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Hi Andy,
I would simply change the image file name and any alt text on the smaller image as it appears to be a duplicate image from a filename perspective (even though they are in different folders and different sizes). I would imagine Google sees them as duplicate and favours one, in this case the small image.
Hope this helps,
Dan
Hi Alan,
Have a look in google webmasters to see if the same 404's are occuring there. If so, they typically give you a list of page that generate the error page. It would be best to eliminate these issues at the source first as they will be offering a poor user experience.
As a prevented measure you could run these pages as a disallow, yes. But I fear that this will make it more difficult to detect these issues in future.
Dan
Hi Dana,
Not that I'm aware of. The only way to respond to an action via the browser is using javascript in some way.
Dan
Hi Alan,
It seems like you are only targeting the search page, I would suggest adding a * at the end to capture all variations.
Dan
Hi Matt,
It is fair and reasonable for a site to be decommissioned from time to time (or a page or two OR say a category of pages). As the page no longer exists, you can't ask the admin to remove your link (which is what Google expects you to do before disavowing a link), so I would simply ignore these links in your exported list. They will disappear from GWT and OSE over time as they are no longer in existence.
Disavowing links amongst other things helps Google determine a sites intent on the web and therefore they only want you to utilise this service if you no longer trust the relevance of the link and have had no joy requesting it's removal.
Hope this helps,
Dan
Hi Dana,
I agree with Streamline, there will be a hidden issue in you site that it attempting to connect to an under formed link (a URL missing 'http://'). Given there is a number of them in one day I will guess this is happening in a templated page.
Have a look at;
It renders as a page.
The best course of action would be resolve it at the source. If you can pinpoint when this issue is due to occur next, have your developer get each page to append it's URL into the log at the beginning of the page. Then you should be able to determine where the issue is occurring. I am hoping you well see a discernible pattern.
Worse case scenario, possibly a canonical will work, OR create a REGEX redirect to handle this URL pattern in htaccess...
Hope this helps,
Dan
Hey,
I would most definitely run the blog in the folder (mydomain.com.au/blog) over the sub-domain...
Sub-domains are considered a separate site, and therefore offer little SEO benefit between sub-domain variations. That said, it is great for branding and breaking up very distinct elements of a business.
Hope this helps.
Dan
Hey Colin,
Highly recommend redirecting the index.cfm Page to /
The easiest way would be;
Redirect 301 /index.cfm http://www.nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/
Check out www.sitepoint.com/htaccess-for-all/ for more details on htaccess.
Redirection like this prevents duplicate content, but also improves usability.
NOTE: This has been edited to fix the issue highlighted below.
Cheers Dan
Hey Tiff,
I don't have a complete answer for you cos I am doing some insomnia q&a (it's 4.30am in Oz) but I really hope you are using robots.txt over robot.txt? This may be the reason is not working.
Can you tell us what the contents of the robot/s.txt is?
Dan
Hey Andrew,
I would suggest having a category regarding small business and news within your blog, yes... I would also suggest having a category for your product, discussing a feature per post loosely marketing it to your visitors. Have a section to discuss new features you are working on (if you are happy to do so), also request feedback about other features are of interest. Ideally you want a few different sections, this will offer you a number of ideas to write posts on, but also it will diversify your content.
As for "taking great content from elsewhere on the internet and adding it to my blog" I highly recommend against it. However, you can re-write the content (perhaps, combine the details of more than one post).
Duplicate content is a world of hurt you don't want...
Cheers,
Dan
PS> If your question is answered by any of the great responses above I urge you to mark it as 'Answered'. You can mark more the one response.
Hi,
Yes, I still would. What I have suggested will only take 2 minutes and is considered best practice.
For non-www to www use;
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
Dan
Hi Courtney,
Are you suggesting that the sitemap itself is 404ing OR webmasters is in indicating your site has 404's of page that exist on your sitemap?
If it's the sitemap itself, can you navigate to it directly? Does it render in a browser?
If it's an error from a page on the sitemap, and the page currently renders there is a good chance it didn't at some stage. If that's the case you can ask google to recrawl it as an individual page, see;
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1352276
Hope this helps.
Dan
Hi Heather,
There is no correct answer to this, but personally I would work on a manageable set at a time. Try grouping them and create content and optimise accordingly. The unfortunate thing about working on many keywords at a time is that your effort becomes diluted.
Hope this helps.
Dan