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If the site is under 500 pages use the one suggested here, copy the HTML code and use it in a page. That's what I would do.

If the site is over 500 pages I would indeed look for extension, module, widget for your CMS.

Hi,

If I get what you are asking then you will be facing duplicate content issues unless you use a canonical tag stating where you get the reviews from. So for instance if you have product A on websites Z, Y and X (hopefully every site has it's own unique content for the product or you'll be facing duplicate content issues right away).

If you get reviews on Z you want to use them on X and Y
If your get reviews on X you want to use them on Z and Y
etc.

I think you can use canonical tags pointing in the direction you get  the information from but I am not sure it will do the trick. Maybe there is a widget of plugin for the site that gets the reviews from a review site and shows them on the other sites? That might be a lot better and a lot less complicated. Or just keep the reviews at each site. But that is just stating the obvious.

Jarno

Rodney,

I believe you have the use the $ symbol for following the content and using the ^ symbol I always start off by using the base URL. You could try:

RewriteEngine on
Options MultiViews FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^news(.) http://www.example.com/blog$1 [R=301,L]

I think this should do the trick.

regards

Jarno

Hi there,

i would defiantly do it. Both rename the files and give good alts just like suggested above. But there is another very good reason to do so. Since 2007 when I started with some of my websites I always used logical names for images and descriptive alt tags and this turned out to send me quite a lot of traffic actually. Don't think of 100,000 visitors per year but using analytics I've seen years with about 7500 to 15000 visitors per year through image search by Google.

Also, these people also opted in for our newsletter, viewed a lot of pages etc. etc. So yes. I would use logical names and alt tags and invest the time in it.

Regards

Jarno

First of all I must Agree with Moosa.

I also ran some experiments like this and by the use of hyphens (for instance separating 2 words with a hyphen in de domainname). Even though my better backlink profile, my higher DA/PA and my better content (more actual, newer, more words, less links in the text) The website still keeps outranking me. But for clients of mine I've been running similar test which in turn show that it is very possible to outrank websites without hyphens, stopwords or The in the URL.

That's why I agree with Moosa. Keep running the experiment in stages and maybe even use your information to write a YouMoz post about it. Could be a very interesting read.

Jarno

Personally I would go with number 3, purely based on a feeling. Number 2 just feels and look wrong.

I think with number 3 you've got it all logically arranged. State / City dealer. Very logical.

Just my 2 cents.

Regards

Jarno

if it truly is only in the breadcrumbs trail then I don't think it would hurt your rankings. But nevertheless if this really are your breadcrumbs then I think you could keep it this way. Why would you remove it?

regards

Jarno

Hi there,

I looked at your site, looks good. I also ran your site through I tool I recently discovered (it might be an old tool but still).

http://nibbler.silktide.com/en_US/reports/www.clickdesk.com

It gives you a report about your site looking at coding, social media accounts and reach, localization features etc. It might not be the best software or not a bible of internet marketing but it does give you quite a interesting view on things. I recently solved a lot of problems with different websites which helped me rank better but internet marketing is not an exact science as you just might know.

Hope it helps some

Regards

Jarno

I understand all the websites get traffic and rankings for different keywords. Although, you are stating that some of the services and products provided are no longer active and since that is the case (as stated above a service that never launched) then I would look at the point of keeping the content alive as it will not convert any new clients since that service is not provided. How would you get a return on investment for all the merge work.

Like sureshchowdary said above, making a list of all the pages and doing a 1-1 redirect is a lot of work (believe me I know -> in february 2014 I did the same thing for a client redirecting the entire site to new location (+/- 1000 pages)).

So If I were you I would look at the effort needed to perform all the work, make an estimate in what the investment would be and what would be the return on the work. It might just be wise to decide to add some content to the oldest site and redirect all the links but leave the rest of the content.

Just my 2 cents and for your consideration

Jarno

Dear Pete,

i just checked your website with nibbler: http://nibbler.silktide.com/en_US/reports/www.bestathire.co.uk

Perhaps there are some things here which you can use to your advantage. Indeed it is possible that you were hit by one of the updates. This could be because of your backlink profile (maybe) or for some other reason which unfortunately may not be clear. All I can say at this moment is to keep doing good things and rankings might return in the same fashion as they disappeared (I've had that happen once or twice).

Good luck.

Regards

Jarno

Sarita,

this is why there is the possibility of canonical tags. More info about canonicalization: learn through moz.com

When you have written the item and share it through any kind of software or partner I would suggest publishing the original first with a canonical tag to your own site, then sending it to the rest and asking them to include the same canonical tag. That way you should be doing fine.

