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Thank you Joseph

Thanks for that but why is number one the best SEO practice?

Hi Mozzers,

Client: Important carpet cleaner player in the carpet cleaning industry

Main Goal: Creating good content to Get more organic traffic to our main site

Structure of the extra content: It will act like a blog but will be differentiated from the regular site by not selling anything but just creating good content. The look and design will be different from the client's site.

SEO Question: Which option is more beneficial, creating a subdomain or adding a regular page within the website following a directory path URL?

If possible, please state what are the advantages and disadvantages of these 2 options in terms of SEO.

Thank you and have a great weekend everyone,

Thanks a lot... Your answer was really helpful

Thank you guys for your answers

Hi Mozzers,

Client: Big carpet cleaner player in the carpet cleaning industry

Main Goal: Creating good content to Get more organic traffic to our main site

Structure of the extra content: It will act like a blog but will be differentiated from the regular site by not selling anything but just creating good content. The look and design will be different from the client's site.

SEO question: In terms of SEO, what would be the most beneficial for us to do, should we built in this new section/site outside or inside the client's site?

I personally think that it should be separated from the main site because of the main reasons:

1. A followed link to the main site
2. Anchor texts implementation linking back to our service pages

If we would to choose to build in this content, it would be highly beneficial for getting organic traffic within the main site but I am afraid this will not provide us any link juice  since anchor texts won't be accounted the same since all of those would be located in the Nav bar of the main site.

Can someone tell me what would be the best in terms of SEO?

P.S: My boss doesn't agree with me and would rather go the second option (build in within the main site) that's why i am asking you guys what would be the most beneficial?

Thank you Guys

Hi Paul,

You got it. Sorry if it was confusing and thanks for your answer.

Good questions. Our brand new pages are completely different from the old pages in terms of coding, programing and structure wise.

Ty,

Hi Mozzers,

We create multiple pages for one of my client. Some of them are replacing old pages. I setup 5 of them out of 40. I was able to set them live via the drupal CMS. The new pages were actually published but didn't have any URL but had nodes in directory such as www.example.com/node298. To set them live i changed the url path to one page that already existed( www.example.com/old). In order to setup the replacing page: www.example.com/node298 i added the same name as the old one but in order to avoid URL conflicts with new page(www.example.com/new) I had to change the old page's url path as well such as  www.example.com/old2)

I know i have to 301 redirect the old to the new obviously but my question is:  does a URL path change on the old page www.example.com/old matters in when 301 ing it?  will it still transfer all the juice to the new page

Visual Process:

Main goal: www.example.com/old redirect to www.example.com/new but these two are exactly the same url

So modification of URL path: www.example.com/old to www.example.com/old2 to avoid URL conflict

Therefore www.example.com/old2 =www.example.com/old (just url change path difference)

Question: Because of this url change, will a 301 from www.example.com/old2 to www.example.com/new will still carry all the juice that www.example.com/old carried  or not?

I hope i didn't make it too confusing. Let me know if it is the case

Thanks Mozzers

Ty

Hi Greg,

Since I am not an expert into sitemaps yet, once i finish removing URLs I don t want, should I just save the text editor document and then how do I submit this doc into webmaster tool?

Is it just "add sitemap" and put the name of the doc "www.example.com/sitemap.xml"? or is there another manipulation I should be aware of?

Thank you,

Hi mozzers,

I am about to submit a sitemap for one of my clients via webmaster tools. The issue is that I have way too many urls that I don't want them to be indexed by Google such as testing pages, auto generated pages...

Is there way to remove certain URL from the XML sitemap or is this impossible?

If impossible, is the only way to control these urls is to "No index" all these pages that  i don't want the search engine to see?

Thanks Mozzers,

Hi Jim,

Thanks for your answer.

We use D6. Do you have a link for module installation that you can provide me?

Thank you

Ty

Work on link building essentially. Get good authoritative site linking you which is not easy but here is a link you can use.

http://www.seomoz.org/article/the-professional-guide-to-link-building-2011

Good luck!!

Using the KW tool SEO moz will tell you how hard is it to compete for a certain KW( SEO difficulty%) but it won't tell who is your direct competitor.

Depending on how authoritative is your site, generally you want to choose KW that has a low or medium comp. If you have a very authoritative site you might want to try the High competitive kw.

P.S:This analysis is for SEO mainly and not SEM.

Hi,

First you need to make a search for a specific keyword that your are targeting. When searching you will see who is on the first page. These would be your competitors. The more ads you see on the right and the more competitive the keyword is.

Another way to find which keywords are competitive, The free adwords tool will provide good data and will tell you if there is a low, medium or high competition for specific KW. Adwords won't tell you which websites are your competitors. On the other hand, SEM rush (not free) will tell you who is your competition and which keywords they are ranking for.

Hope this helps,

Hi SEOmozzers,

I have a client that has couple of duplicates but I am debating if i should just kill those pages or use 301 Permanent redirects. I know SEO moz provides 2 important factors to look at which are PA and link root domain.

1.Which one matters the most? or which one should I look at first to make a decision?

2. I have empty pages creating duplicate content with a PA of 14  and 1 linking root domain. my thought is to kill the page by inserting a meta NO INDEX. If you don't agree and think I should 301 to an existing page that needs link juice, let me know.

Thank you mozzers

Hi Kenny,

So I have made the Bot crawl this form of url  http://183.2564.2864 and detected multiple errors. So are you saying that I shouldn't rely on what the crawlers has detected? should I then assign the dev team to provide me an actual dev url before sending them any recommendations to fix errors already detected by the bot?

Thanks

Hi Dr.Peter,

Thanks for this great suggestion but could you tell me if the canonical would be a solution and if yes, could you tell me if my answer to Brent is right?

Thanks

Thanks Brent,

Interesting, I thought you would put the canonical version of the URL on all duplicates. Have you done it before?