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Thanks a lot Dennis

And which should I choose on links from the news site - do-follow or no-follow?

Normally I would always choose "do-follow" but in this instance - where I have some fears that Google would see it as bought traffic (which it in some way is) - I am contemplating no-follow...but will it make any difference?

Chris

We have a site which is going to deliver content to a big news site and in return we will receive a lot of traffic from the news site.

Estimates are that it will be about 50% of our daily traffic.

Before this we have about 2000 daily visits, where 50% is from organic traffic.

How will this affect our rankings?

(It should be pretty obvious to Google that an increase like that in reffered traffic is bought - which I assume will ahve a negative impact on our organic rankings)

What is the best tactic to use - regarding SEO - if (when) we proceed to deliver content/recieve traffic from that news site? (we have a lot of decent rankings on several branch keywords, and we don't want to risk those rankings. On the other hand - if we could improve our rankings from this deal - we would like inputs to that as well?

Best regards,

Chris

Hi there,

I am seo-managing a travel website where we are going to make a new site structure next year.

We have about 4000 pages on the site at the moment.

The structure is only 2-levels at the moment:

Level 1: Homepage

Level 2: All other pages (4000 individual pages - (all with different urls))

We are adding another 2-3 levels, but we have a challenge:

We have potentially 2 roads to the same product (e.g. "phuket diving product")

domain.com/thailand/activities/diving/phuket-diving-product.asp

domain.com/activities/diving/thailand/phuket-diving-product.asp

I would very much appreciate your view on the problem:

How do I solve this dilemma/challenge from a SEO standpoint? I want to avoid DC if possible, I also only want one landing page - for many reasons. And usability is of course also very important.

Best regards,

Chris

Hi Irving that's a good solution - I agree.

But shouldn't these kind of urls be created manually?

Also - what exactly does ?cpc=1 mean?

It's a customed made site built in .net/asp

Yes I could use it in Adwords, but I have checked and the URL is not "made" in Adwords. It's the CMS (or the coders behind) that is creating this extra url.

But I still can't figure out why?

(I will of course ask them - but I won't be able to the next couple of weeks)

Hi,

In the analytics data (SEO - Landing Sites) on a site I just started working with - 2 different url's show up (when I filter the results):

/example**.asp**

/example**.asp?cpc=1**

The first recieves 2/3 of the visits (among these 2 pages) and the other recieves 1/3 of the visits (among these 2 pages).

The second (/example.asp?cpc=1) is apparently getting the clicks from Adwords, since it isn't indexed by Google..

Can someone explain me:

1)  why the cms is producing this kind of double landing page?

2. is it possible to avoid it in any way? (it is not the only example on site - so it makes analyzing data more difficult).

Thanks

Christian

Hi there,

Great comments.

What language would/should you use for the homepage? And for what reason?

I mean many visitors will probably visit the site through the homepage regardless of their language..

I guess it won't be an option to show them their preferred language on the homepage (usability and conversion issues is what I have in mind also)

Cheers,

Christian

Hi Alsvik,

Thank you for your answer.

I have read that article before (and did read it again..:) ).

However, that solution will help a lot, but I am not sure that it will solve all the problems that I expect will come..

What I am more concerned about is the Magento platform itself - it has bad reputation when it comes to creating DC - so will the above mentioned article do the trick, or is it simply impossible to avoid DC on Magento Platforms?

Christian

Hi all,

My clients are about to have th elatest version of the free Magento store set up.

It will sell in at least to different languages, so this need to be taken into account.

Could any of you give some advice on what is the best way to avoid DC (if possible)?

The shop is by now clean (from dc) but from experience I konw this will no continue...

Thanks,

Best regards,

Christian