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23,000 pages indexed, I think bad
Hi Nick, I do not think you have that bad of a problem if google is showing 23,000 pages even though you have only submitted 1155 pages. How are you getting the 23,000 number? Try using the site operator search for "site:domain.com" in google (if you have not already) This will show you all of your pages that are indexed. As long as you are working on fixing your errors and making sure you have no dupe content by unsing canonical tags, removing all the page that have thin content OR adding content to pages with little to no content you are going to be in good shape. In regards to your comment about googles webmasters tools. I have a lot of sites in GWMT where I add both www and none www even though I have a 301 redirect with htaccess. It will not effect you if you add the none www one back (if you deleted it) as that one has data and the one you have just added will not have data in it for a while. Best, Cibble.
Technical SEO Issues | | cibble030 -
Wordpress vs. home grown directory
Thanks for the response, I did have someone go through it all using copyscape and at that time 180 days ago it was pretty much clean, I guess I have to go back and cleanse it... I will start moving the content, thank you....If I had to guess I would think wordpress cms will do much better than mine, but can provide a specific as to why you feel it will do better as far as site optimization... using Yoast I know will help but other than that? Nick
Technical SEO Issues | | nickcargill0 -
Database driven content producing false duplicate content errors
All of you guys rock! I have never been involved in a community that has had the right answers every time... I used the on all my static pages such as directions, policies, contact, etc... and it removed all the parameters thereby eliminating them from standing out in the MOZ crawl.. I feel like and idiot not knowing about this HTML tag and its importance. My moz crawl now looks so so much better. When I mean old url parameters, I just meant a few seconds old, meaning the user is on property.aspx?property=1 then when they moved to a static page such as contact, directions, policy we now have another page called contact.aspx?property=1 which if I have 150 properties times 10 static pages I basically just created 150 duplicate content errors just for the contact page alone. Because contact.aspx?property=1 or contact.aspx?property=150 and in between are all the same page... I am sure this has killed my SEO. SO THAT PROBLEM IS NOW FIXED!! NOW to revisit what zenstorageunits says about URL rewriting which has many different ways to do it using .net, but Miketek I would not have to create subdirectories because it is done in the code... they are more like virtual directories... zenstorageunits or anyone else for that matter, Is it worth it for me to hire somebody to create a URL rewrite app that can change the following; http:/www.destinationbigbear.com/property_detail.aspx?propid=202 to http://www.destinationbigbear.com/big-bear-cabin-rentals/a-true-cabin/details and http:/www.destinationbigbear.com/property_photos.aspx?propid=202 to http://www.destinationbigbear.com/big-bear-cabin-rentals/a-true-cabin/photos See everyone of my 150 cabins has these pages; info, photos, calendar, video, reviews, rates...and they all have unique cabin names... so it is basically 150 cabins x 6 pages = 900 unique pages with unique content but really only 6 pages dynamically being changed by 150 cabins. I have been able to dynamically change all the page titles for everyone of these 900 database driven pages such as Big-Bear-Cabin | A True Cabin Photos or Big-Bear-Cabin | A True Cabin Calendar and so on.
Technical SEO Issues | | nickcargill0 -
SEO companies, Backlinks and Trade Secrets
destinationbigbear.com/blog would be ideal. You should stop posting to http://destinationbigbear.wordpress.com/ asap and put all future content onto your main site. Does http://destinationbigbear.wordpress.com/ get any traffic? If not, i'd copy over all of the posts and 301 from old urls to new ones.
Link Building | | OlegKorneitchouk0 -
New to MOZ and so far love tools but need some quick tips on title, keywords and descriptions
Jane, You have been awesome! I almost done going through all of the bad items that Moz generated and am getting ready to run the crawl again! Then once I am done with that I will submit to Google again. First time in years I have some confidence I can make a difference. Nick
On-Page / Site Optimization | | nickcargill0