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Cody, why would the serving host make any difference to google? If I access a SEOmoz page and an image on that page is served to me from a local CDN server rather then the main SEOmoz server, why would it be any harder for Google to index? The image is still accessed through the same URL.

That's the one!  Thanks!

I was just about to add a reply to my previous post to say the same thing. You are always so articulate, EGOL, it's truly impressive.

Do you have a site link we could take a look at... and as EGOL mentioned, any specific questions?

Agreed.  When I see a KW.com I trust it much more than buy-green-widgets-at-cheap-prices.com.  

Hey Kristi Xenu is great and free, free I tells ya! But, if you can shell out a bit of dosh, the screaming frog is a better tool. SEOMoz's own Dr Pete did a bit of a write up here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/crawler-faceoff-xenu-vs-screaming-frog Hope it helps Marcus

Thanks. Our Tech team says we have to keep the /ca folder for now due to some legacy dependency within the CMS and its URL structure, a pretty massive effort to fix. However, I agree we should NOT be using a 302 temp redirect, big no-no. I'll work with making that a 301 ASAP, thanks for bringing to my attention. Contrary to what I said earlier, I just learned that the travelocity.ca domain has not been verified in GWT yet therefore we haven't told Google to explicitly target Canada (.ca) users. Once we get the geotargeting set to Canada for travelocity.ca, I think this will be fixed. I'll update this thread as soon as I know the outcome.

If you're wondering if you get any SEO benefit from this, I would say the benefits are going to be indirect in the form of more traffic to your pages eventually causing your rankings to climb, etc, but I don't think you're going to see any direct benefit such as ranking higher for those keywords on your own site.

Yes, time counts. The site is six years old. The page is a few months.

Cyklop Studio is correct. Definitely the second option. 301 your pages, change all links, then crawl your site so you can find any links you missed. Imagine for a moment you moved to a new home. You go to the post office and forward your mail to the new home (i.e. a 301). Would you still keep asking everyone to send your mail to your old home (i.e. keep the old links)? No. You would update everyone you can, then as you notice forwarded mail you can contact those people or businesses you missed and alert them to your new address.

Happy to help Daniel, good luck with the start up, you are on your way! Felicidades!

I have lost my window The admin team has already began tasking and beginng save.... It is a major Virtualization migration, and my requests had to be in by yesterday. Ohh well, it will be only 23 hours and i convinced them to just route to a shutdown pool generating a 503 since they will not cloine this late.... Thanks for the help though i will keep this in mind for next time ( but i get my brand spanking new virtual environment next month soooo i will be able to have more wiggle room)

Run it through HTTP Live Headers in Firefox (it's an addon). Just search for HTTP Live Headers. That will give you some insights as to how the browser is reading your page. It's very useful for when you need to diagnose issues like this.

Since GoogleBots can't access the premium regardless, is it redundant to have on the robots.txt file? You are indeed correct the best practice is to minimize your robots.txt file. That is why the very first sentence in my initial response was the suggestion to NOT include your premium sections in the robots.txt file Will google and other bots will hurt you if you have premium sections that they try to crawl but can't? No.

Yes the other sites in SERP are not very competitive , do not have access to semrush logs any more

The simple solution is to use a sitemap generator. There are many solutions of them. Just google it and find which one works best for you. Personally, I don't care for companies I use to tell me "no". I would take that as an indicator I need to look for another ecommerce platform. With the above noted, a sitemap is really not necessary for a well-designed site. Yes, I use one and submit it mainly because I use an easily automated process. As long as your content is well-linked, then Google will see all of it.

If the "SKI" is a category, than you can divide into subcategories, and each product of goggles would be: evo.com/shop/ski/goggles/ than under subfolder goggles are listed the products, and than for each product url would be: evo.com/ski/goggles/productID hope it helps