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The normal rule to achieve this is:

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

For the blog issue you may consider adding an htaccess file in the blog folder and put

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^abc.com
RewriteRule ^blog(.*) http://www.newabc.com/newblog$1 [R=301,L]

or maybe you can achieve that by adding the line:

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

However in this second case you'll have a double redirect: the first which redirect blog to new blog and then the non www to www.

Completely agree with dr Peter. If you really need to separate those domains it should be a really good reason.

In my past I used to have many EMD domain to get easy traffic thanks to the domain name boost in serps and so those sites were ranking without many efforts, but after google heading more towards brands this kind of strategy is really time and money consuming.

It really depends on how much budget you may spend on those sites, but normally consolidating the value in one bigger site is the best way to build a brand and achieve links and ranks nowadays.

Hey Fabrizio, I think that what Google states in their guidelines is that you have two choices:

• if you have a view all page, you should noindex and follow all your other pages so google will deliver only that page
• if you don't have a view all page or if you prefer to show paginated series (i.e. to make pages lighter and quicker to deliver to users) you may consider to use rel next/prev.

In this second case it may happen that you also add filters or session ids in the urls of those pages, in that case you should consider adding a self referentail canonical tag to avoid duplicates. But this is only if you cover this case, if you're looking to canonicalize correctly your paginated series you may not use the self canonical tag, because if not properly implemented this may get you a bit of extra work.

In this page for example

I found this:

http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/downloads/Indici/Guitar.html?cp=3&lpg=0">

Which  I don't think is what you want to do.

Also if you set the page to view as a table: your url changes to http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/downloads/Indici/Guitar.html?cp=3&viewlistflag=1

and while the canonical should remain the same (well done but I think you should get rid of the lpg parameter in the canonical), the rel next prev should change accordingly IMO.

So instead of being:

prev: http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/downloads/Indici/Guitar.html?cp=2&lpg=20
next: http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/downloads/Indici/Guitar.html?cp=4&lpg=60

you should offer the next and prev page of the filtered url:

next: http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/downloads/Indici/Guitar.html?cp=4&lpg=60&viewlistflag=1
prev: http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/downloads/Indici/Guitar.html?cp=2&lpg=20&viewlistflag=1

Or in this case (since the content is almost the same you may consider the list page as the canonical of the table one putting there a noindex.

Summing up, IMO: in this page http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/downloads/Indici/Guitar.html?cp=3

you'll have:

prev: http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/downloads/Indici/Guitar.html?cp=4&lpg=60
next: http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/downloads/Indici/Guitar.html?cp=2&lpg=20
(optional) a self canonical to http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/downloads/Indici/Guitar.html?cp=3

In this page (and in other filtered pages if you have apply the same idea):
http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/downloads/Indici/Guitar.html?cp=3&viewlistflag=1

You'll have:

noindex,follow and canonical to the list page:
http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/downloads/Indici/Guitar.html?cp=3

maybe dr peter can correct me if I'm wrong but I think this should be more consistent like this. Sorry for the huge answer

Hi James, yes there are other ways to make kw research but I found google suggest really helpful in the past. Also because users were used to click on them during their first days.

If google is getting rid of them probably users doesn't find them so attractive nowadays.

Hi Dana, that would be really sad I use related searches a lot to find good related terms to expand my keywords. I still see them in the bottom of the serp.

Maybe is because I'm in Spain but I see both in Google.com and google.es

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It's normal that when you make updates to your content the value of the page is changing and google recalculates it. Try to make changes only when necessary especially if you're editing:

• revenue delivering pages
• good ranking pages

You can use the low traffic pages and not good rankings as a test to see what is most beneficial. Try to group all your changes and make them only if necessary.

If you're doing that for freshness as I said before use articles or other pages which will gain new keywords, may be new links and build value there to flow to your listings pages.

You don't want your listings to bounce up and down in serps.

I don't think there is a real penalty for having realted sites in a same hosting. Another thing is that you have plenty of websites built using scraped content.

What I mean is that if you create 5-10 hand made domains you should have problems, it really depends on the quality of your content and how much you care of your website, but this applies to them even if you plan putting them on different servers.

Hi all, I think that your alternatives would be:

• one big site with all the thematics. In that way all users can access all content without leaving the site, no need for noindex no need for canonicals since you won't have dupe content
• three sites with specialized articles in each one. You may change slightly your design to give the user the feeling that the site is different but in the same network. Then you may interlink those sites as useful resources. Not optimal since they'll have a huge interlinking,
• as you said noindex the non canonical article. Remember that the noindex tag will prevent indexation not crawling because google will need to crawl your page to know that it should not index it. So you may add meta "noindex,nocache,follow" in the header and be sure that the juice is still flowing in your site.

