Thank you for your response. Yes our URL stays the same, so it is dynamically served content.  The problem is the content that is displayed on mobile is purely a listing of our product catalog.  The on-page seo content that would display on Desktop is removed on mobile.  Since MFI wants to index our mobile version, is it better to try and update our mobile content to match desktop content, or to remove the mobile content altogether and have the Desktop version display on phones until our new site is launched?

I'll start by stating that a brand new responsive site is under development and will be launching early 2019.  Until then, with Mobile First Indexing, we're curious if we should remove our mobile site altogether.  Looking at Google guidelines, it looks like we have Dynamic serving content, so when a mobile device is used, a VERY TRIMMED down version of our site content is presented.  I read that if a mobile version doesn't exist, google will use the MFI indexing on the desktop version still, since that is what is rendered on a mobile device.  If Google starts using our mobile site for its indexing, we're not going to be looking good.  At this point, are there negative affects to removing our mobile site and having the desktop version render on all devices?

I'm currently focusing on link building for one of the websites I work on. In reviewing past customers, I see quite a few that do not have a blog, but do have social media pages like Facebook, for their business.

I'm wondering if it's worth the effort to get them to "mention" the website with a link and brief comment from their Facebook page.

Thanks for any/all input.

Wow, I've been working with Miva's Design Club, going back and forth on how to fix this, for over a month. I should have asked the question here. I can finally get down to fixing this issue.

Thank you!

jr

I just tried adjusting as below and it still rewrites the URL to http://www.mydomain.com/?Screen=SFNT

RedirectMatch 301 /SFNT.html http://dev.mydomain.com

Hi all, I'm trying to correct some of my duplicate content errors. The site is built on Miva Merchant and the storefront page, /SFNT.html, needs to be permanently redirected to www.mydomain.com

This is what my .htaccess file looks like:

#RedirectPermanent /index.html http://dev.mydomain.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^dev.mydomain.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*) http://dev.emydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php /mm5/merchant.mvc

redirect 301 /SFNT.html http://dev.mydomain.com/

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} Screen=SFNT&Store_Code=MYSTORECODE [NC]

When I use this code and navigate to http://dev.mydomain.com/SFNT.html the URL gets rewritten as http://dev.mydomain.com/?Screen=SFNT

So I believe this is what's called a "redirect loop"....

Can anyone provide any insight? I'm not a developer, but have been tasked with cleaning up the problems on the website and can use any input anyone is willing to offer.

Thanks,

jr

I will look into the mod-rewrite. Thanks for the tip.

The website has dozens of categories, with about 700 products.

I'll look into the plugin you mentioned. I haven't been able to find a way to control the "ALT" tag on the image as well. The CMS just defaults the image name into the ALT tag.

Hi all,

I'm working for a new company which has several websites built on the Miva Merchant 5.5 platform. I'm new to SEO and trying to improve one specific category of products. With Miva the URL structure is set to: "category/" or "product/".

I would have liked to have the ability to create URLs like "bike/beach-cruisers/mens-red-hawaiian.html". Since I cannot do that I'm trying to determine the best product name and page titles. Currently all of our titles have the word "bike". So when a category page is displayed, which shows over 100 products I get flagged in my campaign for over using the keyword "bike". However, if I take the work "bike" out of the page title I'm concerned that it would hurt us in the SERPs.

Another factor that I'm getting flagged for on my campaign is the fact that our navigation uses the same key words repeatedly in each link. I'm not sure if it's really hurting us or not. Below is an example.

I'm looking for some input on recommendations for product names and page titles. Below are some examples of what I'm working with. Any input or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Menu Sample:

• Bikes-Street-Blue-Mens

• Bikes-Street-Blue-Womens

• Bikes-Street-Blue-Kids

• Bikes-Street-Orange-Mens

• Bikes-Street-Orange-Womens

• Bikes-Street-Orange-Kids

• Bikes-Beach-Cruiser-Blue-Mens

• Bikes-Beach-Cruiser-Blue-Womens

• Bikes-Beach-Cruiser-Blue-Kids

• Bikes-Beach-Cruiser-Orange-Mens

• Bikes-Beach-Cruiser-Orange-Womens

• Bikes-Beach-Cruiser-Orange-Kids

Current Page Titles/Name:

• Mens Bike Street Blue | XYZ Bike Mfg. - product/mens-bike-street-blue.html
• Mens Bike Street Orange | XYZ Bike Mfg. - product/mens-bike-street-orange.html
• Womens Bike Street Blue | XYZ Bike Mfg. - product/womens-bike-street-blue.html
• Womens Bike Street Orange | XYZ Bike Mfg. - product/womens-bike-street-orange.html

James,

Thanks for the suggestion. Like your method as it provides easy access from anywhere there is an internet connection.

Hi all,

I'm starting to make changes to our websites this week.  I need to record every change made so I can compare the affect it had on the performance/ranking of the site.

I'm curious to know what methods those with more experience are using to keep track of everything.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the reply. It confirms what I thought. I just wanted to get input from more experienced colleagues so I could make an informed decision.

Thanks for the info. I didn't think there was any real benefit, but I wanted to make sure it wouldn't penalize the website.

Hi all, I'm new to SEO and excited to see the launch of this forum. I've searched for an answer to this question but haven't been able to find out.

I  "attended" two webinars recently regarding SEO. The above subject was raised in each one and the speakers gave a polar opposite recommendations. So I'm completely at a loss as to what to do with some domains that are related to a domain used on a live website that I'm working to improve the SEO on.

The scenario:

Live website at (fictitious) www.digital-slr-camera-company.com. I also have 2 related domain names which are parked with the registrar: www.dslr.com, www.digitalslr.com.

The question:

Is there any SEO benefit to be gained by pointing the two parked domains to the website at www.digitalcamercompany.com? If so, what method of "pointing" should be used?

Thanks to any and all input.