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I used Keyword A for Page A, and Keyword B for Page B.  Now Page B ranks on the first page in Keyword A.   When I create backlinkS with Keyword A, should I link to Page A or Page B?

this issue was solved after constantly re-submitting URLs.

I really don't know what happened.. sigh; strange world.

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thanks for the reply, Kane,

I Really have done nothing, and Google is working fine, and Bing doesn't even fully accept manually submitted URLs. Really have no idea what went wrong

I haven't signed in to bing webmaster tool for a while.

and I found that Bing is not indexing my site properly all of a sudden.

IT DROPPED SIGNIFICANTLY

Any idea why it is behaving this way?

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Thank you Dan!

Wordpress 3.4 did have some redirecting features. but it didn't correct typos

so our solution was just fix the URL, changed all the internal links and used 301 direct using an example here

http://www.squidoo.com/301

If anyone facing this problem, here is your answer!

Wordpress 3.4, Yoast, Multisite

The URL is supposed to be "www.myexample.com/great-site"

but I just found that it's "www.myexample.com/gre-atsite"

It is a relatively new site but we already pointed several internal links to "www.myexample.com/gre-atsite"

What's the best practice to correct this? Which option is more desirable?

1.Creating a new page

I found that Yoast has "301 redirect" option in the Advanced tap

Can I just create a new page(exact same page) and put noindex, nofollow and redirect it to http://www.myexample.com/great-site

OR

2. htacess redirect rule

simply change the URL to http://www.myexample.com/great-site

and update it, and add

Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^http://www.myexample.com/gre-atsite$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.myexample.com/great-site$1 [R=301,L]

Alright, my question comes directly from this article by SEOmoz

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/robotstxt

Yes, I have submitted the sitemap to google, bing's webmaster tools and

and I want to add the location of our site's sitemaps and does it mean that I erase everything in the robots.txt right now and replace it with?

<code>User-agent: *
Disallow: 

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/none-standard-location/sitemap.xml</code>

<code>???</code>

because Wordpress comes with some default disallows like wp-admin, trackback, plugins.

I have also read other questions. but was wondering if this is the correct way to add sitemap on Wordpress Robots.txt

http://www.seomoz.org/q/robots-txt-question-2

http://www.seomoz.org/q/quick-robots-txt-check.

http://www.seomoz.org/q/xml-sitemap-instruction-in-robots-txt-worth-doing

I am using Multisite with Yoast plugin so I have more than one sitemap.xml to submit

Do I erase everything in Robots.txt and replace it with how SEOmoz recommended? hmm that sounds not right.

User-agent: *
Disallow:
Disallow: /wp-admin
Disallow: /wp-includes
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins
Disallow: /wp-content/cache
Disallow: /wp-content/themes
Disallow: /trackback
Disallow: /comments

**ERASE EVERYTHING??? and changed it to**

<code> <code>
<code>User-agent: *
Disallow: </code>

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap_index.xml</code>

<code>```
Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sub/sitemap_index.xml
```</code> 

<code>?????????</code>
```</code> 

Alright, my question comes directly from this article by SEOmoz

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/r...

Yes, I have submitted the sitemap to google, bing's webmaster tools and

and I want to add the location of our site's sitemaps and does it mean that I erase everything in the robots.txt right now and replace it with?

<code>User-agent: *
Disallow: 

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/none-standard-location/sitemap.xml</code>

<code>???</code>

because Wordpress comes with some default disallows like wp-admin, trackback, plugins.

I have also read this, but was wondering if this is the correct way to add sitemap on Wordpress Robots.txt.

[http://www.seomoz.org/q/removing-...](http://www.seomoz.org/q/removing-robots-txt-on-wordpress-site-problem)

I am using Multisite with Yoast plugin so I have more than one sitemap.xml to submit

Do I erase everything in Robots.txt and replace it with how SEOmoz recommended? hmm that sounds not right.

like 

<code> <code>
<code>User-agent: *
Disallow: </code>

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap_index.xml</code>

<code>```
Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sub/sitemap_index.xml
```</code> 

<code>?????????</code>
```</code> 

I guess no one has expertise regarding this IP redirection.

