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Appreciate the link. Wondering if you know anything about the code used to redirect all of it in your htcaccess file? I'm glad to hear I don't need to create a hundred redirects, but do want to make sure I am using the correct apache code to do for all.

Well After two weeks nothing has changed, Aptitus.pe is still on top of my brand results, making my ranking score go lower since is a different domain and no sight of sitelinks. Is there a way to get rid of that old domain?, no luck yet.

For reference, with Yoast enabled, you'd expect to see: <title>TITLE</title> http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/23191/how-to-remove-a-meta-description-or-other-head-contents If your theme is supported by a third-party, you can ask them for assistance, of course. If it's not built-in to the theme, it could be another SEO/META plugin causing the duplication, perhaps? - One way to test if it is built in to the theme would be to switch (temporarily) back over to a standard wordpress theme and see if the issue persists. If it's still there, try disabling likely plugins and test. Good Luck!

I think it's a great idea to stoke demand by creating blog posts before the product pages are up. If you think about it you're suggesting two options: do nothing or do something. If your product pages won't be up for awhile, might as well put that content to use, which will help you uncover a few things: How difficult is it to rank for product related keyword? How much natural demand is out there for my products already? Are people willing to sign up for a waiting/mailing list for my products? What types of content do readers find most compelling on my site or in my niche? I wouldn't wait because you never know what delays there will be in the future, so might as well start now. Switching platforms, such as to Shopify, is always a pain, but if you're going to be migrating pages anyways, a few blog posts won't be a huge technical challenge. Possible SEO consequences/recommendations between blog posts and product descriptions: They are two different things. When reading blog posts, people are looking for information, stories, ideas, etc. When people read product pages they want to know details and FAQs about that product specifically. There will be some overlap, but keep the goal of the user in mind. That said, you can use some of the product descriptions within blog posts, but I wouldn't just copy/paste. There's no such thing as a duplicate content penalty, but it's usually not a good idea to replicate pages across your site word for word. When you write blog posts about your products, link to the product pages from within the post. You always want to prioritize product pages for your money keywords, and blog posts for more informational/long-tail/high volume, but low difficulty keywords - two different strategies. Hope that helps! Let me know if you have follow-up questions!

Don't do it! A change of this magnitude is never going to pay back sufficient dividends; a keyword in your URL is considered a very small ranking factor -  you're also going to need a lot of things to remarkably well to pull this off without taking a hit. The following articles may be of interest to you: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-urls-seo-17889.html https://www.seroundtable.com/google-keywords-in-urls-a-small-ranking-factor-21577.html And see John Mueller (Google)'s comment here: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/x6EZskkV7bM/discussion The idea of a landing page (as Andy suggests) makes much more sense. If you were building this site from scratch then adding the keyword into the url is still a good idea but causing major upheaval (and taking not inconsiderable risks) to shoehorn it in is not. Focus on a creative content experience and you'll find a better way. In many ways, knowing that the URL restructuring isn't the best way to proceed should make finding the right way [a little bit] easier. Good Luck!

Hi, I'm sharing a thread from wpml forum. Please check all the 6 points and you can also communicate with them directly in wpml forum. https://wpml.org/forums/topic/translation-page-not-found-404/ Thanks

Thank you Paul! I guess it patience is what is needed. But also, I would like to be prepared and help google to decide on which menu-items to display as sitelinks. As I understand it, the reason for the confusion between the site-links from the old and the new site on the domain is that google does not see the new site as a completely new site. It just see change. It has kept some of the old information and registered some of the new. So I guess the follow up question is this. Is it right that the search engine robots are quick to register new content (say posts and pages) and slower to register changes in the architecture of a site? plovsky

Hello, Maybe someone has an idea? So my main site now is website.com and if i would make my main (homepage) website.com/keyword. Would that have an effect? What risks are there?

To add on to Andy's advice, imagine yourself using a website--are you more likely to engage in something that has a wall of text or do you prefer to see something that you can interact with as necessary? I'd recommend using your most important keywords in the h2s and using the expandable content areas for UX. That way, you're getting the best of both worlds.

