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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!

How exact should my meta titles and H1 one be compare to the keyword you wish to rank on.

Eksample. When I do a research with google AdWords the keyword tool shows me:

260 monthly searches for house for rent Hua Hin

140 monthly searches for Hua Hin house for rent

70 monthly searches for House for rent in Hua Hin

The first two includes the exact same 5 words while the last one includes the stopword "in".

That google have different search volumens for these very smilair search queries tells me that small differences matters. So how does that effect the way i shoulf write my:

a)meta titles

b)H1

I feel I get better sentences often by reordering the keywords etc.

“Top tips on how to rent house in Hua Hin” Instead of “Top tips if you want a house for rent in Hua Hin”

Do you use stop words like “in” hua hin. (only used in 25% of the searches queries)?

Also would it matter if i write a plural form of a keyword instead of a singular etc propeties and sted of property?

My goal is to write easy to read and unique content but i feel i can make exact matches if required with out compromising to much.

Thanks Brandan!

I change the link as recommended to nofollow and anchor text to holidayshuahin.com

But what do you think about the 308 links i send from Dreamestaethuahin.com menu to Holidayshuahin.com if HOLIDAYSHUAHIN somehow recieved a penelty than it might be best not to link at all from menu.

Instead i could link from menu to a page on Dreamestatehuahin.com that will be the only page pointing out to Holidayshuahin.com

Thanks all 3 of you for the useful answers. I have checked in webmaster tool and there are no manual penalty on Holidayshuahin.com

This is what I think I got from your answers.

A: Holidayshuahin.com , disavow all old links to our domain. etc i found there where 55 links form and old greece website about stones kentro-petras.gr

B: Holidayshuahin.com, All the links from our own site (dreamestate) should be no follow and anchor text should be branded like holidayshuahin.com

Dreamestatehuahin.com (our main page rankings are very important)

Therefore when holidayshuahin.com in hit by a penalty would it be a good idea NOTto link from the menu of dreamestatehuahin.com ? (308 links)

Or would it be okay just to do nofollow and branded link from menu.

We have 2 other site Labuahuhin.com and  Huahin24news.com where we have many link links from banners to dreamestatehuahin.com.

I not see a function in the wordpress theme where I can make the banners nofollowwould it be alright if I just use the anchor tag: dreamestatehuahin.com or do you recommend me find somone who know how to do these links nofollow.

1. We have the site Holidayshuahin.com

Apparently Holidayshuahin.com is on a blacklist of barracuda we think this happens when somonelse owned this domain. What does this mean for our Google rankings today?

We did not optimise the site for SEO but i think it should still show up somewhere in top 100 as there are not that many pages in the niche. holidays hua hin

What should we do change domain name?

2. We have 346 links from Holtidayshuahin.com to our own site Dreamestatehuahinc.om that we do not spend time to optimize on.

Dreamestatehuahin.com Is not ranking as good as we expected could this have any thing to about these backlinks from our blacklisted holidayshuahin.com site?

Also when so many links, should i make them no follow link, what would be best for the link profile of dreamestatehuahin.com in context of links from holidayhuahin.com

Look forward for your answers thank you

SITE STRUCTURE

I am trying to optimize the structure of our site Dreamestatehuahin.com. Getting a visible sitemap of my page make me realized it was not a pyramid as I expected it to be but instead very flat.

I Would be happy for some advise on how to structure my site in future aswell how to optimize certain place on the page that i think need a change.

1: structure on posts.

Maybe I misunderstand how post works in wordpress or something happen with my theme.

When I look at my page sitemap my page is VERY flat because permalinks setting I chose the setting as post name (recommended in most articles). http://www.dreamestatehuahin.com/sample-post

What I actually believed was that post name was place after /blog/ like:

http://www.dreamestatehuahin.com/blog/sample-post I would be a good idea to do like this right?

Should I add some SEO text on the top of my blog page before the actually posts. Or would this be a bad idea due to pagination causing double content?

Could one do 4 blogs in one site and replace the name “blog” in the url with a keywords

http://www.dreamestatehuahin.com/real-estate-announcement/sample-post

http://www.dreamestatehuahin.com/hua-hin-attractions/sample-post

2) Pages Based on property type

From our top menu, i have made links under for sael using wordpress property types

http://www.dreamestatehuahin.com/property-type/villa/

http://www.dreamestatehuahin.com/property-type/hot-deals/

http://www.dreamestatehuahin.com/property-type/condominium/

Earlier I found that these pages created duplictaon of titles due to pagenation so I deleted the h1

What would you do with these pages. Should I optimize them with a text and h1. maybe it is possible to add some title and text content for the top of the first page only (the one page that are linked to our top menu)

http://www.dreamestatehuahin.com/property-type/villa

and not to page 2, 3, 4…..

http://www.dreamestatehuahin.com/property-type/villa/page/2/

b) Also maybe I should rename the property types

WOuld it make sence to change name of the property types from etc villa to villas for sale or even better villas for sale hua hin

Then the above urls will look like this instead:

http://www.dreamestatehuahin.com/property-type/villas-for-sale/

Or Maybe renaming a property type would result in many 404 errors and not be worth the effort?

3) LINKING + REPOSTING OUR “PROPERTY” PAGES AND DO A 301 REDIRECT?

a) Would It be good idea to link back from all properties description to one of our 5 optimized landingpages (for the keyword home/house/condo/villa) for sale in Hua Hin?

http://www.dreamestatehuahin.com/property-hua-hin/

http://www.dreamestatehuahin.com/house-for-sale-hua-hin/

b) Also so far we haven’t been really good about optimizing each property (no keywords, optimized titles or descriptions)

etc. http://www.dreamestatehuahin.com/property/baan-suksamran/

I wonder if it would be worth the effort to optimize content of each of the old properties )photos-text) on our page?

Or maybe post the old properties again in a new optimized version and do a 301 redirect from the old post?