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I just got off the phone with a customer -- they have the same exact problem.
Their Google+ Local listing has been taken over by Yodel. URL changed to the Yodel template page, and phone number changed to a tracking phone number.
I'm sure they duped someone at the business into entering the verification code for them. I'm uncertain how to fix this, but I'll have to figure it out. Did you every get it sorted?
I would be really surprised if you were to be actually penalized for a sponsor link like this. Particularly if the site is not a super-spammy link fest, and related to your industry. What is more likely to happen is that the weight of those inbound links will be discounted -- they just won't give you much benefit from an SEO perspective.
But, if it is a worthwhile sponsorship, meaning you get customers from those referrals, then by all means keep it!
If you are really paranoid you could ask them to add a no follow attribute to the link to your site.
Google won't have any problem with this setup and won't view URLs like /glossary#a, /glossary#b as duplicate content. You should be fine.
No, you add the URLs to the Sites to Search box when you are setting up your Custom Search Engine. See attached image.
For this you can just add the URLs that you exported from Open Site Explorer and import them one-per-line when you set up your Google CSE. I believe the free edition of CSE limits it to 5000 urls, which should be plenty.
http://www.google.com/cse/manage/create
So, basically you are cutting and pasting out of excel.
I think that Ajax drop down option would be a good improvement from a user experience perspective. But, being a Javascript/Ajax control, I don't think it will have an impact on your site architecture from a search perspective.
From Google's perspective the menus will not be populated with your product data because they will not trigger the ajax calls.
Well, in that case, I don't think you will be able to set it up as domain/blog. Using a subdomain is likely your only option, blog.domain.
But, I wouldn't worry too much about it since Google doesn't really treat the two situations much differently. Matt Cutts recently commented on this exact situation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MswMYk05tk
So, I'd go ahead and set up your blog at your secondary host, and point your subdomain to it.
Something along the lines of
if (($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']=='/')||($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']=='/index.php')) {
echo (@$pageTitle?$pageTitle.' - ':''). 'Trade prices,Next Day Delivery,Bulk Discount';
} else {
echo (@$pageTitle?$pageTitle:'');
}
So, if it is the homepage you show the whole thing, if not, show the sort version.
It looks like the page that links to the page:
http://www.superheroes.com.au/shop/category/catalog/
is the "prev" and "1" link in the pagination menu on this page:
If I spider your site I'm not seeing any /index.php urls. Does that mean you did get Joomla to cooperate with your rewriting?
Or was your problem that you'd previously had urls indexed with /index.php/ paths and you needed to remove them?
No, you add the URLs to the Sites to Search box when you are setting up your Custom Search Engine. See attached image.
No, I believe the best practice is to focus on your single domain. The purchases would just be for the @ss covering. If you did point those domains to your primary domain, you should be sure to do a redirect rather than just aliasing the content on a second domain.
Something along the lines of
if (($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']=='/')||($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']=='/index.php')) {
echo (@$pageTitle?$pageTitle.' - ':''). 'Trade prices,Next Day Delivery,Bulk Discount';
} else {
echo (@$pageTitle?$pageTitle:'');
}
So, if it is the homepage you show the whole thing, if not, show the sort version.
Well, in that case, I don't think you will be able to set it up as domain/blog. Using a subdomain is likely your only option, blog.domain.
But, I wouldn't worry too much about it since Google doesn't really treat the two situations much differently. Matt Cutts recently commented on this exact situation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MswMYk05tk
So, I'd go ahead and set up your blog at your secondary host, and point your subdomain to it.
I would be really surprised if you were to be actually penalized for a sponsor link like this. Particularly if the site is not a super-spammy link fest, and related to your industry. What is more likely to happen is that the weight of those inbound links will be discounted -- they just won't give you much benefit from an SEO perspective.
But, if it is a worthwhile sponsorship, meaning you get customers from those referrals, then by all means keep it!
If you are really paranoid you could ask them to add a no follow attribute to the link to your site.
