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Hi

Website A is moving to Website B.

Website A has a number of PDFs - obviously I cant do a '301 redirect' on them. Any suggestions what to do with the PDFs?

Many thanks in advance

Nigel

Hi Artaviaseo, many thanks for the quick reply. That is great!

Have a good weekend

Nigel

Hello

My company's website is moving domain, all pages are staying the same.

So www.abc.com/winter will become www.xyz.com/winter

Should I:

A) Use the same Google analytics tracking code to the new website?

For example UA-1234567-1

OR

B) Set up new tracking code so it would look something like this: UA-1234567-2

If I did A) then in Analytics reports I'll see both the before and after domain move.

Many thanks in advance!

Nigel

Hi Devanur

Many thanks for the reply and the information. That is very good of you.

Kind regards

Nigel

Hi there,

My company website has 3 main sections, two of those sections (each containing approx. 50 pages) will be moving to a separate website.

The new website will also be owned by the same company. The new domain does not yet exist.

I read this guide http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-guide-how-to-properly-move-domains , its very good, however it refers to moving the whole domain to a new URL.

Are there any specific differences to consider in my situation for a partial move?

Many thanks in advance!

Nigel

Hi Cale, just to clarify re picking either www or non www - if you have a long domain name than having an extra 3 characters (www) just makes it even longer.

So if someone tweets or you do a say a newspaper advert then generally the shorter the 'address' is the better due to the physical limitations of characters.

Hope your busy period goes well!

Nigel

Hi

Indeed www.example.com/house has no content. There are a number of pages like this where the parent has no content but the child does. (something historical by the person who set up the website, not ideal)

Interesting though, some of the empty parent pages are being indexed even though they are empty.

I was thinking these parent pages are useless to visitors so if the company does not plan to add copy them then best noindex them...

Would you agree?

thank you

Hi, sorry its a Friday question...

Page A: www.example.com/house/

Page B: www.example.com/house/kitchen

Can I 'no_index' page A without it effecting page B being indexed?

Views?

Many thanks!

You mention not chosen your preferred domain - I assume you mean in Webmaster tool

Setting it to say 'www' will mean if Google finds links to the non-www then those will be attributed to the www version.

You do need to registrer your ownership of both www and non-www in Webmaster tool to do this.

Consider carefully whether you pick www or non www if you do mobile / social where every character counts.

In terms of 301's - do you expect to hit targets over your busy period if you do nothing else to sort the problem? If so then perhaps focus your time on conversions of existing traffic, then do the rest when things are not so busy.

Nigel

Hi Irving

Thank you for your reply. You mention a good point regarding the sitemap.xml!

If I was to 301redirect pages A & B to a new page eg www.website.com/dog/walk/ then how would I also canonical A & B to the new page?

Surely once I have 301'd the A & B pages will be dead and redirecting traffic to the new page.

Kind regard and my apologies for any confusion.

Nigel

Thank you Highland & Donford.

Re my 3rd question, can I just clarify, should I  now 301 redirect both A & B  URLs to a new URL say www.website/com/dog/walk   ?

Many thanks!

Hi

Have a look at this very recent Webmaster video from Matt Cutts.

http://youtu.be/hy3_Rjc0Tso

Hope this gives help!

Nigel

Hi ,I did a SEOmoz Crawl Test and found most pages show twice, for example:

A:  www.website.com/index.php/dog/walk

B:  www.website.com/index.php/dog/walk/

I've checked Google Analytics and 90% of organic search traffic arrives on the URLs with the trailing slash (B).

Question 1: Can I assume I've a duplicate content problem?

Question 2: Is it best to do 301 redirects from the 'non trailing slash' pages to the 'trailing slash pages'?

Question 3: For some reason every web page has a '/index.php' in it (see A&B) above. No idea why. Should it be a SEO concern?

Kind regards and thank you in advance

Nigel

Hi guys

We are launching a new product, the web pages are being built by a 3rd party and fall outside our current CMS.

We're considering either hosting it on 1) sub domain 2) folder within existing site (although will be tricky to implement) or 3) a different URL altogether.

What would you say is the best for SEO?

Many thanks in advance....

Nigel

Many thanks everybody, thats great....

All the best

Richard

Hi, I 've pages like this:

A) www.example.com/file/

B) www.example.com/file

Just two questions:

1. Does Google see this as duplicate content?

2. Best to 301 redirect B to A?

Many thanks

Richard

PS I read previous threads re the subject, it sounded like there was a bug in SEOMoz but I was not absolutely clear. Apologies if this is going over old ground.

Hi  Ben & Robert

Many thanks again.

I have now found at least two more websites the big company has done this on ie ditched the original small company web pages and content for a copy of the Big company web pages content.

In each case the small company sitemap.xml lists the big company pages BUT many of those are wrong URLS.

I think I'll take my time on this....

Cheers

Richard

Hi Robert, many thanks for taking the time to write a reply (and to Ben to)

Re your points, I have only just started with BIG company.

Your 'before and after' is how I assume it was. They must have done then change about 7 months ago.

I tired Archive.org but nothing much indexed and has redirects on it. Both websites had a legal notice overlay appear that had to be accepted before seeing the content.

On small.com the sitemap.xml is listing all the big URLs, its using 0.9.

OSE has approx 40 inbound links from sites with 20-30 page authority and 30-40 domain authority.

I will try Xenu link sleuth as you mention (I'll dig out my old Windows PC first!)

I suspect as you mentioned in the caveat, might be better to just turn off small!

Many thanks again

Richard

Hi

Before my time, company big.com took over company small.com.

They decided to replicate big.com web pages onto small.com - so both websites have identical pages and copy, just different domains.

Within the small.com sitmap.xml they list only big.com urls.

They are also using big.com google analytics tracking code on small.com.

I have no idea what happened to the original content on small.com or if they put 301 redirects on.

I am thinking: do a 301 redirect on small domain to big domain. A) Agree?

Small domain is likely to have valuable historic inbound links which are now going to 404 pages.

After I do the 301 should these then appear in big.com SEOMoz campaign and on big.com webmaster tool for me to fix? B) Views?

Or should I get up webmaster tool on small.com and fix that first? C) Views?

Many thanks in advance guys, sorry its a long statement!

Richard

Many thanks for the quick replies guys. That's a great help!

All the best

Richard