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Joel, i prefer www version cause i think from a technical perspective, there are several benefits to including the WWW.

• Ability to restrict cookies when using multiple subdomains. Cookies of a main domain (i.e. example.com) are sent to all subdomains: If you are going to have subdomains for other purposes (blog for instance), you may want to differentiate the sites and have a www prefix for the regular site.
• WWW actually MEANS something. As mentioned above, WWW is a hostname, and the hostname names the specific service being used a computer network; WWW names the web service for a domain.
• Using the WWW hostname allows for easy segregation in the file structure of your website. Everything in the “www” folder (and at the www.example.com domain) is directly related to serving the site to the public. This allows for simple root-level site organization, eg you could also have a dev folder and have a subdomain dev.example.com for your development site, etc.
• More flexibility with DNS. Your domain’s “Zone” file controls where traffic to your domain is directed and using the non-WWW version of your domain can complicate things.

you may still want to use the WWW simply because it’s conventional to do so. On a business card, the WWW clearly conveys, This is our address on the World Wide Web. People are used to looking for, and seeing, the WWW and that’s sufficient reason for many to stick to the convention

I´d love to know your thoughts about this particular issue:

1. Vtex is top3 e-commerce system in brazil. ( issue is huge)
2. the system do not use 4XX responde codes
3. If there is a error page, they just redirect it to a search page with 200 code.
4. in Google index we can find a lot of "empty" pages ( indexed error pagess)
5. We can´t use noindex for them

Example:
http://www.taniabulhoes.com.br/this-is-a-test
OR
http://www.taniabulhoes.com.br/thisisatest

Any suggestions?

we are changing the e-commerce store and usually we do the redirection of all pages URLs...

We usually don´t redirect css, js and images files .... Shouldn´t we redirect images as well?

I'm familar with A/B testing variations of a page but I'd like to A/B test a new designs version of a e-commerce site. I´m wondering about the best way to test with SEO concerns... this is what I´ve in mind right now, any suggestion?

1. Use parameters to make version B different from A version.
2. Redirect 50% of the users with 302 ( or javascript would be a better way?)
3. Use noindex in the B pages.
4. Use rel=canonical in the B pages pointing to A version.
5. In the end use 301 redirect to all B pages to A urls.

PS: We can´t use subdomain and i don´t wanna use robots.txt file to protect the new design from competitors.

I´d love any suggestions and tips about it - thanks folks

Which one do u prefer and why? Does RDFa is better for SEO or is just the same as microdata?

I´m working on a online brazilian marketplace ( looks like etsy in US) and we have a huge amount of pages... I´ve been studing a lot about that and I was wondering to use If-Modified-Since so Googlebot could check if the pages have been updated, and if it is not, there is no reason to get a new copy of them since it already has a current copy in the index.  It uses a 304 status code, "and If a search engine crawler sees a web page status code of 304 it knows that web page has not been updated and does not need to be accessed again." Someone quoted before me**Since Google spiders billions of pages, there is no real need to use their resources or mine to look at a webpage that has not changed. For very large websites, the crawling process of search engine spiders can consume lots of bandwidth and result in extra cost and Googlebot could spend more time in pages actually changed or new stuff!**However, I´ve checked Amazon, Rakuten, Etsy and few others competitors and no one use it! I´d love to know what you folks think about it

just perfect, thanks Moosa

Hi there

I´m looking for a respectable ASO ( App store optimization ) and advanced SEO courses in Ny, does anybody have suggestion 4 me?

thanks

It depends of what you want... would you like to make some friends or business conections ( if you are a freelancer) or would you like to have a better corporate Google+ account?

I would point to corporate Google+ account because your personal account it is to show google ( and users in the search) who is the writer (authorship) of the content. If your content have good quality this is good for all sites you write.

Vtex in one of the best e-commerce in Brazil and I´ve just find out they transform any 404 page in a search page.

Polishop ( http://www.polishop.com.br/ ) is one of their clientes and if you try to search any page it will never return a 404 error because convert any url in a search.

Example: http://www.polishop.com.br/12345678 - 200: HTTP/1.1 200 OK ( it does not return a 404 code)

I´m a little bit confused if this good or not... what do you think moz experts?

It depends of what you want... would you like to make some friends or business conections ( if you are a freelancer) or would you like to have a better corporate Google+ account?

I would point to corporate Google+ account because your personal account it is to show google ( and users in the search) who is the writer (authorship) of the content. If your content have good quality this is good for all sites you write.

use vimeo as default and Youtube for top3 videos. Youtube will increase trafic for the site and your site will use vimeo best quality videos

I found something. I´ve just tried to scan your site with screaming frog and i found only 3 results... BUT when I increase the response timout of scanning  I could find 445 itens (256 pages).

You have a issue with your code. page speed can show you few tips!-)

make sure you have a robots.txt on public folder. You must allow bots and disallow some folders.

Example of robots.txt of wordpress site

User-agent: *
Allow: /

Disallow: /*?
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-content/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /wp-
Disallow: /tmp

Allow: /wp-content/uploads/

In this particular case is a female clothing company that provides new stuff each 3 months, they never repete the products!-)

Thanks for all the answers and I think I wlll customize and improve the user experience by implementing a dynamically-generated message via cookies during a 301 redirect. This would result in users who have landed on expired products receiving a message letting them know that the original product they were seeking is no longer available. This enhances the user experience because it informs users on why they are being redirected.

As I´m working with magento I will try to find a ready to go solution as a plugin but If I don´t, I will make my own and send to the forum !-)

Many Thanks !-)

Lucid,

I´ve just made a search on google and I found 93 results for your site,   http://www.lucidsoftech.com/ , is that url right?

How many results do you actually own?

this is somenting I would love to know more!-)

I think news and updates, maybe a blog in your site can make google "feel" it has to come back more times to refresh your site again ( "hum dude, they are doing something there)...  Links to your site and to new articles in social media could help a lot.

If you find anything let us know!-)

Joel, i prefer www version cause i think from a technical perspective, there are several benefits to including the WWW.

• Ability to restrict cookies when using multiple subdomains. Cookies of a main domain (i.e. example.com) are sent to all subdomains: If you are going to have subdomains for other purposes (blog for instance), you may want to differentiate the sites and have a www prefix for the regular site.
• WWW actually MEANS something. As mentioned above, WWW is a hostname, and the hostname names the specific service being used a computer network; WWW names the web service for a domain.
• Using the WWW hostname allows for easy segregation in the file structure of your website. Everything in the “www” folder (and at the www.example.com domain) is directly related to serving the site to the public. This allows for simple root-level site organization, eg you could also have a dev folder and have a subdomain dev.example.com for your development site, etc.
• More flexibility with DNS. Your domain’s “Zone” file controls where traffic to your domain is directed and using the non-WWW version of your domain can complicate things.

you may still want to use the WWW simply because it’s conventional to do so. On a business card, the WWW clearly conveys, This is our address on the World Wide Web. People are used to looking for, and seeing, the WWW and that’s sufficient reason for many to stick to the convention

Header image is great but instead of header.png you could name it the-web-hosting-hero-header.png. The same for others pics