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Can anyone confirm for sure re the fans (as in no risk of losing them or any other serious negatives) form changing the username/url ?

thanks, you are talking about username/url not page name right ? since thats what im about to change/talking about, the username/url

thanks, anyone know about the fans , i take it they transfer too ?

thanks Tim, have already looked at that though and im here talking about username not page name

HI

Does anyone know of any negative consequences of changing Facebook username ?

For example i take it all your fans are transferred/you dont lose them ? Its just a url change (so links on website etc need to be updated) but thats the only thing that changes ?

Many Thanks

Dan

Hi EE3

Sorry but im not otherwise would have done so already.  If it was one of my own projects then no problem but its a client

Cheers

Dan

Hi

I have a clients site that was having aprox 30 - 50 pages crawled regularly since site launch up until end of Jan.

On the 21st Jan the crawled pages dropped significantly from this average to about 11 - 20 pages per day.

This also coincided with a massive rankings drop on the 22nd which i thought was something to do with panda although it later turned out the hosts had changed the DNS and exactly a week after fixing it the rankings returned so i think that was the cause not panda.

However i note that the crawl rate still hasn't returned to what it was/previous average and is still following the new average of 10-20 pages per day rather than the 30-50 pages per day.

Does anyone have any ideas why this is ?

I have since added a site map but hasnt increased crawl rate since

A bit of further info if it helps in any way is that In the indexed status section says 48 pages ever crawled with 37 pages indexed. There are 48 pages on the site.  The site map section says 37 submitted with 35 indexed.

I would have thought that since dynamic site map would submit all urls

Any clarity re the above much appreciated ?

Cheers

Dan

Many thanks too Irving !!

Anyone know what the function of preferred domain display option in GWT is, since doing either of the above makes it display as you would want anyway ?

Cheers

Dan

Thanks for your reply & the link Holger !

Still interested in comments from others too re which is best practice ?

Cheers

Dan

Hi

Im increasingly seeing sites not using the www., but understand from various sources including seomoz that best practice is to be on the www. with the non www version 301'd to the www version.

Since alot of sites are clearly doing this the other way round now is that better practice or the former still best ?

I appreciate that non www version gives you 3 more characters for url's but apart from that is there any benefit over the www. version ?

Cheers

Dan

agreed, tis very very slow at the mo

Hi

Ive got one client for whom i have connected their G+ personal page to their site via the email process of setting up authorship.

I also set up their company page on G+ and want to link it to the site too but its saying site is already verified/linked.

I know i havn't added any rel=pub code to the site so dont know how this can be unless of course its using the already established author details (since admin for the co page) to make the company page connection.

Is it the case that you now don't need to add the rel=pub code to establish publisher/verify link with your website ? Similarly to no longer needing to add rel=auth to site to establish authorship (since that can now be established via email) ?

Any clarity here appreciated ?

Cheers

Dan

Thanks Marisa !!

Thanks William !