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Hi,
Using 301 redirect on every page will be the best to help keep all the visitors from the old EMD domains to your new website. If you don't 301 them, they will land on a 404 page of the old domain and you will lose those visitors.
Furthermore, 301-ing everypage will also help with SEO by transfering all their link juice and etc to the new site. I see more benefit in 301 every site than not.
Yup, Don't mass delete. If you don't have a lot of links, check each link and see if it is a good site that links to you. It is possible that the site that linked to you may not have high PR but that site is a niche related to your site. Those can be good to generate quality traffic.
Hi Diane,
I don't think that is duplicate content. I used Wordpress before and that is the same way I used to create menus and sort articles.
You simply have articles and sorted out by categories but have multiple pages or ways to access that article. I don't believe that is duplicate content. Duplicate content is when you have the a chunk of content within your website that is similar. However, I don't see that on your website. What i see is you have an article, but can be accessed via the main page and the category page.
Hi,
If you believe that you have been penalized because of those low PR links, you can use the disavow tool and ask Google to not consider those sites. However, you have to use this tool with care. You should only use it if you are sure those sites affected you. Why? Even if those sites have low PR but they are not the reason for your decrease of rank and if you removed them, it might actually lower your rank more because you lost those low link juice.
Check out the Google Webmaster blog on how to use the disavow tool http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-new-tool-to-disavow-links.html
First, determine what is the real cause. Not all Low PR sites' link will harm your ranking.
Hope this helps.
Hi Tamra,
After you have submitted your txt with the disavow tool, Google should send you an email once they've reconsidered your appeal to remove all the bad link. Google' never gives you an exact number of days it takes them to do things, but most of the time it is based on the number of bad links you have and etc.
I found a YouMoz article and Duke Tanson waited for 38 days before he received Google's email. Furthermore, even after they removed the links, it will still take time before their system updates to reflect your new status.
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/googles-disavow-tool-works-penalty-removal
Check out the screenshot he attached at the bottom of his article.
Hope this helps.
Hi Samuel,
If you want your image to show up on your guest posts, you just have to add the same code you added on your site on your guest post. Most of the time you might have to contact the webmaster or owner of the site to add it for you. Once they added to code, you will also have to log into your Google+ account and add those website/blog to the "Contributor" section like you did for your website.
Hope this answers your question.
Hi,
So you want to add all the items from Store B to A then redirect B pages to the A pages. Then rebrand, create a new website and redirect A to the new site? It works and Google willl follow those 301s. But then things might get confusing in the future. Furthermore, if you keep redirecting, there will be a certain point where Google will stop crawling as noted in the artcile linked above. Furthermore, it will delay crawl time.
Instead of redirecting to A then redirect again. Why don't you rebrand first, then redirect from Store A and B to the new site. Then there will only be one redirection Google and other search engines need to follow. Furthermore, you will have less 301s to manage.
Hope this helps.
Hi Russell,
You can either purchse separate domains for each location or create separate pages for each city under the same domain. Both way works. But I would prefer using the same domain and create different pages for each location. This way, you will have all the backlinks/link juice to one website instead of having to build differetn backlinks for each website.
For each location, you can create a page and insert the location name in the URL so that Search Engines and visitors will know that that page is for that location. For example: www.sample.com/locationA/services/folder, www.sample.comlocationB/services/folder
Hope this helps. .
Before answering, there is some info that needs confirmation. Does Store A and B sell the same or similar products? Why?
If both stores sell different products, then you redirect store B's traffic to store A, then your bounce rate will increase dramatically since people want to buy store B's product but got directed to A which is different.
However, if they sell the same products, then it is definitely do-able. The best pracitce is that you should use 301 redirect on each page of store B website and redirect them to store A's pages that sell the same product. You want to direct people from viewing store B item 1 to store A item 1. Here is an article about Matt Cutts explanation on 301 redirects. http://www.mktdojo.com/matt-cutts-discusses-301-redirect-limits You don't want to redirect people to store A's home page when they want to check out a specific item. You should direct them to a similar page in Store A.
As for Risk and benefits, when you use 301 redirect, it won't transfer ALL link juice and authority but probably 99%. Another risk may be it will take Google longer to follow the 301 redirects and crawling speed. Some people might get confused, they want to visit store B but got directed to store A.
Hi Labici,
I don't really know your niche and industry so I simply went to Google's Keywords Tool and entered Screenshot and got a few keyword ideas that got pretty high search volume but low competition (long tail keywords).
Website Screenshot
screen shot software
screenshot program
Those 3 above are only examples. You can try it out yourself to find a some low competition but high search volume keyword ideas.
Furthermore, if you are a SEOmoz PRO member, you can use their keyword research tool to find keyword alternative or ideas as well.
