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Hey Alan,

Thanks loads for the advice there. Makes a lot of sense.

Problem I have is we do not have any kind of access to the old site. Nor the client having a good relationship with the agency who made the previous site.

I have run multiple crawls of the old site with Screaming Frog and Moz and I just cant get  all the properties spidered. Out of the total amount of properties I have about one third of them, which of course can be redirected.

We made a final change to the url structure so the property address is added. The urls now look like the following -

OLD - domainname.com/property/view?property=14863

NEW - domainname.com/property/street-name-postcode/propertyid

The main problem we have and why I think it is not possible using mod rewrite, is the property ids are different on both sites. There is really nothing in common between the two URLs at all aside from /property/ and page title.

Any further advice would be very much appreciated Alan as its clear you have done jobs like this before.

Thanks,

Mark

Hi guys,We are about to move over to a new website and need advice on handling the 301 redirects.We have a large real estate website with around 12,000 pages, a lot of these are properties (about 10,000)On our old website, the url structure for each property is as follows -domainname.com/property/view?property=14863on our new site, the url structure isdomainname.com/properties/view/6137The property ID number is always different from old site to new. The way we see it, we have two options. a.) a manual redirect of each and every property url. A very very long jobb.) a folder level redirect, so redirect the 'property' folder on the old site into the 'properties' folder on new. The con with this one is we are not sure if this is the best route to take, if it is how we would go about it?Some advice would be really appreciated guys. I know there are some hyper intelligent SEO's in here and we need to make sure we handle this right!Many thanks in advance.Mark

Yeah this is really strange. We have now dropped out of site for all of our main keywords. Weirder still, is that for some of the keywords the contact page on our site is ranking above the target landing page.

The thing I have noticed about the new hosting is that we no longer show for 'pages from the UK' and also the site speed on analytics seems quite a bit slower.

Do you think this could have all been caused by adding that one link?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Our website is www.mysocialagency.com

Whoever runs the social media marketing category quit years ago and no one bothered to replace them. There is only like 5 or 6 results!!

You know actually Robert. We also changed the hosting of our website two days ago. Last time we did this, it made no difference at all and this time, it has made no difference to any other keyword phrases apart from the one that was the footer text link.

Do you find that swapping hosting sometimes causes drops? The new server should be faster.....

Hey guys. A belated happy new year to everyone who reads this!

I had a strange experience yesterday with linking from a clients website footer.

Basically, the client currently has a serious duplicate content problem caused by a multiple language plug in. It has made Google believe that there are 10 different versions of the clients website online (one for each language). It is a real estate website and there are quite a few pages anyway, but with the error, I would suggest the page count is now around 10,000.

We are waiting for the developer who installed the plug in to repair the problem and without thinking it through really, yesterday, we made a text link to our home page in their footer.

Overnight, our rankings for the keyword we used for the text link have dropped from pos. 2 page 1 down to halfway down page 2.

Is this basically a sign that it is not good have this footer link from their site? I guess it is kind of like 10,000 weighted links being added in one day right?

For now we have removed the link, but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Mark

Hey thanks for the reply. Yeah I was thinking a 301 of the whole of site a to site b's home page. Do you think that is worth it? exactly the same industry and same keywords......

It would be like me buying out a direct competitor to my company and 301'ing their whole site to mine.....

Also thanks for confirming Vladimir very useful.

Hey thanks for that Istvan. I will get it changed over tomorrow then. The company who currently host the site will remain nameless as I already gave them a really hard time on Twitter, but they are market leader and awful. Giving us way too much downtime and slow load speeds! NM

Also to add that the 'link farm' is operating for other competitors in their industry, so it most certainly relevant to their main company website in content.

Hey there. I think that the main benefit from Twitter, or one of them, is if when you post a link to your own site, like your blog, for a start you use a shortner like Bitly. If the link becomes very popular and is retweeted by many, it gets listed on various sites which list 'hot stories'. This gives you quality followed backlinks on high page rank sites. Also, the use of bitly to shorten the link allows a super popular link to be stored and give you a really powerful back link from the Bitly site.

Also the retweets within themselves are classed as social signals and are taken into account by search engines, but it is a viral and very popular tweet sent promoting a a url on your own website that gives the most benefit.

Right now our strongest back link is from a blog post that was retweeted over 500 times. The main backlink just shows as a bitly link, with the domain stats of the bitly website.

Hope that helps.

Whoever runs the social media marketing category quit years ago and no one bothered to replace them. There is only like 5 or 6 results!!