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Takeshi,

Do you think I could hurt my site if I embed the old code between the <iframe>tags?</p> <p>So,</p> <p><iframe codetothevideo>oldembedcode</iframe>

Thanks again,

Daniel

Hi Takeshi,

Thanks again today for your answer.

This rule that google will not show video rich snippets for youtube/vimeo also applies for videos hosted in a vimeo pro account with community pass deactivated?

Best Regards,

Daniel

Dear All,

I read somewhere that the use of the

<noframes>tag when embending videos using iframes could be seen as cloacking, because you are delivering something to the people, and something "different" to the search engines.</noframes>

For compatibility with IOs devices, iframe is the way to go with youtube videos, also with vimeo, but so far, any of my videos has been indexed by google.

So, in your experience, what advice would you give to embed videos using those services (youtube, vimeo pro)? Would google index them if you place the old embed code between the <iframe></iframe>tags, without using

<noframes>? Would you say that, without the use of noframes, one is doing cloacking?</noframes>

I want to get my videos indexed, but I do not want to be penalized by google. Technically the use of noframes could be taken as cloacking, but if the content of both videos is the same, then it is not. What do you think?

Thanks for your help,

Daniel

Hi Takeshi, thanks for the asnwer again.

Would it prevent the deleted/expired pages to be shown as soft 404 in the Webmaster tools?

Hi Again,

@Takeshi Young: Thanks for your answer.

I will try to explain what is happening a little better.

We are using a CMS for Classifieds adds. The script is able to give "SEO Friendly" URLs, which are based in mode_rewrite. If a listing has an ID number, lets say "5", that listings url will look like this:

http://mydomain.com/5-listingname/details.html

After the listing expires, the URL will not be valid anymore, and if a user try to visit the listing, the script deliver a page with a message indicating that the lising is not active anylonger. The HTTP Code is 200 "ok". If the listing is deleted, then a user trying to visit the URL will get a similar message, also with a HTTP Code 200. It is a problem, because that page should return a 404 code, indicating the search engine that the page is gone.

If a user try to visit an invalid page, like for example:

http://mydomain.com/invalidpage.html

then the system will deliver the 404 page that is set in the .htaccess file, but since the script recognises the numeric parameter in the deleted/inactive listing, it does not deliver the 404 error but a page with a message, and this page with a message is a soft 404 error, bad for SEO.

It is out of my knowlage to repair the script in order to make it deliver the proper 404 header, but I can customize as much as I want the page indicating the error.

Then I have two questions:

1. If I set the soft 404 error page as noindex, will it be good enough as to not being affected by the problem?

2. Is there any way of indicating the search engine that a page is 404, other than using the apache .htaccess? Like a tag in the head section? or any trick that would help me with this problem?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Daniel

Hi Everyone,

I get an 404 error in my page if the URL is simply wrong, but for some parameters, like if a page has been deleted, or has expired, I get an error page indicating that the ID is wrong, but no 404 error.

It is for me very difficult to program a function in php that solve the problem and modify the .htaccess with the mod_rewrite. I ask the developer of the system to give a look, but I am not sure if I will get an answer soon.

I can control the content of the deleted/expired page, but the URL will be very similar to those that are ok (actually the url could has been fine, but now expired).

Thinking of solutions I can set the expired/deleted pages as noindex, would it help to avoid duplicated title/description/content problem? If an user goes to i.e., mywebsite.com/1-article/details.html I can set the head section to noindex if it has expired. Would it be good enough?

Other question, is it possible anyhow to set the pages as 404 without having to do it directly in the .htacess, so avoiding the mod_rewrite problems that I am having? Some magical tag in the head section of the page?

Many thanks in advance for your help,

Best Regards,

Daniel

Dear all, I have two small questions for you: 1) If I have a page with many internal links, and in the head section of this page there is a noindex, follow tag, would the search engine spider the internal links placed in that page? Those internal links conduct to pages which I want the search engine to index. 2) Not related to the question above: Does it affects in any form the nofollow meta tag the way the search engine crawl internal links? I would say it onle have an effect on the exterrnal links, unless the nofollow is placed directly in the < a > tag. Thanks for your help, Daniel

Hi Sandip,

Thanks for your answer.

Could it be that, even if the crawler is not indexing the search result, is going to index the links that are in those pages? Attributes in this case: noindex, follow.

Then what at best would benefit me, is to index the first search result page, and noindex starting the second one. Indexing the first because it has the meta description, and title, and I want that people find my categories (which are search results).

So, crawler can index links in a noindex page, if it has the attritbute follow?

Thanks again,

Daniel

Dear All,

1. Is it a good idea to noindex the search result pages of a classified site?
   Taking into account that category pages are also search result pages, I would say it is not a good idea, but the whole information is in the sitemap, google can index individual listings (which are index, follow) anyway. What would you do?

2. What kind of effects has in the indexing of the site, marking the search result pages as "search results" with schema.org microdata?

Many thanks for your help,

Best Regards,

Daniel

Hi!

It is easy to know if somebody is spam linking your website, looking i.e., looking at open site explorer to analyse the links profile.

But, is it possible to know if a competitor of mine is redirecting a bad domain to main with a 301 redirect, thus transfering any bad SEO reputation to me?

Best Regards,

Daniel