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Definately for the new one. Google may still display your url as it takes time for them to deal with the new one. Every time you link to a page and than you 301 redirect it you loose up to 10% of the incoming link juice: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection. So no matter google still has your old url, get your links to the new one in that campain.
MY page is a basic html page. I have already rewrited code, there are a handful of dom elemnts, css files sprited etc. PAge load time went from 230 milisec to 500 when I implemented the new features.
I think this should be the case, my page is a basic html at around 200kb. Thanks for the answer.
I don't know how aws sorks, I have juts coma accross Cloudfare as well, but that lets you keep your own domain, just offers additional wervers so you don't lose domain credit. I have not implemented it so far, but it looks good.
It is usually better to use 301 both from user and SE perpective.If you use 404 page you lost all your current rankings för those pages in google and all the linkj juice coming through those pages. Do not use 404 if you want to keep theye values. Here's an article that gives further points for your consideration: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/are-404-pages-always-bad-for-seo
Agreeing with Egol that if you are ranking well than something must be done right. If I had hierarhical categories maybe I would try to always link back to the upper category with the proper anchor, like if you have dresses -> prom dresses -> black prom dresses link bacj from black prom dresses to prom dresses with this anchor so that google knows that these are really two pages that need to be seperate however only differing in one word.
I once had a site where similarity of title tags came into play. It offered pizza for 23 districts and I tried with pizza deliverry 13th distirct than pizza delivery 14th district. Now that was obviously too little difference for google as 3-4 districts were displayed in the first few places of the serps, 10 were still on first page but the others were far left behind.
Look at the rankings for the pages with nearly the same title like black prom dresses and white prom dresses and pink prom dresses. If none of them is left far behind than titles are considered to be different.
I would definatley stop. There are a handful of directories worth paying only like yahoo. Have your mind rather around natural link baits. Few articles for brainstorming: http://www.seomoz.org/pages/search_results?q=link+building
Slow down. Purchasing links is a hazard by itself but if you do it in bulk way than it is rather worse than good. One metric google uses to determine the overall performance of a site on a timescale is to examine how many links were obtained, how many pages were added and are the metrics going up or down. Let's say you established a site and did not purchase links but wrote great content so that in the first times a few people referred your site than more and more. Look at these factors for wikipedia: http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=etm&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:hu:official&biw=1280&bih=642&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=MRX6PII6t9b_xM:&imgrefurl=http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tracking-temporal-trends-in-content-and-link-growth&docid=sFbIxikrHy1PlM&imgurl=http://www.seomoz.org/img/upload/wikipedia-link-trends.gif&w=386&h=276&ei=2m7RTomwFceH4gTazqxm&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=182&vpy=150&dur=5188&hovh=190&hovw=266&tx=113&ty=80&sig=103750002311831163798&page=1&tbnh=132&tbnw=189&start=0&ndsp=16&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0
It became popular and google sees it is still becoming more and more popular as more and more links and pages are added. Now how many links will you purchase for your site a year later to keep up this ratio?
Purchasing links is always a hazard. Most webmasters do not recommend that, if you happen to do that always look who you pay to. This rapid and enormous link growth seems a bit innatural.
I am thinking of implementing coral cdn to my site however I have serious doupts. It says you just add .nyud.net to the end of your urls. Now that is easy but in my read it totally masses up my url structure.How do you think google handles this? Does it handle that at all?
I would like to implement a free cdn as for that particular page. Does anybody know any free service good and free?
Anybody? Experience?
I have recently created a page and added expires headers, nonconfigured e-tags and gzip to htaccess code and just after that according to pingdom tools my page load time has doupled although my yslow ponts went from 78 to 92. I always get a lite bit lost with this technical issue. I mean obviously a site should not produce worse results with adding these parameters and this increase in page load time should rather be due to bandwith usage. I suppose I should leave this stuff in the htacces. Than what is an accurate way to know if you have done a real improvement to your site or your load time has really went up?
This question is more up to date with css sprites as I always read that sometimes spriting every picture is a waste of resources. How can you decide when to stop?
It is not a duplicate and definately good for readers. They read the description in the serp and than your content begins with the description they read so they are ensured they have arrived to the right place they can continue reading right from the point they have finished it. This method is also used with addwords adwertising.
Just simply redirecting them to your site will not carry seo benefit. You should vrite great content for them, market themindividually: eran links, do social etc and place conversion points that point to your site. The point is exact match domains is that it is easier to rank them in google for the exact term, but that means writing content, doing marketing: just like with any other site.
If you can see from the attached article there are pros and contras. I would always think twice to create another domain. In first place I would always want to make new content for my primary site. I don't know your budget but I think dealing with microsites are for those with big budgets.
Hello Justin,
Getting some (and definately not a significant amount) pagerank from parked domains and generating traffic on them are two different things.
If you build a html scheme let's say for the domains and try to write diferenet content for them, host them under different ip, you still have to make those pages visible to google so to add at least one-two links pointing to them. Having done all this stuff you have the chance that they may pass a little amount of link juice to your e-commerce stuff. These are still one page microsites with only few incoming links so they do not carry a significant value in google's eyes -> not able to pass significant value.
Consiering the time you spend writing those articles to publish on the domains I would rather turn that on blogging as blogs alrady have some traffic that can come through the links. Those links will carry more ranking value as well as google sees those as totally different authentic votes to your site.
i would only purchase additional domains if they are exatly matcing my search terms and those terms have a significant amount of traffic. That way maybe you can have youse of them. Otherwise I would publish every article under my main domain, so that users can find it easier and google sees that my site is regularly updated.
Here's a good article: http://www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/blog/do-microsites-work-for-seo/
Maybe I get your question wrong but you can examine inbound links of a given url with OpenSiteExplorer for example. You can also chechk bulk data by giving not one specifical url but a whole domain. Was that what you wanted or did I totally misunderstand it?
Just as First said.
One other reason to do this to have more page downloads if you are doing CPC adwertising, however it is definately not the case here.
I think these are two pretty good articles on link building you can get some ideas or use them for brainstorming:
http://www.seobook.com/archives/001792.shtml
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/link-building-from-a-to-z
But you can find a couple more in semoz blog:
Ehat Cms are you using? I had some hard time with joomla as engines somehow always found unpublished items and deleted urls. That can cause trouble. In wp if you have identical tags only relevant to one post that is again a great source of duplicates content. If your urls are available with and without www (that is not cms specific) again: duplicate content. If your urls are availabe with and without a slash in the end that is once again a duplicte. Look at the crawl diagnostic to see what are your duplicates and how could your CMS generate them?
neither works for me. my urls are still in domain.com/file.html format
Sorrry, I got it worng, than. No idea about google places
I don't know the exact answer to your question but one way to get to know this is to hit in your most competitive KWs, take the first three domains for each word, examine them in OpenSiteExplorer and list the most autorative domains. MAybe you are looking for those.
