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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain.domain.com RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/subfolder/$1 [R=301] Something like the above rule may be what you're looking for. This would go into your .htaccess file and redirect all the subdomain urls to the new url with the sub folder. Make sure to check with your development team for any special considerations.

Thanks for the question. The best answer is that it's impossible to make a specific recommendation without knowing the exact keywords in question and how they relate to your overall digital strategy. But that being said, here are some high-level things to consider. 1. Place in the sales funnel. Take an example of "SEO software." Keywords would vary based on the place of the searcher in the funnel and thereby his or her likely location on your website: "seo software" -- informational query likely from someone at the top of the funnel who wants to learn about SEO software. This would usually be targeted on the home page "compare seo software" -- informational middle-tail query that would be likely targeted on an interior sales page whose "content" would obviously compare all the different types of software. This would target someone in the middle of the sales funnel "buy seo software" -- transactional query from someone at the bottom of the sales funnel. This would be targeted at a check-out or sales page 2. Semantic understanding. Google is getting really, really smart. Years ago, people would have one page targeting "buy tennis shoes" and another for "buy sneakers" in an attempt to rank highly for both phrases. Today, Google (I'm sure) "knows" that both keywords refer to the same "entity." So, a single page should be created that would aim to rank for both. If your two "boost" terms mean pretty much the same thing, then you should have one page for both. If you create more than one page in this context, you risk duplicating your content in Google's eyes. There's a lot more I could say, but I just wanted to throw out these two considerations for now. I hope it helps!

After some tests in webmaster I see this - for first time download Googlebot need 1.2-1.6 ms, but all next download is below 0.5 ms. Maybe is problem with page cache?

There are a few considerations to think about here: Each search engine treats a 302 redirect differently, so just because it could be a correct use case in one search engine, doesn't mean that it won't negatively impact you for another. This is a major reason why most SEOs do not recommend using 302 redirects, they are more harmful then beneficial. a 302 redirect, in the situation you explained, could be a correct use case if the redirected destination was on the same domain. So, if www.thisisyourdomain.com 302 redirects to www.thisisyourdomain.com/temporary-site then it could be a correct use of the 302 redirect. However, the first point above is much more important and I wouldn't recommend doing this. If you do want to put up a temporary site for that downtime, then I do suggest you apply canonical tags back to the original site AND you prevent search engines from indexing it entirely to be safe from duplicate content penalties. Then, I also suggest not to have a 302 redirect, but an error page that says your team is working on fixing the problem and they can use this alternate site (provide a link) in the meantime. However, I would avoid it altogether. If your site must remain online during these unexpected downtime experiences, then it is probably because you are losing a substantial amount of revenue (e.g ecommerce websites with frequent transactions). If that is the case, then I recommend investing in a server setup that can accommodate this scenario - they can be expensive, but you're generating revenue so it should fit into someone's budget. You can also go the route of using a CDN to deliver cached content to allow the visitor to continue to browse a cached version of the website while it is offline. You won't be able to take transactions, but if the downtime is short their experience may not be interrupted - look at Cloudflare's Forever Online feature. If your site isn't losing revenue while offline, then improve the setup to minimize downtime, throw up a nice error page letting people know, and don't mess with those redirects.

Which I totally knew the entire time, I just wanted to show off their awesome website. (Runs and hides in corner) That makes sense, we'll implement the 301 redirect. We imported over 2500 pages for this project and we did a 310 redirect for each one. I guess one more won't hurt

Yes, it overwrites. Always download the old list and make changes before uploading again.

Personally I think it depends on the type of site I'm working with.  An eCommerce retail site and a corporate business page are very different in my book. I also like a simple, easy to read format (for both robots and users). posts title template (%%title%% %%sep%% %%category%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%) page title template (%%title%%  %%sep%% %%sitename%%) If your page is optimized for the selected keyword(s), then they will be appearing with the title. I've had good look with it recently.

