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Sure, without /category/ in the URL structure I can't block Googlebot using the robots.txt

No problem, now I can use the noindex for all the posts.

Thank you so much Oleg.

Regards,

• MIke

Hi Oleg, thanks for your help.

I did just some tests and does it seems to work fine.

Do you think is possible to block Google bot to indexing all the post of a category?in this way (disallow/ in the robots.txt) I could save the Google crawle budget for the pages of my site that I want to index.

Thanks a lot for your help Oleg.

Have a nice weekend,- Mike

Hi everyone!

I would like no-indexing all the posts of a specific category of my wordpress site.

The problem is that the structure of my URL is composed without /category/: www.site-name.ext/date/post-name/
so without /category-name/

Is possibile to disallow the indexing of all the posts of the category via robots.txt?

Using Yoast Plugin I can put the no-index for each post, but I would like to put the no-index (or disallow/) a time for all the post of the category.

Thanks in advance for your help and sorry for my english.

• Mike

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a review for my new site www.interlive.it

Could you please let me know what do you think about the work that I did for my site.

I'll be very happy to receive your suggestions.

Regards,

• Mike

Thank you so much Tommy!

Hi Tommy, sorry for my english, I'll do my best to explain you why I would like to change the structure of my site.

I think that for SEO is better to have the category index and push it is better than tag. The main problem is that at the moment my site has 61.000 tag more of them with zero post in: don't you think that it means bad content for Google?

Also, don't you think that it means high bounce rate?

Thanks for your advice and have a nice day!

Hi Oleg, thanks for your answer.

So what's your final suggest?

Have a nice day.

Hi David, thanks for your answer.

I usually use the plugin Wordpress Seo By Yoast to "Strip the category base (usually /category/) from the category URL" but in this case I'm not able to use it because It makes conflict with the pages url.

Regards.

Hi all,

I would like to ask you what's the better way to eliminate the slug /category/ form the wordpress category pages. I need to delete the slug /category/ to make the url seo frendly. The problem is that my site is an old site with the page indexed by Google for a long time.

Thanks for your advice.

Hi everyone,

I need to update the structure of my site www.chedonna.it

Basicly I've two main problems:

1. I've 61.000 index tag (more with no post)2. The category of my site are noindex

I thought to fix my problem making the category index and the tag noindex, but I'm not sure if this is the best solution because I've a great number of tag idexed by Google for a long time.

Mybe it is correct just to make the category index and linking it from the post and leave the tag index.

Could you please let me know what's your opinion?

Regards.

Hello,

I have been a member of the Moz community for a long time. I very seldom ask questions here but this time I really need your help to make sure I will not make mistakes that will negatively affect my site. My site monetizes according to the number of impressions visualized by the users who visit it. I now want to try to optimize it by using all those nice SEO techniques I have learned through Moz. My goal is to make sure that if I use the various SEO strategies, I will still be able to obtain the high number of impressions I get now. If not, I prefer to leave the situation untouched and I will not start optimizing the site for SEO. Please kindly read the situation below and give me a little support to make sure I am doing the right thing.

I would like to ask for your professional advice to solve and issue related to duplicate content. Please visit my site: www.chhedonna.it. The sitemap has indexed 21.890 articles, but if I digit the command 'site:www.chedonna.it', I obtain 158.000 results.I believe that the duplicated content has emerged due to three errors I would like to indicate in order for you to tell me whether my interpretation is correct or not:

1. The article writers made a mistake in that although the content of the articles is different, they have employed the same title for all of them. Therefore, you can see 5 articles with similar/duplicated Tag Titles but the content of said articles is different. For example, http://www.chedonna.it/attualita/cronaca-rosagossip/2012/12/03/heidi-klum-senza-trucco-e-parrucco-foto and http://www.chedonna.it/attualita/cronaca-rosagossip/2012/12/03/heidi-klum-senza-trucco-e-parrucco-foto-2/ are different articles (i.e., the content of the articles is different from each other) that have been published using the same titles.

If I inserted the 'follow-noindex' tag to 3 of the 4 duplicates, as shown in the example above, would that be a solution? I fear that if I did insert the follow-noindex, I would cause a drop in the number of impressions visualized by my site's users. It is important to point out, in fact, that I monetize the site via the number of impressions I generate. Therefore, it is fundamental that I do not compromise the number of impressions that the site gets, if I try to optimize it for SEO reasons. On the other hand, I believe that the idea to operate via a 'rel canonical' would not be right, considering that the content of every post having the same title is different, that is, the articles are different even if they focus on the same topic. Also, I would not find it beneficial to use a '301 redirect', since the number of duplicated Titles Tags is very consistent.

2. The second error concerns the duplicate content due to the images that have been included in the articles. For instance, http://www.chedonna.it/che-donna-di-mondo/fare-la-valigia/2012/08/06/campeggio-vacanza-in-liberta/attachment/tenda/

http://www.chedonna.it/che-donna-di-mondo/fare-la-valigia/2012/08/06/campeggio-vacanza-in-liberta/attachment/tenda-2/

http://www.chedonna.it/che-miss/2012/12/04/tatuaggi-fiore-di-loto-significato-e-foto/attachment/tatuaggio-fiore-di-loto-2/

http://www.chedonna.it/che-miss/2013/03/15/tatuaggi-fiore-di-loto-significato-e-foto-2/attachment/tatuaggio-fiore-di-loto-2-2/.

I could solve this problem by preventing the media indexing. But I fear that this would produce a very high number of '404 error' messages. If such a thing did happen, my site would stop monetizing overall and I cannot allow this to occur, as you can understand. My very important question is the following: if I prevent the indexing of the photos, will I get in return a drop in the number of impressions that my site would normally generate?

3. Duplicate content generated by the indexing of archive subpages. For example:

http://www.chedonna.it/tag/angelica-e-ferdinando/

http://www.chedonna.it/tag/angelica-e-ferdinando/page2/

http://wwwchedonna.it/tag/angelica-e-ferdinando/page3/

If I prevented the media indexing, will I get in return a drop in the number of impressions and many 404 errors?

Thank you very much for taking the time to help me sort out this very important issue.

Cheers,

• Sal

Hello,

I am considering studying for the OMCP (Coached Master Certification) administered by Market Motive. I would like to hear from someone who has already obtained said certification. Do you consider it a good investment? Has the certification helped you land a job? Is  it true that the certification is recognized in the industry?

Thank you very much.

Hi Martin,

Thank you for the great reply. I'll follow your recommendations.

Cheers,

• Sal

Hi Ryan,

Thank you for your feedback and honesty. My idea is to build sites in fields that I am interested in, so that I can write good content about and try to earn links. I would like to create them focusing on keywords that are not too competitive, otherwise I will not stand a change to compete against the big guys.

Al best,

• Sal

Dear SEOmozzers,

I am focusing on those keywords I find using the "Keyword Analysis" tool that are not too competitive (among 20%-30% competitiveness). I then buy domains that include those keywords. The sites are in Italian and targeting the Italian search engines, so the competition is lower than it would be in the US. Basically, I'd like to build niche sites and I'd like to ask a few questions that I hope somebody with a good experience in this field can answer:

1. How do I optimize a niche site. Specifically, how do I go about link building? How many backlinks should I get to see some results?

2. How long does it take for a typical niche site to start appearing in the search engines for a certain keyword, after launching an effective link building campaign?

3. Please kindly provide any recommendations you believe to be important when building niche sites. For example, is there a company/professional you know that specializes in this field and who is trustworthy/reliable?

Thank you very much for your help.

All best,

• Sal

Thank you for your answer.

All best.

Merci mon frere. I'll follow your recommendation.