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Hi BJ,

Over 7000 pages indexed. Yep all the categories are indexed, just getting a real lot of duplicate content from SEOMOZ.

More so interested in knowing if theres any best practise for an AJAX site seing that the way items get linked appears so diferent.

Hi all,

A client of mine has a website similar to Pintrest. All in Ajax/.

• So imagine an ajax-grid based animal lover site called domain.com.
• The domain has three different Categories Cats, Dogs, Mice.
• When you click on a category, the site doesn't handle the URL and doesn't change the domain

So instead of the domain going from domain.com to domain.com/cats, it uses the Ajax script and just shows all the cat pins.

and when you click on each pin/post it opens a page such as domain.com/Pin/123/PostTitle

It doesn't reference the category. However a page domain.com/cats does exist and you can go there directly.

Is this an SEO issue for not grouping all pins under a category?

How does Google handle Ajax these days, it use to be real bad but if Pintrest is going so well i'm assuming times have changed?

Any other things to be wary of for a grid based/ajax site?

I am happy to pay for an hour or two for a more in depth audit/tips if you can feed back on the above.

Fairly urgent.

Thanks

OK thanks Alan. I used OSE and just sorted pages with links and set up 301's and will let the rest 404.

Hi guys,

I just wanted confirmation if this is the right way to go about doing this. I need to merge three websites and I've never done three websites in to a brand new site before.

Ok so we have

Sitex.com
Sitey.com
Sitez.com

We've created a SiteB.com

SiteB.com has

SiteB.com/SiteXCat
SiteB.com/SiteYCat
SiteB.com/SiteZCat

Each X,Y and Z have over 1,000 pages. They only have about 10 pages each with Page Authority above 10 and the domains arn't that strong.

What i plan to do is:

301 redirect each site domain (X,Y,,Z) to it's corresponding category. e.g. Sitex.com > SiteB.com/SiteXCat

301 redirect each page off X,Y,Z that has a Page Authority above 10 to their new pages on SiteB.com

Then, I'm unsure if i should 410 every other URL...

I don't think its worht 301 every single URL if they arn't in search results much - but maybe it is if they have a lot of inbound links even with low page authority?

Any ideas and does the above seem the best practise?

Thanks.

Thanks James,

Champion!

Hi guys,

We have been asked to research keywords in 5 different countries, Australia, India, South Korea, Brazil, Singapore (4 different languages inc. Portuguese, Korean, English, Indian).

Being that I have never conducted keyword research outside of English, I thought maybe you guys could:

1. Point me in the direction of consultants/freelancers who can research terms in those languages.

2. Suggest tips one should bear in mind when designing an SEO strategy for multi-national websites (such as the different SE's used in countries and cultural-behavioral differences)

Any articles, guides, tools etc. that can help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Thanks mate! All i wanted to know.

Hi Alan,

First of all thanks for the quick resposne.

At the moment there is no redirect -  basically, both pages exist and as you said we have duplicate content and losing link juice. But because google has indexed some pages with slash and some without, i wasn't sure if we should set up a rewrite rule for all slashes to remove the slash OR just do a redirect for the individual pages.

E.g.

we have

example.com/page  - not indexed

example.com/page/ - indexed

example.com/page2 - indexed

example.com/page2/ - not indexed

so im not 100% sure if i should individually set up redirects, or just rewrite to get rid of all slashes and lose indexing from google on the slashed versions.

Does that make sense?

Cheers mate,

Our site is recieving traffic for both .com/page and .com/page/ with the trailing slash. Should we rewrite to just the trailing slash or without because of duplicates. The other question is, if we do a rewrite, google has indexed some pages with the slash and some without - i am assuming we will lose rank for one of them once we do the rewrite, correct?