Questions
-
Site Activity, SEO, and behind login
1. Google does not use GA data for rankings. They only use data they have access to "outside" of your analytics, such as possibly; Click through rate bounce rate/time on site +1's "Block this site" (sometimes it shows up in the SERPs when you return) Google Toolbar activity like bookmarking 2. So following from question 1, it would not help for SEO to do this. It might help you however in gaining some more insight as to how logged in users use your site. 3. Its thought sub-domains do not pass much link juice across sub-domains, but for a subdomain to be on a private part of the site, this may not matter quite so much. If you've always done it that way, it may be better to just keep it the same. In these cases I always do what makes the most sense to the user. Eliminate confusion. Have a short but description word for the subdomain. 4. Compete's official documentation is here - and Rand did an interview with them back in 2008 here Hope that all helps!! -Dan
Web Design | | evolvingSEO0 -
Duplicate titles / canonical / Drupal
uwaim, what happens when you disable Page Titles and set the titles in Metatag? Metatag handles page titles, so the two modules may be stepping on each other. Also, can you confirm the latest versions of your metatag module? They've been rolling commits, so confirm you have the latest.
Technical SEO Issues | | Atlanta-SMO0 -
Youtube, Video SEO, & my site
That sounds like a nice idea and will work nicely for users - you'll just need to consider whether you would rather the YouTube videos or the pages on your site rank for the targeted keywords and optimise everything accordingly. There aren't any duplicate content risks there.
Search Engine Trends | | PhilNottingham0 -
301 Redirect & re-use
Yes we can re-use any redirected domain , by simply removing 301 page redirect code from .htaccess. And yes when you do remove it you will need to get the domain indexed again in Google.The new authority might go back to the old site.
Technical SEO Issues | | mediabase0 -
Flat vs. subdomain web structure
I agree that with 50 subdomains i cant see you having enouth content, i was speakng in general. i was refereing to that link, Rand said it is his personal belief that most of the time it is better to keep to one subdomain.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | AlanMosley0