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Hi EGOL, Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, redirecting the subdomain to the root isn't an option due CMS limitations. We're looking at this long term. For now I've added a link to the wedding stationery page using keyword anchor text from every page of the subdomain including the high PA pages. Any more ideas? It seems crazy that the homepage ranks for this term given there are no optimised links to it and the keyword appears only as links to the pages we want to rank. Thanks in advance.

what i do not understand is, when i checked on who is to see who the owner was, go daddy came up and now when i go to the domain name that i wanted to buy it is not being used.

Thanks a lot for answering. This was very helpful. M.

We have also seen a bump in traffic for sites when using Google Site Search because Google indexes the site more often This hits really high on my BS meter.

If you feel i am wasting my  time  putting articles on free sites then please do tell me Yes.  If they sites where anybody can post any article then, yes, you are wasting your time. However, if you are a fantastic knitter (plus a fantastic writer) and the most authoritative and picky websites about knitting will post one of your articles - and even pay you for it.  Then you are not wasting your time... but even in that situation I would not be giving my articles away. ....but, that's just me talking and 85% or more of the people out there will be giving you different advice.  So, the answer to this question is not how many people are saying something, the answer really is what strategy should you should be listening to.

i don’t really like the idea of users having to select language, but it is better then the coded redirects I believe. I would rather go for one of the 2 solutions i suggested before.

Alan, I appreciate your effort here. These are the sources I already shared A complete summary of everything shared in those articles you quote: 1. It doesn't make a difference to google which method is used. When I examine all the information and analysis, it seems to indicate Google will index the content either way. How well that content will rank in Google is a different topic. There are reasons to keep content separate, such as when discussing topics unrelated to the main site, in which case a subdomain would be best. 2. Matt uses the directory approach, and he recommends for others to do the same. AT BEST you can get that it is close to even with a slighter preference towards subfolders based on that information. The Rand offers outstanding analysis as to why subfolders are the superior choice. Rand's analysis is in 2009, 2 years after the original articles quoted from Matt. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/understanding-root-domains-subdomains-vs-subfolders-microsites The bottom line, it's up to you how much you care about your site and it's performance. Personally, I am a fighter. I also micro-manage website architecture because in many aspects, it is a one-time set it and forget it type of thing. Whether to use subdirectories vs subfolders, whether to use underscores in URLs vs dashes, etc. are things you do one time and then it is automated forever. A detailed list of reasons supporting the subfolder approach has been offered. The DA, time, costs, etc. all support subfolders. If you wish to ignore all those strong, positive benefits and go with a subdomain then that is your choice. Good luck.

i assume you are hosted on IIS, you can use iis url-rewite model to fix this. Match ^/default.asp$ rewrite to / But the main thing here is that you have a link on your site somwhere thet points to default.asp. or the crawler would not of found it. Best to fix it for good, but if no links point to it, then it will never apear in the address bar, then no one will copy and paste a link to it and you will more then likley nver have a problem

I see. Thanks so much for the effort to explain in detail. So, is it because of the yoast wordpress seo plugin i used? Are you using that for your site? Do you have such problem? Because I just installed it prior to the crawl. I was using All In One SEO earlier and the crawl didn't come back with such error. Google and Bing seems to have no problem getting my title though. Should I fix it or just ignore the problem? Thanks so much again!

I totally agree hee with you. Keep it and start working on the pages with the wrong information.

Crystal, Here is a couple of good videos from SEOmoz on Domain Authority, Page Authority and Page Rank. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-domain-trust-authority http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-whats-pagerank-got-to-do-with-it Hope they help!

Have you checked the links in your homepage header? Hosting/server platform? Could you take a screenshot of your folder layout and post it?

Assuming this pages are dupilcates. then only one will rank, with a canonical you can choose what page that is, if you dont use a canionical then google will choose. if you have too many, then google may see that as bad,

Yes, general a blog would link back to the home page and not every page, os yes i would say they lost you some rank.

Pagination is tough, and Google has sent really mixed signals. They seem to suggest one of two approaches: (1) Use the new rel=prev/rel=next tags (tricky to implement, and Bing doesn't honor them, but they do seem to work) (2) Rel-canonical to a "View All" page from paginated results (pages 2+) Adam Audette did a great post recently on pagination: http://searchengineland.com/five-step-strategy-for-solving-seo-pagination-problems-95494 To Simon's comment, I've also had decent luck using META NOINDEX,FOLLOW on pages 2+ (although I'd definitely recommend that before Robots.txt). The only issue is if people are linking to those search pages - that's pretty rare, though. All in all, paginated search results have very little SEO value.

Thank you again for your help, i did some more research and digging and found this: https://bitly.com/pages/help#i_0_1

Hi Soumendra This is only a problem is you have exact anchor text on the page in question. Seomoz still flares this up if the anchor text is very similar. Try changing the anchor text on that page to contain less of the same text? as otherwise it can send mixes signals to google as to which page you want to rank for a keyword and can result in internal pages fighting each other. shiv

I agree with Ryan. As long as the old URLs are out there in the web, Google will follow them. At the same time, redirected URL list will be very lengthy if you are maintaining a big site and maintaining them will consume your resources. Check link value of the old URLs as a first step. If they have no value then you will be fine to retire such old URLs.

Thank you all. Crawled pages per day increased dramatically in the recent weeks according to GWT. Traffic increased and number of pages driving traffic also increased. So trying yo narrow down the real impact.

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