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My pleasure Khaled. Glad it helped.

Hi Stephen

I have coded an interesting site - uniband.com

The site uses a live IP API lookup to determine the users physical location, depending on this result we display the relevant text and images. You may well ask why?

The requirement was to have one .com website however the client had two sets of products (based on colour). One colour set was to be displayed to the US market the other the rest of the world.

The result is that on this page http://www.uniband.com/products you see either Yellow, Red, Green, Blue, Black OR Peach, Orange, Lime green, Sky blue, Plum colour sets. The US visitors will see a message 'Unfortunately our products are not currently available for US shipping.' (For Now)

This has been coded into a Worpress shortcode for ease of maintenance

I do not believe that has been done in this way before so you may find it an interesting solution.

I should also mention the WPML solution that we have just finished. Implemented here http://www.reddiplex.com for our German speakers.

Your answer is here - http://www.seomoz.org/q/subdomains-vs-subfolders

Subdomains SOMETIMES inherit and pass link/trust/quality/ranking metrics between one another

Subfolders ALWAYS inherit and pass link/trust/quality/ranking metrics across the same subdomain

So in your case Dan: domain.co.uk/blog

Hi Khaled

I assume you are referring to SEOmoz On-page Optimization tool.

There are two ways of resolving your issue.

1 - Use a label to filter on.

a) Create labels against the keywords. This can be done via the 'manage keyword' page.

b) Filter the on-page results using your label.

OR

2) Remove the URL to keyword association.

a) Visit on-page results and click on one of the keywords.

b) Click the button 'Stop running weekly' (top right of 'On-Page Report Card')

Personally I use a label

Hope that helps you out.

Hi

In your question you said that it was to make the url simpler for offline vanity. If that is your only requirement then a 302 would suffice, leaving the page to continue it's life in the 'health' directory

If you are wanting to moving the page anyway then a 301 would be the way to go.

If you are just producing a vanity URL (that does not exists online) for Offline & tracking use then a 302 would be better (I my opinion)

A quick answer to a quick question - No this is fine.

I do tend to mix it up a bit myself though.

Hi

Could I make a suggestion.

You may want to track your short URL via Google Analytics as follows:

Redirect 302 /backpain http://www.example.com/health/back-pain/?utm_source=Brochure&utm_medium=ShortCode&utm_content=backpain&utm_campaign=Offline

Also I use a 302 rather than a 301 (moved permanently).

To help build your URL visit http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1033867&topic=1032998&ctx=topic

Hope that helps

Personally I wouldn’t. Keep things clean one account per website. I would however recommend MCC - http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/adwords/myclientcenter/

Plus you could end up with two credit vouchers if you’re lucky http://www.google.co.uk/adwords/coupons/

Hi Miriam

Thank you for your comprehensive answer. I will look at the resources that you have provided and perhaps conduct some tests of my own.

Once again, thank you.

Hi Mark

If your using Wordpress then I would recommend SEO Yoast to resolve the tag issue. If not then I suggest you amend the robots.txt file to resolve.

Here is an example:

Disallow: /?tag=
Disallow: /?subcats=
Disallow: /*?features_hash=

NOTE:

Be very careful when blocking search engines. Test and test again!

On Google's local search results, i.e when the 'Google places' data is displayed along with the map on the right hand side of the search results, there is also an element 'At a glance:'
The data that if being displayed is from some years ago and the client would if possible like it to reflect there current services, which they have been providing for some five years.

According to Google support here - http://support.google.com/maps/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1344353 this cannot be changed, they say

'Can I edit a listing’s descriptive terms or suggest a new one?
No; the terms are not reviewed, curated, or edited. They come from an algorithm, and we do not help that algorithm figure it out. '

My question is has anyone successfully influenced this data and if so how.

This may also be useful to read http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/domain

Just thought I would give something back. (Is this the right place!)

I use Wordpress with the excellent SEO Yoast plugin. I needed a way of extracting the focus keywords that I have entered onto my pages along with the url for use on the SEOmoz On-page Optimisation tool.

So I created GetYoastData which outputs to the browser the required data (and a bit more) that can be saved into an csv (Excel) file.

Hope you find it useful - Yes it's not polished and yes it might output a blank line now and again but it's fairly useful.

http://deanandrews.uk/get-yoast-seo-data/

Having used both, got to say SEO Yoast ability to directly edit robots & htaccess files, set breadcrumbs, RSS optimization and page analysis too. All that and a cleaner user interface that helps you to understand your actions wins it 'for me'

I would go through the guide on SEOmoz here http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo I think you will find that if you are willing to put the effort most of your answers on SEOmoz.

Good luck my friend - may SEO be with you!

I also include my sitemap in the robots.txt

ref: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index/docs/robots_txt

sitemap: [absoluteURL]

Hi Antonio

Re the plugin l recommend using is SEO Yoast - http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/which normally integrates nicely into most themes.

Personally I don't use meta keywords as I feel they have no benefit (well only to your competition)

Thanks for the heads up David

I missed that one with Yoast's SEO plugin.

Hi
Looking at the screen shot I assume that you are using Google analytics custom campaign parameters.
To resolve this issue I used the robots.txt file adding the following

Disallow: /*?utm_

NOTE:
Be very careful when blocking search engines. Test and test again!

Just got to say Kyle I love the video out takes on the site.