Hi, it seems correct to me however try to use the robots.txt checker tool in GWTools. You may try to include a couple of your urls and see if google can crawl them.

I find only redundant the follwing rule:

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google.

If you have already set up a disallow: rule for all bot excluding rogerbot which can't access the community folder why create a new rule stating the same for mediapartners?

Again, why are you saying to all bots they can access the entire site, being that the default rule? Avoid those lines, include just the rogerbot and sitemaps rule and you're done.

maybe it was a temporary issue, I saw your website completely crawled by ose.

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Hi Trish, it really depends on what your site is about. If you're a news website google will expect many daily updates but if you're a less dynamic market it may be probably fine for you to make changes in longer periods. However to add freshness to a more stable website you may also:

• build a blog or an article sections which always attracts new users and helps feeding your social profiles
• change the order of your listings weekly so they may seem more dynamic than they are(not under google eyes but for users)

Hi Spence, IMO you may have two situations:

• if the old international sites were in other languages you may consider redirecting them to the same language version on the main site
• if the old domains were focused on specific markets (countries in this sense) you'll better point the 301 the to the specific directory pointing to a specific country (if it was domain.es focusing on spanish users point to domain.com/spain/)

Hi Ray, unfortunately there's no clear science on how to avoid any possible issue on your migration however I understand your strategy.

You would like to create a landing page which reflects the old sites name so google would still match backlinks branded anchors with what it finds in your site. You may try to put a couple of mentions of the old brand so you'll achieve the same: Google will see link pointing to brand X and finds correlation with the old page and the new one since there are mentions of the brand X in the new one too.

Hope this helps, I'd like to know your achievements on this!

first of all try to include those terms in your pages. You're already doing good (rank 6 for cfd provider) without even mentioning that keyphrase in your title neither in the whole content of your mostly relevant page http://www.accendomarkets.com/our-products/cfds/

use titles, h1 h2 and meta desc, without spamming them but try with a few tweaks and see what you achieve only with internal optimizations.

Hey Daniel, I'm glad you're achieveing good results with your strategy. However since you can read and write in proper english I recommend you to try to tweak your site not only to what is working now but focusing on what will work tomorrow.

focus on long term strategy, try to not spam a good technique because it may return back to you as a negative impact. Try to dilute your links and build high quality ones, I'll really focus more on brazilian sites than building links in foreigners sites.

You still want to reach your audience and you're audience is not so much in english websites. Try to stay focused and build value where you need. PR is not the most important thing try to focus on themed sites, related to your business and with an high autorithy,(normally old and frequently updated sites)

Good luck!

Hi Rahul, you shouldn't have any cannibalization issue, but the high repetition of a keyword of you category may led google to sometimes show your category keyword page instead of the category one if it's capable to achieve enough value.

As an example looking at the /IT-Support/IT-Support-Servers page why not making that

/IT-Support/Servers

in that sense you won't be repeating so  much your keywords there, which is less spammy, shorter and cleaner both for google and for users.

Look at the checklist google made here.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1708844

Have you put a link to your g+ page? Because I couldn't find any link to it.

Hi Ray, probably if you did that when the domain was still indexed in google you'll be achieving a better boost in rankings since the whole value would be passed from one domain to another, however if those links are still live you will still benefit from taht 301 since the value of a redirect is the same of a link.

About the landing page, your proposal seems good and completely white hat. Just wondering if you won't be achieving more just by 301 to the homepage, if those two sites are almost identical. since you want your homepage to improve its value and then pass that to the other pages not improving just a page about an old site.

Hope this helps!

Hi Luke, if you're looking for a 10%-30%-XX% ratio of links I think you won't ever find nothing regarding this.

Even if you'll find that I recommend you to not follow that guide just because: only google knows how much weight they give to each link and also because google can change their algo on a weekly or daily basis, but your seo strategy should be long term based.

So in that sense I strongly recommnend to be just natural. If your site is good you probably see it in blogs, directories, other sites, and also on comments, forums etc etc. Everything is good if it's balanced and natural. Try to avoid any kind of pattern and let things flow up trying to avoid huge unnatural increases.

Also you may consider seeing how your best competitors are doing and try to follow their same strategy.

Hi Vasco, you got many different resources on the net on how to build 301 rules on IIS, this seemed to me the most detailed one:

http://www.mcanerin.com/EN/articles/301-redirect-IIS.asp

However you'll better try to study a little on how it works because you'll need 301 for seo purposes a lot in your future.

Best.