Questions
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What to do about pages I have deleted?
I agree with Thomas and Anthony, the best solution would be to move to a hosting provider that can give you the functionality you need. I'm not crazy about using meta refresh tags for anything, but Anthony's solution of using rel=canonical with the meta refresh would be an easier workaround than either redirecting through DNS or changing hosting providers. Specifically regarding your singagrams/singing telagrams page: I would not recommend creating a second page about the same content just to target variations of a keyword. That would be a pretty classic example of doorway pages, which Google has said they will be cracking down on. Instead, work to build the topical authority of the existing page for both singagrams and singing telegrams.
On-Page / Site Optimization | | RuthBurrReedy0 -
Inbound external links
Ah thank you the webmaster tools list reads much more healthier, so that's good. The link I was talking about was in the hotfrog directory, in the correct category, with photos and video too, and lots of unique text I wrote about my products and services and it shows up in webmaster tools too thanks for answering
Moz Tools | | singingtelegramsuk0 -
New pages on my web site
As Ryan mentioned, OSE is updated on a schedule. Our next update is scheduled for March 11th. We try to update it -- barring any technical difficulties -- at least once a month.
Moz Tools | | EricaMcGillivray0 -
Rel=canonical
http://www.domain.com is the same as www.domain.com. http is the protocol in which web pages are formatted and sent and would be part of any "complete" URL. So to answer your question, if there are no redirects in place you can choose either the non www or www version for your canonical tags. However if you are looking to consolidate to a particular version I would look at updating your htaccess file to create a redirect rule from one version to the other. #Force non-www to www: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC] or #Force www to non-www: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | MickEdwards0 -
How to Interpret results in OSE?
You're in the clear using a Google custom search box because Google is the one delivering the results so they know not to double up on those. You're right that the pages that are getting indexed in Google on the other site are from a different process and an attempt to trick the engine with sparse, dynamically generated content. Hint? Huh? I'm not nearly that clever. Cheers!
Local Strategy | | RyanPurkey0