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@Kateparish Thanks so much for the advice.

Is it best to redirect an old website to a new website page by page to like pages or just the entire site all at once to the home page of the new site?

I do have about 10 good pages on the site that are worth directing to corresponding pages on the new site. Just trying to figure out what is going to preserve the most link juice.

Thanks for the help!

I will check the things you guys told me and see what I can find. The Urls were found in Google search console.

For some reason, I end up with a bunch of weird 404 error URLs like these.

• /KRVWZ/SVfSZ/
• /wp-content/upl
• /MKWTZ/RKYQZ/
• /wp-content/upload

What should I do with them? Should I redirect them or is there a better way to do something with them.  I do use Yoast Premium if that makes a difference.

Thanks in advance.

That's pretty much what I figured. Dang!

So I have a site that I want to shut down http://vowrenewalsmaui.com and redirect to a dedicated Vow Renewals page I am making on this site here:  https://simplemauiwedding.net.

My main question is: I don't want to lose all the authority of the pages and if I just redirect the site using my domain registrar's 301 redirect it will only redirect the main URL not all of the supporting pages, to my knowledge.

How do I not lose all the authority of the supporting pages and still shut down the site and close down my site builder?

I know if I leave the site up I can redirect all of the individual pages to corresponding pages on the other site, but I want to be done with it.

Just trying to figure out if there is a better way than I know of. The domain is hosted through GoDaddy.

Thanks for the help and ideas. I appreciate you taking the time to help me out

I have a keyword I usually rank #1 for "Maui Beach Wedding" that I am now ranking 2 and 3 for with two separate pages below:

My home page: https://simplemauiwedding.net

and the below internal page I am linking from my home page that I really want that term to rank for.

https://simplemauiwedding.net/beach-wedding-packages

What is the best way to pass the authority from one to another for this particular keyword. I want this URL https://simplemauiwedding.net/beach-wedding-packages to rank for the term, not my home page which has a link pointing to this page from my home page which I was hoping would point the authority to it for the term.

What are some other ways to signal which page I prefer Google to pick up for the keyword I want to rank for?

Thanks

How long has the drop in traffic been happening for?

I have switched names of a few branded domains to shorter URLs like it looks like you are doing and I saw a significant drop in traffic for a while, around 3 months. I was sweating it hard, but it did eventually pop back up.

Just try to build some new quality links to the new URL using your brand name as the anchor text and also the naked URL as the anchor text so Google can see that it is emerging as the new preferred domain. A blog post also helps to announce the domain change and once created spread it far and wide on social media.

Thanks for the helpful tips Donna. We recently moved over to Wordpress from another platform with a subdomain on http, so we have quite a bit of content to transfer over to the new blog and redirect it from the old. Available time and resources are definitely a huge challenge right now.

I'm just trying to make sure I am going forward doing the best I can of categorizing the information (specific tags) and making them visibly available because our staff uses it regularly to direct clients to show what they will get for certain locations and shoot types etc.

Wordpress is our blogging back end and our front-end site isn't as easy to work with from a categorization standpoint, but works extremely well from a design standpoint so I am trying to make the most of what I have to work with.

I guess I am really looking at some good design ideas of how to organize the tags from a visibility and usability standpoint.

I'm definitely in the house cleaning stage of the whole process.

Curious if anyone has some good examples of ways to organize your WordPress tags without making your sidebar a football field long and hard to navigate. My blog is https://karmahill.com/blog and I could use some ideas.

We have main categories of photo shoot types, for example, "Couples", located on the sidebar.

We want to add tags to go with those main categories for further categorization and user experience example:

• Couples

• Engagement

• Proposals

• Honeymoon

• Maternity

My question is, do I need to make "tag" pages for those posts to reside on or is their another way to get it done with less work, that is much faster? I don't want to have to make 30 tag pages or is that just what you have to do?

Just wanted to share some information that HTTPS is now a positive ranking factor.

Here is an article about the fact that it can give a small boost in Rankings: http://searchengineland.com/explainer-googles-new-ssl-https-ranking-factor-works-200492

Here is also a video by Google Saying they think "every site should have a security certificate" and how to employ it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBhZ6S0PFCY

People may already know about this; just thought it was important to share and couldn't find it thoroughly addressed anywhere on the site.

Are you building links to authority sites in your niche? Spreading any content outside of your blog and your Sprout Social auto posting?

Need more info into what you are currently doing off page and what niche your in before I can craft any ideas.

Have you read this post yet? Sounds like what happened to eBay is much like what happened to you. You may want to keep up with what eBay will do to rebound and take cues from that going forward. Just a thought.

Panda 4.0, Payday Loan 2.0 & eBay's Very Bad Day

http://moz.com/blog/panda-4-payday-loan-2-and-ebays-very-bad-day?utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=top10

One thing I would add is a "Book Services" button or "Request a Quote".

