erm,  you could just use the search. magnifying glass icon, top right of the page. works for me.

A relatively painless way (if .htaccess is too hard for your contact to implement) is to use rel canonical to point to the url you want since Google and Bing will (eventually) notice your canonical tag.

So, for http://www.cascadevillagehotel.com/index.htm you could add a tag like the one below into your index.htm file in the head section:

You should also make sure that any links to the home page refer to http://www.cascadevillagehotel.com rather than http://www.cascadevillagehotel.com/index.htm

See http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394 for more info on rel canonical

Having said that, a 301 redirect is probably the best way to solve the problem.

BTW, I'm assuming it is an Apache server and so uses .htaccess - IIS can be a bit more tricky (see http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-every-seo-should-know-about-iis#chaining for IIS redirects)

You could use something like this in the .htaccess file (always make a backup copy of the .htaccess file before saving it in case something goes wrong - typos etc.):

BACKUP EXISTING .htaccess FIRST!!!

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

may need to uncomment the next line depending on host

#Options +FollowSymlinks

add www for non www pages - you may not need these two lines

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^cascadevillagehotel.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.cascadevillagehotel.com/$1 [L,R=301]

The following redirect is the one for index.htm assumes the default page is /

redirect 301 /index.htm http://www.cascadevillagehotel.com/

Hi,

A client had a message in BWT: 'Bing Webmaster Tools detected 1 pages infected with malware on ...'

The message was last updated 30/July but having checked the page and included javascript there's nothing that we can see which could be construed as malware.

GWT seems happy enough with it and I've tried a couple of online site scanners (e.g. sucuri) and they seem happy enough.

I'm minded to ignore it, but has anyone else had a similar experience?

Thanks

Hi Ade, didn't we meet up at LinkLove? Hope things are going well.

Try this:

RewriteRule ^chamaecyparis-lawsoniana-.+ https://www.domain.co.uk/chamaecyparis-lawsoniana [R=301,L]

The underscore was a problem as was the $ at the end

using -.+ at the end to avoid matching the target url

I tried that with regexr and it seems to work ok, not used it in an htaccess

If you're sure that the files on mamp and what's on the server are the same, then perhaps your hosting company is doing something or there's something in the config of the web server.

Sorry Vanessa, that's as much as I can help with - guess you need to find someone who knows whmcs

Good luck, would be good to know how it works out and what the solution is.

Sorry, on the edge of my knowledge, perhaps try removing those lines and seeing the effect? (I'd try removing them one at a time starting with the second one).

Ha! love the question. I certainly associate lots of ads with crap content!

What's lots though? AdSense almost always triggers my, 'this is probably crap' filter and I can't remember the last time I ever linked to a site that used it.

I don't think that's it - that's a 301 redirect and the issue you reported is a 302.

If you see the same issue I do with cookies affecting the result, then I'd suggest that is a clue - as far as I know htaccess redirects don't make use of cookies.

I get this using httpfox.

302 Redirect to: / http://servicioshosting.com/

I also see the redirect on https://www.servicioshosting.com/index.php when I first switched to English language from the home page. Then when reloading https://www.servicioshosting.com/index.php there was no 302.

I also noticed that when I deleted servicioshosting.com cookies and reloaded https://www.servicioshosting.com/index.php the 302 was back.

So I suspect it is something to do with the way the CMS is using cookies, since crawlers don't set cookies they get the 302.

I guess you'll need to dig into the CMS/talk to a developer. Good luck!

thanks, but the 'scrape similar' extension in chrome doesn't seem to behave in the same way as importxml on google docs or xpathonurl in niels bosma's seotools for excel

Schmeetz, did you actually see a drop in rankings after creating a blog?  Seems odd. If that happened, there's probably other things going on that need looking at.

I would target the content for the 'jar' related pages towards jars. Perhaps create some internal links with jar-related phrases to those pages too.

Try and build some external links with partial or even exact match anchor text too - but try and keep the link profile looking un-spammy. (It may be worth doing some analysis of competitors to look at their link profiles before embarking on this.)

