Thanks for the link, the plugin works a treat! Life saver.

Thanks for the reply. I've taken a look at the plugin (don't really like usings them and normally just write my own) but it doesn't look to be able to handle historical pages - from before the site was build in wordpress.

Hi all,

I'm hoping someone will be able to help me with an extermley frustrating problem with 301 redirects in .htaccess.

Basically I'm trying to redirect some old pages (from our old website) that stil rank to the new equivilent.

For example -

old url =

www.domain.com/frames/news/company-news/news-reader.php?newsStoryID=395

New

www.domain.com/news/article-title

I've tried the simple

redirect 301 /frames/news/company-news/news-reader.php?newsStoryID=395 http://www.domain.com/news/article-title

But this doesnt work. I've also tried -

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^newsStoryID=395$
RewriteRule ^/news-reader.php$ http://www.domain.com/news/article-title/? [L,R=301]

Could anyone help? I've followed lots of tutorials that all match the above but it just doesn't work! The only other thing within the htaccess file is from wordpress for pretty permalinks -

BEGIN WordPress

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]</ifmodule>

END WordPress

Many thanks in advance!

It's not an issue - wordpress adds it into the header of all the pages and posts. As long as you have addressed potential issues with categories (I disallow them in robot.txt). The SEOmoz report is just to advice you which pages have the rel canonical tag and not that its an actual issue as such. Hope that helps

Ah, sorry, that was a stupid question. It's because must of the pages have the rel canonical tag due to wordpress.

Thanks

Hi,

I'm just going through my latest crawl since my new site launch and havce noticed almost all of my websites pages are listed under the notices rel canonical section, Why is this?

All pages have the unique pages titles followed by the site name in the title, for example:

Product | Site name

All pages have unique meta descriptions and content (although we only offer lots of differt varients of the same product).

Is this something I should be worried about?

Sounds like overkill for what we are trying to achieve. I guess Microsites are geared more to separate product campaigns etc when you want a clear separation from your main site.

Hi all!

I'm trying to decide the best way forward with regards to a large site I'm currently in the process of redesigning/rebuilding.

Basically, the site already has a lot of well ranking seo landing pages targetted to different niches. With this in mind which is the best way forward in your experience?

1. Expand upon the existing niche landing pages adding more content etc and more niches?

or

2. Keep the landing pages but set up microsites for each of the niches. (On different domain names or sub domains?)

I do not want to polute the existing site as it performs very well and ranks very well for the keywords we target. Are there any benifits to micro sites seo wise?

Personally I think it best to expand on the landing pages and keep everything onsite but any adivce you can give me would be greatfully received!

Thanks in advance!