Hi Dean,

As previously mentioned my knowledge of 'Portfolio' was limited. Now that you have advised the nature of a 'Portfolio' being static in design, I can simply write articles to my hearts content and publish them. Additionally, I will have the added advantage to set categories and tags and visual appearance.

I believe this is game, set and Match!

Thanks Mark

Hi All,

Thanks for the information.

Dean,

I have taken the example provided on the filterable portfolio from here. I believe your example and mine are talking about the same thing, hence using the same Portfolio Custom Post Type.

Would I have to keep the article written on the portfolio page updated more often then a regular static page for Google ranking?

Thanks Mark

Hi Andy,

Thank you for the information.

My initial goal is to create a rich visual menu for users to filter in readiness to read an article of interest.
That said and done, i believe you cannot create categories and tags on static pages, hence a custom posts would need to be created with the article.

I want the user to have visual and filter experience and cannot see another way of achieving this without using isotope.

Thanks Mark

Hi All,

Thank you for your words of wisdom.

My reason for creating a portfolio was to get the best of both worlds (Pages + Posts). I'm looking to create an image based menu where users can see a graphical representation of an article. 'Eye Candy' and not heavy on text. This way the user is drawn into clicking an image to read the feature rich article.

Addiitonally, using categories and tags the user can fine tune what he or she is looking for. Here is a example of what I'm looking to create.

Your thoughts and comments would be much appreciated.

Thanks Mark

Hi All,

I'm looking to put pen to paper and design my main structual template for my website. I will be creating the new site in Wordpress.

My understanding of Wordpress is broken into the Static Pages, Posts and Portfolio.

Static PAGE
Static one off content.
No tags, categories or archived

Posts
content entries, which is listed in reverse chronological order.
Update post entry to maintain overall freshness of your website.
tags, categories & archived

Portfolio
?????

Question

• What are the benefits of a portfolio page over Static Pages & Posts
• When creating feature rich articles should i use static pages, posts or portfolio.

Thanks Mark

Hi Ruben and Alex,

Many thanks for the great advice.
I'll be making a strong coffee and reading your article very shortly! ... Thanks Alex for the link.

I have one question that comes to mind.
You redirect many urls via your .htaccess file.
Your .htaccess file growns in size.
Search engines take considerably longer to read and process this information.

Surely the read + process overhead would be classed as poor site speed and therefore subject to some form of penality by the gods of Google?

Regards Mark

Hi,

Thank you for your response.
I'm glad to see that you can simply 301 the exact old page to the exact new page.

My fears were that all the hard work and cost associated to creating these feature rich articles would be wasted.
I suppose this is exactly how large organisations would tackle such a move. To mention an example SEOMOZ to MOZ.

I would appreciate any further information from anybody who has experienced such a move and how they carried out the migration. Additionally and issues and drop in traffic resulting to a new domain name move.

Thanks in advance

Mark

Hi All,

I'm looking to rebrand my current website to a new domain name.
In short the current website has out grown it's potential. The domain name is not memorable nor is it attracting a wider audience.
I will create my new website and 301 redirect the old website to the new, hence pass SEO value.

Google Places
Having spoken to Google they tell me that I can simply change the URL in Google Places to the new URL.

Articles on my current website
I have a number of rich content articles on my current website, can I simply create my new website and copy & paste these previously written articles?

Google+, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
What should I do for accounts associated with the current website?

Any other useful information would be much appreciated.

Regards Mark

Hi David,

Thank you for your reply.

Surely having a menu link and on page link pointing to the same page would be an ineffective use of link juice.

Thanks Mark

Hi All,

I'm a little confused. I have read a number of articles from authority sites that give mixed signals over the importance of menu links vs body content links.

It is suggested that whilst all menu links spread link juice equally, Google does not see them as favourably. Inserting a link within the body will add more link juice value to the desired page.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks Mark

All,

Thank you for the quality information.
I was not aware that 'out of country - bad influences' would not affect your UK site performance.

I agree with your logic that untold ip addresses would slow down site speed thus affect Google rankings.

Thanks Mark

Hi All,

I operate from the UK only. How can I exclude select countries from viewing both my organic website and Google Adwords listing.

Organic Website
Are the any free online services that give you a simple click + download/view script to cut & paste into a .htaccess file.

Google Adwords
Ditto as above with the exception to paste the IP list into Campaign | Setting Tab | Advanced settings - IP exclusions

Thanks Mark

Dear Devanur,

Thank you for your response.

To date i have checked both Google Analytics, Keyword Planner, and live running Google Adwords Campaign. All have not yielded favourable traffic. Please bear in mind the low traffic examples stated previously have no bearing to my actual low traffic pages. However, I have seen almost 99.5% of customers hitting my high traffic page.

With this in mind, I cannot see any way that even to incentivise customers (based on your model) that any additional traffic can be found.

Therefore, would redirecting my low traffic pages still be beneficial?

Regards Mark

Thank you Chris you your response.

The example provided was an over simplified scenario.

In reality, I will be driving the users to a high traffic page that has relevance. Additionally, users would seldom search for the low traffic pages and therefore by removing these from Google's index won't make them appear in the search. Within the high traffic page, I will give the user the experience and information on all low traffic content.

Please give your thoughts.

Regards Mark

A number of pages on my site have low traffic metrics. I intend to redirect poor performing pages to the most appropriate page with high traffic.

Example
www.sampledomomain.co.uk/low-traffic-greyshoes
www.sampledomomain.co.uk/low-traffic-greenshoes
www.sampledomomain.co.uk/low-traffic-redshoes

all of the above will be redirected to the following page:
www.sampledomomain.co.uk/high-traffic-blackshoes

Question
Will carrying out htaccess redirects from the above example influence to web positioning of both www.sampledomomain.co.uk/high-traffic-blackshoes and www.sampledomomain.co.uk

Regards Mark