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No, dont 301 to a 301 website.com/category/title/ to website.com/category/title/?view=all - you just need to set the canonical of website.com/category/title/ to website.com/category/title/?view=all

Good luck!

I've recently discovered http://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/ to be helpful. It doesnt monitor your 404's but it does find all 301/302's/404's/500's you have - as they come in.

If you change a URL of a page, it will track those as well.

I just realized who you we're! I really enjoyed your eCommerce presentation you did here. It had me GLUED and analyzing every word you said.

You Sir - influenced the new site I just launched today. For example, all my product urls do have: /product/ categories are prefixed with /category/

How would you approach the search on eCommerce sites that have good pages and blog posts on the same search results? Who have you seen "do it right?" - examples?

Hello,

I have been through your reply a few times and I'm going to give some feedback here. I really wanted to shake your hand on your reply. I know you spent some time replying to it and giving it some thought. Thank you sir. Lets get to it.

You: it may be cheaper and faster to just start on a new domain.

Me: Yes, but thats not really possible. We have a million bucks a month in revenue streams.. not all from google but we're a big company. The name change would maybe be better for low quality sites that that does dropshipping - or affiliate stuff.. we have a huge brand following.

You: Remove all of the bad links that you can, and disavow the rest.

Me: Yes - I signed up for link detox http://www.linkdetox.com - and exported all the low quality pages and imported into LinkAssistent to start the outreach.

You: Perhaps building a better quality site will be all you need.

Me: Yes, that's exactly right and we actually just went live today with the new site. Though it still needs work, user metrics, engagement improvement has been impressive.

You: I would block the internal search result pages from being indexed using the robots.txt file

Me: Yes, I have done that.

You: regarding faceted navigation, it is often a great user experience, but can wreak havoc on your site's SEO strategy.

Me: I have not read any of those until today and I will just AJAX the layered navigation all together. Currently, it does add parameters to the URL but I have those noindex, followed and I went into webmaster tools and defined what they are in the crawl-url-parameters. This is how I set it up:

• Does this parameter change page content seen by the user? - Yes: Changed, Reorders, or Narrows page content.
• How does this parameter affect page content? - Narrows
• Which URLs with this parameter should Googlebot crawl? - No URLs

I approached this like this: First, I need to approve the user experience and get what I can done with SEO but later, I can fix all the SEO problems. For example, I know I could have used AJAX for the layered navigation but I was thinking - lets get it working and populated. It took 5 minutes of my time to use this tool: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/crawl-url-parameters which is 2010 - when Rand did the whiteboard friday, this tool didn't exist.

You: I've heard of temporary escapes via redirects, but the site usually ends up in the same trouble again once the link graph has been updated.

Me: I'll let you know how it goes but my goal was to get the people who did have it bookmarked, or from old good links that would bring in traffic.. at least they would find what they we're searching for while I find the time to clean up bad links. Since I was restructuring the keyword strategy to be more target ( mens, ladies ) I needed to be able to do something with them. I felt, that the search results would be the best placefor them on our site, as it is right now.

What I have been doing today:

• We have a lot of similar products. So I am going through them and adding the rel=canonical or changing the content, url, etc, etc.
• Looking for a solution to getting a view all canonical in place on paginated results.
• Fixing small bugs.
• Thinking about how I can make the search better. For example, we are a eCommerce site but we also have a great blog with good, well written content. Now, how can I offer both of them in the search results as a good user experience.

I'm going to mark your post as a good answer because, I'm realizing that my case, my be different because of the architecture change and without giving a link to the site so you can really see - no ones maybe, going to be able to "grasp" it.

..and just building a better site. you always need to try to maximize the value of a click. What do you want them to do when they land on that page? Where do you want them to go? What are they asking for when they come to that page?

Each page - has a purpose. You want them to sign up to the site? building leads to new jobs? Why not have a form where you send them new types of jobs when you have them posted.. Take a look at http://www.shoemoney.com - he thinks like this: sending out a email is like going to the bank.

build your email list.

GOOD LUCK!

but when did it happen? what day? it could also not even be you but the sites you got backlinks from.

Take a look here: http://www.linkdex.com and it will be the best way to get this fixed. When you disvow these links, add comments and group things together. i.e. #possible link network - emailed webmaster joes@email.com - for removal.

#link directory - emailed webmaster@somesite.com

You dont have a lot of back links - and if you do disavow the links and need help qualifying them than reach out to me with the list you come up with.. or post them here. I'm sure we can help you qualify them.

There is nothing you can do to prevent it and really, you're not loosing a lot either. It may have been just that one back link. Webmasters change their sites. Domains expire. You just need to build links.

This is an awesome tool: http://www.link-assistant.com/buzzbundle/ - and you can learn how to use it here: http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/reviews/buzzbundle-review-how-i-drive-traffic-to-my-blog/

I would look in webmaster tools to see when it changed.. I dont know what exactly else could have caused it without really looking into it. What I would do if I were you is change the title and description a little bit. You really don't need to use graduate that much.

