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- trooperbill0
@moth - you need to 301 from one to the other. ive written a simple htaccess script that maps like for like see http://markrushworth.com/templat… for details.
- ukit0
Might be a bit biased cos I was having beers down at their office a few weeks back at some web networking event, but if you really want to get up to speed on this stuff, Seomoz is by far the best resource in terms of learning the basics IMHO.
They have forums where you can find the answer to pretty much every question. Only downside being it's not free like this thread;) But if you are doing it for a career I'd recommend it.
- trooperbill0
@ukit you'll find that rand and some other big names will talk a good talk but they often go against their advice, breaking their own 'rules' to get where they want to be.
the whiteboard fridays are all really crap and dont really have any substance... its unlikely you'll find a solution to an issue on seomoz, just lots of people discussing a problem, :/
- ukit0
haha fair enough trooper - like I said I might have been biased after listening to the guy talk. If nothing else, I respect him for building a business like that out of nothing.
BTW, do you have any thoughts on their Linkscape product compared to something like SEO ENG? At first glance SEO ENG seems more robust, but it's pretty expensive. Are any of these analysis tools worth spending $ on?
- trooperbill0
sure theyre good at self marketing of nothing else lol.
linkscape is just a rehash of aarron's hubfinder app with pagerank etc thrown in... i dont rate mozrank as its more geared towards yahoo than google and shows some really crappy sites as having good potential.
havent tried seo eng... ill take a look and get back to you :)
- version30
“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.”
-Rita Mae Brown
- trooperbill0
all we are is dust in the wind dude.
-bill s preston esq
- Nightshade0
I have an e-commerce shop which is trying to improve SEO. On each product page, there are large price tables containing many links to purchase different variations of the product. Therefore the prices are by far the most common keywords in the anchor text on page, which can't be good for SEO.
Would changing the price anchor tags to <span onclick=""> tags (using Javascript in the onclick part to direct to the purchase page) improve SEO?
- trooperbill0
@nightshade google will follow the javascript based links so guessing that these links are based on querystrings i'd use a new function in webmaster tools to omit the variations parameters to avoid duplicate content.
- Nightshade0
They are links to javascript functions- they look like this:
<a href="javascript:selectPrice('281','43');">£18</a>
So I put "selectPrice" and the page the Javascript directs to "order.php" as 'ignore' parameters in Google Webmaster Tools. Hope this is right.To anyone else, here is the help page for ignoring certain link parameters:
http://www.google.com/support/we…
- jimbojones0
Posterous vs. Blogger vs. Tumblr vs. WordPress in terms of SEO? A detailed reply would be great, not just "WP" please, because I know WP is going to win anyway...
- trooperbill0
@nighershade exactly :) good luck.
@jimbojones, yes WP wins but mainly because the plugins take care of much of the SEO requirements out of the box. nothing is better than some manual tweaking, but for ease the plugins work brilliantly.
my tip is to put articles in multiple categories to pool resources around subjects i.e. 'leather beds' and 'double beds' the article could be about both.
The first thing id do manually is tweak the source so that its semantically correct i.e. h1 should be for the blog title on the home page only, on subesequent pages it should be the title of the article
secondly is to remove perhiperal links from the structure keeping it on topic and controling anchor text throughout the site
then in plugins use something that optimises the title tag, another one for custom file names and a 3rd for spam management, after this its just the usual stuff baiting titles from keyword pools.
use side navs to post links to popular posts (i.e. posts that are already performing well in your search results) to keep the juice flowing to these pages.
- jimbojones0
tumblr, posterous and blogger all can't use categories, only tags, and blogger tags can't even be crawled.
so I wonder if a posterous blog set up to use tags as the structure could win against a WP blog with tags only.Regarding H1 tags, I found this interesting: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/perfe…
- trooperbill0
@jimbojones becareful with this doucment, its based on an analysis of the top ranking pages which could just be an example of a commercial trend as opposed to ranking factors...
- jimbojones0
there was a case recently, where a guy set up fake shops, collected the money upfront and the buyers never received anything. the remarkable thing was that he used free 2nd level domains (net.tc and such) and free sedo (I think sedo) shops, which were closed one by one after every complaint but
they were all on page 1 (rather competitive keywords too) within a day.
how would he pull this off?
- trooperbill0
@jimbojones
could have been a couple of things... theres a honeymoon period for new sites where theyre listed based on content alone which often pushes them above the #1 spot, or could use black hat techniques to activate QDF (Query Deserves Freshness) which has the same effect... theres lots of ways of doing it but theyre all short term and you get bounced out in a few days... is his site still there?
- no, they were all deleted quickly, he clearly went for the short period of #1 spot to get shitload of hitsjimbojones
- nice website btw giggedy ;Ptrooperbill
- ********0
hi trooper,
i have an old blog wich perform very well with certain keywords, when i do site:this blog in google i get something like 10 pages, so i would like to make a 301 redirect of those pages to a new blog so i can keep this keyword rank and have it in my new blog, whats the best way for doing this? if i do the 301 redirect should i redirect all those pages to the index page of my new blog?
thanks
- trooperbill0
@spraycan is the new blog the same just on a different page? if so you can use the .htaccess script i have on my blog : http://markrushworth.com/templat…
if not then you're in for a world of hurt.
and no dont 301 to the home page move them article to article.
- ********0
no the blog is a different one , different domain, and the content is different so a article to article move is impossible here.Its a IIS server.
i think i should 301 but where? chosing random pages ?