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I don't think it matters that much to be honest. I think Google treats a new blog on blogger.com with the same scepticism as a new domain. Only significant difference is probably the crawl rate - your blog on blogger.com should be crawled very quicky.

One more question: Is Cemper's tools based on an a priori crrawling like SEOmoz or a live crawling like Xenu?

Cool didn't knoe the tool could do it. ALways avoided the website as I do with most other keyword rich domain names

Hi mozzers,

I am currently working on a phd, and one of the professors asked me for help.

He would like to know how many Danish school websites (n=1500) links to a certain section of a government website (the relevant section has around 1600 pages). The problem is, that the government website is coded very poorly from an seo perspective with lots of strange URL variables, entailing OSE can't give valid data.

So, what would be the best way to check how many of the school websites link? Throw all 1500 website through Xenu, or is there a smarter solution? Maybe the link out feature on Bing?

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciate.

Thanks!

Hi Rishad,

To answer your second question first: I definitely prefer a manually curated list on twitter. Alternatively you can have one main twitter account with a currated list + a number of automated twitter accounts that send feeds from your vertical news segments.

I would simply start using your Twitter account the way it is supposed to be, and I am sure your followers will get back eventually. To speed things up, you could consider press releases, news stories and/or sponsored tweet that mentions your Twitter account was hijacked but is back - stronger than ever.

Good luck!

Thomas

Hi there

I don't really see any usability nor seo reasons for using English keywords in your folders. Why not just translate it all into German? That is, in my opinion, the best long term strategy.

You are probably considering keeping the folders in English because it is easier. But it is a thing you'd probably want to change eventually. So although it is a hassle, you can aswell get it done

Hah yes I noticed the same.

Ah okay - well I think the second order benefits are quite substantial. Even savvy web users get confuse when facing a URl with blanks in it. They look different and ugly when you paste them. So I would definitely make it a priority to get them changed to something prettier

I think Rand usually makes a very good point about non-pretty URLs: That there are some lost 2nd order benefits, because people find it hard to share them / link to them.

There is a great URL rewrite guide here that should help you edit the URLs easily: http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php

Obviously, all of us here use SEOmoz for our SEO effort. But what else do you guy use?

Ideally I'd only use one package. But there is no such thing as perfect software (I think..). So we all need to supplement the SEOmoz tools - but too many tools leave little time to getting things done..

I really like the Majestic backlink history tool, and I am very curious about Baxter's keyword research tool. And I use Xenu every now and then for crawling.

The only thing I don't understand about their claim is that it is "our latest intelligence". If that holds true, they are very slow catching industry news

301 is never perfect, but almost always the best way to keep rankings when moving content.

Wpuld also love to hear their elaboration of their latest intelligence.

I have a hard time deciding on this one. On some websites, I have seen Google adapting the breadcrumbs as microformats. But I have tried implementing them the exact same way on other, equally authoritative websites, without breadcrumbs showing up in SERPs. Annoying.

Anywho, I prefer to have bread crumbs both in the top and in the bottom if the pages are very long.

I think it is a great supplement to help uers and bots navigate / crawl the website, but it is no replacement for good network / contextual linking.

It is very hard to us them as absolute numbers, but they are great to show clients in competitive analyses.

Knowing their website has DA 71 might not say a lot. But if their nemesis have DA 73 they are going to be willing to spend ressourcing on link building.

I know its a very lo-fi solution, but I use a black moleskine notebook (pacman edition to be more precise) I carry around all the time.

One more thing: building a community and optimizing their contributions. That is the very future of SEO in my opinion.

I do that too! Only little problem with that is it often creates some significant bumps in link acquisition rates.

That blackhat is a really poor long term strategy

As Goodnewscowboy says, it is a matter of taste between rel canonical and 301.

My personal preference is to gather everything on the same domain (move the back end) and then do 301. Then all links point to the same domain and users (and staff!) are not confused about too many options.

Ooops I meant plugin - Wordpress Plugin

@SEOmoz - maybe an edit feature would come in handy - the same as available in the blog comments!?

Hi Bill,

In your new CMS, you can use this meta tag until you are ready to launch:

In regard to the old pages, 301 them to either the home page or the most relevant subpages. If there are MANY subpages, you can use a Wordpress login to do a quick and dirty redirect of all the URLs that don't occur in the CMS.

Well, thats what this q&a is for, isn't it?

Glad I could help