I am migrating a WP site from one domain to another for a client. WP is installed at the root.

Typically I would simply issue a 301-redirect for the entire domain, however, in this case, the client wants the content in 2 specific subfolders to remain live on the old site and have everything else redirected. Example:

olddomain.com/subfolder-1/

olddomain.com/subfolder-2/

Question: what would the the htaccess code look like to pull this off?

Thanks!

Hey there fellow Mozers!

I have an interesting situation at hand.... I am migrating a Zen Cart site to Open Cart. There are approximately 2,000 urls that need to be mapped over.

ZenCart urls currently appear similar to:

catalog/category-1/subcategory-3/product.htm

Where OpenCart urls appear similar to:

index.php?route=product/product&product_id=1234&search=product

Can anyone suggest an htaccess approach or any other ideas to pull this off without too many major SERP blips?

Thanks!!!

Hi Oleg,

Thank you for the informative response!

I am so new to aspx, I am not familiar with IIS either, but I do understand what you are referring to

Dino

Hey folks,

I am about to dive into my first ASPX project.

Nearly every link on the home page results in a pop-up window displaying the related page content. Despite this quirky approach to IA and UX... a quick crawl test reveals good accessibility with very few Client Errors and no Server Errors.

Questions (to those with ASPX experience, please):

1.) In dealing with aspx, is there anything I paying particular attention to?

2.) Are redirects handled with htaccess?

3.) Since the crawl test pulled the urls and meta descriptions related to the aforementioned "pop-up" pages - is it safe to assume the content in the pop-up pages is also being accessed by the search bots?

Thanks for your input - much appreciated?

Hey Marcus,

Thanks for the thoughtful response - much appreciated!

I was aware of WhiteSpark's citation tool, but wasn't aware that they had collaborated to form citationlabs - very cool - I am experimenting with it at the moment. Naturally, many leads arrive at dead-ends, but no one said link prospecting was easy - right?

Hi Marcus,

Thank you for the response. I am looking for methods to find the candidate sites other than the obvious search queries (e.g. intitle: "key phrase" )

As for the the suggestions offered once the candidate sites have been identified; I agree completely, and have already branded prominent social accounts in anticipation of  "spreading the word" so to speak

Dino

One of my clients is a physician and I have achieved excellent SERP positioning for multiple targeted terms, but need to build a bit more domain authority in hopes of climbing one or two more positions and bumping a strong local competitor.

I am segueing into the the off-page SEO work  and was wondering if anyone would be willing to share their favorite search queries or tips for seeking-out potential citation or back link sources on .org or .edu sites which are relevant to my client's area of expertise?

Thanks!

That makes perfect sense. I think I will try instructing webmaster to ignore the variable as you initially suggested. It's the quickest approach

Thank you very much for your time and wisdom - much appreciated!

Dino

Hi Mat,

Thanks for the response!

I am really trying to understand what is occurring here and how to remedy via js or htaccess.

Can you please provide further insight?

Thank you.

I recently created a cname  (e.g. m.client-site .com) and added some js (supplied by

mobile site vendor to the head which is designed to detect if the user agent is a mobi device or not. This is part of the js:

var CurrentUrl = location.href var noredirect = document.location.search; if (noredirect.indexOf("no_redirect=true") < 0){ if ((navigator.userAgent.match(/(iPhone|iPod|BlackBerry|Android.*Mobile|webOS|Window

Now... Webmaster Tools is indicating 2 url versions for each page on the site - for example:

1.) /content-page.html

2.) /content-page.html?no_redirect=true

and resulting in duplicate page titles and meta descriptions.

I am not quite adept enough at either js or htaccess to really grasp what's going on here... so an explanation of why this is occurring and how to deal with it would be appreciated!

It was not a "test" server; rather, a temporary url (prior to updating DNS) to the actual client account on the host server.  All development pages were deleted, which is why I was looking for a method to accomplish this via htaccess, but it's not looking promising...

UPDATE

I discovered I only needed to remove the numerical portion of the IP address and then form like a normal 301 Redirect.

