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Redirecting from _ to - ?
Yes, you can use the following two rules, in this exact order, in your .htaccess file. I'm assuming you've got mod_rewrite on. RewriteRule ^([^]*)([^]*.) $1-$2 [N] RewriteRule ^([^_])([^]*)$ /$1-$2 [L,R=301] The first bracketed group in each rule -- ([^_]*) -- matches every group of characters that isn't an underscore. The first rule rewrites every underscore in the URL to a hyphen, until there's only one underscore left. At this point, control passes to the second rule, which replaces that final underscore with a hyphen, and 301 redirects to that page.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | StephanSolomonidis0 -
Should we no-follow it or no?
I would recommend sticking to nofollow for company profile Social Media links. Aside from that, I would suggest using dofollow for your own Social Media links, that's if you have any. May they be sitewide or individual links on a contact page. However, it's not going to make much of an impact to your site!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Attain-Design0 -
Adding some unique text to search
You have a yellow pages style of website Yes You'd like to rank each category/keyword page when someone searches for that category in Google Categories are ranked pretty Good in Google (we have 350 categories, where we list companies). We added text for every category (300 words each) There are around 200000 long tailed keywords (search phrases or keywords from) from every single company - impossible to add manual text. So we want something automatic, that Google would have to index. At least 50 words. I know that we would not rank in top positions but at least some long tail keywords would bring traffic. Currently you list the companies in that category on the page - but the rest of the page doesn't have text (or 'rankable content') True to that. You're thinking of ways to add more content to the page to help it rank better True to that. We have a list of 3000 articles, that rank damn good (added daily) in Google. And yes we add interviews as well. And still I believe that some text would help. But can figure out what would do the trick.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | FCRMediaLietuva0 -
How good or bad is this for SEO?
Hi FCRMedia, Of course it will help. Any links referring to your site will help. But make it according to google guidelines ( follow/ no follow ).
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Verve-Innovation0 -
Improving the reach on facebook
Luckily there was a whiteboard Friday on this very thing: http://moz.com/blog/driving-traffic-from-facebook-whiteboard-friday just the other day. One of the tips from that video is, "Number 5, it is still the case -- this has been true for many years now across all the social media platforms -- that visuals tend to outperform non-visual content. When you have great visuals, the spread and share of those tends to be greater." Perhaps instead of asking for likes you could drive engagement by getting your fans to post their own photos of their completed recipe (everyone takes pictures of food!) and then resend these through your Facebook page. This way you'll get the initial request reach, submissions, then return as people brag about their submissions that get selected within their group of friends. I'm sure you'll get plenty more ideas like that if you go through the video. Cheers!
Social Media | | RyanPurkey0 -
How to make Google index your site? (Blocked with robots.txt for a long time)
Hi There You need to unblock the site in your robots.txt and then go into Google webmaster tools and "Fetch as Google". Check out the image I attached for you. I usually Fetch and Render then Submit to index. It's usually very quick to index. 2nzscmZ.png?1
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | SanjidaKazi0 -
Going mobile: Responsive or different mobile version?
Hi, I agree with The Zen Agency and SEOwoody, responsive is the best way to go. Maybe it take some more time to set it all up, but the advantage you'll have when it's done and also, manage afterwards of one website is worth much more. Goodluck! Leonie
Web Design | | Leonie-Kramer0 -
DAs dropped for many pages?
These other folks left some fantastic responses, so I'll only add that DA is a relativistic number generated each update. It's best use case is to compare yourself to other sites, so if both you and your competitor dropped a similar amount, that's actually not a bad thing.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Cyrus-Shepard0 -
Index or noindex mobile version?
Google has a policy for this - what you're doing is not advisable - you should be annotating the URLs. You can read the correct approach to take here: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/configurations/separate-urls
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | webmethod0 -
Blocking google adwords on google.com?
Works just fine for me Somtimes it indeed also blocks GA scripts.
Paid Search Marketing | | kayintveen_MD0 -
How to scan how many pages are scanned?
Hey There, Thanks for writing in with a great question! The Medium account level offers a total of 500,000 pages crawled, but this is automatically set at 50,000 pages for each of your 10 campaigns. At the Medium level, the page limits for the campaigns cannot be changed or customized. The campaign crawl limits can only be customized at the Large level and above. I apologize for the inconvenience this may cause! Please let me know if I can help you with anything else. Chiaryn Help Team Ninja
Getting Started | | ChiarynMiranda0 -
Your tips for this landing page
There are some tips. for sure. I guess this is some kind of category page with a listing. I think the info about the specific category is not much at all. maybe you want to start with the h1 of the category name. also use the h2 and h3 about this category on not below so sum things up. Talk about 250 words about this category advokatai. Maybe under a read more (toggle) for usability a bit more about advokatai This will give the search engines more to grab on to. and gives you more control of the page instead of the listings. Also check out the page speed. https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ here its a bit slowish. (Netherlands)
On-Page / Site Optimization | | kayintveen_MD0 -
How to improve your CTR?
Hmmm. Sometimes it just seems to go like that. And, yes, I suspect Adwords may be the cause. I experience something similar with a certain location based keyword that is ranked #1 and have to use Adwords to get the required clicks. And yet, another similar location keyword we target can achieve the same click throughs at a lower ranking without Adwords.
Local Website Optimization | | DaveCoveDigital0 -
Buying a domain and redirecting it to your website (improves seo?)
Expanding a bit on what William said. You have to be careful about the domain as well. If the domain is in your line of business it will usually be a good thing, but you need to be sure the domain is indexing in Google (this can be checked by site:www.examplesite.com) and then look at opensiteexplorer, majesticseo and/or ahrefs and see if the anchor text on the site is relevant, If the anchor text looks spammy or low quality you should tread carefully. Also make sure to pay attention to how the links were built, if they were all built recently that screams black hat SEO. If a site passes all the tests mentioned above it should be a benefit.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | FCBM0 -
Duplicate title tags, how to solve that?
Hi there, Are you using the rel="alternative" tag (also referred to as the href lang tag) on the site? This tag will do the following: if your page for "FCR Media Lietuva, UAB" is available in English, Lithuanian and Russian, for example, but all of these pages are meant for the Lithuanian market each page will contain a different tag. They will look something like this: That is, the hreflang part of the tag says "This content is in English but it's meant for Lithuania." The second says "this content is in Lithuanian and is meant for Lithuania". The third is in Russian but is meant for Lithuania, etc. You can include as many country / language pairings as you like. This is a really handy tag for both countries where multiple languages are used, and for languages that are spoken in multiple countries. You can also end up with a situation where you have a set of tags like this: That is saying: "these two pages are the same, but one is in Czech and is meant for the Czech Republic; the other is in Lithuanian and is meant for Lithuania. But the content is actually the same, just directly translated." This tag is not intended specifically for this problem, but for duplicate content as a whole, where that content has been duplicated for the sake of providing content to people in different countries. As a result, I believe it would be a good tool to incorporate here due to the small amount of duplication as a result of title tags.
On-Page / Site Optimization | | JaneCopland0 -
Rich snippets not appearing
Contraire mon frere! You can have the content appear to visitors above the fold but have the content of the code appear far down the page using CSS content folding. That's definitely worth a read! Search for articles on that and you'll see what I mean.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | kwoolf0