Hi Agsin,
You can make rank the domains with multiple dashes. But usually domains with more dash looks spammy to users. So they may not click on your website even if it ranked on page 1
Riyas
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Hi Agsin,
You can make rank the domains with multiple dashes. But usually domains with more dash looks spammy to users. So they may not click on your website even if it ranked on page 1
Riyas
Thanks Aleyda, I read your article it was very informative and my confusion has been sorted out
Dear Mozers,
We are creating a mobile version for a real estate website. We are planning to dynamically serve different HTML on same URL.
I'm a little confused about the on-page optimization for the mobile version. The desktop version pages has lot of text content and I strongly believe that made us ranking for various keywords. Now if I'm creating this mobile version do I need to serve all the same exact text content on the mobile version too?
I found zillow.com using the same method, their desktop version has lot of text content and mobile version is clean without any text. Does this affect the sites SEO anyway?
Please help, share your thoughts.
Dear Mozers,
We have a Drupal site with more than 200K indexed URLs. Before 6 months a bad website migration happened without proper SEO guidelines. All the high authority URLs got rewritten by the client. Most of them are kept 404 and 302, for last 6 months.
Due to this site traffic dropped more than 80%. I found today that around 40K old URLs with good PR and authority are de-indexed from Google (Most of them are 404 and 302).
I need to pass all the value from old URLs to new URLs.
Example URL Structure
Before Migration (Old)
http://www.domain.com/2536987
(Page Authority: 65, HTTP Status:404, De-indexed from Google)
After Migration (Current)
http://www.domain.com/new-indexed-and-live-url-version
Does creating mass 301 redirects helps here without re-indexing the old URLS? Please share your thoughts.
Hi Keri, here I given moz.com just for an example. I just meant any trusted website
White hat tiered link building is a great strategy but what if someone mixes both white hat and black hat tiered link building together?
For example
User-agent: 008
Disallow: /
(Tells 80legs Robot to stay out of the website)
User-agent:*
Disallow:
```
(Tells all other robots to visit all files of the website)
2) audible.com
```
User-agent: sitebot
disallow: /
```
(Tells Sitebot Robot to stay out of the website)
```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /mycart
Disallow: /ajaxcart
Disallow: /create-account
Disallow: /acc-merge
Disallow: /acc-merge6for6
etc..
```
(Tells all other robots not to enter specific directories listed)
Learn more here [http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html](http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html)
Hi Bernard
Don't worry. I guess since August 2012 Moz has some access issues to Google Adwords API. Hope the team is building a better replacement for this.
Read this for more info http://www.seomoz.org/q/loss-of-google-adwords-api
Hi Daniel
This is first time I'm thinking a SEO situation like this. Thanks for the question
My Suggestion
What about creating a common page for all version on the core website.
For example consider www.example.com as your core website.
Create a page called www.example.com/all-version , some thing like wikipedia main page ( http://www.wikipedia.org )
From each ccTLD Change Language option will take the user to the above all version page
Just a suggestion, consider others feedback too
No. We are just telling the search engine that the German version of the website (www.example.com) is located at www.example.com/de/
So all the pages/folders originating from that directory become the part of this process. (www.example.com/de/2ndpage OR www.example.com/de/another-page.html )
Create all the language lines in a single XML file. Don't create multiple XML files for this. And follow the same instructions mentioned in the above Google link
Hi James
Hope you are planing to target users for different languages or countries. You can achieve this by adding rel="alternate" hreflang="x" annotations in sitemap
Using rel="alternate" hreflang="x"
Using rel="alternate" hreflang="x" anotations in sitemap to tell Google that there is different versions of same website exist on the web. Otherwise Google will consider it as duplicate content and block it from SERP
Example Steps
_- Now you need to create a XML sitemap for this and you can name it as _languages.xml
_- Upload the sitemap and tell Google where it is located _through Google Web Master Tools
Useful links for this process
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=189077
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2620865
Hope this will help you
It will take 1 week - 4 week to recover the value from 301'ed URLs
I remember when Rand Fishkin 301ed his old domain to http://moz.com/rand/ it took 7+ days for him to recover
See Rands tweets regarding this
It depends on the number of keywords you need to focus on the title. From your above listed titles the first one looks user friendly.
Another suggestion is
Brand Name - Lake Tahoe Ski and Snowboard Rental
Thanks alan for the response. Because I am very new to SEOmoz I am struggling to get this solved
My site http://riyas.in is showing a 301 redirect or a forward to
http://flicker.com/muhammedriyas .
I had done a 301 redirect long before from my site to this domain, but i removed that after 2-3 days. Please help me to solve this problem. I attached a screen shot