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Pretty much the same... I use SEOmoz tool, Keywordspy and Adwords

Not sure how your IT Dept is about LAMP stacks....

http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-wordpress-on-oracle-enterprise-linux-lamp-stack-2010-07-15/

I am of course assuming you are using Linux and Oracle....

And that your IT dept will allow a MYSQL database, as this is something you will not be able to get around.

Hope this helps in some way

This really does not fit the description of cloaking, the content is the same, just different languages right?

If this is the case IMO this would not bee seen as cloaking as your are not delivering different content, just user experience.

Also as long as you are not separating IP delivery by source (meaning sending spiders somewhere different than humans) this would not be the definition of cloaking.

WIKI:

One use of IP delivery is to determine the requestor's location, and deliver content specifically written for that country. This isn't necessarily cloaking. For instance, Google uses IP delivery for AdWords and AdSense advertising programs to target users in different geographic locations.

As of 2006, many sites have taken up IP delivery to personalise content for their regular customers. Many of the top 1000 sites, including sites like Amazon (amazon.com), actively use IP delivery. None of these have been banned from search engines **as their intent is not deceptive.  **    Keyword here..... Deceptive 

Hi,

Last weekend (Or the one before that, they run together) Google did a PR update. Google even took a hit from a PR 10 to PR 9

Keep tracking your campaign and traffic for anomalies, if you see a unexplained decline, then worry, otherwise i would just keep focusing on creating quality content, gaining quality links and making sure your site is free of "spammy" SEO techniques and duplicate content.

I guess we will just have to agree to disagree. From a marketing perspective and knowing what i know about marketing and sales closing tactics I tend to feel that a company no matter where they point you will never be the counter argument, always the pro argument.

This is why your suggestion to me seems counter intuitive as i had obviously already picked out a specific product, and done research on it.

Also not to mention that if they had readily available information that proved they made domain (or brand) trust metrics with search engines go up (especially knowing what we now know about Panda), why would they not have that front in center as SEO's would be lining up at the door for that opportunity, in my opinion.

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Hmmmm

I guess the wording of case study (meaning actual research done by a third party to investigate something or research) was missed.

Of course a company will tell me what i want to hear....

I was asking for specific case studies (that apparently do not exist because no one can seem to grasp the question) not a recommendation from the company itself.

Is SEOMOZ the best SEO tool suite? (i think so) but i would not recommend calling SEOMOZ to get that info..... seems kind of counter intuitive, granted companies "spin" data to look the best always in their favor...

Hi,

I am not talking about SSL, I am talking about the Trust Seal which DOES improve CTR as the seal is shown in search engines.

Of course SSL would not affect as this is only a certificate, but the Verisign Trust seal is an identity confirmation and a "thumbs up" for security aspects.

Hi,

Does anyone have any evidence or case studies that Verisign Trust seal actually raises trust metrics?

I know there are the obvious benefits such as better CTR and Conversion (which could in turn raise trust metrics). But i am looking for actual sighted examples of Verisign increasing trust signals to search engines discrediting the correlation between search metrics improving.

I modified this as i think people are getting confused between SSL products and the specific Versign product i am talking about Verisign Trust Seal seen here. https://www.verisign.com/trust-seal/index.html?tid=gnps

This has nothing to do with security for transactions it is more geared towards all around safer user experience including Malware scans and enhanced "stand out" in SERPS. It is not just a Domain validation but an organizational or Branding authentication check"

With that being said, the question still stands Does anyone have any case studies or direct examples of trust being elevated in metrics for the specific product mentioned above.

Thanks.

I have lost my window

The admin team has already began tasking and beginng save.... It is a major Virtualization migration, and my requests had to be in by yesterday. Ohh well, it will be only 23 hours and i convinced them to just route to a shutdown pool generating a 503 since they will not cloine this late....

Thanks for the help though i will keep this in mind for next time ( but i get my brand spanking new virtual environment next month soooo i will be able to have more wiggle room)

Hmmm so it sounds like it may not affect as the change is being made internally at the firewall through tables, and should not affect TTL since the domain is still going to the same nameserver.

