302 would be perfect for this situation in my opinion.
Posts made by MichaelYork
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RE: Using a 301 vs. 302?
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RE: How to Track Keywords Locally?
The localised nature of search and also peoples preferences searching via Google+ means the results and rankings for each search become quite personalised.
There are options for rank tracking software where you can enter an IP to search from which would give you the localised results you are after to an extent.
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RE: Product Pages Outranking Category Pages
Hi Shawn,
It is most likely going to be one of two things:
- The On-Page optimisation for the Category pages is not direct enough to rank for all product pages and therefore you would need to re-focus the on page optimization and messaging to the products you are directly aiming to rank for.
- You have built backlinks or internal links to the product pages so they hold more authority (you can check the PR and PA/DA of your pages vs. category pages for an idea)
Possible solutions are:
- Re-optimise the category pages to be relevant for the products you want to rank
- Build more powerful backlinks and authority to the category pages
- Make category pages canonical page for product pages (probably not the ideal solution but just a thought).
I guess the real question is why wouldn't you want clients seeing the exact product they are trying to search for? If they are searching XL Blue Widgets and you would prefer they go to the Widgets page, then it doesn't make too much sense?
Hope this offers some insight.
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RE: Organic Rankings for the US & Australia
Hi Nicholas,
It also depends if you are trying to rank for localised terms or localised variations in the Australian market. If so this will require some on page content optimisation and tweaking. Also look at building your SEO back-linking program from domestic sources i.e. .com.au/Australian directories etc.
You really just need to put your head in the space of "What would I do if I were an Australian business"
.Hope this is of some assistance.
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RE: Paid Directory Value
Takeshi is right, the argument against BOTW and Yahoo isn't that they aren't great links, as often times they are. The reality is that at $300 odd per link, can you get far more substantial elsewhere for less? That depends entirely who and what you know. If you can justify the cost and have the budget then yes the links themselves are quality.
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RE: How much Page Authority passes?
You could also try and build absolutely zero more links after this date and see the change. Tongue firmly in cheek
- Mike's answer is correct.
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RE: Appearing in Universal Results drops us from Organic Results
Hi,
We have experienced similar and in my experience if the 7 locals slot in between say 3 and 4, these effectively become 3-{4,5,6,7,8,9,10}-11 so the natural rank 4 is really 11th.
The reason I say this is I have noticed results moving up out of the local listings, into the top few and then back down into the local. This has been across several companies in the past 6 months, mind you just for one industry.
In my experience the only additional pages which you can rank in addition to having a local listing, is a sub-page. Although we have seen a local listing and also organic homepage listing ranking as high as middle of the second page.
I hope this has been of some assistance, just my observations from our listings.
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RE: Pr4 domain backlink from a blog post
No problems Stewart happy to help.
Yes that would be the case, as long as they aren't "SPAMMY" websites or those blogs selling links then of course it is safe to do so. That is link-building!
Also be sure to not over target anchor phrasing, make it as valuable for the people reading the information as possible and you have a sustainable SEO strategy.
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RE: Pr4 domain backlink from a blog post
Hi Stewart,
Completely depends on the way the blog is setup. Some post your entire article on the homepage, some just a snippet. If as you say it is the entire homepage, you will have the PR4 backlink for "x" amount of time.
From there it will be archived and you can check the PR of individual archive pages to get an idea of what PR they are, the domain and page authority for an indication of what you are getting in the long run.
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RE: Why are these pages considered duplicate content?
A decent free tool for internal site duplication is siteliner.com it is made by Copyscape I believe, but quite helpful for any duplicate content concerns.
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RE: 301 canonical'd pages?
Also you can run URLs B and C through Open Site Explorer to see where they are linked from, go and update those links to the new link and then the 301 redirect is just a safety net for any that have been missed.
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RE: Home Page Content
I'd recommend making at least some of your posts sticky to the homepage on the topic you are trying to rank as without some consistency you will be constantly changing the picture Google has of your website content wise.
Other options would be to add an additional section below the top slider with text, in my profile you will see how we have stuck our front post to the homepage as we previously had blog snippets from new posts and it was making our rankings far more volatile.
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RE: How can i make my sub-domain bring in more traffic?
A good place to start is identifying the search volume you are looking at targeting with the Google Adwords tool.
From there you can identify the competition of the sites currently ranking and put together an optimisation strategy for your content.
The point is you need to identify what you want to rank for first, then it is the age-old; good quality engaging content and building backlinks from authority sources.
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RE: Is there any way to track search volume for a particular keyword on a day-to-day basis?
You can do so in the Google Adwords Keyword Tool, just put the company name in exact search.
This will give you the monthly search volume averaged over the last 12 months, will take you two minutes and won't cost a cent!