Example:

Redirect 301 /~accountname/folder/page.html /folder/page/html

As usual, I was over-complicating things

Hope this helps someone. And, thanks for your suggestions Aran.

Sure! I would like to redirect the temporary url Google indexed (with the server IP in it above) to the correct page name on the now live domain.

For example: client-site.com/new-page-name.html

I am quite familiar with 301's which direct to a new page location/name - however, the IP address and the fact that it's not actually a domain is tripping me up a bit.

Thanks!

I was performing some development work on a client's site recently under a temporary location on the host's server, for example:

http://11.22.33.444/~accountname/folder/page.html

Google managed to index a couple of pages using this url

I have updated DNS to the correct domain and the site is live, but I am a bit confused in regards to the correct way to create a 301 Redirect for this example or at least a way point it to our 404 page.

I am hoping someone more proficient with htaccess can help me out a bit...

Thanks!

I am new to Wordtracker and  would like to call upon experienced users to help me with sorting data.

Lets say I have developed half a dozen niches from a single top-level category or seed keyword. What approach do you use to pull all of the data together and eliminate overlapping keywords from the separate niches? Do you combine all of the exported csv's into one spreadsheet first?

Thanks for your input!

Hi Miriam,

Thank you for your insight. As a matter of fact, I took a quick look in OSE a short while ago to see if I could pinpoint a citation source formatted the same. I found only one utilizing the domain url (except it contained the http://www prefix and my client's listing does not). I plan to investigate a bit more with a different tool set later. If I find anything interesting, I will let you know.

Hey! Looks like we are neighbors! Fantastic website you have - nice job!

Dino

I can't see the benefit either. As you know, the only traffic would be be from a direct type-in (assuming it's a keyword rich domain). Given that there is no content, there is likely little risk of getting dinged for duplicate content. Could be your client simply does not want a competitor to register the domain?

While I am not familiar with Magento specifically; principal concepts of on-page optimization should hold true.

I wouldn't worry about an exact match (and whether or not someone is going to query that exact term) in your H1 tags, rather, keep your keywords toward the front and even include variants of the page title tag. Similar to the meta description, the H1 no longer contributes a strong search ranking signal, but should definitely be utilized in structuring  taxonomies of information on the site.

For example, if those tabs fall below an H2 or H3 on your page, I wouldn't place the H1 in that position. As a matter fact, I wouldn't place the H1 there, period. As you know, the H1 is meant to be used as a heading tag and to provide a weighted emphasis to content that is to follow. Stick to using the H1 as it was intended to be used and produce copy for your audience.

Perhaps you could have your developer remove the H1 from wrapping your category or product, and instead, parse a configurable H1 attribute as the first line when viewing the information contained "Product Details" tab.

Just an idea...

Thanks for the response.

Nope. Fortunately, my client doesn't touch the site and doesn't care to

It would appear that G's title crafting is applicable to situations where the title is malformed. Not the case here... I formed the titles on-topic, concise, no repetition of keywords and branding at the end.

In spite of the fact that it "looks" strange a midst the competitor's listings, it actually stands-out - especially being in the #1 position. Perhaps we are just one of the "lucky" experimental subjects

So I spotted something a little weird... one of my client's Google Local placements in blended results has the domain name - complete with the .com extension appearing where the business name typically appears:

Businessxyz.com

www. businessxyz .com

of Google reviews

Has anyone seen this? I setup their Google Places account quite some time ago and used the business name - not the url. I also setup their Google+ and Local page - using the name. None of the page titles on the website contain the url. I simply can not pinpoint where G is pulling this from or why for that matter. All competitors are appearing with business name - only my client has the domain name visible for the particular local search query.

Any ideas?

From Google's perspective on the matter, both versions of the url are treated equally; therefore, I can't surmise why they wouldn't pass the same amount or link juice.

An excellent discussion regarding the the two versions of the url may be treated differently by redirects or how they may effect user experience can be found on the Webmaster Central Blog:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html

Hope this helps.