Ideally, absolutely. But I'm not sure I can get buy-in for moving the whole blog right now, which is why I'm considering moving just a couple of pages, if it would be worthwhile.
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RE: Backlinks to less important subdomain
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Backlinks to less important subdomain
We have two subdomains on our site: blogs and *www. Our most important and competitive pages are on the www subdomain. I have some pages on the blogs subdomain that have valuable backlinks. Would it be helpful to our SEO efforts for the www subdomain to move and redirect those pages on the blogs subdomain to the www subdomain?
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Should I ask sites that link to me to update links that redirect?
I have found some links to my site that go through a single 301 redirect to get to my site.
Should I contact these websites to ask them to update the link, or is that not worth the time?
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RE: Page disappears from search results when Google geographic location is close to offline physical location
Yes, that's the only vaguely plausible explanation we've come up with too, though it's not very satisfying and it's impossible to prove.
Thanks for the suggestion, Moosa!
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Page disappears from search results when Google geographic location is close to offline physical location
If you use Google to search georgefox.edu for "doctor of business administration", the first search result is http://www.georgefox.edu/business/dba/ - I'll refer to this page as the DBA homepage from here on. The second page is http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/sfs/grad/tuition/business/dba/ - I'll refer to this page as the DBA program costs page from here on.
Search: https://www.google.com/search?q=doctor+of+business+administration+site%3Ageorgefox.edu
This appears to hold true no matter what your geographic location is set to on Google.
George Fox University is located in Newberg, Oregon. If you search for "doctor of business administration" with your geographic location set to a location beyond a certain distance away from Newberg, Oregon, the first georgefox.edu result is the DBA homepage.
Set your location on Google to Redmond, Oregon
Search: https://www.google.com/search?q=doctor+of+business+administrationBut, if you set your location a little closer to home, the DBA homepage disappears from the top 50 search results on Google.
Set your location on Google to Newberg, Oregon
Search: https://www.google.com/search?q=doctor+of+business+administrationNow the first georgefox.edu page to appear in the search results is the DBA program costs page.
Here are the locations I have tested so far:
First georgefox.edu search result is the DBA homepage
- Redmond, OR
- Eugene, OR
- Boise, ID
- New York, NY
- Seattle, WA
First georgefox.edu search result is the DBA program costs page
- Newberg, OR
- Portland, OR
- Salem, OR
- Gresham, OR
- Corvallis, OR
It appears that if your location is set to within a certain distance of Newberg, OR, the DBA homepage is being pushed out of the search results for some reason.
Can anyone verify these results? Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
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Recommend an SEO online annotation/collaboration tool?
I'm looking for an online collaboration tool that will allow me to make notes on a Web page and share it with team members. I'm looking for something like Diigo, but I want a tool that will allow me to comment on the title tag, meta description and maybe even alt tags.
Is there such a thing out there?
Thanks!
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