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If I can, then I disallow hundreds of pages that are duplicate content and should not be crawled.

If I don't then I send link juice to urls that I don't want seen.

This is a good answer though, thanks. Any other thoughts?

I have been disallowing /*? So I know that works without affecting crawling. I am wondering if I can disallow the faceted nav urls.

So disallow: /category.html/? /category2.html/? /category3.html/*?

To prevent the price faceted url from being cached:

/category.html?price=1%2C1000
and
/category.html?price=1%2C1000&product_material=88

Thanks!

agreed. our rankings didn't get touched when we changed. but I agree that a different location is a change and can affect rankings. anyone else?

[same server; same speed]

I don't think so, whatsoever right?

I'm really looking for internal links. Thanks!

Can I verify an IP in google webmaster tools to search for any 404s? Or maybe i could do it with seomoz tools? Thanks!

How can I check a link to see if there are links going to it (internal and external)?

How can I check a large number of links to see if there are any links going to them?

Thanks!

I have an old blog that I started long ago and it has tons of content. I'm thinking about migrating it my current blog but am worried about panda and bringing over mediocre content. The content is fine, not bad not good. Should I bring it over or should I just delete the blog?

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It depends a bit on how the redirect is implemented. People sometimes rush to remove an old page from links, XML sitemaps, etc. and then run into a bit of irony - if Google doesn't recrawl the old page, they don't see the redirect and may not process it (or they'll have to find the new page by themselves and kill the old page, which can take a lot longer).

If your redirect is at the server level, like an Apache htaccess directive, you may not need the old page to actually exist. The redirect will happen without it. Typically, though, I'd leave a reference to the old page, like a line in the XML sitemap, at least for a few weeks.

Of course, if the old page is frequently crawled (it has a lot of outside links, etc.), you may be just fine. It's typically deeper pages that dont' get crawled often that run into trouble.

I'm not quite sure what you're saying about changing nameservers (or how that ties to htaccess) though. What method are you using for the redirection?

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I don't know if they have even allowed access to a subdomain. Last time I checked they said you needed a completely different domain! Try magento

interesting. the source was very reliable and actually I am agreeing with what you are saying. I'm thinking that google may (during this discussion in early 2010) go back to the actual old page in some way. Otherwise what would be the point of leaving it up? There may be a caviat in the googel algo that likes it when you seem transparent. This is the old page and this is the new page. Showing that you still have control over the old page. I understand that the googlebot wont even get to the page if it sees a redirect in the htaccess. So this is the reason for the question. I asked a private and question and we'll see what comes back.

Ryan,

No I'm not referring to a link.
There's nothing wrong with that statement and it was not taken out of context.
There's no additional information that I am concealing.

The 301 can go up immediately. The question is can the old url be deleted before it has been cached as a new url. After it gets cached it will show as the new url in the serps. Then it's safe to be taken down.

The fine people at bruce clay said it's important to let the page be seen before deleting it.

Hello,

My question is: how important is it to wait for the a redirect to get seen and cached before you take down the old page?

More in depth: my old platform has seriously limited my ability to add sitemaps and make edits to htacces. I just want to change nameservers (which will delete everything on there) and upload the htaccess is that alright?

Another way of saying it: when redirecting a page, is it necessary for google to see the old page before it is deleted?

Thanks

Tyler