Regards

Jarno

Hi there Spackly,

I'm guessing what you are getting at is using tabs (like specifications to products in webshops that are only shown when clicked on), right?

If that is the case you could show a picture with some info per person with a link to more info (the tab) that expends the information about the person. If you do this using HTML and CSS (or PHP with CSS) you could have it made like so that when you visit the source of the page you get then entire code including all the full bio's but when you visit the site in a browser like a normal visitor you would only see 31 small bios with 31 tabs for more information.

This is something you see in a lot of shops at the moment and I must admit that it works like a charm.

Hope this helps you some.

Regards
Jarno

Graftene,

you are absolutely right that it would just loop, however there are several reason you can still apply the tag.

1. If someone find the need to copy your entire site / code they will also copy your canonical which may not be deleted by them.

2. If there are instances of the some content on the net you at least tell the search engines that the original version of the text is on your website.

The second reason in my opinion is the most important. Why? Because if you do some content marketing and you share your information or your texts with the web it can very well be that you would want to use your own text, in that case, the search engine at least knows where the original is.

Hope this helps some

Regards

Jarno

Hi,

Are you sure you submitted the right site map format / files? We've had in in the past that are sitemap was broken up into multiple files and we had to send sitemap-index.xml, sitemap-1.xml ... sitemap-16.xml. Have you checked it again and again?

regards

Jarno

I agree with paints here. The domain you have been using for so long you should exploit in such a case.

My opinion on the two would definitely go to kawasakirobotics.com but imho I would also choose to exploit the other domain option. Think about the effort you have to put into it to get the same kind of result and values for a brand new domain.

Tanveer,

what I meant was using the Social Media meta data tags in your page. Before we used the meta data tags Google didn't use our given Title and Description. After we entered it in the Meta Data tags for Facebook and Twitter (We used the same title for SM and our page, as did we do with the description) and all of the suddon Google used our Title and description.

Hope you understand what I meant now.

Regards

Jarno

What Keri is pointing out is quite a good one actually. This was one of the reasons why some pages wouldn't rank. We entered a title and description still nothing. Finally at page 9 or 10 I think it was we found the page. With a completely other title and description. We then used the Social Media integration with titles and descriptions -> Google suddenly changed them too and we started ranking pos. 1 and 2 with some pages.

As for the time laps: A good test (like Rand did with his last WBF video) takes up at least 3 months maybe more. Some changes will take like forever to take effect, others you might notice earlier. Don't give up to soon.

Keyword tag isn't needed anymore indeed like pixel and silver stated.

hope this helps some

Regards
Jarno

Dear Louis,

I totally get what you are getting at and I don't know if it has been proven positive but I do know this:

If google knows what websites you own, and if those websites link to each other, then Google (i think) will make the assumption that the link is not acquired naturally.

Same thing with analytics accounts. I use 1 analytics account to manage all client websites and another for my own websites. Google knows then what websites you own and I wouldn't be surprised if the devaluate websites that link to each other and are owned by the same person(s).

I never came across any proof of this what so ever but logical thinking came to this conclusion. Hope you understand what I am getting at with my answer.

I also register domain names for clients but I always put their information into the Whois for Ownership and administrative contact and my own information for technical contact (since it is also my server). I know for a fact that Google uses IP addresses to determine uniqueness of a site so if they do understand that then i can imagine that they understand the whois information and Google analytics client information.

Hope this helps

Regards
Jarno

I agree with Paints, Homepage is very very very slow.

I also don't think the title of the homepage is that appealing, so I would definitely rewrite that one.

As for the Dash problem. I have several websites all with dashes all without ranking problems. One of those websites currently drives like 100.000 visites each month so the dash is definitely not the problem.

Then some other point for your site that might be useful to you:

• I think you should kill the widget on the left side that appears halfway of the page and substitute that one with a normal share widget on the bottom of your homepage or not at all.
• Have you optimized the size of the images? Some take like forever to load or don;t focus that well.
• The titles for the sub pages are a bit stiff and short (Everest Base Camp Trek). Personally I like the way Danny Dover described in his book, Search Engine Optimization Secrets, so I would make it more like: Everest Base Camp Trek | Green Lotus Trekking (off course you should take in consideration the length of the title).
• The images slider/gallery doesn't work properly in my browser (safari), once I click an image it doesn't work at all.

I think these are your main problems. If you could speed up everything (page load speed on the Tibet Tours page is 5.976 seconds) and optimize your titles, images and the rest of the site, you could make sure that the dashes in the url don't have any negative effect at all.

Hope this helps some. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me for them. 
Regards
Jarno Nijzing

you should check out this weeks WBF:
http://moz.com/blog/panda-optimization-whiteboard-friday
It's also about the above the fold content.

Regards
Jarno