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Hey Brent,

For Rel=canonical

I should insert this tag:

rel="canonical" href="http://www.ex.com/user/login" />

in each of these pages

| http://ex.com/user/login?destination=comment%2Freply%2F256%23comment-form |
| http://ex.com/user/login?destination=comment%2Freply%2F258%23comment-form |
| http://ex.com/user/login?destination=comment%2Freply%2F242%23comment-form |
| http://ex.com/user/login?destination=comment%2Freply%2F257%23comment-form |
| http://ex.com/user/login?destination=comment%2Freply%2F260%23comment-form |
| http://ex.com/user/login?destination=comment%2Freply%2F225%23comment-form |
| http://ex.com/user/login?destination=comment%2Freply%2F251%23comment-form |
| http://ex.com/user/login?destination=comment%2Freply%2F176%23comment-form |

Is that correct?

Thanks

Thanks Brent:)

But can you tell me why this wouldn't be good to 404? what is the reason behind that statement?

Thanks

Hi seomozzers again,

One of my clients uses DRUPAL(cms) and I have an issue when editing any pages. I access the edit section of the page, try to insert meta description tags, save and view the page source and NO meta description tags appear!!

Why is that? Is there a specific setting that I need to implement?

Under Meta Tags, apparently DRUPAL likes to put canonical tags by default(unless i can tweek one of the settings), and I would like to remove them. The weird thing is that even there are no canonical tags set, when viewing the page source I can still locate a canonical tag.

Is there a setting that allow me to remove the canonical by default?

Thank you mozzers:)

Hi seomozzers,

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| http://ex.com/user/login?destination=comment%2Freply%2F256%23comment-form |
| http://ex.com/user/login?destination=comment%2Freply%2F258%23comment-form |
| http://ex.com/user/login?destination=comment%2Freply%2F242%23comment-form |
| http://ex.com/user/login?destination=comment%2Freply%2F257%23comment-form |
| http://ex.com/user/login?destination=comment%2Freply%2F260%23comment-form |
| http://ex.com/user/login?destination=comment%2Freply%2F225%23comment-form |
| http://ex.com/user/login?destination=comment%2Freply%2F251%23comment-form |
| http://ex.com/user/login?destination=comment%2Freply%2F176%23comment-form |

These are duplicate content and the canonical version is: http://www.ex.com/user (login and pass page of the website)

Since there were multiple other duplicates which mostly have been resolved by 301s, I figured that all "LOGIN" URLs (above) should be 404d since they don't carry any authority and 301 those wouldn't be the best solution since "too many 301s" can slow down the website speed.

But a member of the dev team said:

"Looks like all the urls requested to '404 redirect' are actually the same page http://ex.com/user/login. The only part of the url that changes is the variables after the "?" . I don't think you can (or highly not recommended) make 404 pages display for variables in a url. "

So my question is: I am not sure what he means by that? and Is it really better to not 404 these?

Thanks

Even under this format: http://183.2564.2864?

Hi seomozzers,

We are creating a brand new website for a client and I would like to run an seo moz crawl to fix what has been done wrong. So my question is it ok to run an SEO moz crawl with a dev URL? Are final URLs and dev URLs will give me the same results or not?

Basically, Should I wait for getting the final URL or is it ok to run a crawl under a dev URL such as www.dev2.example.com or http://183.2564.2864?

Thank you

Hi seomozzers,

The design team is building a new website for one of our clients. My role is to make sure all the link juice is kept.

My first question is, should I just make 301s or is there another technique to preserve all the link juice from the old to new site that I should be focusing on?

Second Question is that ok to transfer link juice using dev urls like www.dev2.example.com (new site) or 182.3456.2333? or should I wait the creation of real urls to do link juice transfer?

Thank you

Thank you guys for these advices. I saw that webinar and it was really helpful.

Hi Fellas,

I wanted to know once you verify the BIng Webmaster tool (via xml file) for a dev site, do you have to do the verification process again for the final site?

I thought I needed to do the verification again but once I added the final website (which have almost a similar URL) into the webmaster tool account, it seemed that I didn't have to verify it. I am a bit confused.

Thank you for clarifying

Hi JP Moulin,

I might have forgotten to mention that we are transferring this website to another server.  By giving you this info, how could this happen? Unfortunately I am not a webmaster expert so could you provide me an "easy to understand explanations".

Thank you

Hi Everyone,

I have encountered a major issue in one of my clients website(kitchen appliance website). This client has 2 main websites (A & B) linked with each other representing 2 different categories of appliances. We are trying to create some brand pages that this store carries.

One brand page has been created and when searching for it on SERP, the results found should be under URL A but it is under URL B.

I don't know what is going on? Can someone explain me what happened?

Thank you,

Hi SEOmoz community,

Today, I checked the google webmaster tool of one of my clients, and ithere are 18 403 errors, I was wondering on how to fix those since it is the first time I come across these errors? How can I avoid that in the future?

Thank you,

I have a corporate client which has multiple franchises, therefore microsites (www.example.com/cityname) within their corporate website(www.example.com). I am trying to build some links for these microsites that are lot weaker than the corporate web page in terms of PA.

We worked hard putting most of these locations into local directories such as Google places and yahoo local, but the ones on yahoo local are all pointing to www.example.com even when you search a specific city when it suppose to be www.example.com/cityname. So first thought is to edit all of the yahoo locals to the microsite webpages for every locations but then I thought that wasn't a good idea since I will split the juice passed to the corporate website www.example.com. The corporate website is really important and wouldn't want to weaken its PA.

Can someone tell me what are my options in order to not hurt the corporate website and to improve ranking for these weak microsites? should I still edit those yahoo listings to the microsite website or not? if not what how will I be able to build more links?

Thank you!!

Thank you everybody!!

So probably deleting the one in process of waiting the pin is safe?

not yet. I just sent the second one and my client will be getting the pin shortly. They aren't different, they are identical. So I guess removing the one in process (second account) would be safe?

Hi everyone,

I accidentally added a google place account for a client that had already an existing account. Could you tell me if I delete the new account if it will affect the existing one?  If deleting isn't good what should I do? And what are the different risks if there are?

Thank you,

thank you for your detailed answer but one more thing does it matter if I redirect a more authoritative link to a weaker one for the benefit of staying consistent and vice versa?

let s say I redirect a non index.html to an index.html and vice versa for the sake of consistency?

Hi

I have an issue. In my client's profile, I found that the "index.html" are mostly authoritative than non "index.html", and I found that www. version is more authoritative than  non www. The problem is that I find the opposite situation where non "index.html" are more authoritative than "index.html" or non www more authoritative than www.

My logic would tell me to still redirect the non"index.html" to "index.html". Am I right?

and in the case I find the opposite happening, does it matter if I still redirect the non"index.html" to "index.html"?

The same question for www vs non www versions?

Thank you