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Hi Pandy,

Could you give me a heads up on the resource that says you should link to your sitemap.xml? Interested in reading that

In my experience, search engines expect the sitemap to be at www.root.com/sitemap.xml so there would be no need to link to it from your site.

The page isnt indexed

Do this search, and you'll see that it isn't inclued in Google's index: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.florahospitality.com%2Fdubai-flora-grand-hotel.aspx

I don't know why the page isn't indexed though.

It has a ROBOTS index follow and it's not excluded in your Robots.txt. Try linking to it from another spot on your site. Maybe you have some duplicate content somewhere? So content that's the same as the content on that page.

Once the page is indexed, your homepage could still rank higher for the search term (not likely though) but because your homepage always accrues the most links, so will also be the most popular url, according to Google, to show.

I don't think there is a tool out there that can automate all this. (I don't know any) I think you should select the url in Google Analytics and see what search terms were used to find that url. Than put those terms in the ranking tool of SEOmoz or another tool and see where you rank.

Google sometimes changes Titles of pages if they seem fit. For instance, this change in the title can happen if your url is listed on lets say DMOZ, and the title on that site says "The Blog" something...

So check out DMOZ and similar "trusted" directory like yahoo directory.

I'm guessing you're asking this in the case of let's say.. NYC and your company is in Brooklyn and you'd like to get it listed when people search: Search query + NYC ?

That would be hard... Try finding Yellow page-like sites that only list NYC companies and fill in your details there. Also, check the listings in the local rankings and see (link:www.thedomaininthelocalrankings.com) to see from what listing sites they have links.

Try to find a site that gets ranked which is in the suburbs of some city and see how they did it!

You're welcome! Hope everything works out!

Test a few URL's first. Or even better: setup a small test case to make sure it works!

Highland has a good suggestion. Otherwise:

You might have found a bug there There shouldn't be any title tags and description tags in XML files. So I suggest you submit it as a bug.

Other thought that comes up: why does the crawler find XML files? That (probably?) means that you're linking to those files on your site? Which isn't really necessary You only need to link to it in your robots.txt file or submit it to Google Webmaster Tools.

RedirectMatch 301 /subdirectoryA/(.*) http://www.websiteB.com/$1

and

RedirectMatch 301 /subdirectoryB/(.*) http://www.websiteC.com/$1

Otherwise it wont work

About the htaccess from the old site... As long as Website A (the old site) is still up and the redirects on that site is properly set up in the htaccess on that server, I don't see any reason to also use it on the new sites.

When you're running Wordpress, the best way you can "block" these sites, is to keep updating wordpress as new updates roll out. I think you mean that by: block these sites.

They're sites from hackers who hack old Wordpress sites that have known vulnerabilities. Updating your site will solve that issue, as that's one of the things that gets fixed when you update your core files.

Hope this helps.

Hi Ellen,

If you only wanted to redirect all the url's in a certain subdirectory to the new site (not 1-on1), your redirect would look something like this:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/subdirectory/$ http://www.websiteB.com/

But... I dont think you want to do that (Or should do that...) I think you should want to redirect all pages in the subdirectory to their corresponding url on websiteB.

What I mean by that is: you should redirect all your pages 1-on1, like this:

Redirect: www.websiteA.com/subdirectory/url1.html to its equivalent on website B's url: www.websiteB.com/url1.html

If you want to do that, you can. But the url's have to be the same. You can do something like:

RedirectMatch 301 /subdirectory/(.*) http://www.websiteB.com/$1

If the url's change, than you have to do more manual work. You should always try to redirect as many pages 1on1 as you can. Especially the ones that receive external links. The new pages will be almost as "juicy" as the old pages, because the 301 redirect passes the linkjuice along. (not all of it though, but like 90% - 99%)

Is this pushing you a bit in the right direction?