Welcome to the Q&A Forum

You're going to want to use the .htaccess file to redirect www to non (or vice versa) and then also direct all http to https. Try this: RewriteEngine On #redirect non https to https RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on RewriteRule ^.*$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L] #redirect non www to www RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www..+$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (.+)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%1/$1 [R=301,L]

i do see the page being indexed by Google. Query string below: https://www.google.ca/search?num=100&site=&source=hp&q=http%3A%2F%2Fid.gamesinasia.com%2Freview-smartphone-xiaomi-mi3%2F&oq=http%3A%2F%2Fid.gamesinasia.com%2Freview-smartphone-xiaomi-mi3%2F&gs_l=hp.3...3304.3304.0.4212.3.3.0.0.0.0.674.930.1j1j5-1.3.0....0...1c..51.hp..3.0.0.0.gRuEaPCdFOg Cheers, SEO5..

In my opinion, kulraj.org/author/admin/ is essential because it is the main listing for your blog. As the number of posts on your blog grows you might want to add categories back.  They can bring in a lot of traffic if the category names match a topic that people are searching for.  With a small number  of posts on your blog it is very easy to encounter duplicate content problems.  However, once you have a large number of posts then breaking them into a small number of category pages can become an important opportunity and a minimal duplicate content risk. If you do that I would limit the number of words that are displayed for each post.  I would also carefully choose the categories to match what people are searching for. I have a blog that does not have tags and does not have categories.  I do that to avoid duplicate content.  However, lots of my topics overlap and I have lots of linking from one blog post to another.  I also have some hand-built FAQ pages that link to my blog posts and other informative content.  These pages can bring in a lot of traffic.

Ahh ok I follow you! Well, we haven't run any actual experiments using 2 online shops like the example you mentioned (one using Woo & the other using another platform). But we have taken existing OpenCart & Magento sites that were already ranking for competitive terms and migrated them over to WooCommerce. The rankings dipped for a short period but recovered and have since superseded the rankings they had before. I was skeptical of WooCommerce at first but it has become our preferred solution for eCommerce. I'm not saying the others are bad or anything. To answer your question, I don't think it would make a difference if you used one platform over another if they were both structured the same and had similar social engagement, etc. As long as you keep things RELEVANT and keep the site geared around your target audience needs, you should be fine either way. Hope this helps!!

You're a rock star. Thanks!!

Hi Vaneet, have you been able to connect your campaign to Google Analytics?

Thanks Keri, I did not think about updating the campaign. Great help, thank you.

Yeah, I've had an issue w duplicate content (not actually on the site yet, but just personally as I've worked on plenty of other sites that were not ecommerce) and actually asking this question made me dig deeper. I've figured out my appropriate structure and how to keep the strength I've already created. I have variable descriptions for each product, no matter how similar - right now, but I would much prefer to give one page a HUGE staying power rather than spreading the net thin to get results and realizing later that I had way more to manage than I should just to keep the great Google happy. I appreciate the response!

Hey Unigenitus! Something else must be causing the drops in BING. I can't imagine it has anything to do with acquiring links from G+

Thanks for everyone's responses! Matt-Antonino, I'll look to implement that solution. Appreciate it!

Cool JohnnyRoc, Don't trim unnecessarily. Consider canonical tagging content groupings rather than deleting pages. It's a practice used, for example, when you're trying to rank for "patriotic tshirts" that come in multiple sizes. D

I hear ya. Why don't you register a free account for the website owner, verify the domain and use that one for now?

Hi there! Without specific examples, it's really hard to diagnose/research questions like this. High level, campaign will grade a keyword based on the search engine and domain. When we do, we take a look at whether it's set to track all sites at that domain or just the specific domain. If it's just set to track that specific domain (let's say a root domain) and your ranking on a subdomain, the rankings will reflect that - in many cases that you're not ranking in the top 50 of SERPs or if you are ranking on both domains, what you're ranking for the given domain. Rank Tracker on the other hand defaults to provide rankings data for all sites in the domain that you type in unless you choose otherwise. Reviewing a couple of the keywords in each of your campaigns, the rankings do look accurate and if you're ranking in the top 50 of SERP's, the URL you're ranking for is displaying for the keywords. If you're still running into issues here, please reach out and let us know with some specific examples so that we can review this further for you. Hope this helps!

Damn..... that is a HOT idea. I feel like a detective!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry about your campaign setup troubles! Try from another browser and let us know if that works. If you are still stuck, please write us at help@Moz.com so that we can troubleshoot your account and campaign. I'm sure we can get this figured out quickly

The easiest way to resolve issues with tags is to noindex them. I wrote a post about how you can safely do this: http://www.evolvingseo.com/2012/08/10/clean-sweep-yo-tag-archives-now (you basically just double check to see if they are receiving traffic, and leave the few that receive traffic via search indexed). But at the root level it comes down to knowing how to use tags correctly on a blogging platform to begin with - and knowing how they function, and what happens when you tag something. First off, tagging any post creates a new page called a "tag archive". The only way someone can get to tag archives by default is if you allow some sort of navigation or links to them on the site itself. This is usually in the form of a "tag cloud" (sidebar or footer) or at the bottom of posts when it says "tagged in....." and links to the tags. Then if they are internally linked to, they will get indexed (unless you noindex them like I have suggested above). They are typically low to no-value pages because most bloggers just tag everything, and use lots of tags per post. Then you end up with hundreds of pages (tag archives) with no value. So noindexing them is the safest way to go, except for very extreme cases where a blogger uses them 100% perfect (which is rare, so I always assume most people asking should just noindex but use my post to check for traffic to any of them first).

Thank you that is what I thought I just wanted a second opinion.

I think that it's generally understood that bots read page code, they don't "do" page code like the browser does, so the canonical is read, regardless of the other code on the page. This wouldn't be the case for 301's that trigger server side, the bot would then never reach the page to read the canonical. HTH