I have used this technique on tons of my sites with amazing success. It allows people to feel like they are actually buying something and it takes people from "information requesters" (contact us) to buyers faster. Most sites I create I let them buy right there. But your situation is a little different as you need to give a bid. People want immediate gratification, buy now!!! Let them give you all the info right away if they will.

For the booking page/request a quote page:

Make check boxes for what people want:

-Web Design

-Logo Design

-Graphic design

Make a place for them to upload suggestions or urls of sites they like or Pinterest pins for logo designs. All the things you need to make your life easier. Or that you already request. You can actually use it for every client, so you have a run down of just what they want. Refine it as you find out just what people want from the form.

It just takes the customer into your process faster and helps skip steps.

Also, I noticed on your navigation you should lump service types together. It is to much to look at quickly and immediately makes me want to look away.

I would use something more like (most popular first):

Design Services:

• Graphic Design
• Logo Design
• Web Design

Marketing Services:

• content writing
• social media marketing

You get the idea (with a bread crumb trail or hover to show other services). I know you may have put them all on the same services tab because of indexing, but they will all get indexed. Once indexed, the 'child pages' pages will make the 'parent page' Stronger.

Example:

Parent: Design Services

Child: Graphic Design -Logo Design-Web Design

The child pages are going to help build more relevance for your page "Design Services" because of your great "Child page" references about different kinds of design.

Hope that helps.

Visually it looks great!

You are not alone. We have a wedding and photography business and Yelp constantly hides our reviews as well, all real customers. Just focus on Google or whatever platform your customer base uses most. They have been doing this for years so don't feel singled out.

I was thinking a good experiment to do on yelp would be to advertise on there and see how many reviews, that are currently hidden, would pop up magically once you started paying.

Just write them off and focus your efforts elsewhere; fighting with them gets you no where.

First, if they have the exact match on the keyword (which is sounds like they might) and they have a good site and seo, it may be vary hard to take the fist spots. You can always get a couple of your own on the first page. (I have one keyword with 5 places on the first page for an exact match).

Lets Focus:

How many reviews does the Yelp have?

Here is a Strategy for Yelp

You can use open site explorer to see where they have links to their Yelp Account.  Get those links to your Yelp account. How is their Yelp description written? What keywords do they use. Use a similarly keyword targeted description, keywords etc. Social bookmark your Yelp page with the keyword in the description and title.

Here is a strategy for Facebook:

How many likes does Facebook have? If they have way more fans than you and they post a lot it could be tough. If you have more fans than them make sure you have your keyword in the description of your page. Post more posts using your keyword if you can and not make it sound weird. Social bookmark a good piece of content written about your keyword that you post to Facebook.

Youtube:

Make a good youtube video, slide show type if you need, that is keyword targeted. Write a 300 word description with keywords, your site url possibly your Facebook url. Social bookmark it with your keywords in the title and description, this will increase views naturally and provide links. Wait a week after the social bookmarks have aged. Use Open Site Explorer to mine those links too.

They may be doing some sneaky stuff too like buying Facebook fans or Youtube views if their pages are junky and they rank. That stuff can be risky if done in high amounts.

Hope that gives you something to work with.

Thanks Nicholas. I appreciate the great insight!

Obviously you are new to seo and that is great.

You are also making the biggest seo mistake first, which is also good, because making mistakes helps you learn faster and you may as well start with the biggest mistake first.

Dave is right, after you have already unleashed the carnage of SE Nuke on your site scrap it and start over.

You need to get real traffic from real sites and real people, not just fictitious traffic from, auto created content that SE Nuke creates to trick Google into thinking you are a big site, which google will soon find out and never rank your site ever again. Damage already done.

Get your site going. Pay for some Google Adwords to get traffic to your site while you are learning the basics of SEO and learning how to get traffic from sources in your niche market. Create a blog and post quality content on it for starters.

Be prepared for the long ride which is SEO. It is a marathon that never ends, not a sprint to the finish line. Things constantly change and you will have to change with them or no matter how good you do today, you will be left behind tomorrow.

Good luck and wish you the best.

What have you done for link building? A spider web with only one thread catches few flies.

You need to start putting some content together about you business, how can you help your target customer? Then you need to start spreading it with links back to whatever page you are trying to rank for with occasional anchor text or long tail keywords.

Making sure you have company profiles on all the major outlets is a start: Twitter, Facebook, linked in, G+. Then make sure you post your newly created content there so it can get found. I noticed you haven't even filled out your Moz profile with a link back to your site...... all these little things add up to a lot.

Then get your business going on Moz local, this will create links and keyword rich descriptions that will be linked back to your business. Even if the links are no follow it helps Google know contextually what your site is about.

Make sure you have a blog. Make posts that can contribute to your target keyword (audience) and have them point to the target page.

Don't get discouraged it takes months and months depending on your keyword difficulty.

Good luck