Well - you're loosing more back links a day than gaining: https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/backlinks-new/prefix/www.graduate-jobs.com%252Fgraduate-schemes

link velocity is important but you prob. lost those one or two back links that pushed it to where it needed to be.

Yea - I know what 302 means - I just don't want to pass link juice to the search page and if there is a penalty on those older pages. I dont know what else to do with them and for example, if the page was about red apples, then I will redirect it to ?s=red+apples - this page does have a faceted search.

Currently, if they landed on /category/model-name/ they would have to choose where to go. Do I want a gender-metel-type

I went after larger, _non-targeted _keywords before. Categories reflected that. I feel that the search page, would be a better user experience for the older categories. Am I right? I dont know what else to do with them.. What would you do? I dont want to keep them and some of them have some real bad links which will be cleaned up in time, but for now - the new categories, new pages, I feel, is a good step forward with a completely new design, layered navigation and faceted search.. I am building a better site.

but how would google know if its a eBay transaction or not because when we import it - it gets it's own order id when we import. hmm.

We're not going PPC at the moment but we may want to in the near feature to be honest. We do have 200+ orders a month.. most months. Like everyone we do have a slow season. Do you know if you can have two conversion pages? Do they track the entire funnel i.e. cart/shipping/billing/confirm order/order complete or can I skip the funnel to email: "confirm shipping address" kind of thing -> order complete?

And maybe its worth it just for the badge that we're a trusted store. Maybe it will increase conversions..

• https://ahrefs.com/index.php
• http://mixrank.com
• http://www.linkresearchtools.com

You can also check out Market Samurai!

Hello,

So we sell millions of dollars a month in merchandise - most of that comes from eBay transactions. We do have a script that posts to eBay and we do download our transactions from eBay and process the orders from our admin.

Now I feel we will do a lot better in the SERPs if we have the trusted stores quality signal. However; it comes down to this. The conversion pixel. Since the don't pay through the site - do you think we can get away of sending a email to a second conversion page for eBay transactions?

Have any of you noticed a boost in SERPs once you were approved with the Trusted Stores? Any advise?

I need some advise. I am remapping the eCommerce Categories to achieve a few goals:

• Have better landing pages - for a better user experience.
• I've been a bad boy - some crappy links. Panda did hurt.
• I've added layered navigation and faceted search.

In order to achieve a better user experience I've had a to break up the old categories. For example, when you landed on these pages - you had to choose between different sets of gender and medal type.

Model Name

• Mens Gold
• Mens Stainless
• Ladies Two Tone
• Mid-Size Yellow Gold

Do you see? So - here is what I am doing.. I created a better menu to be a lot more specific for people who land on other pages to get there. Now they can goto mens model name and select stainless or whatever, if they want, to dig in there or use the layered navigation. What we also did is now you can even view 20 products on these pages too as well as see the layered navigation to filter.

Now this is my question - I'm creating a list of these old categories and my plan is to 302 them to the search page with the faceted search. I have my search page globally, noindex, nofollow - is this the best strategy? How would you do it?

Apart from Redirects - what have you , other SEOs, learned about layered navigation and faceted search - where can it cause issues for SEO?

Take a look here: http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/reviews/buzzbundle-review-how-i-drive-traffic-to-my-blog/ - its awesome.

exactly.

Just do it yourself. http://www.link-assistant.com/buzzbundle/

Buzz Bundle is awesome. When you set up a new article and publish that - add in your keywords and then promote it. Do it for a hour a day and you will save money and get results.. just from using buzz bundle.

I would ask for references. Ask what industries they worked with then get specific. If I were to suggest anyone it would be: http://signup.terrykyleseo.com and I would also reach out to josh bachynski: https://plus.google.com/103148597495865728968/posts

No, I understand. Thanks for jumping in. The only reason why said it was a uglier subdomain, just to express that - even that didn't have a impact impressions, traffic, or CTR on images in my case.

Note, I get 80k+ UV a month and I spend more time monitoring traffic sources and do date comparisons than I should. I have alerts that tell me if I loose x% of traffic on a landing page.

As you can see - a lot of GB - we get a lot of image traffic - no impact, with my ugly url that I wont even make a effort to change.

Joseph

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Have you check in and looked in web master tools what links were lost or deindexed? You can also check https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/backlinks-new/subdomains/www.sommerferie.nu

You're loosing more backlinks a day then you're getting. This is the issue - if you want to spend a couple bucks go here: http://www.linkdetox.com and this will help you so much in seeing link networks.

Heck, emailing them telling them its removing the links themselves or that you will disavow it and who knows what will happen. Webmasters, normally reply quick and will remove it.

Remember your disavow file, keep it neat. Comment it. Add emails that you contacted and when. Group them.

You could always change his name to an alias as a ghost writer for someone important in the company?