifying the url is best for countries, so feels like overkill for regions within the same country. I'm also unlikely to have very unique content, outside of the varied products, so I'm mindful of duplicate/similar content, but I know I can use canonical tags to address.

I have a fairly modern CMS that can target content based on region, but mindful of upsetting Google re; showing different content to what the bot might encounter, assuming this is still a thing.

So, three questions from an SEO perspective -

1. Do i need to really focus on changing my url structure, especially as I'm already established in a competitive market, or will I do more harm than good? Is the region in the URL a strong signal?

2. If I should make some changes to the url and/or metadata, what are the best bang for buck changes you would make?

3. How does Google Local fit into this? Is it a separate process via webmaster tools, or does it align to the above changes?

Cheers!!!

Jez

Many thanks guys

J

Hi guys,

I'm looking at a new site that's completely under https - when I look at the http variant it redirects to the https site with "302 object moved" within the code.

I got this by loading the http and https variants into webmaster tools as separate sites, and then doing a 'fetch as google' across both.

There is some traffic coming through the http option, and as people start linking to the new site I'm worried they'll link to the http variant, and the 302 redirect to the https site losing me ranking juice from that link.

Is this a correct scenario, and if so, should I prioritise moving the 302 to a 301?

Cheers, Jez

Hi guys,

General question around general SEO best practices, such as url and title, and how they fit in with Google Web Toolkit built sites that use a www.site.com/#!category=12345 format.

The space we're getting into is heavily competitive, with many established players doing standard SEO well.

I know there are some speed benefits to using GWT, however I'd like to better understand the SEO impact, if any, before the site development progresses too far.

Cheers, Jez

Thanks guys

Hi guys, Fairly sure of the answer from what I've read so far, but I just wanted to doublecheck I have it right. Page A gets a significant amount of referring, followed traffic, and also ranks in Google. Page A uses a 302 redirect to Page B (on a completely different domain), which means that 0% of Page A's link juice is being passed on to Page B. If I were to change the 302 redirect to a 301 redirect, then the link juice passed on to Page A from the followed, referring traffic will be (mostly) passed on to Page B. Is that correct? Cheers, Jez

Hey Moosa,

Thanks for replying - I've found 6 instances of "horse racing" across the entire page, but agree that it might be also counting instances of "horse" and "racing" separately.

Thanks for your help

Cheers, Jez

Hi guys,

I'm using the on-page report card for a particular page which is returning 22 instances of my term, however when I check the source of the page, I can only find 6 instances across the whole page, let alone the body.

The site is www.sportsbet.com.au, and the term "horse racing".

I'm sure I'm missing something, would appreciate any explanation for this apparent discrepancy.

Cheers, Jez

Hi guys, I'm seeing multiple visits via an Adwords campaign from domain 1e100.net. I've found that this domain is related to Google's safe browsing feature, and thought perhaps it's Google checking that my landing page is not a phishing site, but multiple visits in the one day? I've updated my destination url a couple times, but certainly not 10+ times. These visits are showing up as a bounce - they come in to my landing page, do nothing, then exit. Interestingly, when I break down the visit by originating country, they come from the US, whereas my paid search campaign is limited to Australia only. Would appreciate any thoughts Cheers, Jez