with 301 you will lose some of the link juice, but some will be transferred.
I don't remember where I have read regarding this issue, but if I remember well the number was something like 85% transferred? (Correct me If I am wrong)
Cheers,
Istvan
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with 301 you will lose some of the link juice, but some will be transferred.
I don't remember where I have read regarding this issue, but if I remember well the number was something like 85% transferred? (Correct me If I am wrong)
Cheers,
Istvan
Hi k9byron,
First of all, the three links provided are three very different ones:
1. http://72.3.181.97/catalog/DesignerDogBeds.aspx - no result
2. https://www.k9electronics.com/product.php?productid=3474 - PetSafe PAC19-12069 Spray Refill - Citronella
3. http://www.k9electronics.com/designer-dog-beds/ - designer-dog-beds category
But IF I have understood the question well... Then you are asking which form to use for the redirect.
I would go to redirect the old page to the "clean url". The cleaner the url is, the easier is to optimize for. So go for that version if possible.
I hope it hepled,
Istvan
Atul,
in long term you can find duplicate content if you don't prevent it. (just because there might be some path problem).
For ex.
you have product A that can be reached through Cat. A or Cat. B, so you will have two paths:
example.com/catA/prodA
example.com/catB/prodA
Which will be the same product reached from two pages -> two different URls with same content -> duplicate content
Regarding Frames:
Currently you have 1 URL because of the frames.
If you would go for 1 page for each product, then you could optimize better the content for the specific keywords.
Istvan
Hi Atul,
First of all I would advice to get rid of frames. It is a lot healthier to have a site that can be crawled more easily by the search engines.
2nd: you miss a lot of on-page optimization elements.
3rd: if the website is going to grow in products over time, you should think about information architecture. Go check in advance if you can get duplicate content issues because of multiple paths that can reach 1 product, and try to eliminate it. (p.s. advice - check for a faceted navigation at the products, maybe it will help you out)
4th: don't forget that content is king. Check for the keywords which you are targeting, create a keyword mapping, then on the most important pages/keywords write awesome content! And I mean the best you can deliver. This way you will give a boost from content.
5th: custom 404 pages, sitemaps...
Basically you still have a lot to do on the website.
Good luck with it!
I hope it helped,
Istvan
Hi AWCthreads,
Your question was: "Does the absence of keywords in the url significantly impact the page rank of an article?"
Now if we talk about Google PageRank, then you should not worry about it. But if we look at search engines rankings, then you should.
Using your keywords in the URl, gathering every +signal for the search engines may help you in gathering higher on-page SEO score, which will eventually lead to a higher ranking also for the targeted keywords.
I hope it helped,
Istvan
Salut Maldini!
I believe that the competition is working too That is all.
I will check on this later on when I get home from the office, and then I will get you some more information about what is happening.
Cheers,
Istvan
HI Samir,
Could you give some technical details? Like what kind of OS do you use, what internet browser, etc. These type of information can help "seoMoz techies" answer you question.
Istvan
Hi JJ,
The usage of canonical tag on the document could help you out.
For ex. in the file: 24%22-Sting.html you can insert the canonical tag
You should insert the canonical tag before the .
This way you will exclude the following pages to be indexed:
| www.joannalark.com/store/products/24"-Sting.html?setCurrencyId=1 |
| www.joannalark.com/store/products/24"-Sting.html?setCurrencyId=6 |
| www.joannalark.com/store/products/24"-Sting.html?setCurrencyId=7 |
Also you will transfer the "link juice" from these pages and focus only on one page: 24%22-Sting.html
I hope it helped,
Istvan
Hi vlevit,
The best practice would be to exist a direct path of flow from index page. Something like: index -> category(filter) -> subcategory(filter) -> page/product. But in some cases xml sitemaps can also help you in indexing.
BUT, beware with to large XML sitemaps, try to create more then one sitemap, group them as possible.
