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Is it bad for SEO if traffic is directed to "http://www.example.com/someuri/index.php" instead of "http://www.example.com/someuri/" and would it be works setting up a redirect rule at htaccess level?

Hi All,

We have a client that has a business with three different services. 2 of these services compliment each other in a really obvious way, but the 3rd, while related is not such a obvious complimentary service.

For this reason, service 3 kind of weakens the content of the website SEO wise for the two main services. Also, internally at the business it is run by an entirely different team so it feels culturally somewhat different.

So, the client wants to pull all the content about service 3 and put it on a different website.

Which would you chose as a domain for this new site:

service3.existingdomain.co.uk

or

www.service3+brandname.co.uk

Hey Tom,

We've got a client just approached us about doing some on page SEO work on their ExpressionEngine site.

Did you figure out an answer to this question?

J

one useful answer by two people. Feels like a consensus!

I'd go for the latter "mydomain.com/blog", then any links built to your awesome content will be on the same sub-domain as the rest of your content. Works wonders.

Andy - wish I'd read your comment before I slapped up the reply to Adam! Thanks... clearly "great minds" and all that!

Good point Adam It looks like LSC appear quite frequently in the Page titles,  but not the URLs. Kinda helps

So a client's site is to be set up like this:

domain.com
domain.co.uk
domain.de
domain.fr
domain.pl

The question is, on the non english language sites, which would be more likely to rank?

domain.de/über

or

domain.de/ueber

Thanks!

I don't mean to self promote, but we do some pretty nifty training sessions and workshops. There's a taster of what goes on here: Some training

We're only just up the road

If budget is an issue, we do the same courses / workshops in Bristol and Somerset for enter[rise agencies, which are part funded by the gov't. Let me know if you need more details.

Good idea to keep some budget back for Stumble Upon ads... Not really got a great deal of experience here, but they should be useful to get the social sharing started.

Need a button for 'two thumbs up' EGOL!

That's a more comprehensive answer than we'd have hoped for.

To answer the questions, the client is keen to generate the content. We've had some ideas that we think will get knocked for six (if you don't mind me changing your baseball to a cricket ball) and we're looking to help them identify the audience that will share it.

But, seeing it set out so simply, it's a great reminder that we really need to do ALL THREE wonderfully, to get it right.

Brilliant EGOL, thanks so much.

We have a client who is being told by their incumbent supplier that they should renew their annual contract to buy links on 4 domains by their incumbent SEO agency. It will cost approximately $2,000.

We are recommending they produce decent content, like a video, an infographic based on data that is exclusively theirs and seed this with bloggers / real world publications / trade press / etc.

The client is struggling to make a decision because he's caught between two SEO's with different approaches. He doesn't have the budget for both. He's scared of losing his position in the SERPs.

So, I said I'd get some votes from other SEO's. Which would you recommend?

Option 1

• 1,000's of links
• on 4 domains

Option 2

• Create link bait
• Seed using social media

GO!

What is the best eCommerce platform for a new business with roughly 500 SKUs?

The product selection will grow over time but we are looking for a cost-effective solution to get started.  We'd like a platform that is brilliant for both customers and SEO while also being easy to manage behind the scenes.  It also needs to be scalable, ideally to include international options in the future.

We've been looking at Magento, Kentico, Shopify and nopCommerce to name a few.

Thanks EGOL & Marie for being so helpful!

Anyone else have any experiences working with Concrete 5?

Hi Guys!

Ok a bit of a funny one here which is causing a confusion between us and a web designer and I was wondering if anyone on here might be able to help.

Just a bit of back ground for you, the website has been built on Concrete 5 and when we tried to building a sitemap we found over 110,000 pages. When we spoke to the web designer they have told us that within Google webmaster tools, Google has only indexed 58. But.... (and this is where things get a little confusing, so bare with me.)

I thought that cant be right so into the Google search bar I put in site:www.sitename.co.uk and had 217 results appear. So google cant have just 58 pages indexed, right?

So after speaking to the designer he then posted on the Concrete 5 help forum, to try and help figure it out.

I have posted his exact forum post below that the web designer has asked:

I'm having some issues where a site we are working on seems to be making multiple pages going to the same page. An SEO specialist has run a report and found a number of duplicate pages created by C5.

We are concerned that this is going to dilute or worse penalise the way google sees the site.

http://www.sitename.co.uk/
[http://www.sitename.co.uk/index.php?cID=?akID[155][atSelectOptionID...](http://www.sitename.co.uk/index.php?cID=?akID[155][atSelectOptionID][]=134 "http://www.sitename.co.uk/index.php?cID=?akID[155][atSelectOptionID][]=134")
[http://www.sitename.co.uk/index.php?cID=?akID[155][atSelectOptionID...](http://www.sitename.co.uk/index.php?cID=?akID[155][atSelectOptionID][]=123 "http://www.sitename.co.uk/index.php?cID=?akID[155][atSelectOptionID][]=123")
[http://www.sitename.co.uk/index.php?cID=?akID[155][atSelectOptionID...](http://www.sitename.co.uk/index.php?cID=?akID[155][atSelectOptionID][]=41 "http://www.sitename.co.uk/index.php?cID=?akID[155][atSelectOptionID][]=41")

Is there a way of stopping google from accessing these duplicate 'cID' pages and stop them being made? Also is there a way of getting rid of the ones that are there? We've done a number of sites in C5 and are beginning to get concerned about this...

So I guess my question is:

If I can access the same content via 4-5 different cID's is that classed as duplicate content?

Thanks in advance guys, and any help would greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the suggestion Cabbagetoe appreciate your time and input on how to use it, but I trust Alexa about as much as I trust a city banker. Sorry

Any other ideas?

I'd really like to know if Chinese nationals living outside of their home land use Baidu...

Thanks Big Bazza... I like the 'better' vs 'accepted' reasoning. Not too confrontational

When submitting compressed sitemaps to Google I normally use the a file named sitemap.gz

A customer is banging on that his web guy says that sitemap.xml.gz is a better format.

Google spiders sitemap.gz just fine and in Webmaster Tools everything looks OK...

Interested to know other SEOmoz Pro's preferences here and also to check I haven't made an error that is going to bite me in the ass soon!

Over to you.