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I am just about to launch a mobile specific version of our website.

We were not able to make the main site responsive so have decided to make a seperate copy on an m dot subdomain.

I have kept the url structure identical between both sites and added a canonical url on the mobile pages pointing to the desktop site.

I will detect and redirect all mobile devices and googlebot mobile crawler to the m dot site.

The questions i have are as follows...

1. Is that the best approach if you use a mobile specific site on a seperate subdomain?

2. What type of redirects should i use to send mobile users (and googlebot mobile)  to the mobile site?

3. My mobile site does not have all the pages the desktop site has. What happens if i redirect a mobile user from a page on the desktop site to a page on the mobile site that does not exist? (will give 404 currently). I guess i could maintain a list of valid mobile urls but this would be a pain (and a bit of an overhead)

Your help is most appreciated

Regards

Hi all,

One of my sites http://henstuff.com/ has seen some ranking drops for major keywords over the past few weeks and I was wondering if it was something to do with Penguin not taking a positive view of link-filled footers. It is something we are looking at phasing out but wanted to get the opinions of the SEOMOZ community.

Thanks!

Rob

Afternoon all,

I know there is a question about Pinterest that was asked in February but I guess it was a fairly new beast then and people were still unsure about its use for marketing/SEO etc.

I run an events business and on our Pinterest profile I tend to pin random stuff I find on the net, themes we are running (directly from our website) and other Pinterest users. I have received several 're-pins' and people are really starting to follow us now.

What I am keen to know is whether or not having lots of followers/re-pins on Pinterest has the same effectiveness from an SEO perspective as having lots of Facebook/Twitter/Google+ followers and whether or not these re-pins are 'do follow' links or have any SEO benefit whatsoever?

Many thanks

Rob

ps: Pinterest page is http://pinterest.com/eventa/ , if anyone has any tips on how to better utilize this then that would also be greatly appreciated

Hi all,

We run lots of different campaigns with affiliates and as such they have links on their websites pointing back to ours. I was keen to know how much 'link-juice' these kinds of links are passing back to our websites or how much SEO benefit we are getting from them. The links have "?=affiliate" in them.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!!

Many thanks!

Rob

Hi SEOmoz experts,

We will shortly be launching a new product range (B-Events) on our Events website and I was wondering if moving our current A-Events specific blog will impact the SERPs at all?

Quite a few of our blog posts rank well for longtail A-Events terms, so we're a little reluctant to move it. But for the long term it makes more sense than creating & maintaining 2 separate blogs.

• Current Blog URL: domain.com/a-events/blog
• New Blog URL: domain.com/news
• New A-Events Category: domain.com/news/a-events
• New B-Events Category: domain.com/news/b-events

I intend to 301 redirect all of the old URLs (200+) to their new blog category equivalent, will this be enough to keep their positions in the SERPs?

Can you recommend / think of anything else, that we might not have considered.

Any help would be much appreciated!

"No man is an island", so say brother John Donne. But, my fellow SEO-ers, is the same true of keywords?

That is... deep breath...

If I am ranking as number one for a short-tail keyword, like for example: "fruit salad", does that have any sway on the rankings for other longer tail keywords, like for example, "tropical fruit salad london" or "cheap fruit salad", or is every keyword that we would track in our campaigns completely independent with rankings dependant on work done on that sole keyword?

Thanks for your advice in advance.

One of our competitors has over 100,000 links on Yahoo site explorer, most of them are from pages on their site with duplicate content and they don't seem to have a focus on gaining backlinks, but the site still ranks really well. Can anyone think of a reason why this duplicate content hasn't been penalised by Google?

Hi all,

When we add a new Christmas party package onto our website I always tweet about it with a link to the party page, utilizing a tweet such as : "New Manchester Christmas parties", followed by the link. How much power (if any) does utilizing the key phrase Manchester Christmas parties have on SEO for that page? Bearing in mind the link is shortened and doesn't mention the keywords anywhere in it, they are only present in the tweet itself. Similarly, on our company Facebook page I always post a link with a title such as "check out our new Manchester Christmas parties". Does this have much SEO benefit for the page I'm directing the link to? Many thanks!!

I recently wrote a news release on PRweb that was picked up identically by 8 other news websites, with the same anchor-text links as the original. Is the reproduction of duplicate content and links across different websites like this to the benefit or detriment of SEO and ranking power? Some of the links are:

http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/view/pressrelease/eventa-new-eventa-christmas-parties-website-is-launched-648923?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Alert&utm_content=pressrelease

http://www.prweb.com/releases/christmasparties/neweventasite/prweb8562064.htm

Many thanks!!

Great answers thanks. In terms of where to link to, is it necessary to divide equally between different pages on the website, or does it help for SEO purposes to have lots of links to one particular page?

Thanks for that! For instance, I've added inlinks to around 45 products thus far, with just over 20 each for 'hen party accessories' and 'hen night accessories', is that a correct sort of balance?

And also, is it detrimental to have lots of internal links back to one specific page?

I've recently been spending some time going through all the content on our website, henstuff.com, adding internal anchor text links to product copy with the link following back to the product's generic catagory. I've been focusing on the search term 'hen party accessories', but have also been using 'hen do accessories' and 'hen night accessories'.

I know that internal linking has value when it comes to SEO and rankings, but was keen to find roughly at what point usage of a certain search term for anchor links is seen as spam by the engines. Is there a certain formula to follow when it comes to internal anchor text links?

You can see some examples at:

http://www.henstuff.com/hen-night-accessories/hen-party-accessories/willy-bubbles

http://www.henstuff.com/hen-night-accessories/hen-party-devil-horns/hen-night-pink-devil-horns

Many thanks

Oli

I'm relitavely new to SEO, and I just wondered how keyword dense the homepage to our businesses site should be? Is there any value in loading the frontpage at the potential expense of readibility, or should our content elsewhere be responsible for our yield in search engine results?

Look forward to any responses.

Thanks,

Mark