The legal wrangling aside (as this isn't something to concern ourselves with from a technical standpoint) I'd say this boils down to: If I redirect all of the established equity for one site well-established, authority site between two newly-established domains, will the new sites do as well, pro rata, as the original site? Short answer, no. The purpose of a 301 is to tell Search engines that the original content has been moved elsewhere. on a permanent basis. Between 2013 and early 2016, it was the case that approx 15% of PageRank was lost when using a 301. However, that is (thankfully) no longer the case *BUT **just because Google no longer imposes a penalty for 301 redirects, PageRank is only of hundreds of signals that Google uses when ranking web pages. In a perfect world, if you create a 301 redirect from one page to another where the content remains exactly the same AND  only the URL changes, then you should see no fall off in traffic. See: https://moz.com/blog/301-redirection-rules-for-seo Even if we assume that you have evenly (and successfully) divided 100% of the links between the two sites, with each page redirect passing over 100% of the link equity (and, in this hypothetical world, each page is carrying the same level of authority), you're still dividing the overall domain authority between two sites, so, even if everything goes perfectly when you create all of the redirects, you still end up with two sites which are weaker than the original. In reality, of course, you are unlikely to manage to pass on every drop of 'link juice' from each of the original pages, and not all pages will carry the same weight as the others (you could compare page authority in Moz and divide by overall "value" rather than number of pages but that's never going to be precise - or easy). And this is before all of the other  ranking signals come into play. I'd suggest the best you can do here is to carefully plan and execute the separation but both parties are going to lose out here - it's now a matter of trying to lose least. (*I like big buts and I cannot lie.)

hi, thanks for the reply i think there was some server caching going on as it works just fine now.

Yes, that's great. Thank you

This list might give you some structure to your planning (https://moz.com/blog/technical-site-audit-for-2015) If you're ranking well already and are just freshening up, rather than changing the direction of your business, don't throw the baby out with the bath water - your old content may be a little dusty but it's why you have the rankings you do now. Ditching old content would see your rankings plummet. You can move it elsewhere within your site by all means but ensure it remains accessible and create 301 redirects for every page. If the passage of time has left some of your content a little outdated, you'd be better to add visible updates with links to updated articles. Best practice is to use 301 where the content has moved but not changed substantially (if at all). You can create redirects to any page, of course but expect to lose some value if the content doesn't closely match the original. Check out https://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection and https://moz.com/blog/301-redirection-rules-for-seo. Good Luck!

If you want to be doubly sure, you can try Fetch as Google (under Crawl) in Search Console. And you can also try crawling with a 3rd party tool such as Screaming Frog (https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/) If these respond appropriately, it may be worth trying a crawl again, later (as the Crawl Test suggests) - it may just be a temporary glitch in the matrix. Update us if things don't settle down or you get unexpected results following above. Don't forget the HELP! button's there if you need it (it's right next to the PANIC! button on your keyboard  https://moz.com/help/contact

Option A is definitely the one that is going to be the best long-term approach. Google wants unique content and anything you can do to give them this is a winner. -Andy

Your right , thanks for thewarning !! Will found a freelance asap as even if the service is only available in French speaking country, some of our customers don't speak french. 

James, I think you are totally incorrect. You can not remove the training splash from your homepage. And all the canonical tags should also include that I'm pretty sure. (I mean here the homepage canonical)

If the only change is to the URL (and job reference) and the content is otherwise the same, you'd definitely want to create 301s for these - this is exactly what 301s are for, after all.  The 301s should, now, pass on 100percent of the pagerank. There are caveats (PR is not the only ranking signal), see here: <a>https://moz.com/blog/301-redirection-rules-for-seo</a> Also,  think of the user experience,  If I've bookmarked a job I'd expect to click the link and find it. A thought: If the new system could append the job number with a fixed value, creating a pattern match redirect rule could make easy work of this for them. Then, with your 301s in place (and confirmed to be in good order - you can run a crawl test: <a>https://moz.com/researchtools/crawl-test</a>, you can remove your old listings. Sorry for the multiple revisions of this answer, Adam; I was in the bath when I started writing it!

As Martijn said, tagging multiple categories to a post can help with crawling due to more internal linking. Fortunately, if your URL is just sitename.com/post-title, then you can change/add existing categories and it won't make a difference as the URL won't change, so you won't have to redirect anything. If you're renaming categories, changing the category URLs, you may still want to redirect the old category URLs to the new category URLs to preserve the category pages' authority though. If the site structure is more like sitename.com/category/post-title, that's when it may become an issue and you will want to redirect the old URL to the new URL. If you use Wordpress, I believe it will automatically redirect the old URL to the new URL if you do change the category. (Definitely test this to make sure it works with your version/plugins.) There are also plugins to help you tag multiple categories to a post but, setting a preference for the permalink category.