A few very good resources can be found under the next links:
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/solving-new-content-indexation-issues-for-large-b2b-websites
http://www.seomoz.org/qa/view/29009/sitemaps-management-for-big-sites-tens-of-millions-of-pages
I hope it helpes,
Istvan
thank you for the follow up, Dr. Pete!
the index page canonical should point to index page,
the content page to the same content page (it is just for eliminating the duplicate issue)
don't put a canonical that points to a page that is not its duplicate
you have 1 page, that can be reached from two or even more paths. we talk about these paths, and these are creating the duplicate content.
It is like having your site duplicate on your non www. of your domain.
With the canonical, you tell search engines which path, which .html file you are optimizing for.
you just insert into each html file the canonical that points to www url. and it should work it out.
Hi again
So basically canonicals are better.
And why you get this: when robots crawl your website they see the following pages as different:
And we could continue with variants. Canonicals tell search engines that these pages are the same, and they should handle it as same page.
so if you put a into index file, you will have the following results:
www.example.com (no matter which URL does the search engine visit, they will handle as the canonical link)
This is also good for links, because people might link to you as example.com or example.com/index, etc. etc. Then if you insert the canonical you focus all the links to one URL.
Hope it helped,
Istvan
Hi,
These duplicate URLs can be resolved two ways easily.
1. 301 from non www. to www. or vice versa
2. canonical to one of the links.
This way you will focus all the link juice on only one page. More power
I hope it helped,
Istvan
http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test should solve the problem, if you dont want to have more then 3000 pages crawled.
I have used this tool a few times, it looks fine
Istvan
Thumbs up for Keri, it was my mistake to ask for a link.
Hi Tai,
I would prefer sub-folders, as I have understood the PR flow better to sub-folders than to sub-domains.
Here are a few useful resources:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/subdomains-subfolders-and-toplevel-domains
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/understanding-root-domains-subdomains-vs-subfolders-microsites
I hope it helps,
Istvan
Hi Tommy,
Could we please get a link to the application?
In general (before checking the app. itself) I would go for a sub-folders / each city, then target the specific sub-folder for the specific city. The homepage could be optimized for the service keyword with the initial geo market. But that is only one opinion.
Maybe after a link to the application, we can get more detailed plan.
Hope it helped,
Istvan
Hey Melissa,
If you are going to use a subfolder on your company page as: www.company.com/canada/ then you will benefit from some link juice from your company site.
But in long term, I would go for ccTLD. Although you will have to build the "link-reputation" from almost zero, you can better optimize it for the specific country (in our case Canada).
Also it would be better to gain a hosting package that is based in Canada, many small factors, BUT 1+1 makes 2, right?
I hope it helped,
Istvan
Hi Nolan,
This article might help you with choosing: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/domain
Personally I would go for northbrunswick-nj-laundromat.com. This would be my choice.
Hope it helped,
Istvan
Hi John,
Here is a Q/A that was answered by Ryan Kent.
http://www.seomoz.org/q/correlation-between-google-and-yahoo-indexed-pages
Maybe that helps.
Istvan
Hi DMurtagh,
Well, did you check the inbound links for the index(PR2) and for the inner page(PR3).
To be honest, I would suggest you not to worry about this issue, there are a lot of websites that have valuable inner page content, and visitors tend to link to this pages more than to the home-page.
Maybe if you provide a link, we can have a look at it.
Hope, that helped,
Istvan
Later Edit: Also there might be the problem which was underlined by Alan.
You have the grey background SEO button on http://twkm.ca/seo-bookmarklet
Click and drag it to the bookmarks bar on your browser.
After you have it in your browser's bookmarks bar, you can use the tool on every page visited.
That's all
Atul, do you have teamviewer on your PC?
I will "set up" the tool, if you have in 1 min.
Istvan
Ok,
Go to an URL. For ex. www.seomoz.org
Now in the Bookmarks you have that grey SEO tool, click on that. And the tool will show you all the information you need ;-).
Cheers,
Istvan
Hi Atul Sharma,
In Chrome, make sure the bookmarks bar is shown. and then just drag the grey SEO button to the bookmarks bar.
Then it should work fine
Cheers!
HI Jeffrey,
I am always generating the XML sitemap with : http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
Also, you can see some sitemap generators on the following link: https://code.google.com/p/sitemap-generators/wiki/SitemapGenerators
I hope it helped,
Cheers!
