I will try this for sure once I have no campaigns left. Thank you very much for your time Nakul.

Thanks a lot Paul,

I guess I will do both. Just want to try Jesse's idea and verify it if I can. As usual, your info is of great help. I think I should set up the new campaign ASAP like you suggested, it is better for me and my client. Can't risk all the valuable info to get wasted.

Cheers!

No new info yet. I guess i'll wait for the next crawl this thursday. What you say makes a lot of sense though.

thanks Jesse!

The site is completely redirected to the new domain. Does this mean I can keep my current campaign? would be nice.

Hello,

I set a client's website in one of my 5 campaigns in my Pro Dashboard. But my client changed his domain. I don't see an option to change the domain server in the Campaign settings.

Is it possible?

Hey Paul,

Thanks a lot for the info, to be honest I didn't even consider that. saved my life there.

And I hope Google doesn't take long to index the new domain.

Cheers!

Thanks a lot Paul and Mike!

Sorry for the late response.

Yes, the new domain is all about rebranding. Also, their old domain was too long.

Hello,

My client bought a new domain and he wants it to be the main domain of his company. His current domain though has been online for 10 years and ranks pretty well on a few keywords. I feel it is necessary to redirect the old domain to the new one to take advantage of its ranking and avoid any broken links.

The sites are exactly the same. Same sections and same content. Is it necessary to place canonical tags on one of the sites to avoid duplicate content/sites?

Any thoughts?

Thanks

Hi DHStom,

Thank you for your recommendation, I will start working on this strategy.

Cheers

I tried getting links from the non-profit organizations but... one doesn't have a website (and btw I'm considering making it for free) and the other one has terrible organization and no one seems to know who is in charge of the website, how to update it, etc. It is a bit sad.

I'm trying the social media approach but it is quite the challenge. They had less than 50 fans and I haven't been able to reach a 100 yet. I am struggling there too but just with a bit of patience I'm sure it will turn out ok.

I have noticed the strategies I find online regarding SEO and Social Media aren't very successful in Mexico. Mostly because they do not have strong online communities, and without them doing SEO is more difficult in my opinion. Educating people to adapt to certain activities or behaviors one would normally expect is not easy at all.

Hello!

A small company from Mexico that offers cleaning services for home & businesses wants to rank on the first page of Google.

The Good:

Every month they give away stuff (discounts and/or a free service) and they also participate in campaigns that support non-profitable organizations & charity. So there is plenty of material for me to build some backlinks and to create some interesting content.

Their competitors have 0 SEO. I have been doing my homework and none of their competitors websites that are ranking on the top 5 are doing any kind of SEO. But they have had their website for a long time and they probably have a decent amount of traffic per day. Open Site Explorer shows minimal to no websites pointing to them.

Google Adwords has increased their sales. They are using virtually nothing as budget and it is helping, but they want organic SEO.

The Bad:

Blogs seem to be dead in Mexico. And that is one of my strongest ways to create backlinks. I usually get a blogger to write about the company I'm working for to create backlinks and works like a charm in countries were SEO is prehistoric.

Usually it takes me very little effort to accomplish a website to rank very well in this kind of scenario, but I'm having trouble this time.

The Something:

I have been able to boost their rankings with basic SEO in a month but I'm stuck in page #2-5 on their most important keywords.

The Ugly:

I'm out of ideas. And their budget isn't good enough to apply paid strategies.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your quick response Aaron. What you said makes sense, and now I can go to bed with no worries.

Hello,

I got a client who told me that he bought his images from a stock photography website. I know it looks awful and all, but the client can't afford a photographer to get some decent pics.

So, How positive it is to use Alt Text on images that aren't yours? The purpose of using alt text properly is to get traffic from an imaged based search right? So if the business shows up with some stock photography it looks kinda bad.

Is it worth optimizing images in this case? Or just leave em without optimizing?

Changing pics isn't an option.

Thanks

Hello William,

I believe Google Places listings help a ton. Sometimes they show up at the top before any website and I think everyone agrees the info shown in the listing is very convenient and the map does draw some attention.

A client of mine boosted her sales thanks to the Google Places listing. She had better results with Places than with Adwords. It was very interesting, and I think this case isn't uncommon.

With Analytics you can track the source of your traffic and you can get Google Places to show you how many traffic you are getting from that listing. Perhaps with the data you receive from analytics, tho its a bit inaccurate sometimes, might help you and your boss to make better decisions.

I agree with Irving. And it is not rare to stumble upon junk sites who are using redirects to boost their ranking.

Are there any other images or links pointing to your urls with a / at the end? I would take a look just to make sure.

You can request an index removal with Google's Webmasters Tools.

Go to Optimization>Remove URL and type the address you wish removed. I did this with my .html urls after I uploaded my .htaccess file and worked like a charm.

Could you write the urls of the pages you are getting a warning for duplicate content? It looks like you might need some tweaks to your .htaccess file to redirect those pages to avoid having duplicate content.

Hello,

I am trying to achieve 3 different things on my .htaccess I just want to make sure I am doing it the right or best way because I don't have much experience working on this kind of files.

I am trying to:

a) Redirect www.mysite.com/index.html to www.mysite.com so I don't get a duplicate content/tag error.

b) Redirect mysite.com to www.mysite.com

c) Get rid of the file extensions; www.mysite.com/stuff.html to www.mysite.com/stuff

This is the code that I'm currently using and it seems to work fine, however I would like someone with experience to take a look so I can avoid internal server errors and other kinds of issues. I grabbed each piece of code from different posts and tutorials.

Options +FollowSymlinks            
RewriteEngine on

Index Rewrite                                                                                                                 RewriteRule ^index.(htm|html|php) http://www.mysite.com/ [R=301,L]                 RewriteRule ^(.*)/index.(htm|html|php) http://www.mysite.com/$1/ [R=301,L]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
Rewritecond %{http_host} ^mysite.com [nc]
Rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Thanks a lot!

Brian's right. My brain thought automatically about expired domains so I messed up a bit.