You can think about presenting the "related products" or the "related recipees" or the "most popular recipees" (if you have a user rating system up, so that users of the site can upvote a recipe or another) as normally blogs do with "related posts". I would present them below the product description and below the recipe, depending on the case. I would not hide them behind a tab, because of that alert Tim is writing about in his comment (which, if it is really so - someone should test it - could be an interesting option for hiding content that you don't want Google to consider for ranking reasons).

Hello Gary, I have to agree with RangeMarketing, in this case the keyword matches are probably your best bet - my only question is in regards to whether you might have multiple brands in the future that produce "Ciro" or "Vogue" in which case it might get a bit heavy and bulky if enough products become available. As things stand, however, your keyword match options are probably your best bet.

Without getting too technical, .htaccess might be the solution you are looking for. This will allow you to retain both websites and transfer your organic traffic without risk of penalty. You can find .htaccess commands in the link below: http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/85/Using+.htaccess+rewrite+rules#gs/-httpexamplecomfolder1-to-httpexamplecomfolder2-- At the end of the day, you can insert the following into the .htaccess on your web hosting: Redirect 301 /url1 (Website B) http://www.newsite.com/url1 (Website A) Redirect 301 /url2 (Website B) http://www.newsite.com/url2 (Website A) Redirect 301 /url3 (Website B) http://www.newsite.com/url3 (Website A) Redirect 301 /url4 (Website B) http://www.newsite.com/url4 (Website A) If you are looking for a redirection tool without needing .htaccess (and are using wordpress), I have found that this one works wonders: https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/ Either way, I don't think there is much to worry about in regards to risking negative effects as long as you are not transferring urls with penalties on them already.

1. Right, each post is linked to in the author byline at the top of the post. I don't believe the links there carry much weight either, but there are literally 1000s of them throughout the site for each category, and the links are connected to semantically relevant blog posts, as opposed to a topic-agnostic sidebar link. 4. Whoops, I goofed by calling it a "non-html" pull down (typing too fast). Of course it's HTML. I simply meant we moved them from a static sidebar format into a pull-down, non linking sidebar format. Cheers!

At a certain point, it becomes extremely difficult to justify expending time on creating quality unique descriptions for individual products unless you can get enough unique reviews specific to each product page. Because of this, you need to make a decision as to whether you think you can keep them indexed.  If you do an outstanding job on every other aspect of your site's SEO, you may be able to, however it's not a sure thing even if you do all that other work. What may be more beneficial is to noindex the individual flame sticker product pages and focus more energy on building trust / ranking signals focused on their category page.  There is no "one answer fits all" scenario unfortunately. As for your Domain Authority, you'll need to speak with a Moz rep for more clarity, however Domain Authority is based on Moz's proprietary formula for understanding overall quality of the full spectrum of SEO signals.  So the better you do across the board in each aspect of SEO, the stronger that score will be. You can learn more about DA on their explanation page.

I have taken a look at that and mine is set normal. I also checked Google and that is set to what they recommend.

Hi Edmond, Like Ray pointed out, there could be multiple reasons. If you'd like another set of eyes, feel free to PM me as well.

Thank you for your critical analysis, I have taken on-board all advise offered and implemented same. Have dropped most if not all keywords and changed my mentality especially in regards to how to utilize keywords to enhance best user experience. Thank You

Hi Sheena, Thanks for answering.  We are a commercial real estate data and economic analysis firm, that has an existing site which is used by subscribing clients.  We are creating a new corporate site for the purposes of having a marketing friendly site.  We are now going to gate our product site (existing) behind the new site. Best, Scott

Let me add that In many cases the title tag will also contain the website's name, as in <title>Awesome Cool Headline | website name<title></li> <li>A good CMS will let you differentiate between headline in title and headline on the page (the H1)</li> <li>If your website is indexed by Google News the shown headline will be the H1, not the title tag</li> </ul></title>

And now you can get to what you were trying to do in the first place. If I had a dollar...

Thanks Lynn. This is really helpful.

Many thanks Dirk, looks like you've found the problem!  Much appreciated!