Thank you for your answer! Can I use this code in the .htaccess?:

Redirect 301 /portfolio-items/ http://mysite.com

Choose the subfolder, a subdomain counts as if it's a completely different domain. I recently moved my blog from a subdomain to a subfolder and the results were great!

Hi,

Please let us know the country, it may be easier to help you.

Did you already check if the country is included in Bing's keyword tool? I am sure there is a tool that includes this country, if there isn't you could try it with google suggestions, not a very good solution though..

They told me this:

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Salman wrote:

Hi There,

These are not pages or posts which you can remove by just clicking on a button. These are custom posts types and you can not directly remove slugs within current setup. You have following options though.

1. Add some code to unregister these custom post types.

2. Use a plugin to re-write slugs

3. Use .htaccess to redirect users when this URL is access. This might work

BEGIN REMOVE SLUG CUSTOM POST TYPE RULES

RewriteRule ^portfolio-items/(.+)/$ /$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^faq-items/(.+)/$ /$1 [R=301,L]

END REMOVE SLUG CUSTOM POST TYPE RULES

I hope you understand that the solution you need is not possible with our current set of options and will require some customization of the theme. We’d love to help you with this customization but we are only able to provide support for basic theme issues and bug fixes. We do provide support for small customizations but unfortunately this request is beyond that.

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There aren't any similar pages, I guess I 301 redirect them to the home page. It's three pages, will this have any negative effects?

Thanks for the help, highly appreciated!

Sorry for bringing up this thread again, I have the same problem. When I check the links of a competitor, it shows nofollow comments as equity passing. It seems like a mistake..

Best regards!

Thank you guys! I did it with the Yoast Plugin, works perfectly!

You can do a lot better if that's really everything they did. This is a great resource to get started: http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo

Side Note:

Matt Cutts told in a video in 2011, that it's not a problem to have the same content on like 3 or 4 top level domains, if they are for different countries but in the same language. But you should make sure that country specific words and for example currency signs are correct.

Hello Mozzers,

I am sure a lot of people here are using wordpress. How do you handle Categories & Tags? I came across that they produce a lot of duplicate content in the google index. My website is brand new so I don't have any traffic yet, how would you handle it?

noindex, follow?

Or block /categories/ and /tags/ from robots.txt?

Probably I am completely wrong with both ways?

I am grateful for your answers!

Best regards!

For more competitive keywords it's quite hard to rank with forum posts. I am running some quite successful forums and all the traffic I get is from long tail keyword searches. Basically, you have to do the same optimizing as for other websites.

Are you talking about a specific forum post or forum posts in general?

Thanks for all the answers! Sorry, I didn't have a chance to respond earlier.

Unfortunately, I still couldn't fix this. I talked to the original devs (on their support forums) and they couldn't help me further with this. It's about these 3 pages:

/themefusion_es_groups/group1/

/portfolio-items/

/faq-items/

I don't know what else I could try..

Best regards!

Hello Mozzers,

I am using wordpress and I have a small problem. I have two sites, I don't want but the dev of the theme told me I can't delete them.

/portfolio-items/

/faq-items/

The dev said he can't find a way to delete it because these pages just list faqs/portfolio posts. I don't have any of these posts so basically what I have are two sites with just the title "Portfolio items" and "FAQ Items". Furthermore the dev said these sites are auto-generated so he can't find a way to remove them.

I mean I don't believe that it's impossible, but if it is how should I handle them? They are indexed by search engines, should I remove them from the index and block them from robots.txt?

Thanks in advance.

Hello Friends,

A few days ago, I set up my wordpress site and everything is great so far, there's just one small problem. Wenn I search for site:mysite.com I see a lot of pages in the index I don't want to have on my site. It looks like demo pages from the theme I bought. Examples:

http://mysite.com/themefusion_es_groups/group1/

http://mysite.com/slide/youtube/

http://mysite.com/lorem-ipsum-2/

http://mysite.com/slide/demo-5

What would be the best way to handle it? Simply delete the pages, then a soft 404 shows. Delete the pages and 301 them to the start page. Are they disapearing from the infex then?

I am very grateful for tips regarding this!

Thanks in Advance:)

Thank you very much for helping me out:)

Hello Friends,

Is there a tool that provides a list including targeted keywords and there ranking for those keywords?

For example if I type in a website url it shows me which keywords they targeted, on which page and their ranking position.

Thanks for helping out a foreign noobie;)