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I've got a fairly large site, so I'm going to need to use an index for the individual sitemap files. Do you think it's ok to just include my mobile sitemaps on my regular sitemap index file? Or should the two be completely separate?

Does Google recognize HTML5 sites using responsive design as mobile sites?

I know that for mobile searches, Google promotes results on mobile sites. I'm trying to determine if my site, created in HTML5 with responsive design falls into that category. Any insights on the topic would be very helpful.

any thoughts on the impact of removing the internal links in the sitemap? will this hurt our domain authority? Or given the low amount of links compared to our whole link profile, is it not that significant to cause concern?

We are migrating a very large site to a new CMS and I'm trying to determine the best way to handle all the links (~15k) in our html sitemap. The developers don't see the purpose of using an html sitemap anymore and I have yet to come up with a good reason why we should migrate rather than just get rid of the sitemap since it is not very useful to users. The html sitemap was created about 6 years ago when page rank sculpting was a high priority.

Currently, since we already have an XML sitemap, I'm not sure that there's really a need for a html sitemap, other than to maintain all the internal links. How valuable are the internal links found in an html sitemap? And will it be a problem if we remove these from our link profile? 15,000 links sounds significant, but they only account for less than .5% of our internal links.

What do all you think?

From what I can tell, Reddit nofollows links by default and sets them to follow if people vote them up. Any truth to this? I haven't been able to tell what the tipping point is though.

Can someone point me to an authoritative article on the value of Reddit links? I'm trying to determine if it's something we want to put effort into doing on a regular basis. Are reddit links followed? It seems like some are and some are not.

Our html sitemap is broken down into different pages that never contain more than 250 links. All pages are linked via the top nav back to the homepage and to their section/subsection.

The issue I'm having is not that they don't know how to recreate our html sitemap in the new CMS. It's that they don't believe it serves a purpose. And given limited resources, they don't want to work on this in favor of other more crucial work.

My biggest concern is the removal of thousands of internal links. Should I be worried about this?

We are currently migrating our site to a new CMS and in part of this migration I'm getting push-back from my development team regarding the HTML sitemap. We have a very large news site with 10s of thousands of pages. We currently have an HTML sitemap that greatly helps with distributing PR to article pages, but is not geared towards the user. The dev team doesn't see the benefit to recreating the HTML sitemap despite my assurance that we don't want to lose all these internal links since removing 1000s of links could have a negative impact on our Domain Authority.

Should I give in and concede the HTML sitemap since we have an XML one? Or am I right that we don't want to get rid of it?

I think I decided to use the view-all page as the rel=canonical.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/view-all-in-search-results.html

We are building comment pages for an article site that live on a separate URL from the article (I know this is not ideal, but it is necessary). Each comments page will have a summary of the article at the top. Would I be safe using the first page of comments as the canonical URL for all subsequent comment pages? Or could I get away with using the actual article page as the canonical URL for all comment pages?

Generally I use the Google Keyword Tool for my keyword research, but given the fact that the data is either country specific or global, I was wondering what others use for regional/dma-specific keyword discovery. Regional traffic is very important to my site, so I'm hoping to find a tool that I can use to find keywords germane to my audience.

Anyone have tips on building links to a newspaper site? I am looking for a strategy to create links to a news site beyond building one link at a time. We have so much content that is constantly updated that it would be impossible to do this one page at a time.

http://deals.boston.com/

I'm looking into ways to optimize a daily deals website. Any best practices or tips out there other than promoting on social sites?

Thanks Casey. I do not have a problem getting indexed on Google. I'm specifically referring to Google News indexing. I have yet to find any specific recommendations for getting photo galleries indexed on Google News.

We always have ALT tags filled out and we are getting better at naming our files with keywords, although we do have some CMS limitations in regard to file names. We do a pretty good job with writing captions and including keywords, we always specify the image size (height/width/file size), attribute images, and optimize internal anchor text with at least one major keyword phrase.

My real problem is that we do all of this for all of our photo galleries yet only some get indexed in Google News. The one thing we do not do is include photo galleries in our sitemap and I'm making that change this week. Hopefully that does the trick.

I work for a news site and some of our photo galleries get indexed by Google News while others never do. I'm trying to determine why some are more successful than others even though they all follow the same guidelines regarding keyword-rich headlines & copy, h1s, etc. When comparing what's been indexed in the past with current galleries, there doesn't appear to be an obvious pattern. Can anyone share some insight into this?

Can someone point me to a list or just tell me specific search bots that use referrers?

this is for the homepage of a news site that publishes about 200-300 pieces of content per day. You'll be able to navigate to this content in other ways on the site, but we're toying with the idea of an infinite scroll for the homepage. I'm trying to figure out a way to make the homepage fully indexable.