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I agree thank you.

However, does it seem bizarre or normal to you that a site ranking hasn't changed even 6 months after its structure has been redone.

I understand now, what you meant is that they don't push all the data live at once ? is that correct ?

Google crawls everything when they crawl a site. However how many pages they crawl each day is a different story.

Google then ranks a site according to external and internal structure.. external is done "live", internal is calculated fairely quickly ( at least I think ) but " Pushed live " very rarely...

Has anyone any information on that ( time frame )

I am probably asking a question that only someone working for google can answer... but i am still giving it a try in case someone had luck and can answer this multi-million dollar question

How often does google update the internal linking structure of a website ?

Thank you,

That is what I thought but how do I redirect those knowing that they don't exist on my joomla website anymore ?

Thank you and is blocking javascript bad ? ( I was thinking about submenus )

I use joomla and I have blocked the following in my robots.txt is there anything that is bad for seo ?

User-agent: *

Disallow: /administrator/

Disallow: /cache/

Disallow: /components/

Disallow: /images/

Disallow: /includes/

Disallow: /installation/

Disallow: /language/

Disallow: /libraries/

Disallow: /media/

Disallow: /modules/

Disallow: /plugins/

Disallow: /templates/

Disallow: /tmp/

Disallow: /xmlrpc/

Disallow: /mailto:myemail@myemail.com/

Disallow: /javascript:void(0)

Disallow: /.pdf

I have redesigned my website with new web address over 6 months ago and in the google webmaster tools it still shows my old urls with a reponse code 404 and still crawls those pages.

How do I make sure they don't appear anymore in the webmaster tool and don't get crawled anymore ?

or should I do a re-direct ?

Thank you,

I was wondering if a 301 redirect will improve my ranking.

My subpages use to redirect to my homepage ( all the subpages of my site redirecting to my homepage) and my homepage use to have no redirect from non www.to www. ( other than thru google webmaster tools. I am sure why it was like this for my subpages...

I was wondering if I can expect some improvements in ranking now that the redirect goes from the none www. to the www version of each subpage and not to the homepage.

By the way what was the issue ( was I telling google ) by re-directing all my subpages to the homepage ? was I making google think that my subpages and my homepage were all the same ? was I sending all the link juice from the subpages to my homepage ? etc...

Thank you,

I just did a test typing my company name followed by what I sell
Let's say  "company green widgets "

I noticed that my webpage ( which is a subpage ) doesn't appear 1 st on google when i type that keyword....

Either some website that talks about my product appears or my homepage appears.

Why is that ?

Could it be a canonicalization issue ?

Thank you,

Thank you but which page might be viewed as duplicate content , the homepage or the subpage ?

is there a way for me to know if it is viewed as duplicate content by google ?

One last thing :

I also noticed that on our website we have webpages like this one

http://www.mywebsite.com/new/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=37

that are still accessible even though our real page is ranked in google is :

www.mywebsite.com/mywidget.html

Is that an issue ?

Thank you,

yes it does but what is the potential issue ?

Thanks George for your reply.

If it is not causing a duplicate content issue couldn't it be causing a SEO issue where google sees

www.mywebsite.com/my-sub/page.html  and mywebsite.com/my-sub/page.html as 2 different pages ?

Thank you,

I was looking at the subpages of my website www.mywebsite.com/my-sub/page.html and i noticed that when I type mywebsite.com/my-sub/page.html  ( without the www.) in front it I get re-directed to the homepage.

Is that a known issue of joomla and does it mean that google cache both version of my site causing site wide duplicate content ?

Thank you,

That is what I though. However, is the on page optimization only valuable for long tail key phrases that are not requested very often ?

I was looking at which websites ranks in the TOP 3 for the keyword "computers"...

I noticed that first is wikipedia and then there are Dell and Apple...

I then did an on page report card and I noticed that wikipedia has a grade A (which is great )

However, Apple has an F ( which sucks !! ) but there still rank out there.

My question is why is Apple ranking for the keyword computers with no tiitle, no URL, no H1, no body, no B/Strong... when wikipedia has all of that and the term " computers " occurs 290 times on its page...

Is is due to the fact that apple has millions of external links and is that enough to rank even with an " irrelevant " page ?

By the way I have noticed that on other keywords such as " bicycle ".

Wikipedia is ranking 1 st and then sites like www.trekbikes.com are out there but they shouldn't based on their homepage "optimization ".

I know there are other factors but I am just trying to figure why such sites ( like apple or trek bikes ) rank out there.

Thank you,