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Thanks for answer.

B) With this one i ment should i rename the name of the blog to a keyword i target.

Copenhagen-property-news instead of Blog ....copenhagen and property is not already part of my domain name.

C) yes i ment to add like 200 static wordsand a h1 on top of the blog post page, Instead of just having the first posts

Hi Ryan,

yes its a very good point, I agree with you the point about analytics.

I just also really wanted to know peoples thoughts about pancake vs pyramid structure. Will the many blog post after the domain.com/ make other pages less significant

how about B and C what is your opinion should the blog page be optimize in such a way?

I am wondering what is the best practice regarding blogs?

I read that it would be best to structure a website like a pyramide instead of a flat panckage

But I have seen many blogs where the post shows right after the domain name.

Domain.com/postname instead of Domains/blog/postname

My point is that if a website has many post then the structure will get very flat and this will maybe make your most optimized and important pages less important to google domain.com/page

a) What do you think about this, which one of the two blog solutions do you prefer and why?

b) in context to blog

If for instance you had a keyword like Copenhagen property would you then consider renaming your blog to

realetateagent.com/Copenhagen-property-news/post-name

c) Would write a little intro like 200 words for the page 1 of your blog and add in some keywords.

Hi Andy, thanks for your feedback. I still have some doubt before i start to change the urls and do redirect. would really like your opinion on my questions below, if you have time.

Hi Ryan, Thaks for your answer would really love your opinion on my feedback further down.

Thanks for feedback Ryan and Andy but I feel i still need to clearify something:

Would be happy if you could answer me short and accurate on A to D if possible

a)

Regardig redirect when I switch back to the old theme.

The new domain been running for a month only and there are no new links created so I believe there are no reason to redirect back to old damin from new domain?

Though I not sure cause what do I to do to avoid duplicated content ?

A big part of the content has been rewritten for the new website. The new domain name will ofcause be offline when this site will run on the old domain name again.

B)

I did not get any record of what keyword the travel agent did rank on in the past.

However, using MOZ I found the most popular pages on the old domain.

I will recreate them and as much as possible I will use same titles and descriptions

Etc. On the new domain a page is named

http://www.new-domain.com/articles/

On the old domain the same page is called

http://www.old-domain.com/blog.html

I will when switching bak to the old domain change it back to

http://www.old-domain.com/our-destinations

The URL will be as it used to be when is ranked in Google except the .html is missing.

So do google understand this or do I need to make a redirect from

http://www.old-domain.com/our-destinations.html to http://www.old-domain.com/our-destinations

If google don’t understand this I see no reason to rename the urls back to old structure, then I could just do redirect with all pages one by one ???

C)

Do I need to recreate as many as the old URLS as possible or do I just take the top pages?

Also I one case I was thinking I think it might be a good idea to change the URLs structure so it will be shorter than the pages that was ranking and just use 301 redirects on them.

but I scare to do this as it actually influences my most important pages messured on page authority and no of links (each page have 5-8 incomming links)

What I was thinking to do was to shorten the urls and move keyword forward

http://www.domain.com/our-destinations/china/tour-name

becomes

http://www.domain.com/china/tour-name

there are 10 countries like this.

What would you recommend keep the structure that have been use to rank in google earlier or redirect and shorten url?

D)

Finally, regarding the blog and blog post I have question not really related to topic about but to something that I have seen many times on different websites.

Now structure is:

Domain/post-name

I think would better if it was (there will many blog post):

Domain/blog/post-name

HOW TO DO RECOVERY AUTHORITY OF OLD DOMAIN NAME?

I got some advise on this in another post here on MOZ

based on this i need a few answers

TO SUMMERIZE**:****.** My client got some REALLY bad advice when they got their new website.

So they ended up changing the domain name and just redirecting everything from the old domain and old website to the front page of the new domain and new website.

As the new domain not optimized for SEO they of cause now are not ranking on anything in Google anymore.

QUESTION 1

According to my client, they use to rank well on keywords for the old domain and get a lot of organic traffic.

They don’t have access to their old google analytics account, and don’t have any reports on their rankings. Can anyone suggestions how I can find out what keywords they were ranking on?

QUESTION 2

I will change the domain name back to the old domnain name (the client actually prefer the old domain name)

But how to get back most possible page authority:

For information titles, descriptions, content has all been rewritten.

A - Redirect

I will try to match the old urls with the new ones.

B - Recreate site structure

Make the URL structure of the new website look like the old URL structure

Etc. the old structure use to be like

olddomain.com/our-destinations/cambadia.html    (old)

newdomain.com/destinations/Cambodia  (new)

Or

olddomain.com/private-tours.html (old)

newdomain.com/tailor-made (new)

does the html in the old urls need any attention when recreating the permalinks in the new websites.

Look forward to hear your thoughts on this, thanks!

Hi Martin

We worked on page SEO and created special pages for a list of 25 keywords.

We also optimized the speed and responsiveness of the page.

We are the most active on Social Media of our competitors

We also started working on Backlinks and I feel when I compare our profile we have link of the same quality as the top ranking sites.

I fear that there is some structure or technical issues or something with the backlink profile that cause we don’t rank as well as I hope.

We are ranked between no. 11 to 30 on the 25 keywords and the goal would be to get half of the keywords in top 10 within 2 months.

We are in need of a skilled SEO sparring partner to work with.

We have already done a lot of SEO optimization but the results has not been as good as we hoped.

I believe that might be some issues regarding structure or backlinks holding us back from getting results as I can see many competitors with almost no on page optimization or quality backlinks ranking better than us.

I want to find someone who can audit our page find the problems. Also set some guidelines on what we should fix and work on to improve the overall rankings fast.

Thanks!

I just started doing SEO for a new client. The case is a bit unique as they build a new website and for some reason lunched in under another domain name.

Old name is foodstepsinasia.com and new one is foodstepsinasiatravel.com

OLD one is a respected webites with 35 in MOZ page authority and with +15000 incomming link (104 root domains)

NEW one is curently on 0

The programmer has just that build the new website has set it up so that when people write or find the old domain name it redirect to the front page of the new website with the new domain name.

this caused that my friends lost a lot of their rankings was so I believ it was a very bad solution. But I also think I can get most of the old rankings back, but my question is what to do now to get as much back of the rankings as fast as possible??

A) I believe I must change the domain name back to foodstepsinasia.com on the new website ? O

B) Should I on the old website try finding the url of the pages with most page authority and recreate these urls on the new website or should i redict them to a page with related content?

Looking forward to feedback from someone who have experience with similar cases.

Thanks!

Hi Martin

We worked on page SEO and created special pages for a list of 25 keywords.

We also optimized the speed and responsiveness of the page.

We are the most active on Social Media of our competitors

We also started working on Backlinks and I feel when I compare our profile we have link of the same quality as the top ranking sites.

I fear that there is some structure or technical issues or something with the backlink profile that cause we don’t rank as well as I hope.

We are ranked between no. 11 to 30 on the 25 keywords and the goal would be to get half of the keywords in top 10 within 2 months.