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My company has an international website, and because of a technical issue visitors in one of our main countries cannot visits the "www" version of our site.

Currently, the www version is our preferred domain - and the non www redirects to that page.  To solve this problem, I was thinking of proposing the following and would greatly appreciate any feedback!

(Note: If you answered my www vs. non www question, thanks - this is a follow up)

1. Set non www site as the preferred version

2. Redirect from www to non www

3. Contact our current links and ask them to change to without “www”

4. Change canonical URLs to without “www”

Thanks for all your responses - I will use this as the basis of my answer to the technical team.

The canonical URLs (and all our link building efforts) is on the www version of the site.

However, the site is having a massive technical problem and need to redirect some links (some of which are very important) from the www to the non www version of the site (for these pages the canonical link is still the www version).

How big of a SEO problem is this?

Can you please explain the exact SEO dangers?

Thanks!

My company is planning on discontinuing one of the product lines we currently offer.  In terms of SEO, would it be better to implement a 301 redirect to a generic page page (such as the homepage or main product page), or to create a custom 404 page explaining that the product line with links to other pages (according to the most next viewed pages in Google Analytics).

Thanks!

All good questions.

Using version  WordPress 3.1

I'm new here so not sure if it ever worked

I asked in both places but all the recent posts say "pending admin approval" so I'm asking here also.

Thanks for your help!

I am working at a company that has had SEO All in One installed on our Wordpress blog for awhile, but the Meta data is not being published.

When looking at a draft of the post the fields are automatically filled with the blog post (I would like the possibility of manually changing the meta sometimes).

However, regardless of that the Meta titles, etc.. on the live site are blank and don't use what is written in the SEO All in One pack at all.

Any suggestions for me?

Thanks!

So does that mean if they don't have PR fixing them should not be a priority?

I want measure my ranking for keywords in various countries and search engines. If I use a tool such as rank checker to determine my rank for google.uk, google.au.com, etc... is that accurate, or does my IP still affect the rankings I see? If I use a VPS such as Hide My Ass (or another product you would recommend), would that make my ranking results more accurate? I also want to measure my ranking in Russia, where Yandex is very strong so a tool to measure my Yandex ranking + Google would be ideal. What method you would recommend to accurately determine my rankings in different countries? Thank you!

301 redirects are clearly preferable to 302 redirects for pages that need to be indexed by search engines.

If I have 302 redirects to minor pages not getting much traffic regardless of the code, how important (if at all) is changing the redirects to 301?

Thanks!

The current SEO strategy for my company blog is to include a percentage of short tail keywords in each blog post, and not to link to the main site because they are concerned with diluting the blog.

I would like to change the strategy and instead use the blog to promote long tail keywords by having each entry focus on around a different long tail keyword.  I would also like to use the short-tail keywords for internal linking to strengthen our important pages with keyword rich anchor text (no more than 1 link per 100 words).

I would love the advice of the SEOMoz community about which strategy is more effective (or if there is something else entirely we should be doing).

Thanks!

Google will understand the translated words, but you will probably not attract the right type of traffic if your keyword and landing page language don't match.

Before writing the question on SEO Moz I leaning towards a subdomain for the exact same reasons you listed here.  However, based on the input below it seems as if links and PR can be passed from both a subdomain and subdirectory.

Do you disagree?

The numbers don't show up in SERPs, but when crawling the page it seems to be mostly numbers (on most pages of the site).  Did you see broken internal or external links? Thanks!

The numbers come first because of design and because they are more likely to convert than starting with text (even though in a word document they wouldn't make much sense)

The numbers come first because of design and because they are more likely to convert than starting with text (even though in a word document they wouldn't make much sense)

Most pages on my website contain many numbers above the actual text on the page.  This is useful for users and looks good on an actual view of the page.  However, when a bot reads the page it appears as rows of numbers with a few sentences at the bottom of the page.

Does having these number have a negative SEO effect? If so, should I change them to something such as an image so they aren't readable by search engines?

My company's blog is currently a sub directory - www.site/blog.com but for technical ease we are considering changing it to a sub domain - www.blog.site.com.

What are the SEO ramifications of each?

Thank you!

Best,

Sara