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Check old urls for backlinks - same domain new design and urls
I have a client who recently did a re-design on his website. The designer did not put any effort in keeping the same url or do any redirect. Ive made a list of the old urls, what I want to do now is ...
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How long before Google counts my .htaccess 301 redirect links?
I have a friend who had around 2000 visitors per day to his website before webdesigner with no SEO knowledge changed all his urls. Ive used the wayback machine and google analytics to determine the ...
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How to avoid duplicate content even when using 301 redirections?
I manage a website with tens of thousands of pages named /view.php?id=1234 and so on. Because we wanted it to be more SEO-friendly, a 301 Moved Permanently redirection of each one of them to ...
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I am moving my site from a virtual directory to a dedicated server, can I save me SEO urls via a web.config change?
I have been hosting my site in a shared environment at http://www.example.com/MYSITE/ for a while and I've built up a following there, I have decent ranking in Google and Bing, as well as I've been ...
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Htaccess redirection for my domain?
I have a site that has been hit hard with penguin and panda. So hard I have put up another domain and installed a CMS and rewritten the content the page has a good pagerank but was hit hard with ...
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Should I remove bad links to old site that are being 301 redirected to new site?
Should I remove bad links e.g. 0 Page Rank, 0 Trust linking to old site that are being 301 redirected to new site?
Would I get rid of these links using Google's Disavow links?
We've only improved in ...
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site home not at site root index
I have an SEO concern with a website that has just finished the development stage, basically the site has been in progress for a year. During this period the site has been accessible from the URL: ...
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Duplicate title tags error in webmaster tools
I have changed some URLs in my site then to prevent webmaster tools duplicate error I redirected (301) old URLs to new URLs also I tried to remove old URLs in "Optimization>Remove URLs" section of ...
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301 or 302 redirect for mobile/non-mobile pages
I'm setting up redirection for mobile/non-mobile pages. User agent is detected and redirected appropriately, but the ?mobile=1 or ?mobile=0 flag can be used to force a switch. When that flag is ...
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SEO Impact on changing the resolutions of already indexed images
Let's say that i have a image restaurant-photo_big.jpg which is 640x480..
How can I change the resolution safely for SEO purposes? it's the same identical image but 800x800 (it may be cropped out ...
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Should I redirect the site IP address to the domain name
I have been told by an SEO company to redirect the site IP to the domain using a 301 redirect. This will apparently improve the SEO ranking of the site. The site has a dedicated IP address.
Is this ...
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Redirection transparent to Google and other SE [duplicate]
I am not experienced technical person, and still learning but will try to explain what I have done so far and what my query is.
I have a (hypothetical) domain az-studios.com
On that domain I have 3 ...
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How do I map a (keyword rich) domain name to an existing website?
I am not experienced technical person, and still learning but will try to explain what I have done so far and what my query is.
I have a (hypothetical) domain az-studios.com
On that domain I have 3 ...
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Does Google penalize for too many redirects from different domains?
This is a follow up question to Archiving web content annually. One site or sites by year?
We are completing the import of tens of thousands scientific abstracts into a single site. The most recent ...
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For SEO, should I direct an existing website with a lower page rank to a new, better-ranked site?
I have a client that has an existing site, let's call it bobthebuilder.com. My client has been posting blog posts to it for the past couple of years and a modest amount of sites are naturally linking ...
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What Google will do while switching from 301/404 to 200?
Imagine a pagination script with 20 total pages:
articles.php?page=18
What should I do when some third party web site links to a non-existent page?
articles.php?page=21 (page 21 is out of ...
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Is it a good idea to register multiple domains pointing to a single website
We have a main domain or primary domain (say xyz.com) on which we have our website hosted. For the sake of business/trademark we would like to book other domain with the same name but different tlds ...
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Google indexed my escaped_fragment pages
My site is a single page web-app. I am following the suggestions based on making AJAX applications crawl-able.
My URL looks like this:
http://domain.com/#!pages/contactUs
My understanding is:
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redirection time duration [closed]
I am using a seo function to generate clean urls :
$link = BASEURL.'/myword/'.$details['id'].'_'.SEO(clean(str_replace(' ','-',$details['title']))).$plist;
in my php file there's lines to do the ...
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How to fix 404 crawl error of a website
I have a navigational links in a php page nav.php, Which is included in all pages of my website. I have got folder structure like below
+top_folder
-config.php
+includes_folder
...
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How does duplicate file and directory names affects SEO
I have some 40 crawl errors in my website, those are pointing to files which are not existing. and I want to resolve all 404 errors
I dont have acccess to .htaccess file. Because i am on shared ...
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301 Redirect not behaving like I am wanting it too. What is my mistake?
301 Wildcard. I don't think I am doing it right. Need domain1.com/keyword5 to go to domain2.com/keyword5. Instead it does this:
www.domain1.com/keyword5 goes to www.domain2.com (tld, root, not the ...
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Is my htaccess setting hurting SEO?
I have a site that I have redirecting to https. I do this to leverage wildcard SSL for my password protected pages. Everything seems to work fine with testing. For example, whether you type in http or ...
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Will my traffic come back after my site redesign? [closed]
I screwed up. I launched my site after rebuilding it without setting up the proper 301's and traffic immediately dropped about 60%(it's not really something I thought about). After about a week and a ...
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How do I change pages registering as 404 to 200
I have this problem. After relaunching my site: http://www.kgstiles.com, traffic dropped immensely(about 60%). After troubleshooting for a week and a half - losing thousands of dollars off of lost ...
