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I keep reading conflicting information on this and it's left me a little unsure. Am I right in thinking that a website with a subdomain of shop.sitetitle.com will share the same robots.txt file as the root domain?

I think you may be right, but the sheer amount of redirects necessary would mean that it could take me months. I have been posting 4 articles a day for the past year without fail - could it be worth just leaving the crawl errors and hoping that they eventually drop off? This is my quandary.

Hi guys, hope you've had a manageable working week. Just after some advice!

What would you think to changing the permalink structure of an already established entertainment website so that the category and postdate also appears in the URL, i.e "2014-01-01/news/this-is-the-post"? I have done it before without thinking about all the crawl errors it would cause and quickly reverted everything. However, I am now eager to get listed in Google News (don't worry, this isn't the only reason to change the URL) and think it might help things overall.

Thoughts? Worth the effort or a pointless exercise?

Excuse the short reply.

Add sitemap to your robots.txt - And submit it to Google WMT.

Just use a free one if you're in the middle of developing?

Jeff - I am referring to destination URL only. Thanks

Linda - Good find, I will give it a try.

FYI - It's a one page site, we're trying to break up where possible.

Thanks.

Is it OK to use anchor links on the main URL of an advert on Google Adwords?

Example: www.example.com/#example

Had a little Google, and not much was returned on the topic.

Many Thanks,

Alex

5 weeks on, and the site is still recovering.

Obviously during this time Google announced its preferred status to HTTPS sites too!

Only yesterday did we return top for the brand name,.

To put a figure on how much damage has been caused on this matter, organic traffic (Google only) was down 35%, and organic revenue (Google only) Y-O-Y last month was down 60%.

Would love to know the reasoning for the huge drop in rankings, and the recovery time period to expect.

Around a quarter of the modules selected are actually showing on a report?

Unsure if this is an issue on Moz's part or my own - It has previously been fine and printed the whole report as requested (June was fine) The same report this month is only part compiling.

I have also manually created another report (with the same modules) and the exact thing happened.

Also - When choosing a campaign no stats show up there any longer, not a big problem but quite annoying all the same.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Alex

One week on and brand terms have gone the exact same way. We're on page 2 for our brand, yet dominated page one with 5-6 links before this https move. With absolutely no glimmer of hope for our organic terms.

None of the keywords which were been worked on (and getting results with) are getting anywhere,

I know and understand it is a waiting game to get the rankings back, however it is painful to see the rankings in such a state.

Can anybody recommend further steps to give the site a boost?

This article from Rand fascinates me, and gives some potential light at the end of the tunnel for a quick fix! http://moz.com/rand/queries-clicks-influence-googles-results/

Thanks in advance

One week ago. Would that not cause duplicate content? I thought about doing it that way round, but was a little worried about duplicating the whole site. (In hindsight it couldn't have been any worse)

Thank you for your reply.

Ah, that's a shame. It does our Images sitemaps / Web sitemaps without issue.

I would have thought it would have been okay with any videos. You could ask their support to test it, on the off-chance it collates the information you need it to, they're very good and get back to you within 24 hours.

What do you currently use?

We use the standalone version of www.xml-sitemaps.com and use a cron to update daily. Does its job perfectly well.

This made me say "What!" With some other words following.
http://moz.com/community/q/https-sitewide-move-has-resulted-in-huge-rankings-drop

Not specifically SEO, but when comments nowadays suggest link farming, also makes me go "What".

What makes you say 'what', White?

Hi Samuel,

Thanks for replying, I have however been on the above links before posting.

The points John Mueller mentioned were previously addressed, yet rankings have taken a colossal turn for the worse.

In the second link you posted i'm hoping this statement comes true!
"In our experience, even when 301's are correctly executed, we see a short term fall back (7-30) days and then about a 90% carry through after that period for about 90 days and then back to full strength. "

Alex

Hi all,

An e-commerce site has recently moved protocol to https sitewide.

The site ranked page one for some great terms and now appear to be page 2 or below. Brand terms seem unphased and are still very strong, on both Google and Bing.

The following has been done;

• Everything 301'd from http to https
• Sitemap Edited
• Updated Webmaster Tools
• Robots.txt edited
• Crawled and Fetched all pages daily.
• Checked Paged are all follow,index.
• PPC Ads mass updated to new url's.

Most terms were ranked 1 - 9 on Bing, and Page 1/2 on Google.

HTTPS upgrade was done less than one week ago. The site is not payday loan related, nor was it hit by latest panda escapades. Everything on the site is relevant to the content.

Has anybody else been in this position, what else can be done?

I'd appreciate any help and advice. Thank You

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Thank you for replying.

Absolutely the same. It has cost in excess of £2000, with no benefit to the company.

I've been through the change log, only differences to targeting options made, was to actually take out some of the display network websites.

Hi all,

I'm running through traffic figures from May as there was a huge spike.

This is down to a spike in Adwords, specifically the Display Network.

• In May 2014, there is a total of 4337 placements.
• In April 2014, there is a total of 1561 placements.

With nearly 3000 new placements where the ad could be shown, would anybody be able to explain as to how and why this has happened?

I've run through the change history, and nothing i've done explains the extra placements. Auto add placements was on, but has been on for 12 months with no more than 50 extra per month. The only change that has been done that may link is I've added a mobile phone extension on ads displayed on mobile devices?

The significant extra cost has been of no benefit to the campaign, as the advert displayed on various apps, forums and irrelevant websites.Would be great if anybody could shed some light here! Thank You

If you have no longer need for Page A, as the content will now be on Page B then a 301 redirect will / should take across any 'link juice'.
Take a look at this; http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection

If you need Page A & B, is there a different URL you could use?

Currently, I don't believe you can, which is rather odd? Can you get the information you need from GA?

Custom dates would be handy too when it comes to reporting. Also a Vs period. (Vs last year etc!)

Strange, assuming you weren't logged into google when checking?

Have you got analytics for the .net? Or is it simply fowarded?