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Thank you Cesare...appreciate it

Hi....lets say i sell widgets and on my site i have redWidgets, blueWidgets and greenWidgets. Each of these widget page's has a meta description tag that seems to help click through. I now have a different site that would like to do a right up about each widget and will dedicate a independent page to each widget. Can i safely provide them with the original meta descriptions (from my original site) for each widget i have on my site to then use on these "right up" pages (as they seem to work well and are informative of the subject matter). I am not sure if this is a seo issue or not. I would think not but would appreciate any input. thank you

Hi Martijn.....I have blocked in robots.txt as you have suggested and have fetched as google bot on the soft 404.s and they are blocked. Can i go ahead and mark these as fixed or are they really only fixed if these pages return 404? I am not sure how i can return 404 on them though as they are legit search result pages.

I really just want to know the best way to deal with them in wmt now that i have blocked them in robots.

thank you

thanks Martijn appreciate it.....any suggestion to get the "empty" search pages to 404 and not 200 if urls are entered directly?

Hi ....we are getting allot of "site search" pages showing up in wmt as soft 404's and wanted to know what the best would be to stop this. All search pages are already noindex follow but maybe we should block them in robots txt as well.

Would the below help to solve this ?

User-agent: *
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/

Any other suggestions or direction would be appreciated to prevent these pages showing up as soft 404's

tks

Thanks for that MoosaHemani appreciate the input. We are not concerned about the updates as the two platforms will be "very different" with regards to overall widgets and portals. My main concern is that the two WordPress installs can run without issue on the same domain. Appreciate it!

Hi ....I need to know if anyone has any concerns of running 2 or more WordPress installs on one domain and if so what would the concerns be. The situation is that we have a static html site that has a WordPress blog....and it is installed in example.com/blog/ . We will upgrade the static site to WordPress and this WordPress install will be in example.com/monkeys/ and then we will point its address to the root and make all other needed changes when ready to go live...but the install will stay in its own directory. So bottom-line is we have one domain with two WordPress installs that are each installed in their own sub directory and run from their own independent databases. There are quite a number of reasons for us to want to do this but I wont get into that......I just want to know if anyone has any concerns with this setup? The research we have done says its OK as well as our hosting provider....but before we get cracking we thought maybe one more "educated" input would make us feel more comfortable.

Thanks

thanks for that...i agree with you 100%.... the brand does not rely on a geographic location and is more global.....glad to hear you have a similar strategy except for when "places" comes into play...appreciate your insight

Hi ...I have a brand that is very strong socially..specifically facebook and twitter and this is where we have directed all strategy and traffic. We recently wanted to establish a presence on google+ and have done so. My feeling at this point is to maintain a presence on google+ but only direct social traffic to facebook and twitter from the brands website....so we can keep the focus here aswell as the stronger community. I have noticed other brands doing something similar.....is this a good strategy or should we be directing traffic to all the platforms from the site?...bottomline should we be linking to all our social platforms from the brands website or keep it linked to the stronger platforms and just maintain a presence on the others?

thank you

thanks Oleg.....if the site was to get reviewed manually would there be any issues that there are thousands of pages with content being created dynamically?

thanks for your time

Hi all...looking for some insight pls...i have a site we have worked very hard on to get ranked well and it is doing well in search. The site has about 1000 pages and climbing and has about 50 of those pages in translated pages and are static pages with unique urls. I have had no problems here with duplicate content and that sort of thing and all pages were manually translated so no translation issues. We have been looking at software that can dynamically translate the complete site into a handfull of languages...lets say about 5. My problem here is these pages get produced dynamically and i have concerns that google will take issue with this aswell as the huge sudden influx of new urls....as now we could be looking at and increase of 5000 new urls. (which usually triggers an alarm)

My feeling is that it could be risking the stability of the site that we have worked so hard for and maybe just stick with the already translated static pages.

I am sure the process could be fine but fear a manual inspection and a slap on the wrist for having dynamically created content?? and also just risk a review trigger period.

These days it is hard to know what could get you in "trouble" and my gut says keep it simple and as is and dont shake it up?? Am i being overly concerned? Would love to here from others who have tried similar changes and also those who have not due to similar "fear"

thanks

Hi Regal..thanks and agreed...I am getting good signals from sharing and likes..so am winning there...I think I am just going to quit with the comments and focus on that on the facebook page...as that is really where the bulk is  happening....I appreciate the input..thank you

cheers

thanks for the input.....and yes i do believe it is of some help having UGC to enhance certain keyword densities...but does it have any strong social signals that will impact the serps?

