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Do having keywords in the domain name still help?...............using a city name and then a couple of other keywords with your services?  For example:  dallaspoolbuilders.com or dallaspoolandpatiobuilders.com

Just to be clear can someone answer this for me?

I am about to disavow some links and when I get to webmaster tools I have both the www.site.com and site.com and it's asking me to select one.  Which one do I pick to disavow the links?........www or non-www?

Thanks Andy.  I made this change........domain.com/blue-blog to domain.com/blog using a rewriterule.  It seemed to work.

I did change the structure domain.com/blue-blog to domain.com/blog.  So I did a rewrite rule in the .htaccess file.  That fixed a lot of things however there are still 100 or so 404's.  They are old blog posts and not really that important.

I recently changed the url of my main blog and now have about 100 404 errors.  I did a redirect from the old url to the new one however still have errors.

1.  Should I do a 301 redirect from each old blog post url to the new blog post url?

2.  Should I just delete the old blog post (url) and rewrite the blog post?

I"m not concerned about links to the old posts as a lot of them do not have many links.

I have a wordpress website and have been trying to figure out the best social media plugins to use...........That DON'T dramatically slow down the page speed load times.

Does anyone have recommendations?  What social media plugins have you used that don't have a huge negative impact on page load times?

I have been told that pingomatic.com is all that you need however yesterday I went to a conference and others were recommending to have a good list of pinging services to cover all your bases

Here are 4 that have been recommended:

pingomatic

technorati

blogsearch.google.com

feedburner

Any others that should be included on this list?  My goal is not to spam these ping lists however want to make sure my content is getting indexed quickly

Thanks Dave!

Here are my settings:

Categories - noindex, follow

Tags - noindex, follow

Format - noindex, follow

Author Archives - noindex, follow and disable author archives

Date Archives - noindex, follow and disable the date-based archives

Media - noindex, follow

HI Irving,

The Yoast default doesn't have anything checked making everything indexable and their tutorials don't do a very good job at helping people set it up correctly.

It's interesting to know all the differing opinions on what you should have indexed or not indexed.

Here are the settings I have:

Categories - noindex, follow

Tags - noindex, follow

Format - noindex, follow

Author Archives - noindex, follow and disable author archives

Date Archives - noindex, follow and disable the date-based archives

Media - noindex, follow

Taking a poll out there......In most cases would you want to index or NOT index your category pages using the Yoast SEO plugin?

I have read that its a good idea to have both rel=author & rel= publisher set up on a website If so What is the best way to set it up to where rel=author and rel=publisher appear in your website source code? I use wordpress genesis site and have the Yoast seo plugin **In the user profile section on WP there is an area to enter google Authorship link **In the Yoast dashboard there is a place to enter google publisher link. When I check my source code…….I see rel=publisher only on the home page, however ALL my other WordPress Pages and Posts have rel=author. Does that sound correct?

As long as you don't have one key word anchor text that just dominates the others then you should be fine however best practices are to try and incorporate plain urls for some of the links.  For example it wouldn't look natural if you had one keyword that appeared 100 times while the others only appeared 5 or 10 times

As you are already doing It's a good idea to spread the links around to different pages and use different anchor text if as long as the anchor text is related to that particular page.

I'm curious to know what tools others are using to get their content to index faster (other than html sitmap and pingomatic, twitter, etc)

Would installing the wordpress pubsubhubbub plugin help even though it uses pingomatic? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pubsubhubbub/

Has anyone worked with Parallax before?  Is it possible and worth it to do SEO on a wordpress site that uses Parallax?

I have a friend that is asking.  Currently when you navigate their site there is only one URL (home page) and one title tag.

Hi Dan The Yoast Seo plug in for Wordpress allows you to select what you want included on sitemaps. Mine currently includes posts, pages, categories, and video Are you suggesting to only include pages in the sitemap? Why wouldn't we want to include the others?

Any good recent guidelines on how to best configure Yoast SEO plugin?  I have it installed however there are a lot of settings that I am unsure of.

Hi Thomas, I checked the Yoast plug in settings and cant find where it gives you the option of redirecting to / or .htm.

Also, should I leave with the trailing slash /?   I don't want to keep confusing google.

When my developer migrated the site to wordpress all my urls defaulted to having the trailing slash.  Before this my urls did not have the trailing slash.