Thanks!

Typically these blacklists are created and maintained by security specialists who have done testing on the different bots to determine which are legit/beneficial and which are crapbots. They then provide these lists for others to use. Often the lists are amalgamations of bots detected and analysed on a number of different sites and by a number of different specialists to act as a double-check for each other.

You do need to be careful that you are using a well-curated list, as carelessly blocking bots can cause problems for legitimate bots. You would check out the creator of such a list the same way you'd check out the creator of a plugin you're considering using - check reviews, look at comments and responses on the post that provides the blacklist etc.

That answer your question?

Paul

Most FlipBooks work by converting the pdf into a Flash file and then embedding that Flash file into the host site's page, Stephen. The contents of this Flash file can't be effectively read or indexed by the search engines, so they essentially provide no SEO value at all.

One way around this is to provide a download link to the actual PDF file on the page in addition to the flipbook. That way, the  search engines can find it and rank it. (there are a number of best-practices for optimising PDFs that should be followed for best indexing and ranking.)

In addition, you can use the site's .htaccess file to insert a canonical header into the PDF pointing back at the menu page it's hosted on to try to consolidate ranking value in the main page instead of in the pdf if you wish.

As Federico says, the ideal for crawling and ranking is to have the menu contents in plain html on the page,but if that's not possible, the above solutions will still be effective.

Hope that helps?

Paul

I'm with  David that the dates in the URL structure aren't really beneficial and could actually be harmful unless you're a news site of some sort.

I always include the publish date in the post itself because little frustrates me more than not being able to tell whether an article's recommendations are current or not, but don't see any reason to emphasise the date in the URL.

According to top WordPress SEO Joost deValk, the presence of the dates in URLs can hurt clickthrough rates from the SERPs as well.

Because you're on WordPress, it would be quite difficult to change URLs only for new posts .Because it's templated, making the URL structure change is going to affect all posts. Which means it's imperative that you implement a redirect for all the old posts when you update to the new URLs.

Fortunately, this is a snap to do as Yoast has written a little web-app to help you create the redirect automatically without needing to know anything about the code.

He's written a post about the why's which further answer your question, and includes a link to the tool he built to create the necessary redirect. http://yoast.com/change-wordpress-permalink-structure/

Hope that helps?

Paul

Hey Oscar - my second language is French and I couldn't possibly have asked the question in my other language as well as you have here, so don't worry about the language issue at all!

For your question about changing the index.htm to something with a keyword: no, that would have absolutely no effect. As long as the redirect was with a 301 code, the search engines and the visitors will never know that page even exists. That's the whole purpose of the 301-redirect. it makes that page invisible to the search engines.

I would also strongly advise not to switch to a keyword-rich subdomain. that's just asking for a lot of headaches and problems in the future.

What you are suggesting here is trying to create what is called and Exact Match Domain (EMD), meaning the title of your domain matches the keyword you are trying to rank for. The value of these has recently been lowered by Google anyway, and as I say, doing it using a subdomain will cause all kinds of hassles, not to mention confusion for your users.

If I were you, the area i would be focusing most of my efforts would be on building and earning links form other websites. At the moment, you essentially only have one other domain linking to you.

In addition, trying to rank with a very competitive general term like impresión digital will be very difficult for a new site. Better to use terms like impresión digital en Chihuahua and others related to where you offer your services. This is assuming that most of your customers are fairly local, not from all over the Internet.

Hope that answers your question? If not, be sure to let me know.

Paul

Fully agree with Alan - subdomains would be a major waste of effort and SEO value.

Are you thinking you want subdomains perhaps so you can track them differently? There are many ways to do the necessary tracking with pages in subdirectories of the main site, so it's not necessary to use subdomains for this reason either.

Unless there's something missing in what you need here, integrating the landing pages into the main site is the vastly superior solution here.

Can you give us an idea what it is about subdomains that you feel you need?

Paul