Hi I would go for four Social networking sites:
1. LinkedIn
2. Facebook
3. Twitter
4. Google +
I am not really engaging myself into others, but you can build very valuable relations on these in your area. I hope someone will include other Social networks in the list to.
Hi Atul Sharma,
My question is, what are you targeting? You should check for bookmarking sites only after you know what is your target zone.
Cheers,
Istvan
Hi Bob,
I am not 100% sure if I understood well the question, but: if you make a change to a website and Big G indexes it, you should aspect changes in the rankings in the same time.
I am working on some mini-site lately, and experienced rankings from even 2-3 days after launch. So You can aspect changes soon also.
At least this is my experience.
I hope it helped,
Cheers!
Hi James,
I would go for creating a new blog for LA users and create a small advertising from the existing OC blog. If you have a mailing address in LA too then you will be able to optimize the other blog with local listings(Google, Yellow pages, etc.).
This is only my opinion, I hope it helps.
Cheers,
Istvan
Hi James,
www and non-www are already 2 paths, www.example.com/ and www.example.com are another two. You can play with the idea
Also, you can focus more the link juice.
For ex. let's have Fritzy and Googgly, two visitors who would like to link you product page.
Fritzy will link to www.example.com/product/ -> with anchor text "product" (cool, eh'? We wish all of our links would look like this)
Then comes Googgly and links to the same product with the URL http://example.com/product/
Now you will have duplicate content linked separately and you wasted the link juice.
Just add a canonical to example.com/product/ which point the link juice to www.example.com/product/ -> you will transfer aprox 85% of link juice gained on example.com/product/ + it will not be duplicate content.
I hope I didn't mass up here something
Another thing that you could do is just to 301 non-www to www or vice versa.
Gr., Istvan
Hey Nextman,
I have encountered the same issue a half year ago, with mini-site. The site was moved 3 times in one year, still there we didn't see no negative affect.
At the end of this video: http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleWebmasterHelp#p/u/24/PfqKKquA_R0 Matt Cutts says that "if you are not happy with your current webhost, you can change, it is not the end of the world"
I hope that helped.
Cheers,
Istvan
Hi James,
So I have just took a quick look at the code. You don't use the canonicals at all.
Maybe you should check the following article by Rand Fishkin http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps
It will help you eliminate dup. content from the site. After you implement the to the site you should have less pages indexed.
Feel free to ask if something was not clear enough.
Cheers,
Istvan
Hi James,
Are you sure you don't have any duplicate content issue?
For ex.usage of canonicals can save you from having your pages as duplicate content.
example.com and www.example.com are the same, but in the "eyes" of Search Engines, bots, spiders, etc they are different pages with duplicate content.
Maybe you should provide a link to your site, and I will check on it later.
I hope this helps,
Istvan
Hi Mozmonkey,
There is a very simple way to deal with this kind of issues: canonicalization. It is the key to tell Search Engines that the http://www.XXXX.com/product1234.html?sef_rewrite=1 is the same as http://www.XXXX.com/product1234.html
Adding the canonical link to the page will help you reduce the duplicate content from your website.
Greetings,
Istvan
Buna Radu,
How hard was the website hit? Could you maybe provide a link to it, so I can have a look?
Greetings,
Istvan
Garry,
If you need help with that, let me know. I will write a quick step-by-step.
Greetings,
Istvan
Hi Gerry,
I have dealed with same situation. Basically what we have done (since we have a gTLD .net) is that we have created sub-folders for each country and geo-targeted each sub-folder from GWT to the specific country.
Now, people say that having your own ccTLD (country codeTLD) can help you even more in rankings for local searches.
Another factor that you should consider, is moving the hosting of subfolder (if you are going for the first version) or ccTLD (if you use the second one) on a hosting from the targeted country.
P.S. if your client has a .co.uk domain (which is ccTLD) you can not geo-target a sub-folder from Google Webmasters Tools to another region, therefore I would advise you to buy their brand name in each country, check for a hosting, then start optimizing for the specific country.
I hope my answer helped,
Istvan