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Personally, it used to do great and it wasn't much of a big deal. But with the rest of the world improving, a lot of other easier platforms emerged. I've since moved over all clients to self hosted sites.

In terms of SEO, you can edit the meta details of your pages so that's there. I just didn't like the url structure and it feels old to me (more of a personal preference) so I felt it was better to move out early rather than wait longer.

Hi Brandon,

No, it shouldn't be an issue at all. I have it like that for a lot of the sites I run so it's not a big deal

If you feel uncomfortable with it, switch over to a separate plugin and deactivate the yoast one. I know a lot of people that do so (usually because they are comfortable using /sitemap.xml LOL)  

that sounds DELIGHTFUL. haha

I'd like to give that a try....or maybe test it on one of the interns

we usually just stick with ColdBrews (seo's = coffee lovers = ultimate internet profile cliche)

I can't think of anything to relate with SEO/links at the moment, but I could do with anything with a Gin base right now. TGIF.

I really don't see any problems with it based on experience but I would suggest sticking with acquiring eyeballs, engaging and getting them to share if for you instead of having each post getting shared on the same accounts. That "might" be a potential problem down the road, especially if you have a lot of them, including the pliggs..ughh.

Yes, it's possible to be penalised for a single page or single keyword.

Your page has mostly  san diego domestic violence lawyer as the anchor text. You might want to stop doing that altogether.

I didnt take a look at your competitors though so they might be more SEO, but there's a possibility that you got a minor penalty for that keyword phrase.

Yes, like Keri said. The 301 might not be working.

It's actually normal for google to index 301ed domains. Ive seen it more than a handful of times. So it's probably a matter of time before it disappears.

Hi!

Are you active on google+?

If you are, with a good following, you should get your image back.

They will email you that you are now showing up as an author or something like that.

Although this doesn't apply to everyone, this has been what has worked for me.

I would definitely lean on organizing the whole site's structure.

It's actually easier for you in the long run with promotions and all (Plus fixes since they will have different code)

Also, Google results will show your structure well, especially with breadcrumbs.

A lot of companies actually do this but I would suggest doing it separately (with great page content) as it has given me the best results with all the ecom sites we've worked with, even without link building.

There's actually no duplicate issues there as I haven't seen one yet for that situation.

were you building any links/mentions/links from the website - to it? It's possible that you have done more "brand" work for the other page. Google won't show 2 facebook pages (almost never, i guess) if the niche/keyword has other relevant pages.

There are actually a couple good reasons but in short, it's "best practice" so it won't hurt by adding it in. It wont take more than a couple minutes.

I've done both but it does give better results if you have different descriptions. Sometimes, they can even rank for your terms so that's a bonus. I never had trouble with duplicates though, it's just more of an "efficient vs effective" thing for me. (I'm assuming that you won't be making hundreds/thousands of the same citations here lol)

Hi Ruben

For one, he built a lot of links to it

http://www.reflectivepractice.ca/program.htm

http://www.mymakhzenandme.com/the-director.html

http://www.sourceabc.com/alpha/T/

http://theislandpartypei.ca/news.html

http://www.besthotpick.com/alpha/T/

all from sites he probably controls.

If you are going to ask why it's not penalised, that's another long story which is probably already answered here in the QA area somewhere.

It can actually rank. I've seen it work well but I would highly suggest the onpage content be changed, especially the product and category descriptions. If new, "unique" images can be produced, the better. Local search shouldn't be that big of a problem for this but internationally, I'm not so sure as I haven't done this scenario yet outside of local.

Hi AJ,

I would compile a list of the stuff they made

I would then take a look at the sites. Odds are, some are actually good sites with good traffic.

You should be able to get a few good ones at least.  You can opt to change the content. Keep those and remove the links on the rest.

IF they had unlinked brand mentions, just remove those mentions as well. No need to take down the whole thing

If you want, you can actually replace the links and point it to one of your employees blogs, a social property or somethin' that isn't really ranking or has nothing to lose - Just being honest here because simply repurposing it instead of scrapping a whole year's worth of your "investment" is always better in my eyes.

A/B testing is always there, but I'm assuming the site is new and doesnt really have much traffic yet, I can't really say specifically answer that. So it's more of a preference as it's normally the one that brings in results for me more often than not. Then I'll test from there with the traffic/rankings/ctr.

Heck, I'll just imitate Zappos first if I need to then test from there. lol

There's really no problem with having pages on your site having content that can be seen on other sites. Since you have noindexed them already, it shouldn't be a problem.

If they aren't really getting any traffic for you or aren't really bringing in anything that helps the site overall, then just take them off.

Focus on your new and existing content.

This is subjective but yes, I almost always opt to have the company brand in there.

Hi Wendy

It's because those pages are there. You can have those deleted if you dont need them. They are possibly separate HTML files so if you are using a CMS, they won't show there.

Just to be sure, you could show us an example page and we can let you know.