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Hi Paul,

Hope all is good for you in the new year.  I just wanted to thank you for your great and articulate response regarding the use of 301's.

I have implemented your suggestion and - it works!  Thanks again.

Happy New Year

-Jimmy

Hi,

I have a website created on a WordPress Platform.  My site is in  the "Service" industry and we perform the same service for many different "cities."

My question pertains to the Navigation Bar and SEO.

Is it better to have a "Service" tab on the navigation bar - that has sub navigation that lists all the cities on a drop down menu.  When this happens the URL string looks like http://www.domain.com/service/city

The other choice would be to create individual TABS on the NAV bar, by doing this the URL string would look - http://www.domain.com/city .

I could be wrong, but I am assuming the http://www.domain.com/city is better than http://www.domain.com/services/city for SEO purposes,

....if I am correct is there a way to make SUB Menu URLS appear as http://www.domain.com/city ?

Any input as always would be appreciated

best regards,

Jimmy

Hi Everyone,

Hope everyone is doing good.  Well, thanks to the input of many people (experts) on this site I have almost arrived at where I want to be, even better than that....I am almost there with confidence because of all the input received from this site.

So what have I done?  I have redesigned a static website to WordPress, I decided t keep the old link structure which is suffixed .html, and to use redirects if needed.  I also swithed hosting service providers to noe that carries htaccess.

My last question, well probably not, is do I use the same content from the same pages on the old website to the new, or do i create new content, It is a local service business, new content would not be a problem, however, our current content seems to be ranking well with the old site though.

In summary, should I change the content of the new site so "Duplicate Content" does not arise?

Should I leave transdfer the content to the new site to maintain on page SEO that has been ranking me good thus far?

As Always, any and all input is really appreciated!

-jimmy