I had to use a plugin called

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/geographical-redirect/

Hello, Thanks for this, and this is an old thread but I had a very smilar question to this.

What do you exactly mean by indexation problems?

Do you mean the Google refuse to crawl UK site in this example? So they don't index UK webpages? I don't think this make sense? or I am getting a wrong idea.

I am just wondering where you found this information. I did my homework and SEOmoz ppl talked about "cloaking" video by Matt Cutt and He says GeoIP redirecting is fine? I am no where close to an expert but had to ask this question because I was trying to do the same thing,

http://www.seomoz.org/q/redirecting-root-domain-to-subdirectory-by-ip-addresses-country-specific

Thank you!

We are using Wordpress Multisite.

so www.mysite.com is our English website

and www.mysite.com/sub is our Chinese website

Can I redirect Chinese visitors who type "www.mysite.com"  to "www.mysite.com/sub" ?

so we want to force redirection to www.mysite.com/sub if our website is visited by Chinese IP Address.

I've realized that this is called GeoIP Redirection. and our hosting company already has those database, I guess my job is just to simply insert some code in .htacess

My question is, would it affect our SEO later on? and what .htacess code is the best practice here?

Hi! I am using Wordpress multisite and my Chinese version of the website is in

www.mysite.com/cn

Problem: I keep getting duplicate content errors within www.mysite.com/cn (NOT between www.mysite.com and www.mysite.com/cn)

I have downloaded and checked the SEOmoz report and duplicate_page_content list in CSV file. I have no idea why it says they have the same content., they have nothing in common in content .

www.mysite.com is the English version of the website,and the structure is the same for www.mysite.com/cn

*I don't have any duplicate content issues within www.mysite.com

Question: Does google Crawler properly recognizes chinese content??

Thank you so much. I think it wasn't a big deal everything seems fine!

Updated Reply

I will study the plugin and wait for MOZ crawl and will get back to you.

Thanks Keri

The MOZ crawl shows yesterday's data. so it hasn't checked my updated URLs.

I am worried that all of my new /sub will be 404 by tomorrow.

Thank you so much Keri again for your super fast reply.!

are you suggeting that I need to do both?

the redirection plugin and sitemap update?

or sitemap update should be just fine?

I am studying the Redirection plugin right now I think it would be useful to redirect what SEOMOZ analytic bot thinks is an wrong URL to a proper URL?

P.S. I am asking this because

I have an horrific experience before.  (it's a different case, not related to my previous questions) It's a bit different because I once moved one of my websites to a different domain and google just kept on crawling the previous domain name's data, and sending 404 and my new domain name got penalized. (I still can't get it shown on Google after a few months) so I thought it would happen the same to subfolders.

Thank you so much Keri for answering my questions.

The subfolder website is totally new. Google hasn't crawled it fully yet.

there is no backlink. no one knows the website exists except our team.

hmmm. so updating the sitemap won't do it all? sigh. I am a newbie so i just have to trust you guys..

I already changed the subfolder and will download the Redirection plugin in WP right now

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/

Thank you so much for answering this so quick

so i can just change it, and update the sitemap and i should have no problem right?

I was worried because I thought once google crawl my web, it remembers my previous /subfolder and add my /sub on top of it. and I thought my original /subfolder would be 404 and /sub would be duplicate content.

but I am so relieved now! I think i was just being paranoid.

Question:

I am using a wordpress multisite and I enabled the crawl options yesterday

www.abc.com/subfolder <-original

but i find that www.abc.com/sub is good enough

I checked the site:abc.com but I find that my pages in the /subfolder has been crawled before.

Can I just change it to www.abc.com/sub or it will raise duplicate content issue?