Hi there,

In continuation to my response earlier on another question.

Have u tried these extensions on Opencart? http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension&filter_search=canonical url

Thanks,

Vijay

Hi There ,

We had a similar situation with a client, who had used a separate website name for his company (with a DA 20) http://www.divvymaster.com/  and wanted to his website product separately on another website https://www.fairsplit.com/

We built the new website, 301 redirected all the old website right pages to their equivalent/ parallel pages on the new website.

As for the main domain, we used explanatory links with text to explain the migration to the user. This had following impact.

The old website divvymaster.com DA fell from 20 to 9. The new website authority is around 20 from 1 in 2.5 months.

We are getting traffic for almost all the ranked keywords from earlier website plus more visibility on search engines for new keywords for the new website. So, we consider that we were able to pass the authority of the website.

Having said that, we also did some good organic backlinking work for the new website. But I would recommend passing the authority to right pages with 301 and informing the users about the redirect on the right pages.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

• Sub-domains are treated as a  separate entity now, and they don't add to SEO value of the main domain.
• Any links within the subdomain to the main domain are treated as external links.
• Since links are coming from an external domain but the same IP, this may be treated a low-quality backlink for the main domain, though people are divided over this but it can neutral to negative impact instead of being positive. As search engines would consider this as unnatural linking.
• Sub-Folders are treated as part of the domain and pass all the SEO value when connecting internally.

Here is a response from Rand Fishkin to a similar question

Subfolders are the way to go, but they're hard to do for a lot of organizations. Many CMS' (like Hubspot) make it quite challenging to host a Wordpress installation on a subfolder, but subdomains are pretty easy. Hence, when choosing where to host a blog or a separate content section, many folks go with the easier route rather than the one that requires a lot of technical effort and webdev/engineering time.

However, that doesn't mean that they're not losing out - I'd wager that all of those companies would see a bump if they moved their blogs to a subfolder of the same domain. We see this in example after example when sites invest in it, and you can see plenty of folks discussing their own experiences in the comments of the Moz post you linked to.

Source:  https://www.quora.com/Which-is-best-for-search-engine-optimization-a-blog-subdomain-or-blogging-at-a-blog/answer/Rand-Fishkin?srid=2Gsa

I hope this helps, feel free to ask further questions and respond to answer.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Ray,

I check your website on google and then it's codes.

It seems, the description is being picked from a

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Rename the DIV to something different.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Bill,

You are rightly worried about the change in category structure, the structure earlier looks better than new structure of category page URL (before it was website.com/product-category/product-sub-category will now be website.com/more generic category/product-category/new-subcategory/product-category ).

The idea of right page URL structure should be to keep the length of URL in control and also give show the right directory structure to the search engines. It seems with the new structure you can get lengthy URLs and also repeat lot of keywords within the URL.

Having said that, you should read these two articles for further help
https://moz.com/blog/15-seo-best-practices-for-structuring-urls
https://moz.com/learn/seo/url

I hope this helps, feel free to respond and ask further.

Regards,

Vijay

CleverPhd,

Really since to see a detailed yet to the point answer.

Thanks for contributing, and being in the Moz community.

Regards,

Vijay

As mentioned by Logan,noindex meta tag

is the most effective way to remove indexed pages. It sometimes takes time, you have to submit the right sitemap.xml which cover the pages/post you wish to get removed from google index.

Hi Joseph,

https://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-2-0/

Google Knowledge Graph

Google recently introduced new features for their knowledge graph, allowing you to highlight yourself in the search results as either a company or a person. This includes you or your company’s name, if your site is for a company, the logo

The idea of the company name being used n the title is to make the best use of "Branded Keywords"   on the site and being recognized by google as an authority of Branded keywords.

Which means that you have greater chances of getting ranked on your company name related keywords, however since your company name is long, you can customize the title tag in the yoast and use it at end of page title.

"company name -  title"  ....to be replaced with  "title - company name"

I hope it helps, please feel free to respond and ask further questions.

Regards,

Vijay

Google Knowledge Graph

Google recently introduced new features for their knowledge graph, allowing you to highlight yourself in the search results as either a company or a person. This includes you or your company’s name, if your site is for a company, the logo

Google officially announced in 2009 that meta keywords were not a factor. Including Meta keywords can be a negative instead of being a positive factor, as they are generally words which are inconsistent without meaning anything to a user or a search engine.

Hi Ali,

Please check the title of your pages, if they are same then those links would be counted as duplicates. Also, check how many duplicates are being reported in google webmaster, these are also good indicators for duplicate pages.

This link  should help as well

http://moz.com/learn/seo/duplicate-content

& this is a link to a 301 redirect generator

http://www.htaccessredirect.com

Remember to also use a
Rel=Canonical put this tag in the correct page you want to show people.

Then do a 301 redirect on the pages that are duplicates and point them on ONLY right one

As for 404, they will need to be reviewed and handled with 301 to map them to actual URL.

I hope this helps, please feel free to respond if you have further questions.

Regards,

Vijay