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Awesome thank you for sharing your experience that's a great data point.

We have a client whose 301 redirects disappeared and have been gone for about 6 months now. We are going to be putting the 301 redirects back in place.

Will we be able to regain any of the previous SERPs or link juice from old links or is all lost?

Thanks in advance!

HI Mozers!

I have a client who is deleting their community section of their website because they have little activity. I know there are some inbound links going the the community section.

If I 301 redirect those links to the homepage instead, will that still preserve the SEO credit of the link -OR-is Google smart enough to know it's redirecting the the homepage and kill the link love?

My initial thoughts are that Google will see that it's being redirected to the homepage and not count the link anymore, but I'm just guessing. Any ideas? Anyone have any experience in something like this?

i'd agree.

i'm planning on creating a full landing page with geographic specific content.

So what i'm hearing is that it's gunna be hard to rank in organic search in multiple geographic locations, but it's more possible with local results (google places)?

I really don't want to have to get mailing addresses and phones from all over to rank for that. hummmph.

in an ideal world, i'd like to just rank organically... does anyone have a good strategy for this?

also, the time it takes to get indexed depends... but usually 2-3 days. I tell clients up to a week so they sit tight.

you can go into the _**"Health" menu -> "fetch as googlebot" **_and then have it fetch your home page. It will run a quick diagnostic and then it will refresh the page and you can click "Index". Select to **index the page and all links. **

this will essentially give google a kick in the but to index that specific page and the links on the home page.

You should do this in addition to your sitemap.

humm, do you have some screen shots of the error? Also, what the link to check out?

Hey Mozers,

We are a Joomla Web Design firm located in Milwaukee Wisconsin, however, we serve clients all over the midwest (and US) (chicago, madison, minneapolis, etc)

I'm curious what the best strategy for ranking in these new geographic areas?

Originally I was thinking of creating geographic specific landing pages for each area, however, i'm scared it will hurt us with Google's recent penguin and panda 3.5 updates. Also, won't i need to link to these landing pages from our main website to get them indexed?

What about creating mini websites on subdomains: (example) Chicago.SavvyPanda.com??

• What are your ideas?

• Do you have clients who have successfully started ranking in multiple geographic cities/areas?

here's a great walk through. I just did it on our site and it worked well.

http://www.virante.com/blog/2012/01/08/how-to-show-your-author-photo-in-google-search-results/

just make sure to use Google's rich snippet tool to check your work before submitting it to Google's Microdata Submission 

Also, here's google's official walk through http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1408986

i'm cool with not having them indexed, i'm just worried that if I demote or block the /tag/ from being indexed we'll lose ranking for keywords.

Right now the /tag/ URL is ranking fairly well. ?

Hey Dan,
You caught on to the big problem we're correcting now. It's the way our tagging system works in our blog... it's causing all kinds of duplicate content errors. We're changing tagging systems to help this problem.

So I plan on doing this first, but do you have any ideas how to correct the /tag/ URL that's being indexed instead of our "MIlwaukee SEO" services page?

here's a great walk through. I just did it on our site and it worked well.

http://www.virante.com/blog/2012/01/08/how-to-show-your-author-photo-in-google-search-results/

just make sure to use Google's rich snippet tool to check your work before submitting it to Google's Microdata Submission 

Also, here's google's official walk through http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1408986

also, the time it takes to get indexed depends... but usually 2-3 days. I tell clients up to a week so they sit tight.

you can go into the _**"Health" menu -> "fetch as googlebot" **_and then have it fetch your home page. It will run a quick diagnostic and then it will refresh the page and you can click "Index". Select to **index the page and all links. **

this will essentially give google a kick in the but to index that specific page and the links on the home page.

You should do this in addition to your sitemap.