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Yes will look at the Bing Webmaster tools and work of that finding broken links. Thanks again.

Update on Blog situation:

Thanks

Great thanks,

With Wordpress it seems to come up over and over again anytime you research Wordpress - people seme to run into problems with it.

Hi Alan,

Thanks for the analysis.

Did you see anything in the index or main structure that caused any issues do you think?

Regards

All good now

Hey thanks for the tip

Sure, can I PM you a link if that's ok? Thanks

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help…

Thanks Alex, nice share.

Thanks, some interesting stats. Our main pages have a pretty good bounce rate but the blogs are not as good. I think we may find an advantage here.

Thanks for the reply, sat at position 2 before the change and still sat at position 2 now after the change but hey expect we would be there so no great surprise.

Checked it in Pingdom too as we had researched this before making the changes. Interestingly I ran it 5 mins ago and it said load time 4.3 secs. Ran it again and it comes up as 1.8 secs. Seems a bit buggy today.

My opinion is that it wont make a significant difference on it's own but as part of an overall aim, it makes a slight difference.

Just wondering if anyone has seen significant improvements and can demonstrate them.

Hey, we recently optimised our website page load speed as part of our overall optimisation.

Page load speed according to the Google Developers Page Speed test was previously 51 out of 100 and is now 92 out of 100 and this was improved within the last seven days gradually, cached half way through the improvement process.

I appreciate this is regarded as only a small part of the whole process, however, I’d be interested to know if anyone has a concrete opinion/proof on whether such a big improvement would actually make a difference to our rankings in the SERPs.

Hi Alan,

Thanks for that, it worked perfectly!

Thanks Yannick,

I'm using the configuration tag and there isn't a CMS being used. The page is accessible via index.php, but I'm currently redirecting it using a PHP script (this is fine but it doesn't provide a 301 redirect).

I'd hopefully like to replace this using the web.config file but it only results in an internal server error or an infinite loop.

Thanks again.

Hi there, I'm trying to create a 301 redirect for the file "index.php" but I keep getting a "fail to redirect" message in Firefox whenever I insert it into the Web.config file.

<location path="index.php"></location>

Is there anyway around this? Thanks for any help

According to Open Site Explorer, there are about 500 links to my index file but it only has a 302 status so will not be passing link juice.

Thanks, I agree with your thoughts on this but with us we tend to chop and change inner pages and having a good sitemap helps us to make sure the navigation is solid. Or remember to include missing pages more to the point.

I like the example you provided, it does help from a user perspective to see the pages summarised from a branding perspective as much as seo.

Hi, I am looking to find good examples of on-site sitemaps.

We already submit our XML sitemap regularly through GWMT but I now wonder if we still need an on-site sitemap, as we have about 30 static pages and 300+ Wordpress blogs which in a sense makes that a spammy page as it has too many links and a higher than average keyword density.

The reason I am looking for good examples is that I want to create a basic on-site sitemap that aids navigation but is styled to look ok as well.

The Solution I have in mind:

mydomain.com/link-example-one.php
mydomain.com/link-example-two.php
mydomain.com/liink-example-ten.php

mydomain.com/blog then links to my 300 WP blogs, broken down into chunks navigated by using breadcrumbs.

Will Google crawl this ok or should I stick to the current format listing ALL posts on one page?

Thanks

There was an updated Google PR yesterday

http://techwalls.com/blogging/google-pagerank-update-november-2011/

Great resources, thanks for sharing these and your opinion too.

It certainly seems to be an area of SEO where a period of testing is going to be required to get the best fit for us.

Hi, Happy Friday!

I was advised to look at the SEO strategy of a UK SEO company and copy a technique they used, however, I have doubts that this technique is any good.

So mydomain.com targets My Domain

For my main keyword phrase, I was told to place a link to a newly created inner page in my footer, targeting the main keyword and on this page, create unique content which points back to my homepage.

Now I also have mydomain.com/my-domain.php which has a link to mydomain.com with anchor text My Domain.

Based on the SEOMoz reports, this now seems to be Keyword Self Cannibalisation and I think that it is diluting link juice and the value of my SEO on my homepage for this term rather than helping.

Can you advise if this technique is wrong?

Hi, I have a UK website which was formerly ranked 1^st in Google.co.uk and .com for my keyword phrase and has recently slipped to 6^th in .co.uk but is higher in position 4 in Google.com.

I have conducted a little research and can’t say for certain but I wonder if it is possible that too many of my backlinks are US based and therefore Google thinks my website is also US based.

Checked Google WmT and we the geo-targeted to the UK. Our server is also UK based.

Does anyone have an opinion on this?

Thanks

Thanks! 301's it is then

Hi, I have a Wordpress SEO Question.

I ran the SEOMOZ checker on my website and it discovered roughly 70 of my 250 blogs had a URL length problem. I have removed the year and month from the WP structure as I read elsewhere that it is not important.

The blogs displayed as follows:

domain.com/blog/2011/02/contents-of-the-blog

and the new structure is:

domain.com/blog/contents-of-the-blog

I have resubmitted the new structure to Google Webmaster Tools XML and updating the on-page sitemap on my main site.

My blog was cached on 25^th October and seems to be caching every 7 days, my website cached on the 24th and I wonder if I should do any follow up work to ensure the content gets crawled properly.

a)      Individually 301 redirect the old URLs to the new.

b)      Individual Canonical links for each.

c)      Adding the old pages to the robots file and disallowing.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.