Hi Guys....One of my sites has a blog and the site does very well overall.....however managing the blogs comments (fighting spam...attacks...general monitoring and approval) is becoming to much trouble.  The blog itself really gets fed from facebook and most of the blog comments are done here.

I am thinking of removing the comment section on the blog and only responding to facebook comments.....I am concerned though how much weight the "user generated content" carries with regards to SEO...it has always been said that it does carry weight but what if i get traffic to these pages and links but remove the comments ability...

just really wanted to hear some opinions on this and how much respect i should give UGC.

thanks for your time

thanks erica....it looks like a url translating service...I will figure it out...just always get a little nervous when i see this kind of thing floating around in my analytics...thanks for getting back

Hi Guys

I am finding this in one of my sites analytics allot   /tr-url/en-ru.ru/ followed directly by the site in questions domain name and page of interest....like this.. /tr-url/en-ru.ru/www.example.com/blue-widget/ and example.com being the analytics of the site in question.

Are these pages that have been translated? like by yandex or something in that line....I cannot seem to find anything on this anywhere.

What is this and should i be concerned??

thanks for the help

cheers

thanks for the feedback guys....I will go that route...was wandering if it was an know bugg but dont see anything like it...maybe a new bug...hard to keep up these days..thanks again

Hi Guys

I manage a few facebook pages and a day ago something weird happened to one and i cannot figure it out.  It started with me trying to auto share a youtube video to the facebook page and offcourse added the "comment" and shared.  The video is then visible when i log in to the page but not when i am not...and it also does not share to the followers....and then the same happened with a normal link and image post....I see it when logged in but it does not get sent to my followers or to the page if not logged in....am i missing something here.

Should i just log in and then click on share and see if that send it out?? please help...facebook drives me crazy half the time..thanks in advance

thanks Ben..appreciate it....and yes that is what it seems.....had figured it out since the post

Hi Guys....i keep seeing this in my analytics..can someone tell me what it is?

146w.bay146.mail.live.com

thanks for your time

thanks guys

thanks Steven..it is a business page so only "likes" no "friends".  I want to change the email access away from the original person who opened the account and use one of the senior members at the brand as the contact.  this person has an existing facebook personal account so i am concerned if i can use their email on the business page (in fear of the two account violation)..or should i have the brand create a email specifically for the facebook acount...to play it safe.....i am a little confused with what emails i can and cannot be used if they are linked to existing personal accounts..with regards to only having one account.

appreciate your help on this matter as the more terms i read the more confused i am.

Hi Guys

I desperately need help on this one.......I have taken over the management of a Brand's facebook page and have some concerns as to how it was setup.  The account was opened by an individual that has a personal account but they did not open the brands page from their personal account...instead they used a slightly different email address and opened a new page business account.  I am not able to comment on any comments on this account and i am assuming it was as a result that there is no "profile" (not sure).

Should i go ahead and create the profile with the details of someone at the brand? or how should i proceed to rectify this......am i not able to comment as a result of not having a profile??

help!

UpDate: The comment issue has been resolved and it seemed to be browser / firewall related...never happened before...very strange

thanks for the effort Lewis...I will have another read through the terms...

Hi All....just wanted to know if i can get some clarity on what is and is not allowed on the facebook static html pages.

I build many that are brand oriented and am concerned about all the unclear rules that somehow i am not aware off....I do know that you cannot have any auto playing media on the page..like video and music....but not sure about a image slide show so i have made all slide shows to force manual.

Can you guys share some of the cardinal do's and dont's for building these pages without unknowingly getting your clients page band......

I believe linking out to a website from these pages are allowed but it is not clear.......would appreciate some input....thanks

thanks for the direction Aran......i will take a look and am excited about the iframe as it will possibly give you huge flexibility on design and output like flash and jquery...thanks

Hi guys

I have been building custom facebook pages using fbml but now i see talk of using iframes....can you guys please tell me what is best practice at the moment to build custom facebook pages and if there is a tut you can direct me to......i would prefer the iframe method but want to be clear on the process.

thanks for your time

cheers