Hi,
Your rankings should't be affected unless your new server has a lower performance. Having your business and your hosting provider in the same city is a nice coincidence but it is not required by any SEO measure
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Hi,
Your rankings should't be affected unless your new server has a lower performance. Having your business and your hosting provider in the same city is a nice coincidence but it is not required by any SEO measure
Right now that other domain is parked by GoDaddy. It seems that a 301 redirect was in place but it is not working anymore. Do you own that domain?
I also curious about this. The only time I turned to Fiverr I was looking for some FB Ads coupons (a couple of blog post mentioned it was a reliable source for this) but couldn't find any seller.
Hi Stephen,
I haven't needed this feature so far, but I can see it could be very useful so I second your motion
Unfortunately, after reading this reply from a Moz engineer, it can be understood that it is not an easy-as-pie matter: https://moz.com/community/q/can-you-export-campaigns-from-one-moz-pro-account-to-another#reply_239809
It seems that it is not possible at the moment.
There is an open feature request, give it a like if you want to promote it: https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/20236841-Migrate-Campaigns-Between-Pro-Accounts
Also check out this tip to consolidate accounts: https://moz.com/community/q/transfer-campaigns-into-another-account#reply_161575
I also have my issues dealing with the too many hats you need in the digital business
Hi Austin,
The server needs to process the .htacess file to resolve those redirects so if there are a lot of them it would take more time, and latency will be increased. Don't you agree?
Yes, huge .htaccess files will delay your page load.
A couple of tips:
Hope it helps!
Hi Brian,
Breadcrumbs are one type of structured data, but I just mentioned as an example. Please, take a look at this article from Google help to see whether they are relevant for your site and how they are displayed in search results: https://developers.google.com/structured-data/breadcrumbs
Here's the video from Moz Academy on Understanding your Crawl Diagnostics
You can also start with this "retro" video of Rand Fishkin Crawling & Indexing
Breadcrumbs are clearly useful but I would make a distintion between two perspectives:
I usually skip the use of breadcrumbs for very simple structures and make it a must for complex and deep structures like ecommerce sites. For those cases in between I go for the better ux.
Here's the video from Moz Academy on Understanding your Crawl Diagnostics
You can also start with this "retro" video of Rand Fishkin Crawling & Indexing
Hi Joris,
Analytics.js uses a cookie that is not shared with other domains (subdomains are ok) so in order to track users across multiple domains there are two sides to be managed:
In your case, source domains being your local domains and destination domain being your main domain.
You can accomplish this in a symmetrical fashion for all the domains involved by adding the code in this article from Google help. If you want a one way solution then take a less generic approach: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cross-domain
Yes, you have to create a property for every subdomain since every subdomain has different peculiarities, like the instructions in robots.txt
You may also want to reconsider to put your blog in a subfolder instead a subdomain. This has been the recommedation from Moz for a long time and still is. You can find the explanation here: https://moz.com/blog/subdomains-vs-subfolders-rel-canonical-vs-301-how-to-structure-links-optimally-for-seo-whiteboard-friday
Hi,
Your rankings should't be affected unless your new server has a lower performance. Having your business and your hosting provider in the same city is a nice coincidence but it is not required by any SEO measure
Yes, huge .htaccess files will delay your page load.
A couple of tips:
Hope it helps!
Is there any reason why you are not using trailing slash in those URLs? Check this article from Google about this topic: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.es/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html Hope it helps.
You always could redirect www.domain.com/xx/ to www.domain.com/xx
That shouldn't be a problem, but I would consider two important factors involved in this move: a) IP geolocalization (this experiment from Richard Baxter is very illustrative: https://builtvisible.com/ip-location-search-results/) and b) performance of the new CDN.
Do that only if you have enough resources to produce all those landing pages with really original content. Otherwise you will get duplicate content and even it could be seen by Google as spammy content. Maybe a more realistic solution would be picking the most valuable cities and start building from there.
In terms of pure SEO, longer URLs do not directly affect ranking. Check out this video from Matt Cutts.
That being said, there are other factors related to UX that do affect your results. Rand posted on best practices for structuring URLs not long ago: https://moz.com/blog/15-seo-best-practices-for-structuring-urls
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