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Yep, there are no pages below /mobile/ so it should be all good. Thanks.

Hi Aaron,

The /mobile page is ranking. Am trying to get the developer to 301 just the /mobile page to the home page. Will see how it goes.

Hi guys,

One of our clients used to have a website that would redirect mobile traffic to a /mobile/ page.

Thankfully we've finally gone fully responsive and there is no need for this /mobile/ page.

Trouble is, www.clientsite.com.au**/mobile/** is still in the Google index and going to a 404 right now.

What is the best way to deal with it? Should we be 301 redirecting /mobile/ to / (the home page)?

Would be most grateful for any ideas.

Thanks!

Hi Moz Community.

We have a client that has Website A and Website B. Website A is going to be replaced by Website C, a new website and brand.

Some products sold on Website A are going to be split out to Website B & C. i.e. Say Website A sells eight products - then four will go to Website B and four to Website C.

OUR QUESTION

Technically we know we can 301 redirect the Website A products to the relevant Website B & Website C products.

1. Given this convoluted structure, will there be any negative ramifications for SEO? and;

2. Which website would you redirect the homepage to, B or C?

Hi guys!

We're looking at a site in the trade industry here in Australia and it appears that around the Panda/Penguin updates in September & October last year, they've had their Google PageRank wiped out back to zero.

I know we shouldn't be focusing too much on PR these days, but can't help but wonder what's caused this. It's a local business website who aren't selling links etc.

I'm thinking backlinks pointing at the site that were giving them a boost have been discounted, however, they still have quite a number of quality links coming into them.

Would love to pick your brains!

Regards.

Hi guys,

Just struggling to get a definitive answer on this one. If say I disavow 55 domains, then upload a brand new disavow file with on 35 domains in it, does this mean the original disavow file will be overwritten and those original domains will be forgotten about?

Kind regards!

If you do that and those links have supported rankings then there could be a traffic loss.

Yes, traffic/rankings have gone down so I've been investigating possible over optimisation especially on money terms.

If this was client site, I would be tempted to describe Door A, Door B and Door C.

Yes, you are not wrong. I like the analogy!

Really appreciate your help, EGOL.

Thanks EGOL, I really appreciate your thoughts

Yes, I would love to get the client to move this content into a folder on the main site. I believe they've been advised a few years ago about the subdomain being the best approach. I'm glad you're getting terrific results from the move.

The reason for the links... The product on the subdomain is a separate business entity however it is still closely related to what the main company does. So they want people to be able to find these links easily. I agree, the footer link could be removed entirely, however the client won't want that, hence my thinking at least by adding the nofollow attribute, I can tell Google's algo I'm not trying to pass any juice across.

The situation is, they have three money term sitewide links from the main domain pointing at two separate pages on the subdomain. This means there are 1000+ links pointing at two distinct pages on the subdomain using a money term.

Hi there!

I'm wondering if anyone could kindly help me with this question.

I have a domain let's say: thisdomain.com - and I also have a subdomain called widgets.thisdomain.com

thisdomain.com has approx 2000 pages on it. There are site wide links in the top nav, side nav and footer pointing to widgets.thisdomain.com (all with the same anchor text - not branded - it's a money term).

My question is, do you think this would be causing some kind of algorithmic penalty (over optimisation / penguin)?

Or, do you think Google realises these links are pointing to a subdomain and says, "hey, OK we understand these two domains could be related" or given subdomains are seen as essentially standalone websites, the algo is saying "hang on a minute, pal, this looks fishy, why are you linking to this subdomain 1000+ times with sitewide links on the same anchor text"?

Should I nofollow these sitewide links? Do you think that will help?

I would really appreciate any help on this one.

Cheers!

See: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/competitive-link-analysis-tips-whiteboard-friday

Or perhaps my question is actually how often does the seomoz bot crawl the web?

I ran some benchmark link counts for a number of websites about this time last month and I noticed when I went to update them for this month the data is the same.

Thanks.