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Hi Tom

Many thanks for the quick reply, it's much appreciated.

All very clear, thank you!

Cheers

Richard

Hi guys

I read the seomoz article about sitemap.xml dated 2008. Just wanted to check views on:

1. Is it worthwhile using the 'priority'
2. What if everything is set to 100%
3. Any tips to using the priority

Many thanks in advance!

Richard

Hi Paul

Many thanks for the swift reply, much appreciated.

I will check why the nofollow was originally added, but as you say by removing it from the pages will allow it to pass the juice onto other internal pages. Point taken re your last comment.

All the best.

Richard

Hi guys,

A website has many venue pages, for example:

www.example.com/venue/paris

For some reason the parent www.example.com/venue/  is 301 redirecting to a minor page elsewhere on the website.

Should I remove the 301 redirect and then create www.example.com/venue/     page that then links to all the venues?

My thinking is:

• Google will expect there to be a /venue/ 'parent' page

• So if the parent page is redirecting to a minor page elsewhere within the website its telling Google all the venues like paris must be even less important.

Should I do it? Any suggestions from fellow SEOMoz's would be appreciated!

All the best

Richard

Hi Paul,

Can I ask a related question,

I am looking at a page within a website, it has this

I think the page has the nofollow as it contains a single link to an external website.

Would it be better to have the nofollow on the specific external link rather on the page?

Many thanks!

Richard

Thank you Peter, very clear information

All the best!

Richard

Many thanks Martijn, your help is much appreciated.

All the best

Richard

Hi, any help with this one would be great....

www.example.com sells widgets online. They are also promoted on a 3rd party website www.partner.com.

Currently www.partner.com links to a page on www.example.com that is completely branded with the 'partners' design, style and unique copy (you would think you were still on 'partner' website).

I saw this interesting article from 2011: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/getting-seo-value-from-your-affiliate-links (in particular idea 1)

Do you think adding a rel=canonical on www.example.com's partner page is still safe?

All the best & thank you,

Richard

Great stuff Matt, many thanks, much appreciated.

The B2B website has been live a few months, while the B2C website is just built and goes live in a few days.

I only started with them this week so no involvement in their decision to build a second website, however the B2B domain name would not be appropriate for a B2C market.

I would suspect in the months time they may integrate & redirect the B2B domain to the B2C domain (using 1:1 301's). Having just one domain would be much better for SEO (and day to day website management to).

Many thanks again Matt, you're a star!

Richard

Many thanks for that.

I was thinking perhaps there might be some hosting issues to be aware of?

Hi guys,

I work with a company that has a business to consumer (B2C) website and a business to business (B2B) website selling the same product.

The content will differ but the structure / templates will be similar across both sites.

Any recommendations or suggested reading to ensure both sites appear in Search?

Many thanks in advance!

Richard

Hi Barry & Andy Many thanks for the replies. Re registrar level - would that not remove the 1:1 301 redirects already in place? Re Webmaster change fo address - indeed, but I was holding off doing that till I had the home page issue sorted. Perhaps I should just do it? Many thanks once again guys!

Hi, the company has changed it's name so now under a different domain. All pages have been 301 redirected on a 1:1 basis apart from the home page. For some reason IT cannot 301 redirect the old home page to the new website home page. At suggestions? Perhaps canonical it? Meantime the old home page copy has been changed to say the company name has changed and a link to the new website. Any help greatly appreciated.

Hi Eric

I agree with Moosa the days of simply using Google Analytics to see a good picture of keywords is gone.

Have you looked at your Google Webmaster Tool?

In Webmaster tool goto 'Traffic' > 'Search Queries'. Here you will find useful information in terms of search terms, clicks, click through rate and average positions.

Here it is recommended you review the query list for expected keywords. Also compare impressions and CTR to identify how you can improve your content.

On the left hand side of this Webmaster Tool page click 'Search Queries' for more detailed info.

Hope you find it useful

Richard

Tom is very right - you cant have the best of both worlds with your current set up.

Your partners need to attract visitors on their site through content they write and publish - not yours.

All the best.

Richard

Hi Diane, just seen you are a 'journeyman' status so apologies if its likely to me my previous comment was simply telling you what you already know!

Best of luck in finding a fix,

RIchard

Hi Diane

Looking at page you mention I cannot see a meta description - its blank - therefore Google has no choice but to try and pick the most appropriate words from the page.

Bear in mind their is no guarantee Google will display the meta description - it will either pick the description or copy from the page - depending on which it thinks is most appropriate for your search.

On its own the meta description does not influence your position, however by being a powerful marketing message opportunity the better written ones may get more clicks... so being more popular may improve the position.

Sorry I dont know my way around Joomla so others are better to help you with the exact fix however hope the above may help in the direction you go.

Hi For 1: I would suggest a custom friendly 404 page. This means the user sees a page saying something like 'Sorry the product / page you were after no longer exists. Here are some useful options ( then list a handful of popular page links). You could even includes a site search or your tel number / email to contact. This means the user knows what has hppened, had somewhere useful to go but it returns a 404. For 2: If the page is being moved - use a 301 redirect on the existing page. If you are simply not selling that product anymore than do a 404 as above. In both cases monitor your GA and GWT for 404s and fix where applicable. All the best. Richard