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Hi Paddy

Thanks for getting back to me, that has confirmed my thinking, much appreciated.

All the best with your work

Hi All

I've picked up a new website project and wanted to ask about the best way to proceed with the current site during the development process.

The current site is incomplete although it has been live for a while and has over 80 pages in the sitemap. Link to site https://tinyurl.com/ychwftup

The business owner wants to take down the current site and simply add a landing page stating "new website coming soon".

From an SEO perspective, am I better to keep the current site live until the new site is ready? Or would it not make any difference if I setup the landing page and add 301 redirects from each page in the sitemap to the landing page.

Many Thanks In Advance For Any Assistance

Hi Miriam

Thank you so much for your detailed response.

You have exactly identified the scenario and I will work through the suggestions posted, this content I have inherited so will make a raft of changes as suggested

Hi All

Thanks in advance for any support. I've setup two "local" pages to target the next door town for one of my clients.

One page targets "t shirt printing" and one page targets "embroidered workwear"

However when I search for "embroidered workwear town in question" google connects the search to my t-shirt printing page and not the embroidered workwear page. Would it be possible to advise on what I need to do for the correct page to be linked to the search term?

Here is  a link to the search term in question

**https://tinyurl.com/vvgr5r5 **

and the page that we would like to appear in the results, not our tshirt printing page

https://tinyurl.com/s77md9o Thanks in advance for any help

Hi Nicolas

Thank you for the response, I've added the link and schema, but point 2 in your notes is something that we can action

Thanks again for your help

Hi There

When searching for a company's name, the company's YouTube channel infrequently appears on page 2, and more often than not a single video is displayed rather than the channel itself.

If you search for Moz, there video's appear on page 1.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?safe=active&sxsrf=ACYBGNSFXYC_ZW2NSU7MGBPkVLQaKwArZA%3A1574343148737&source=hp&ei=7JHWXamfKrC7gwf1roS4BA&q=moz&oq=moz&gs_l=psy-ab.3..35i39l2j0i67j0i131i67j0i67l6.680.953..1052...0.0..0.86.239.3......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i131.PYRZrWhmps0&ved=0ahUKEwipxYehtfvlAhWw3eAKHXUXAUcQ4dUDCAg&uact=5

I've added a rich schema link on the site to the YouTube channel, but could I ask what else I can do, either on the site or on YouTube to create a stronger connection between our brand name and our YouTube channel?

Many Thanks In Advance For Your Assistance

Hi OrioleOriole and effectdigital, apologies for the delay, but thank you for your help, we preserved the links in the end.

I've marked your responses as good answers and liked them, thanks again

Hi There

We are currently redesigning the following site https://tinyurl.com/y37ndjpn

The local pages links in the main menu do provide organic search traffic. In order to preserve this traffic, would be wise to preserve these links in the main menu?

Or could we have a secondary menu list (perhaps in the header or footer), featured on every page, which links to these pages?

Many Thanks In Advance for Responses

Hi Guys

Could someone just clarify the fundamental question when they have a second?

If we use "and" in our domain name, would there be an seo advantage to using "and" throughout the web, rather then "&"?

Many Thanks

Hi All

Thank you for the responses and indeed the consensus in the team is that & would be preferred as mentioned for visual reasons.

I just wanted to double check the technical relationship between the domain and the branding, both online and offline as mentioned. From a technical perspective, is it best to advertise with the word "and" for seo because that is what is in the domain name?

Many Thanks

Good Morning All

There are two variations of our company name on the website.

Sometimes the name is listed as "name and name" and sometimes listed as "name & name"

The domain is obviously www.nameandname.co.uk

I believe I am correct in saying that we would be wise to go through and standardise, using one form or the other?

Secondly, my main question is would we be wise to use "name and name" as the default, as the word "and" and not the symbol "&" is in the domain itself?

Many Thanks

Thank you for the clarification Rajesh, much appreciated

Hi Guys

I previously asked a question that was helpfully answered on this forum, but I have just one last question to ask.

I'm migrating a site tomorrow from http to https.

My one question is that it was mentioned that I may need to "add canonical tags to the http pages, pointing to their https equivalent prior to putting the server level redirect in place. This is to ensure that you won't be causing yourself issues if the redirect fails for any reason."

This is an e-commerce site with a number of links, is there a quick way of doing this?

Many Thanks

Hi Sean / Others

Can I just add one last question to this post?

I'm not certain about the canonical tags. Although I don't need to add redirects for everypage, do I need to add a canonical tag to each page?

Is there a way of doing this for all pages?

Just sent an email, no problem at all to post the issue publicly once resolved

Hi There Istvan

That would be great, how would I go about giving you access?

Thanks for your help here

Hi All

My Moz Crawl for my domain brings up 7 redirect chain errors.

In each case, the original source is our old website. Strangely, only 7 of the pages show up as having redirect chains, as there are many more examples.

We have added redirects from the old pages via the redirection tool in wordpress. The redirects themselves are working as expected.

The redirects are from the old website, so the address http://www.oursite.co.uk/example.html to https:www.oursite.co.uk/new-page/

The chain seems to go from the original site and address to https and then onto the new domain. Screenshot link to the Moz Report

https://imgur.com/a/eXRSFcD

Any assistance here would be greatly appreciated. The hosts says there is nothing wrong with the.htaccess file, but I'm thinking this must be the issue.

Many Thanks

Hi Sean

Thank you so much, that is brilliant much appreciated.

I'm new to this forum, just to double check I've ticked the thumbs up and also "good answer", I think that show the appreciation that you can on this forum?

Hi All

I'm planning a http to https migration for a site with over 500 pages. The site content and structure will be staying the same, this is simply a https migration.

Can I just confirm the answer to this fundamental question?

From my reading, I do not need to create 301 redirect for each and every page, but can add a single generic redirect so that all http references are redirected to https. Can I just double check this would suffice to preserve existing google rankings?

Many Thanks

Thanks Tim

Just watched, much appreciated, thanks for the help

Hi All

Currently my site has a mixture of relative and absolute links for internal links.

Could I just ask two questions?

1. Is it better for SEO for the site to feature only one method of internal links?
2. If this is the case, is it better for the links to be absolute?

I'm reaching the conclusion that I should review all internal links and set them to be absolute, but wanted to check.

Including blog posts, this is a 70-80 page wordpress site, it wouldn't take too long to check the links

Many Thanks