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Hi there,

Can anyone let me know what I need to add to my .htaccess file to make sure that the trailing slash on my domain gets redirected to my main domain name.

For example, at the moment Google is seeing my primary domain as follows:

http://www.mydomain.com

http://www.mydomain.com/

I thought I'd covered off all possible duplication penalities but it look as though I've still got one left!

Thanks very much for your help,

Simon

Morning all - I've been using Open Site Explorer a fair bit since I signed up to SEOMoz a couple of months ago and found it to be a little different to other tools in the past, so would welcome some thoughts on what I should be looking for when I run reports.

For example, I've always thought that Outbound links should be important when deciding whether to place a link on a a particular site, but in OSE I'm only given a Page Ranking and a Domain Ranking.

Am I therefore to understand that these two factors outrank OBL and that the number of links on a page don't matter? Or have these been factored into the overall Page rank already?

Thanks a lot for your help,
Simon

Hi Axel - thanks for the response.

What about if you're starting out on a new site though? Would you go with the amended URL structure or the more traditional one?

Hi there,

Over the last few years, I've seen people structuring their site so that their main content is all housed in a folder named after the site's primary keywords.

For example, if I had some content about home insurance, normally naming conventions state that I might put the content at a URL such as:

www.mydomain.com/home-insurance

However, some sites, may change this structure to include their main keyword again in the URL string:

www.mydomain.com/insurance/home-insurance

The folder 'insurance' would normally hold the site's Sitemap to increase internal linking strategy too.

I'd be really interested to hear whether anyone has seen any serious benefits from re-structuring their site in this way? What are your thoughts on this?

Thanks,

Thanks very much for your he Cyrus. I'll give the tools you mention a go. Have a great Christmas

Afraid not (or at least not that I know of) - it's just a question of being patient I'm afraid. There's no way of getting Google to respond any quicker than it does.

Thanks for the reply, but it's not really about duplicate content - the mobile page would just contain a list of affiliate links with a brief description of each as opposed to an exact replica of the standard page.

I guess I'm just wary that if users are re-directed to a mobile page then the non-mobile page which is ranking for iPhone betting (in the example above) may suffer.

Ok, seeing as I'm getting to the end of my first week as a Pro Member, I'm getting more and more feedback regarding the pages on my site.

I'm slightly concerned though that, having logged in this morning, I'm being shown 407 warnings for pages with 'Too Many On Page Links.'

According to the blurb at the top of the page, 'Too Many' is generally defined as being over 100 links on a page ... but when I look at the pages which are being thrown up in the report, none of them contain anywhere near 100 links.

I seriously doubt there is a glitch with the tool which has led me to think that maybe there's an issue with the way my site is coded. Is anyone aware of a coding problem that may lead Google and SEOMoz to suspect that I have a load of links across my site?

P.S. As an aside, when this tool mentions 'Too Many Links' is it referring purely to OBL or does it count links to elsewhere on my domain too?

Cheers,

Morning all - I've been getting a bit of traffic recently for mobile phrases, so am thinking of putting a mobile optimised page on my site which users will be automatically directed to when they visit my site.

My question is though, how will this affect the rankings of those current pages which are trying to target mobile users.

For example, let's say I've got a page at www.betting.com/iphone which is ranking really well for those users looking to place a few bets on their iPhone.

Once I stick my mobile optimised page up anyone clicking through to this URL will be re-directed to a generic mobile landing page at a different URL.

Is this likely to effect my rankings of the original www.betting.com/iphone page at all given the fact that all visitors are being immediately  re-directed elsewhere?

Thanks very much for your help

Ok, I'm still only on my second day as a SEOMoz Pro member so I've obviously got a whole lot of learning still left to do.

However, I still wanted to post up a question here that seems to have occurred time and time again today.

The thing is when I've been link building in the past, I've been looking for high PR pages with not many OBL. Having watched a few of the seminars and played around with OpenSiteExplorer though, it seems that I might have got my priorities wrong.

OSE for example seems to only look at the strength of the domain and the page within that domain ... and I'm assuming that OBL aren't too important in calculating a page's strength given that a lot of the links I see my competitors have built up are technically stronger despite being on a page with around 12 or 15 other links.

So I guess my question is, should I be ignoring PR rankings and numbers of links on a page and throwing my trust totally behind OSE? Are they really no longer that important?

Thanks a lot for your help.

Hi Diane - I'm not quite sure whether these articles have links pointing back to your site or not but one popular way of promoting them would be to have a section on your homepage where you can list the various publications that your site has appeared in.

If you wanted to, you could include a link to the specific article so that visitors to the site can read what other people have written for themselves. However, the main benefit of this would be to increase both the brand and trustworthiness of your own site.

It doesn't have to be particularly huge, but even a small box down one side of your site listing the logos of the various publications you've appeared in can increase conversion fairly impressively.

Hope that helps!