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I set up a keyword list over a week ago and the majority of the keywords still say "Gathering Metrics." Any advice on how to get this data to populate?

Thanks!

I have a question about the impact (if any) of site-wide redirects for DNS/hosting change purposes.

I am preparing to redirect the domain for a site I manage from https://siteImanage.com to https://www.siteImanage.com. Traffic to the site currently redirects in reverse, from https://www.siteImanage.com to https://siteImanage.com.

Based on my research, I understand that making this change should not affect the site’s excellent SEO as long as my canonical tags are updated and a 301 redirect is in place. But I wanted to make sure there wasn’t a potential consequence of this switch I’m not considering. Because this redirect lives at the root of all the site’s slugs and existing redirects, will it technically produce a redirect chain or a redirect loop? If it does, is that problematic?

Thanks for your input!

Thank you for your response, Kris! In this case, I am glad they own the .org domain—they're a huge organizational entity and not having ownership of it could open up some obvious issues. I do agree that purchasing several domains to forward seems superfluous on a lot of different levels.

Hello! I have a question I've been unable to find a clear answer to. My client's primary domain is a .com with a satisfactorily high DA. My client owns the .org version of its domain (which has a very low DA, I suppose due to inactivity) but has never forwarded it on. For branding/visibility/traffic reasons, I'd like to recommend they set up the .org domain to forward to the .com domain, but I wanted to ask a few questions first:

1. Does forwarding low-value DA domains to high-value DA domains have any negative authority/SEO impact?

2. If the .org domain was to be forwarded, am I correct that an SSL cert is not necessary for it if the .com domain has an SSL cert?

Thanks in advance!

Thanks for your time, Ryan. I appreciate it.

About 2 months ago, my client changed its domain—using 301 redirect—and took the hit in search results. Here's my question: If I convince the client to revert to their old URI, will that help or hurt their SEO?

Follow-up, can it hurt to change interior URIs to something that better reflects the page content?

Thanks.

Thanks, Ben. You bring up some important points and a good solution with the multiple links rather than the drop-down menu.

I have a client in the medical industry, and the company's product has been approved in various countries in Europe yet is awaiting approval in the US. That means we can share certain information in some countries that we cannot share in the US. Therefore, we plan to use an initial landing page that will ask what country the user is in (using a drop-down list to choose from if not located in the US) and then push him or her to the appropriate version of the site.

Here is my question: What is the best way to ensure search engines can crawl the site beyond this landing page?

Thanks for your time.

I see that Ryan Boots answered a similar question for Mark Skidmore (http://www.seomoz.org/q/does-using-parentheses-affect-the-crawlers), but I'd like to dig a little deeper.

If I use a key term with a parenthetical phrase in the body copy with either

or

• tags, will it still hold the same weight as it would if I used the same key term without parentheses? Further, would the same answer apply to key terms in the meta description?

  Thank you.

  Joe Donohue