This is correct.

Hi drewk,

Are you wanting to supplant your existing URLs with new URLs? If this is the case the Volusion 301 manager will work for you:

1. Back up your product's database

2. Map your legacy URLs to your new equivalent. Might want to save a copy in Drive or Excel. Since you are creating new URLs, make sure they are both search and user friendly.

3. Add in your 301's and remove your legacy pages. I STRONGLY suggest testing this on a few low priority pages first before confidently rolling it out across the site. The 301 manager will only return the 301 response if the legacy page is removed. A hidden product is still an active page.

4. Submit the new URLs from your test to the search engines; i.e. Google Fetch via Google Webmaster Tools and make sure Google recognizes the 301 redirects and has indexed your new URLs. This may take a couple days.

5. Assuming this process goes smoothly for you, roll it out across your website. Depending on how large your website is, you might want to do this slowly to minimize any temporary loss in rankings and traffic.

Basically, this is definitely a delicate process and we don't usually recommend merchants to change product codes holistically. I'd recommend working with our SEO services team if you are hesitant about executing this: http://www.volusion.com/ecommerce-seo-services

If you do want to keep legacy URLs and create new URLs with new product codes, you can add the new URLs as canonicals on the legacy pages. There is no guarantee Google or the other search engines will respect this directive, but they should. This is a safer route, but you'll have many more pages to manage and there is no guarantee the search engines will rank your new URLs over the legacy. Again, please contact our services team to go over all your options.

Regards,

Nathan

Hi Jason, the

concern will be addressed with the release of Volusion's new theme engine. I expect this to be available this year, perhaps Q3. Along with this concern, the entire Volusion interface will be modernized and the new framework will enable unprecedented optimization options across categories and products. More information will be available soon.

As for your 300+ pages of duplicate content, it's very unlikely this is an

issue. Have you tried entering one of your URLs into a free service like copyscape.com ? This could help you identify what content is duplicate. Furthermore, If you'd like to provide your store, I'll take a look and get back to you ASAP with a recommendation.

Regards,

Nathan Joynt

Will do, thank you!

Hi Joel, I'm experiencing a very similar situation as Edward. Could you look at my account and let me know? I can use help@moz.com to make it official if needed.

Regards,

Nathan

Hi Paul, thank you for your patience. And thank you everyone else as well. I did get this entered into product for 2014. I do not know currently exact timing, although I will keep you posted.

Hey Mike, it's Nathan Joynt here. seoClarity certainly has come a long way even just in the past year. While at their first conference last week (Clarity'13) they announced some really great upcoming features including measuring for term (not provided). I like them too because their product road map is driven from member requests. Mitul (the owner) told me last week that if two users request the same feature, they'll build it. Simple as that.

Anyway, let me know if you'd like me to run through how I use Clarity today. Happy to jump on a line, introduce you to Mitul or whatever.

Regards, Nathan

Hi Igor, yes you will have to do it manually for now. I am working with V13 product team on this.

Regards,

Nathan

Hey Wesley, I apologize for the plug here but as the SEO Manager for Volusion I am working diligently to create the best ecommerce solution for SEOs out-of-box. You don't have to use/purchase additional apps or plugins or anything like that. One thing we've added recently is schema.org markup for product pages. Please do check us out and let me know what you think. Good luck!

http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/greatly-improved-seo-with-schema-org-enhancements/

Regards, Nathan Joynt

Hello,

Yes, Tamara is correct with her suggestion to include the

within the Description 'HTML Editor' area. I can talk with the V13 product team as well about the ability to treat the product name as the

. I like to use actual merchant examples in my product optimization requests. Would you mind telling me the domain so I can include it in the story?

Kind regards,

Nathan Joynt

Hello,

Yes, Tamara is correct with her suggestion to include the

within the Description 'HTML Editor' area. I can talk with the V13 product team as well about the ability to treat the product name as the

. I like to use actual merchant examples in my product optimization requests. Would you mind telling me the domain so I can include it in the story?

Kind regards,

Nathan Joynt

Hi Taylor, Nakul is correct. Please let me know if I can provide any further assistance.

Regards,

Nathan

Hey Wesley, I apologize for the plug here but as the SEO Manager for Volusion I am working diligently to create the best ecommerce solution for SEOs out-of-box. You don't have to use/purchase additional apps or plugins or anything like that. One thing we've added recently is schema.org markup for product pages. Please do check us out and let me know what you think. Good luck!

http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/greatly-improved-seo-with-schema-org-enhancements/

Regards, Nathan Joynt

There are a couple that come to my mind when i used them working for an agency. I remember one client had some temporary pages that didn't want to get indexed, explaining certain problem with a product at that time. We wanted the page to be live, but didn't want the problems that the product was having to show up in the search engines since it was just temporary.

Also, pages that are targeting same keywords that you dont want to erase or redirect and instead want to keep them live but at the same time you dont want to compete with the other main page. You just block it to the search engines.

Hope this helps

It depends on the purpose of your blog. I recommend on a separate domain if you want to gain shelf space or for reputation management purposes.if you have a site that already has great domain authority and high PageRank, you could use the blog separately to have value on two different domains. However, if your site is fairly new, i recommend to host it within your company's website as Lewis and Barry say, to use those links and help your main domain.

Hi drewk,

Are you wanting to supplant your existing URLs with new URLs? If this is the case the Volusion 301 manager will work for you:

1. Back up your product's database

2. Map your legacy URLs to your new equivalent. Might want to save a copy in Drive or Excel. Since you are creating new URLs, make sure they are both search and user friendly.

3. Add in your 301's and remove your legacy pages. I STRONGLY suggest testing this on a few low priority pages first before confidently rolling it out across the site. The 301 manager will only return the 301 response if the legacy page is removed. A hidden product is still an active page.

4. Submit the new URLs from your test to the search engines; i.e. Google Fetch via Google Webmaster Tools and make sure Google recognizes the 301 redirects and has indexed your new URLs. This may take a couple days.

5. Assuming this process goes smoothly for you, roll it out across your website. Depending on how large your website is, you might want to do this slowly to minimize any temporary loss in rankings and traffic.

Basically, this is definitely a delicate process and we don't usually recommend merchants to change product codes holistically. I'd recommend working with our SEO services team if you are hesitant about executing this: http://www.volusion.com/ecommerce-seo-services

If you do want to keep legacy URLs and create new URLs with new product codes, you can add the new URLs as canonicals on the legacy pages. There is no guarantee Google or the other search engines will respect this directive, but they should. This is a safer route, but you'll have many more pages to manage and there is no guarantee the search engines will rank your new URLs over the legacy. Again, please contact our services team to go over all your options.

Regards,

Nathan