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Thanks.  Because especially in the current situation with the Google updates, it would be good to know when our site URLs were last spidered and when the update appeared in Google's indexed.

Rather than having to check manually.

I would if at all possible adhere to the guidelines as set by for example Google, that they recommend that all title tags are 70 characters or less.

Those sites currently ranking with a longer title tag might find in the future a slight search tweak in Google's algorithm would affect their ranking.

A link to the sitemap would help.

Does SEOMoz in the future plan to report on Bot visits for each URL, when they are spidered and when they appear in for example Google's index ?

Yes, maybe in the case of a hotel name.  But for Chinese language, they translate the word for example "London Hotels" to their equivalent.

So for area pages it might be worthwhile.  Other top ranking companies e.g TripAdvisor do not translate the folder name at all. Just change the domain TLD.

Thoughts ?

OK, what advantages if in the future we decide to move the site to the local region e.g Asia ?

Hi

We are in the process of getting our .com (English) website translated to Chinese.  My question is, what are the pitfulls if the site is hosted on the SAME server as the English version.

So the server would host both .com and .com.cn versions

Thoughts ??

Thanks

Neil

Thanks just the answer I was looking for !

Looking at integrating our GA account with the seomoz Organic Traffic Data feature.  Can anyone let me know feedback regards this ?

No a custom written CMS, so it should be fairly easy to code.

How do you enforce a lower cased URL ? Use canonical tag ?

Another thought might be to place a noindex on the new pages to start with and as we migrate and 301 redirect the old to the new remove the noindex on the new pages ?

Thoughts ??

Another thought might be to place a noindex on the new pages to start with and as we migrate and 301 redirect the old to the new remove the noindex on the new pages ?

Thoughts ??

Hi ASR, can you advise more on how you moved to the new folder structure ?  Did you leave old pages in place, launch new site, then go through all old URLs and 301 them to the new URL ?

The problem I have is the new folder structure is not a standard pattern, so any 301 will need to be done manually.

Bump - can anyone else offer some input ?

Yes, that is the problem we are going to have.  Can anyone else help or offer some advice ?

On another point, the new pages will all have new meta, content etc, so if we left the old pages online until we had the chance to go through them I don't think we'd have any problem re duplicate content.

Hi Steve,

I fully understand the workings of 301 redirect etc.  However, my concern is we have over 10,000 pages.  Whats the best way to change from URL to another ?

Shall I release the new homepage, with links to the new already created pages, and then go through the old content and redirect it all ?

Hi, the old URLs will still remain whilst the new ones are being uploaded.  There is no real pattern between the old and new URLs.  All new URLs are more SEO friendly and keyword targetted.

Our old pages use ASP so I can easily implement a way of updating the old pages with a redirect.

My concern is what process should we take when changing the URLs in the transition period.