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Hi Dana, If the page has incoming links from external sites I would 301 the page and keep the link juice (If it is similar content). However, if the page has no incoming links other then internal I would delete the page and I would also 404 the page in the robot.txt file. By doing this you actually spread more link juice on your existing pages. Link Juice in most cases spreads from the home page because people naturally link to it. The more pages you build on the site the more you spread that juice. However, many pages may have been deep linked to by users on your site giving those pages there own value, to avoid losing this value you can 301 the page. Hope this helps..

I would just like to add: If you're considering signing up for something (SEV), you may as well get a real hosting package.

Thanks!  I didn't realize that I could see site speed in Google Analytics.

Hello Robert, Thank you very much for your response. Can you please tell me which 5 urls you mentioned above and which 3 of them are returning 404 ? Screen shots of robots.txt and seo plugins are attached. Below is text of .htaccess BEGIN WordPressRewriteEngine OnRewriteBase /RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-fRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-dRewriteRule . /index.php [L] # END WordPress robots-txt.png robots-txt.png Seo-by-Yoast.png

yeah fair enough .. Thanks Andy

Yep, Sanket is right. You want to have your developer set up a 301 redirect from ntutility.com to your new site. If he can't do this, you may want to get a new developer :). Someone on oDesk should be able to do this pretty easily for you. If this is a domain migration - and it sounds like it is - you want to be sure not to simply redirect everything to the homepage. Won't go into all the details - you can read this guide here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/web-site-migration-guide-tips-for-seos The important thing is to get all the details right - something you may need help with if you're not comfortable performing all these steps yourself. And make sure all your domain settings in Google Webmaster Tools are up to date... including submitting a change of address form. Hope this helps! Best of luck with your SEO.

Hi, First of all if your non-existing site results are being displayed in search results(say Google) then you can either demote the sitelinks by going in to the Google Webmasters Tool(go to Configuration -->> Sitelinks)and submit it.  Or, if in your case, it has some links pointing towards it then you can use a 301 redirect and redirect it to your customised 404 page which should could contain navigational options so the users do not leave the given site. The Web Optimized 404 pages should contain: notification that the user has reached a page that does not exist a search box a easy to understand navigation system so the user can potentially find what they were orginally looking to access a link to the home page If you want to know more, you can check this link on HTTP Status code and see what's best for you http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/http-status-codes Hope this helps you. Cheers!

Hi Atul, Following is the response to your queries. 1). 'Map.pdf' refers to the name of the pdf and 'file' refers to the directory in which it is stored. 2). Using the above code, you would be able to track the click on the links and not the downloads. For setting up event tracking for a pdf download, I would recommend you to place the following code within the code of your download link onClick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'download', 'Pdf', 'Mypdfname',, true]);" Thus, the final download link would look like Download PDF Now that you have set up event tracking script in place, you now need to set up the event as a goal in Google Analytics. For that, follow the steps, 1. Open up the profile you wish to set up the goal in. 2. Click the gear icon in the upper right corner of the Google Analytics interface. 3. Click the Goals tab (in the sub-navigation just below where your Profile is listed) 4. Choose the Goal Set you wish to add the event to. 5. Name your goal and select the Event radio button. 6. Populate the following goal details: Category | that matches | download Action | that matches | Pdf Label | that matches | Mypdfname Value | that matches | 7. If you’ve added a Value in step 1, leave the “Use the actual Event Value” radio button selected. 8. Click “Save” and you’re ready to go! Hope, it might help! Cheers!

Punit, I think its showing because IP canonicalization. Your site's IP 50.63.177.37 does not redirect to your site's comparebroker.com. So Google is treating ip address as different site. This could cause duplicate content problems if a search engine indexes your site under both its IP and domain name. Solution: Consider using a 301 re-write rule in your .htaccess file so that your site's IP points to your domain name. It can also be solved through by putting canonical URL. Thanks to woorank.com for online tool. Please Check here : http://www.woorank.com/en/www/comparebroker.com

Hmmm.... something to look into for sure. Thank you for your suggestion and your time.

Hi Aaron, Do I get some examples those links ?

Yea, losing the redirects can definitely cause ranking and SEO problems. This can happen if the contents of the old site's .htaccess file didn't' get updated into the new site, or if using the WordPress Redirection plugin, the plugin somehow got deactivated or its redirects messed up. Get those crawl errors fixed, then give the SEs some time to recrawl and see if most of the problem goes away. By the way - nice looking site! Paul PS Marking whichever answer you found most helpful will help out other users and gives a bit of a points boost as well

If you're looking at the Campaign Overview page, you'll notice that the words Duplicate Page Content next to the bar graph are a link. Clicking there will take you to a full page about your duplicate content issues. One of the columns in that report is Other URLs. if you click on the numeral that represents the number of other dupe pages found, it will show you a list of the other pages that share that dupe content. Is that what you were looking for? Paul iSJJZ

It might increase CTR, but I would expect it to also increase bounce rate. As people are becoming familiar with the snippet format, they're associating it with articles and blog posts. If they think they're clicking on a link that leads to an article, and they arrive at a product page, do you really think they'll stick around and give you their money? It's widely believed that pogosticking (users bouncing immediately back to the SERP and clicking another result) can harm your rankings. So be careful with anything that might lead to a mismatch between searcher intent and page content. I wouldn't be surprised if Google eventually starts ignoring rel=author markup on e-commerce product pages. (Which they will be able to identify very easily as more and more sites adopt schema etc.)

Aw, thanks. Glad you found some value in my comments. And, thanks for raising an interesting point for discussion Good luck!

Mandi, I think you are meaning redirected as opposed to proxied. (Canonical in this case - from GWMT) Two ways: Add a rel="canonical" link to the  section of the non-canonical version of each HTML page. To specify a canonical link to the page http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish, create a element as follows: Copy this link into the  section of all non-canonical versions of the page, such as http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish&sort=price. If you publish content on both http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish and https://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish, you can specify the canonical version of the page. Create the  element: Add this link to the  section of https://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish. **Indicate the canonical version of a URL by responding with the Link rel="canonical" HTTP header.**Adding rel="canonical" to the head section of a page is useful for HTML content, but it can't be used for PDFs and other file types indexed by Google Web Search. In these cases you can indicate a canonical URL by responding with the Link rel="canonical" HTTP header, like this (note that to use this option, you'll need to be able to configure your server): Hope this helps, Robert

In my opinion it doesn't hurt SEO

Thanks, that most recent answer helped and confirmed our suspicions.  There is in fact a different website for each domain.  We will leave the old site in place for the time being and just link folks to the new one from there.  Thanks again and sorry about any confusion.