Last nights question http://www.seomoz.org/q/how-add-503-status-to-iis-6-0

I found a few crack hacks, but did not like any of them especially since the IIS has multiple pools with applications on them.

Thanks for the help I love the discussion

Okay,

So yesterday I asked a question about setting up custom error pages in IIS 6.0 to properly do a 24 hour 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable. With no answer, (not to the despair of the community as the question has NO simple or easy answer

So after a night of dreaming about solutions

I realized that we have the ability to just clone the site.... So basically it would just become a redundant server or mirror site for 24 hours.

With all that being said the question is.....

What SEO pitfalls might I encounter from this if any

I suspect none as load balancing and redundancy is a fact of life in the WEB world, especially since it will be a MAX of 24 hours downtime for maint.

Hi,

Our IS department is bringing down our network for maintenance this weekend for 24 hours. I am worried about search engine implications.

all Traffic is being diverted, and the diverted traffic is being sent to another server with IIS 6.0

From all research i have done it appears creating a custom 503 error message in IIS 6 is not possible  Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb877968.aspx

So my question is does anyone have any suggestions on how to do a proper 503 temporarily unavailable in IIS 6.0 with a custom error message?

Thanks

If canonical is the problem, Google could have seen what you describe as a way to try to funnel all the rank.

Much more info is needed such as...

How duplicate is the content, remember it must be very similar or exact. cross domain canonical is allowed (and actually boosted traffic in my case, but my content is EXACT duplicates and needed due to technical operations issues)

Have you made any other recent changes to your site structure or marketing tactics?

Some SEO's say yes as they believe that any anchor text linking is beneficial, but like Acorn-Internet said, value to the user should be #1 as if there is value to a user, then there is value to search engines (most of the time)

I would suggest against it as Google is on a quality rampage right now it seems, so questionable tactics that have negligible SEO benefits (such as this) should be avoided in my opinion.

w00t!

Hi,

All of its SEOMOZ metrics would indicate a positive SEO response. It was cached today, which is also a positive sign. It seems to have general value and information (not just a few words about the category in broken english) Very little PPC, it did not appear to have any Paid home page links. The information is accurate.

Not sure if it will have that huge of an SEO response, as no anchor text is available and the return query URL string is very overly dynamic and alot of the inner pages were not cached and had low metrics.

$300 is a gamble, probably Vegas odds

Have Fun!

Thanks had read about canonical, but did not think it applied until i saw an article on the Google Blog about cross domain support for this exact reasons since setting up a 301 is not an option. Google is now picking up the correct domain and removing the incorrect cached pages.

Thanks

Shane

Hi,

I have a domain that is 10 years old, this is the old domain that used to be the website for the company. The company approximately 7 years ago was bought by another and purchased a new domain that is 7 years old.

The company did not do a 301 redirect as they were not aware of the SEO implications. They continued building web applications on the old domain while using the new domain for all marketing and for business partner links. They just put in a server level redirect on the folders themselves to point to the new root.

I am on Tomcat, I do not have the option of a 301 redirect as the web applications are all hard coded links (non-relative) (hundreds of thousands of dollars to recode)

After beginning SEO; Google is seeing them as the same domain, and has replaced all results in Google with the old domain instead of the new one.....

My questions is....

Is it better to take the hit and just put a robots.txt to disallow all robots on the old domain

Or...

Will that hurt my new domain as well since Google is seeing them as the same?

Or....

Has Google already made the switch without a redirect to see these as the same and i should just continue on? (even the cache for the new site shows the old domain address)

Old Domain= www.floridahealthcares.com

New = www.fhcp.com

*****Update after writing this I began changing index.htm to all non relative links so all links on the old domain homepage would point to fhcp.com fixing the issue of the entire site being replicated under the old domain. I think this might "Patch" my issue, but i would still love to get the opinion of others

Thanks

Shane