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Hola colegas, Saludos desde Atlanta, veo que este mensaje se publicó hace tiempo, me pregunto si aún existen colegas de SEO en español por aquí, me encantaría conocerlos.

Brant This might be your issue... Do this site search in Google: site:www.petmedicalcenter.vetsuite.com Google still has about 112 pages in its index from your old site, all with "Pet Medical Center of Las Vegas" in the title tag, and an address in the description.  Maybe of these still pages from the old site are still in the cache.  AND there are no 301 redirects at all pointing to your new site. So there lies the issue I think. You may want to see if it is possible to 301 redirect all the old pages to their corresponding new pages.  If this is not possible technically, you need to do a domain forward to the new domain. -Dan

I use Majestic SEO's Site Explorer to show clients and my managers direct results. Now you won't see the origin of every inbound link but you can see how your links are getting found. You can sign up for a free account and get some basic info. While their tool doesn't provider nearly as much data and insight as Open Site Explorer does, it is good for some raw, new numbers.

Thanks Ryan! The folder structure is what saved the site when one of our bigger sites went for local domains. THey were poorly maintained and in 6 months time they went under. What I will do is try the local domains on AdWords. I will use the canonical link element to try and pass any possible links the local sites might gather. The flag idea is great. We will refresh the design soon and we will have them in mind. In a way I will use AdWords to try and gather some natural links. At one point I might test the new domains on their own, once the have enoigh links. Stephen, I'm afraid I can't use the redirect in this case. That is, if I don't want to be lynched by a mob of angry web developers. However, your idea makes sense. I will give it a go on a smaller site and see what happens there. Thanks guys!

Thanks for the quick reply. I am wondering if the url structure of the url for an rss feed matters? such as /rss/[content type] vs feeds/domain/topic vs any other url structure for the feed. My suspicion is it probably doesn't matter, but i just want to make sure.

Keep us posted on the Traffic Bumps if you can,  I would be interested to see the outcome.

Hey, so I guess you're wanting to achieve this (http://extensions.ecommerce-team.com/apparel?___store=shopbypro&reset_filter=1) - aor something similar using ajax so the page updates without re-loading? I guess you need to use token's in the url path rather than a dynamic url. Its a big job as you'll have to define some rules to say colour must come first, brand second, range last or something similar so you end up with domain.com/brown/levis/jackets/ - is that right? Essentially its working as a site search with some defined rules, so you'd have to think about the following: 404's - if your pages are built on queries, a user could potentially create a link to a page domain.com/brown/jackets/f**k/, obviously this would need to return a 404 or this could be indexed. Canonical - the previosu point brings about dudplicate content issues, if you don't define the rules then you could have /brown/jackets/levis/ vs. /brown/levis/jackets/ showing the same content, so there needs to be some canonical management. So you can use ajax to call a particular URL, you would need to use the filters as links ( <a>tags) so the pages are crawled and pull that content (search results) back, the url wouldn't changes though unfortunately, but it would still be linked to from the</a> <a>tag.</a> <a>Is there a specific reason why you don't want to use a hashbang?</a>

Hi Thanks for the speedy response. We actually use the volusion system, so it would be the volusion shopping cart. Our site is here: http://www.americanhospitalityfurniture.com. I do not think its an open source.

If you're still in contact with a web developer, that would be great. If you're not, a note to everyone else on this thread that the website in question is using IIS 6.0, so apache info isn't going to help in this case.

Thank you very much!

Go to http://www.seomoz.org/api you'll find your answer.... You can also go to http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/13991128/API-Credentials to get more info As this was my fist post... hope this has been useful

Thanks for your help. Big content website, as official they are, are always on prey from another panda tweak. Google send this panda message to prepare website using too much UGC, forums to make the difference between their official high quality content, and the SEO content on the way to become official. That was the reason I need to build up a Panda Prevention Plan

Also think of website structure for analytics. The URL structure can make it easy to get some good information about the site. Lunametrics has a great post on this at http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2010/09/22/designing-google-analytics-friendly-site/.

Hey Aaron, good point, hard to always keep that in perspective. The reason that I am concerned about it is because from what I understand google is taking those metrics and using it in there search results. We have a landing page that is full of good content, people spend an average of over 4 minutes on it (a single page) and it had a good conversion value, however it had a high bounce rate. We have seen the number of impressions where this pages shows up decline quite substantially over the past month and I am wondering if it is do to the high bounce rate. So if the search engines are incorporating those stats, as much as it might not mean anything in terms of user experience (i.e. we are actually providing a good user experience), it might mean a lot for how the search engines rank you (i.e. they just see a high bounce rate). Thanks for the response!