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We have a blog currently powered by the free blogger.com website.

We have set it up as blog.example.com

we wish to seti it up as example.com/blog

how can we do this using .htaccess file? we understand how to update htacess, but we don't know what code we should enter to achieve what we want

our website is hosted on Apache servers with plesk control panel

assuming you are referring to Google ranking.

Google's algorithm and technology is more advanced than just "actual " keywords, but also understands related keywords. you could be ranking due to this.

If you are not ranking for the keywords you are aiming for, check for over optimisation on your website.. or even under optimisation..

R

i would not do article link building as this was devalued by google. you should go for a more diverse range of links to your website..

focus on high value and relevance and consider onsite blogs, guest blogs, directories, press releases, and other areas that not only give you links but also build traffic to your website, as that is the ultimate goal

regarding the fact your links are not showing here are just because this is one database of links. Different tools have different datasets. Combining multiple tools you can get a better picture of what your link profile actually is looking like..

hi sorry for late reply,

yes its working elsewhere whcih is strange.. its also working here but gives this extra message about this subdomain we dont have and is not active

thanks again

hi thanks for the reply

I also believe panda may have hit the site.. do you think just removing this kind of content is good enough to rank the site better.. we have gone to the extent of removing pages we found high duplicate ratios.. hoping that will help.. also we are merging page content to make them larger, more in-depth rather than multiple pages for small subtopics..

cheers

Ram

our domain is showing in moz with the following error in crawl reports

Crawl Error

We were unable to access your homepage, which prevented us from crawling the rest of your site. It is likely that other browsers as well as search engines may encounter this problem and abort their sessions. This could be a temporary outage, but we recommend making sure your network and server are working correctly.

note that the url being displayed is ww.domain.com and not www.domain.com . we do not have a 301 in place, we have switched off wildcard forwarding from the server..

its acting as the url is a subdomain that is not working.. should i just ignore it?

hi

we are aiming at travel related websites which their own link profile is for travel sector.

Our online marketing is a combination of travel directories, some business directories, some link exchanges, guest blogs where appropriate, press releases and UK based PR in national publications.

All are checked for their neighbourhood, trust flow and relevance where they are not national household brands

thanks

Yes these are bad links we have disavowed .. our disavow was very thorough.. In fact we suspect maybe too thorough for short terms gains but more a long term strategy that has currently redduced our domain authority but cleaned up our link profile immensely

out of interest, how far did the ranks drop originally and where are they now (approx)

this sounds like an algorithm penalty which we are also successfully managing a recovery for currently with good results..

check over optimisation and low quality links as apposed to just bad links identified by google.

i would say its good to get a few links, maybe make it every 3 to 6 months as links can get deindexed or become no-follow over time or even become inactive.

one thing to note that if you do see yourself getting hundreds of links from the same site, this could cause you site wide link issues, depending on where the link is placed

hi

the reason we are trying to reduce them was because the site has a fancy navigation bar which looks good, gives fast a navigation, but then inturn providesa  high volume of links from the source page,

thanks

hi, if anyone would be amazing enough to want the url to help us i can repost it for you.

thanks

hi thanks for replying

so our linkout was to be no-follow from our domain to others. the link back was to be do follow.

hi thanks for your responses.

the link exchanges were to be for same sector related websites. We were going to offer no-follow links back to these websites.

the benefit was aimed at a couple things.

1 as they are travel related, people might find us in their links
2. the link juice will pass to us if they are do-follow

we are creating a site structure for a travel website.

the site homepage has a top navigation bar with 8 top level links and a total link count of 33 links in this (within menus).

There are also 10 footer and ad-hoc links

As this top navigation bar is a site-wide navigation, when entering s specific "travel destination" page, the "travel destination" page has its own contextual links and reference links, making the total inks on the destination page approx 107.

do you think its ok to make all links in the top navigation bar no follow on all pages except the homepage?

how would you approach this to create less links to maintain effective link-juice flow to required pages

Hi ,

over the years a website we took over was hit by an algorithm penalty (a combination of penguin and panda).

We managed to bring rankings back (after 6 months) from page 5/6 to page 2 after we used the google disavow tool.

now for the past 9 months we have been stuck on page 2..

is there anything you think can be done to bring it back to page 1?

• we are building quality links now and moved away from low quality links other link builders were making. We are managing the process much closer and ensuring we maintain good standards of links.
• also making the pages flatter and merging short page content to larger content pages
• now we are looking at site structure and creating structured internal link flow

is there anything we should be aware of and any recommendations to get back on page 1..

this is a tailor-made travel related website with a small selection of destinations

hi

i wanted to check if link exchanging is ok and not considered as black-hat seo technique in 2015 if its used as part of a link building strategy, and what percentage of links can be used a from link exchanges.

We have a redirect from HTTP to HTTPS and then have the following redirect on the httaccess file:

#Redirect /directtraveller/holidays/about-direct-traveller/british-travel-awards.asp /directtraveller/awards

Redirect /holidays/about-direct-traveller/british-travel-awards.asp /directtraveller/awards

Hi Jonathan 
Strange we have this installed already and still no luck.

Will contact the server company and see why this may not be working especially as its an add on from there plesk area.

thanks

E