A blog that's about organic-type things that earns links in a folder vs subdomain? Keep it in a folder, the links will help the overall authority of your site.

In our PR agency, we find that it is true to say the top-tier guys rarely pick up news from a press release site, but it does happen sometimes (albeit rarely). For the top-tier we always send the release directly to the targeted journo/blogger/influencer and follow up.

We do get take up from mid-level blog and news sites from issuing releases via a wire service though (we like PRWeb and PR NewsWire - different services seem to work better in different territories) - those are a bonus and they usually give a link worth having.

Have you tried http://www.geoedge.com/ they even offer some free proxies in multiple locations.

I found somewhere a tip to put some code in the head.php file of your template (sorry can't find it at the mo, but I'm sure some Googling will discover it for you).

I ended up putting this in my head.php  (which I found here: templates/[MY TEMPLATE NAME]/blocks/head.php) BTW I didn't want the trailing slash in my URL - you'd need to tweak this if you do want it.

But you could probably get away with something simpler, there's some discussion about it here: http://www.brucerick.com/joomlas-sh404sef-and-canonical-links/

Oh and feel free to improve my php/regex...I'm no expert

Hi Paul, try something like this, but there are many variations of these on the web.

Posted this just as the yoast post was coming on.

#add trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$
RewriteRule (.*)([^/])$ http://www.capitalist.com/$1$2/ [R=301,L]

add www for non www pages

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^capitalist.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.capitalist.com/$1 [L,R=301]

I'm not sure that statement about rel canonical only working within your own domain - if you have some test data/similar that shows this to be the case, I'd love to hear about it.

Matt Cutts specifically says that cross-domain rel canonical is supported, see: the webmaster video on: iwww.youtube.com/watch?v=zI6L2N4A0hA

Hi Luke, there are a few posts on the blog that might help.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tracking-the-roi-of-social-media and http://www.seomoz.org/blog/facebook-twitters-influence-google-search-rankings

I think the consensus is that social shares (by that I mean tweets, likes, facebook shares, +1s) do affect rankings.

If I understand the question correctly, A is the relevant thing here - social signals relating to the pages that you want to rank.

B - If we treat the number/quality of followers etc. as the 'social authority' (who said klout?) of your social media accounts then I believe (don't recall seeing any data) that social shares from high 'social authority' accounts will be more influential for ranking than others.

So, yes, put URLs in your tweets (probably want to use a shortener that gives you some metrics e.g. bit.ly)

Most links in social channels (and I'm thinking of fb and Twitter here), are no follow.

I do wonder, if another way of looking at it might be: I want quality traffic that converts...links can help with that, so can social media (i.e. even if you get no ranking boost from social media, if it brings you the right traffic  then that's a good thing right?)

A journalist contact of mine was asking whether we were getting close to the point where 'developers' (for which I read Google) can take account of opinions/interests/actions of people who don't use the Internet (the example I was give was 'poor' people and 'rich' people).

This got me thinking about what (if any) offline signals that Google/Bing etc. use as signals for ranking. I understand that some household demographic data may be used for ad targeting (I think I read that Axciom do that) - but are there any others?

erm,  you could just use the search. magnifying glass icon, top right of the page. works for me.

Diane, what I did in a similar situation (though not with anything like as many pages), was to create rules in htaccess for the old to the new url structures using mod rewrite and regular expressions. It's pretty much impossible to say what rules you need without knowing the urls.

That works if your new urls are in some way related to the old ones otherwise you need to do singe redirects for the old urls to the new ones. (Again you can do this all in htaccess, but sh404sef allows you to do redirects too, suggest you ask on their support forums if you don't know how.)

Finally, do you really need to redirect all those old pages? If they didn't have any incoming links, then how much value (i.e. link juice) were they really adding to your site? How much traffic were those pages bringing - if little or none, why not just let Google realise figure out that they're gone and (eventually) drop them from the index?