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Hi all

We are building, managing and marketing a Danish tourism site for VisitSweden. The site targets a Danish market-group with information and travel tips on going to Sweden.

We have one page in particular that has always failed to rank well for some reason.

http://www.meresverige.dk/rejser/malmo

This page targets the keyword "Malmø".

Another page, with similar layout and content seems to rank alot better.

http://www.meresverige.dk/rejser/goeteborg

Keyword "Gøteborg"

Any ideas? Smart tips?

Have the best of days

Fredrik

Hi Serge

My opinion is that having the key words in the URL definitively does not harm your ranking. Dependent on if its a very broad keyword or long tail keyword it might help more or less.

If you have a technical solution making it easy to create URLS with any name then why not.

Just make sure that if you do change the keyword focus of a page, be careful not to change the URL or you will loose your pagerank.

Most CMS now do an automatic 301 when you change the URL but even so it will take time to get the old pagerank back.

Also, like Istvan mentiones, some people actually do remember URLs instead of bookmarking them, so having too long and odd URLs might not be such a good idea.

Hope I could be of some assistance

Fredrik

Hi all

I cant seem to find a way to get Entrance keywords for a specific landing page in version 5 of Google Analytics.

Any quick tips?

Thanks a million

Fredrik

May I ask what keywords you are hoping to rank for?

HI

Thanks for the valid comments. Logo corrected already 

I just wrote you a mail with a few question in regards to proofing service.

Thanks again for the help

Thanks for the great tips.

Lets say I produce the raw content, you know any good online service that can take that and apply your point 1 -4 on it?

We are mostly writing our own article but need a helping hand proof reading and putting the final touch on the articles.

Any ideas to online services offering this?

Thanks for the good tips.

Think I done em all except the trailing slash. Will look at that.

If you look at this page http://www.meresverige.dk/rejser/malmoe, it should do a 301 redirect to the new one. Does the redirect look ok to you?

F

About 2 months ago one of our clients renamed a section of his website.

The worst part is that the URLs of the page also changed.

New page:

http://www.meresverige.dk/rejser/malmo

Old page:

http://www.meresverige.dk/rejser/malmoe

The problem now is that the new page get absolutely no page-rank transfered from the old page. It also get no mozrank at all.

Also if I try to find it in the Open Site Explorer it can not be found.The old page can, but not the new one.

We have updated the sitemap.xml and also done proper 301 redirect for the pages since about 2 months.

Any ideas here? This page was a very important page in terms of traffic so very much thankful for any input.

Have a great day

Fredrik

We have now added the preferred domain in Google.

I was a bit suspecting this but not sure. When I did a site:meresverige.dk i only get results with www.meresverige.dk so I thought Google had figured it out.

I will wait for a week or two more and see how it goes.

As for the redirects of the /malmoe to /malmo without the www i agree this is weird. It does not show in OSE at all. But when I use firebug I can see it redirects as it should. Have you seen this before?

Thanks again

We did proper 301s for all pages, the main page and all pages under this in the structure.

Your suggestion is to add a few links from other root domain to the new page url to speed things up?

Hi all

For various reasons some of our pages were renamed from:

http://www.meresverige.dk/rejser/malmoe

to:

http://www.meresverige.dk/rejser/malmo

We have made proper 301 redirects and also updated sitemap.xml accordingly. The change was done about 5th of September. The content on the pages remain identical.

This page, and all pages below it in the structure now get very low or no page-rank at all. Much lower than it was before the name change.

Any ideas to how long, if ever, it will take for Google to transfer the page-rank from the old page?

Any suggestions to what we can do to make the process faster?