Welcome to the Q&A Forum
Browse the forum for helpful insights and fresh discussions about all things SEO.
Imagine getting a house build and then signing a rental agreement??
I build complied sites in MVC using visual studio, when I click publish, it compiles my code and produces a website on the server. If you wanted to make any changes at a later date you would need the Visual Studio project, I always give clients a copy of this project so they can do so.
Canonical tag is the poor mans 301 redirect, point domainB at A then do a 301 redirect.
if you have the content in the same fodler stucture this is quite easy.
I have some tutorial to do so on a windows servers.
There is a good blog post about freshness, dont panic is a good takaway, depending on your content it may not be a good idea to freshen up
What do you mean by low quality?
unless it was duplicate or very thin content, i would not worry.
but since you have delete them, you need to do nothing, those errore will eventualy go away, but if you have links to those posts, then you might want to do a 301 rediret to a relevant page to keep the link juice. If they were low quality the chanses are they did not have any links to them, so do nothing.
You can go to WMT and remove them from the index immediately, but its is not necessary
Another point, how much of that code is learnt from or copied from other sources? Would he even have the right to call it his own?
Relevancy of links, on page SEO and the technical SEO of your site and more, and more we dont know about.
I dont kknow the ins and outs of OSE, but it would be hard to know how relevant the pages where the links come from, somthing very important.
is this your site? http://comoxvalleyrealestate.com/
i will have a look at it for you
I have no idea, it is possible to tell if 2 videos are the same, but having even the slightest difference would make that hard. My guess is that they would not know, from what I know I would think it would be hard to do and take a lot of resources.
simon has said it all, hyphes are hard to comunicate and look spammy.
I would look at it the other way around., am I concerned about what it fails me for.
yes I would go with responsive design, bootstrap is a good for layout,
yes I would try to get a good score on page speed,
I have not tested this, but It could have merit,
puting link in the footer may limit self canabization, and you will be getting more back. Except I remeber that links back to home page do not pass much credit for link text.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/testing-the-value-of-anchor-text-optimized-internal-links
simply linking from your home page to moe then one child pages and back will raise the page rank of your home page but lower the PR of the child pages
this pr calc will show that
http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank_calculator.php
Matt Cutts has said that you need to be pretty slow to incure a penalty, less than 1% of sites fall into this category.
It all depends on what is taking so long. is it download, is it slow code, is it the server?
if downloads is the problem, i would look into using a content delevery system CDN, in short hosting your images and static files in the cloud, I use Microsoft Azure Cloud services This will cost you very little in money, could be as little as a $1 a month.
You can also use this tool from google to get suggestions, but using a cdn would be the best gain.
If they have links pointing to them I agree with you, but if they dont, you should let them 404 or remove them though WMT,
Your content needs to be in the html.
You can hide it with display:none and then show it via javascript, but it needs to be on the page.
I would not use such plug ins, I cant see them fixing the problem and will further complicate your site and crawling
Robots.txt, you can remove from google to hurry it up, using WMT, but first you need to block them in robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow:
User-agent: Google
Disallow: /bad
i have to correct you,
google sees this as one word some_keyword
but sees this as 2 words some-keyword
See link Donford posted
you could always pass a few links to your site, but you would need to promote your blog first so your not really getting anywhere.
What i would do is add a blog to your main site or a subdomain of your main site. you can then shape your jink juice with internal linking and any links you attract will help your main site also.
If your scroll, is not that large, them you can load all the html with the page and display it on scroll. this way it is all indexed, but if it is truly a lot of data and you are using ajax to get this data, then you need to ask yourself, do I really need the content indexed.
If yes, then Johns idea is a good one, albeit not necessary a nice looking one, depending on the design
Yannick is correct, SE's try to work out what is the real content, and what is the template, and judge your your content not your template, but in this case the content is just too thin.
HTML5 enab,es you to mark out content from template a lot easier with the article tag, but ithink the real problem here is, as Yannick said, content is too thin.
build one site for both browser and mobile.
you can use the viewport meta tag and css, to detect the screen size and different css will take over.
@media only screen and (max-width: 850px)
{
csss for mobile
}
This has been recomeneded by Bing as they found that sites made just for mobiles do not rank or generate much traffic.
I have made a few pages like this for testing.
http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/how-to-fix-canonical-domain-name-issues
Here is what bing had to say on the subject
http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive/2012/03/07/building-websites-optimized-for-all-platforms-desktop-mobile-etc.aspx
i agree with Ryan your problem is not so great, just replace all teh 301's to the new site in one hop, dont be lazy and 301 all to the home page, as Bing for one will dismiss them.
also if the pages have no links, then there is little to gain by 301ing them.
As for hosting word press on a Microsoft server, you certainly can. if you use the Web Platform Installer it will do it all for you.