For Amazon and other massive sites, they have both .com and .co.uk is because they are targeting different people from different locations with tthe site. The .com domain is targeting people in the US and .co.uk is for people in UK. Therefore, when people search for Amazon, the .com domain will be the one that appears in search engine while the .co.uk domain will appear in the results for people in UK searching for Amazon.
If you want to rank better in Google.com, then you can create a .com domain and for .co.uk you can create a new website with the .uk ccTLD or create a subfolder within your .com domain geotargeting UK.
Hi,
I believe the attached video from Rand's whiteboard friday answers all your questions.
4)>>>Which URL strategy is best choice from a SEO standpoint?<<<
for the best result, I find using a CCTLD will have the most benefits in search ranking for people in that country. If you use a France ccTLD, then it will have a higher ranking than the .com site if the searcher is in France.
3)>>>Do translated URLS have any mitigating affect on duplicate page content?<<<
Google mentioned in their webmaster blog that if the content is in a different language, it will not be considered as duplicate content. http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=182192
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Hi,
As of now, Google didn't say anything about having too many ads on a webpage will affect your SEO. However, based on the new search update in 2012, if you have a lot of ads at the top of your page and it takes a while to scroll down to your content, then that will definitely affect your SEO and domain authority.
In the future, having a lot of ads "Might" affect your domain authority and SEO. Just to be safe from future updates, I suggest having a balance between content and ads on your website.
http://www.mktdojo.com/another-google-seo-factor-page-layout-algorithm
I just want to add onto Takeshi's response. Google's Webmaster Blog has all the answers you need on how the Canonical Tag works.
A canonical tag is basically a tag you enter in the HTML to tell Google Bots that you want a page A to be indexed and not page B to avoid duplicate content.
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394
Hi Shawn,
1. If we put a video on YouTube and on our site via Wistia, how would that affect our rankings/authority/credibility? Would we get punished for duplicate video content?<<<<
I am wondering why don't you put your video on YouTube and then embed the YouTube video on your website. Won't that be better in terms of getting more traffic to your video on YouTube? Since YouTube is the 2nd largest Search Engine, I would rather upload videos there and optimize it for search on YouTube and Google. By embedding your video from YouTube, you can 1) get more views on the video, 2) increase traffic to the video and 3) increase video exposure to those who don't view videos on YouTube but visited your website
2. If we put a Wistia hosted video on our website twice, on two different pages, we would get hit for having duplicate content?<<<
I don't think I have enough knowledge in this but I believe that Search Engines can't crawl videos. I believe they use Title's, Tags, Descriptions and any sort of text. to determine a videos ranking. Based on what you did, I don't think that will cause duplicate content since Matt Cutts usually upload videos on YouTube and a bunch of people shares it on their website and they don't get punished for it. In conclusion, I don't think using same video will cause duplicate content as long as the text are different.
Hope this helps.
Hi,
Search Engines caulculate ranking by using many different factors and that is how SEO (Search Engine Optimization) comes into play. A few of the well known factors Search Engines use are on-page SEO (Title Tags, Keywords in Content, URL, Anchor Text, Image Alt Text, Image URL, Content above Fold, and minimum ads above fold) and the infamous backlinks from authority sites.
There are many more factors Search engines use but what were mentioned above are only a few examples. Google has 200+ factors they use to determine a site's ranking on the SERP.
Here is a SEO guide from Seomoz that might help you understand SEO better and how search engines determine ranking http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo
Hi,
As long as you have different content on your new website then everything should be fine. I don't believe having same images will affect your ranking because a lot of people are using Stock Photos or pictures from Flickr. Furthermore, Google can't crawl images. As long as you have a different Alt Text or save the image in a different name, everything should be fine.
I believe the major factor that affects ranking is the content itself. SInce 95% of your contents are different, you should be safe from Google.
Hope this helps!
Hi Nishant,
You can't control these listings, i.e. what to display and what not. You simply have to optimize all your pages and Google will see them as related pages and will put them together. I believe this is called Domain Crowding (I can be wrong) and it is used so that the same domain will not appear on the SERP twice so Google can provide more or better results to users. Google will decide what to show and whether they want to list all your subdomains.
Hi,
Instead of redirecting your traffic and bots to the new site, why don't you use Google's Disavow tool to remove all the bad links that you have on your clinicadentalbarcelona.net website.
Although 301 redirects do transfer SEO ranking and link juices; however, it doesn't transfer ALL. Furthermore, in my opinion, I like to make things simple for bots and visitors so I don't really like redirecting.
Furthermore, even if you redirect everything (including the bad links) to clinicadentalbarcelona.es/blog, it will still affect the whole website since the blog is part of the website.
Hi Bryan,
Does those blogs have a contact us page or any Social Media network they are participating in? You can fill out the contact us page or reach them via social media.
Another way I see this is that might your competitor be the owner of those free blogs and simply linking back to himself? I've seen people creating free blogs and linking to themselves as a link building tactic. I am not sure if it works and I am planning on testing it.