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Domain name made of keywords redirecting to main website's page
Let's say I have a website called books.com where I sell books. I've read on Redirecting different domains to your main site that it's not a bad idea to register another domain that does a 301 ...
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301 re-direct all external links to new domain
I have changed the main domain to a sub-domain & would like to re-direct all external links to the new sub domain. Have read a few articles but having no luck editing the .htaccess as it might be ...
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Should my “convenience” link that redirects to page 1 be a permanent or temporary redirect?
So, I have a simple blog. Included in my blog is tags. There are two ways to reach the first page of the posts belonging to a tag though. There is /tags/foobar and there is /tags/foobar/1 (where ...
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Duplicate content issue after URL-change with 301-redirects
We got the following problem:
We changed all URLs on our page from oldURL.html to newURL.html and set up 301-redirects (ca. 600 URLs)
Google re-crawled our page, indexed all the new URLs ...
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How to remove duplicate content, which is still indexed, but not linked to anymore?
A bug in the tool, which we use to create search-engine-friendly URLs changed our whole URL-structure overnight, and we only noticed after Google already indexed the page.
Now, we have a massive ...
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Rankings dropping after small URL-change WITH 301-redirect
Two weeks ago, we attempted to make the URLs of ca. 12 pages more search-engine friendly. We changed three things.
1. Make URLs more SEF
from: /แอร์-ราคา/brandname.html (meaning: ...
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folder level 301 redirect without .htaccess
I have a website hosted in yahoo small business, I don't have access to .htaccess file.
I have around 220 pages in a folder 'mysubfolder' (http://mysite.com/myfolder/mysubfolder). And the age of ...
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If I blocked a directory, is a 301 error expected?
I blocked a directory in my site that is not secret but meant for internal discussions that are not relevant for search engine results. After running "Search as Google" at Google Webmaster Tools, the ...
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I want to consolidate two sites into a third. Will my search engine rankings be penalized if I rewrite and redirect pages one by one?
I have two Drupal sites with different content-- let's call them Apple and Orange. I recently developed a much more sophisticated third Drupal site-- let's call it Tree. For a large number of ...
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Will keep google traffic on new site from old site when moving content from old site? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
new domain, old links are 301’d from old domain to new, how will this affect my rankings?
I have a site about bikers. Now I created a dating site for bikers. I don't ...
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302 or 301 redirect in case where redirect lasts 1-2 months
I have a case where I have a newly built "author site" (promotes the author in general as a speaker and author) which needs to temporarily redirect traffic from the author's "book site" (focuses on ...
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Redisigning an old site, structure change etc
I have an old site built in 2006, it has around 200 pages and 500 pictures. Every single page is of course indexed as well as images. It is very well ranked for targeted keywords and I receive good ...
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how long after a 301 redirect can i cancel my old site
I have .com website which I don't want to use anymore (for a variety of reasons). I want to redirect the entire site to a .net domain with a 301 redirect. After how long can I cancel my .com domain ...
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Limited 301 Redirect performance in .htaccess?
I'm in a situation and haven't been able to find a proper solution after much research. I'm working with a client who just built a new website with a different URL structure. After the website was ...
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Google Indexing URL that is a 301 redirect
My website URL structure is:
http://www.website.com/{record-type}/{record-id}/{human-readable-name}
If an invalid human readable name is provided, the page 301 redirects to the correct URL.
I've ...
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What is the best way to deal with 404s that are all trying to point to the same page that are from an external site?
I started getting 404s showing up in my Google Webmaster's Tools from a site linking to a specific category but with odd characters at the end of the URL. So Something like this:
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Is It bad for SEO to have internal redirected links? [closed]
I have a large number of pages having similar but not identical content. Example: site.com/dream_dictionary_flying and site.com/dream_interpretation_flying.
The problem is that although not being ...
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Multiple 301 redirect and massive loss of ranking
I just remade from scratch a website for a client, the client ask me to preverve their ranking by making 301 redirect from the original URL to the new URL.
For instance:
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What are the Consequences for using Relative Location Headers?
According to the spec, Location headers used in a redirect require a server name
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
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Location: http://example.com/foo/baz/bar
However, in 2012, most web browsers will ...
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SEO and multiple domains to same site
I have one website.
I have two domain names that I want to point to the same site install.
So whether you go to name-one.com or name-two.com you see the exact same site.
Now, I can either set up ...
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One to many problem with implementing 301 redirect after changed urls
I have a problem.
I had an old dynamic url which I have now split into multiple static urls.
e.g.
www.mydomain.com/product.php?type=1&id=2
www.mydomain.com/product.php?type=2&id=3
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Website restyle, SEO migration plan?
I am currently in a project for one of my biggest clients. We have built a website that will -replace- the old website.
When it comes to actual content its is largely the same. However, the ...
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301 redirects in main navigation menu of WordPress website - is this okay for SEO?
I want to allow a client to have a flexible way to configure the navigation menu for his WordPress website.
To that end, I have created a parent page called "Navigation", which has child pages for ...
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Confusion regarding SEO and a name, c name and 301 redirects
I have a VPS with and a domain from different hosters. I would like to know about the best practices for setting up the redirects regarding SEO as I am really confused about the different options.
I ...
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SEO and duplicate content for default document
SEO experts sometimes demand that default document, e.g. www.site.com/index.html redirects with 301 to www.site.com, so:
Is that really necessary?
Does Google really penalize that?
