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So I spoke with our host. Basically he has been adjusting the port flood settings because of a DDoS attack we had roughly 9 months ago. We have roughly 1000 domains on the same server, all with wordpress. I went through and changed the nameserver on around 800 of them to bring us down. In the long run, I want to bring us to 1 website. There is no reason for us to have 200, or 5 for that matter. They are redundant websites that were build simply to bolster our main website by blackhat tactics. Our host stated that the only way to keep things kosher would be to switch all 1,000 domains to a new server every 2 years because once the "hackers" find out that there is a cluster of 1,000 domains in the same place, they will blast it. Anyway, I'm working on cutting the domains in the safest way possible, and switching servers as soon as possible!

Cool, thanks! Ruben

I'm working on URL structure for the same business model. Loved your answer Jane

Google Analytics can share or get the account itself to another user. You can use this process for have access to your stats in both accounts, or move the stats to the gmail one. But this is only valid if you have only this property on the account. You cannot get a property to another user, you need to give the entire account. Also, a google account can have multiple analytics account (The first number, for example, GA-XXXXXX), and a analytics account can have multiple properties (The second number, for example, GA-XXXXXX-1). You can give access to another user to any property or a complete account, but you can only give the entire account to another user (For changing owner). Webmaster tools, also, allows multiple users to have access to their stats. You only need to authorize the another account, or validate as a separate one. There's no difference at SEO level for using one or two google accounts. If you like to get all your services in only one account, you can only do it with your gmail account, because you cannot move or authorize gmail for other users. Also, you can mantain the two accounts, and access to all services with gmail one, because services as adwords, analytics, adsense, webmaster and others leave you the option to authorize more users.

Hi there, This isn't a problem, and is quite a common way of presenting content on the "same page" as far as the source code goes without having it all appear on page load. Where this would get you into trouble is if you are presenting a lot of content behind different tabs, or if that content was vastly different to the topic of the page that appears on page load. If you are using CSS to tab between the content, none of it is uncrawlable.

This is a really tough one to answer because while there are examples of companies doing this in stages and examples of this being done all at once, it's impossible to know what the results would have been if any one example had been done differently. I am tempted to say that the more changes you can make all at once, the better. The reason for this is that if you go through one set of big redirects to go from www.domain.com/url-structure to www.newsite.com/new-url-structure, that's only one set of redirects Google has to process. If you do this in too many stages, Google has to find and process each set of 301s every few months. The more times you 301 a URL, the less authority it seems to retain from the original URL. This is disputed and debated, but it definitely still seems like a poor idea to go through more 301s than you really need to. 301s can definitely result in temporary ranking problems, so the fewer of these you need to endure, the better. That said, this is a huge task with a lot of changes and it doesn't sound like they'll be able to do the whole thing at once?

HI David i know you know but just saying here have sent you the campaign details and you klindly sent to engineering to look into it. Just letting you know i submit reports to my clients at beginning of the month so will need this fixed by end of month latest so reporting is consistent Many Thanks Dan

Ideally, I'd ask to see examples of the companies' work within these platforms for other clients. I agree with Prestashop that many companies have made many different platforms work for them in a variety of ways. Modern platforms are usually not too bad for SEO no matter what you go with, but all have their particular issues. I would not worry too much about keywords further down the URL structure; there are many more important factors for best SEO practice, and it's possible / likely that this is not an issue at all anymore. Where the ecommerce platform is hosted also should not be an issue. The quality of site they can produce within these platforms would be my concern, and it's possible that a company with a "less desirable" platform can actually produce something that is of an overall higher quality, including when it comes to SEO. I'd definitely seek as many case studies / examples as possible.

I don't have any problem linking out if I know the site that I am linking to really really well.  I don't see anything wrong with your list of "SEO and Marketing Resources" if you want to recommend them to your clients. I am assuming that you would like to have content on your website that educates your visitors and showcases your expertise.  If that is the goal, I would be concerned about finding articles other website and using them as the basis of a short article on my site.  All that does is turn your website into a signpost that promotes other people. I would rather spend a little extra time per article and write a library of articles on my own site that explain mostly evergreen topics.  Why?  If these resources are being prepared as a knowledge base for current and potential clients then I would want to keep them on information that I produce and control than send them out to other websites where my branding and expertise is lost. Using articles on other websites might seem like a time-saving effort that saves you from explaining the nitty-gritty - you just link to it.  But it doesn't have the same impact as explaining the nitty gritty on your own site and keeping your voice and your branding in the visitors mind. What happens when the other website deletes that article or goes out of business or starts publishing stuff that you don't agree with?  This is going to happen eventually.  Then all of the work that you put into that article is gone. Also, this isn't going to earn you likes, links, tweets and mentions.  It is going to earn those things for the other guy.  You are simply turning your website and your labor into an advertising effort for other people in your industry. Why not build a resource for yourself?  Write a weekly or monthly original stand-alone, evergreen article service that people can subscribe to, tweet about, mention, link to and like. That is how I would approach this.

Hi there, Whether "links" pass any value is determined by how they're structures, so different content sharing platforms do and don't pass SEO value on a case by case basis. If the content is shared in an iframe, goes through 302 redirects or other similar techniques, is blocked from search engines, contains nofollowed links etc. then it offers no value. This is the "proper" way to share paid advertising content as far as search engines are concerned. If you view the source of a page on which an Outbrain box appears, then search for the text used for link titles in that box, you won't find them in the source code. There is no a href link to the linked-to articles. This is because the content is being drawn in from elsewhere via the widget. As such, it looks identical to the regularly-linked to content, but it's not appearing in the source nor passing SEO value. Again, some services will set their content sharing up differently, but they'd be remiss to set up a service that linked directly to external content, for money, in a way that benefitted the linked-to sites' SEO. Google frowns on that solely because it would be a paid link. Cheers, Jane

Hi Asif, The numbers you see in WMT will be fairly accurate: the numbers for site: searches are rarely accurate, so I wouldn't pay them too much attention. You can usually trust what you see in WMT though. Cheers, Jane

Thank you for the explanation, Prestashop. I'll have to look into this ASAP. We thought we had set all of that up, but now seeing something went awry.

You're viewing this information probably because you doesn't have defined your lang in the html tag. And, also, you can change the lang of the page reading the lang of the client. But this doesn't have any effect on SEO. I think, if you want to be crawled for all the world, you need to get another domain (Neutral one, as .com for example), and redirect all visits who doesn't have user-lang en-uk to these domain. You will mantain your actual score and start to make a new one too. Google normally gives some priority on local market to local domains.

Thanks for the replies - I think you nailed it JaneCopland! This was our gut, but figured it couldn't hurt to have a few other SEOs weigh in.

Google has stated that duplicate content will be penalized, if it is deemed that the content is meant to manipulate search results. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66359 "In the rare cases in which Google perceives that duplicate content may be shown with intent to manipulate our rankings and deceive our users, we'll also make appropriate adjustments in the indexing and ranking of the sites involved. As a result, the ranking of the site may suffer, or the site might be removed entirely from the Google index, in which case it will no longer appear in search results." If two pages both have the same content, even with a canoical url Google will choose which one to index most likely the newer version of that page. "Google tries hard to index and show pages with distinct information. This filtering means, for instance, that if your site has a "regular" and "printer" version of each article, and neither of these is blocked with a noindex meta tag, we'll choose one of them to list." I would not recommend having duplicate content on your site if it can be avoided. If it can't, set one of the pages you dont want indexed to "no-index".