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Hi Wrench,

Is it a single website or 3 seperate websites before the seperation? If you have multiple websites then you can redirect the websites so that all the link juice will be passed to the new domains. If it is a single website and if the 3 entities are seperated by folder structures. Then you can do a page by page 310 permanent redirect of the corresponding folders to the new websites if the 1st website owner allows you to do that. Then all the SEO goodies of the particular sections of the pages only will be passed to the new domains.

Check the serve access permissions in the hosting server. Read only might be the reason the site is un-editable. Change the access permissions and see.

When it comes to 301 redirection 1-1 mapping is the best method. It takes 1 week for the changes to be impacted. After a week the keyword positions of the old website will be retained with the new website. There can be a slight drop in the traffic.

Hi Andy,

I observed for few big sites like microsoft, amazon, ebay being crawled. Websites which don't have any content updates are not crawled from 22 Oct 2014. Just do an experiment by adding some new content to the websites and check.

Manually move the content and do a 301 permanent redirect of all the pages from blog A to blog B after. You should do 1-1 url mapping of all the pages from blog A to blog B which is tedious and time taking task. You will not loose traffic as well as the keyword positions. When it comes to duplicate content do a plagiarism check using copyscape.com or any other tools. It will give all the url's with duplicate content and how much % of content is copied. It helps in identifying the duplicate content.

These are the most common errors which occur when we use word press plugins. If you are using a paid theme support team will help you in handling this issue.

Hi Max,

Its good to know that even though the websites are not optimized the keywords are ranking and generating traffic.

1)It does make sense to merge. But all the weight age goes to the 1st website. You need to do a 1-1 mapping of all the url's while redirecting which I think is a big task. As you said the customers didn't want to merge them.

2)When we are doing a 301 redirect for the whole website I don't think see any such things which we need to look after.

3)If the keywords are ranking for the 4th website then definitely its worth redirecting your 4th website.

The first place google bot goes when it enters your website is the sitemap.

Its also not a good practice to put more links in the footer section. Limit the number of links in the footer section.

I checked the website. Keyword cannibalization might be the reason. All the page titles contain Live Chat keyword. Even few pages ate stuffed with keywords

Eg: Live Chat Software | Live Support | Help Desk Software . You can see Live twice and Software twice. Instead of repeating the same words twice you can frame a phrase. A title should be a meaningful phrase instead of stuffing with keywords. Try Live chat support and help desk software. Here Live chat, live chat software, Live chat support, live chat support software, live chat Help desk, live chat help desk software all the keywords will be covered in the phrase.

When there is a nudity warning it will not be under our control to index the images. Here is an example for similar query

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adsense/3893437.htm

Definitely you should look into modifying the url structure. % represents blank spaces in the url. You can replace the blank spaces with "-". Google recommends hyphenated url's rather than blank spaces and underscores. The url's should be clean with every word seperated by "-" and the url size can be anywhere around 80 to 90 characters in length.

Thanks Martin,

I made some design changes to my website. When you check the cache you an see that the website content is not crawled as the website contains some java script links. I replaced them with text links. So now it should crawl and index the website even though there is no new content. As the old spider is unable to crawl the website because of the image based links. And also I submitted the sitemap to webmaster tools only after the design change. It just indexed all the 30 urls 2 days back.@ Hemani I already submitted to webmaster tools and used fetch as google on the site but still there is no crawling.

I checked the website. Keyword cannibalization might be the reason. All the page titles contain Live Chat keyword. Even few pages ate stuffed with keywords

Eg: Live Chat Software | Live Support | Help Desk Software . You can see Live twice and Software twice. Instead of repeating the same words twice you can frame a phrase. A title should be a meaningful phrase instead of stuffing with keywords. Try Live chat support and help desk software. Here Live chat, live chat software, Live chat support, live chat support software, live chat Help desk, live chat help desk software all the keywords will be covered in the phrase.

Hi, This is Suresh. I made changes to my website and I see that google is unable to crawl my website from 22nd October. Even it is not showing any content when I use Cache:www.vonexpy.com. Can any body help me in knowing why Google is unable to crawl my website. Is there any technical issue with the website? Website is www.vonexpy.com

Thanks in advance.

These are the most common errors which occur when we use word press plugins. If you are using a paid theme support team will help you in handling this issue.

When there is a nudity warning it will not be under our control to index the images. Here is an example for similar query

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adsense/3893437.htm

Hi Max,

Its good to know that even though the websites are not optimized the keywords are ranking and generating traffic.

1)It does make sense to merge. But all the weight age goes to the 1st website. You need to do a 1-1 mapping of all the url's while redirecting which I think is a big task. As you said the customers didn't want to merge them.

2)When we are doing a 301 redirect for the whole website I don't think see any such things which we need to look after.

3)If the keywords are ranking for the 4th website then definitely its worth redirecting your 4th website.

The first place google bot goes when it enters your website is the sitemap.

Its also not a good practice to put more links in the footer section. Limit the number of links in the footer section.