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- trooperbill0
@shaney the www. vs non www is managed with google webmaster tools, theyre both acting as one, and its probably because i've been lazy in the early days of this blog that i occasionally put the url in without www... sorry :) consider my wrists smacked.
Also i really do intend to re-work the default blog engine as BPBlog for what it is sucks for SEO. and i want it to look pretty so will get back to my roots with some mind blowing design.
and i sincerely am not doing this as a pr stunt, i genuinely want to help people without my having the previous constraints of the hourly fee :)
.htaccess wont work on my server :(
- Thanks for replying bill, windows servers make everything SEO wise more workShaney
- trooperbill0
and WHOO HOO, made 100 threads!
- jamble0
Hey Mark,
I've got another one as a client asked about it today ...
I often build tabbed menus and make site logos as html lists or a para tag then position them with css and replace the text using the indent -9999px method so they're an image.
Do google penalise this sort of build method as "hiding text"?
It's not text out of context, for example I'd have a navigation bar, which would just be an unordered list in the html then a link for each page with the text simply saying what's on the tab.
Cheers,
j
- trooperbill0
@jamble, nope, just dont be spammy, think like the proper use of ALT text.
and thanks for digging out this thread!
- nocomply0
To add to the commentary on the latest question here, I was actually doing some research on this exact same topic yesterday.
I found this article which gave me some piece of mind.
- trooperbill0
wow thats an old post.- be careful as a lot of whats out there is way out of date.
- ukit0
hey trooperbill, I have question for ya.
Let's say you were thinking of building a content destination site, and own a number of domains with relevant keywords.
Does it make sense to put all of your energy into a single site and to make that as good as possible, or to have several domains acting together as part of your effort? And if so, what would be the optimal way for multiple domains to work together to magnify the effort?
- Shaney0
I'd wait for Bill's answer but as far as SEO is concerned you pick a main domain and 301 redirect in .htaccess all the others to the main one, stops your ranking splitting over the domains and prevents any duplicate content issues which Mr Google does not like.
- ukit0
To expand on it a bit -
The domains are distinctive enough that they could explore different facets (on the same subject), so they wouldn't be identical and no duplicate content.
I guess what I'm wondering is there any way to leverage owning a few different good domain on a topic, or should you forget about that just focus on the content of a single site?
- if youre working on multiple sites just make sure theyre not half assed.trooperbill
- trooperbill0
@ukit i'd say go with multiple sites, just make sure theyre on different class C's that way you can cross link them and pass juice.
for the beds site i work on, weve got the main site which sells everything and are then creating niche sites using the same sql database that only display product subsets.note: the descriptions/titles have to be different etc.
then promote them equally. the concept is simple. be 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9th on google for core terms giving the illusion of choice for customers whilst getting as much of the business as possible :)
The alternative is to create resource based sites demonstrating expertise and name drop the core site every so often. and review the competition as theres good excuses to poach their brand and pull people towards your product... it just has to 'look' impartial lol.
- trooperbill0
Shaney, its the same amount of work after the initial build. and im working on some pretty big niche terms lol
- trooperbill0
oh and its worth all the work if you get a majority of the business.
- Shaney0
you can lol away Bill. Before handing out advice like this you really need to be asking questions.
start with what niche?
does your plan works for highly competitive keyphrases?
there is no need for it at all. thought you were swerving the hocus pocus route... if it's a product 4/5 well vetted competitive affiliates will beat your minisites hands down.
I'd like to see any comp. phrase where this is worth it.
- trooperbill0
@shaney - im just ambitious. all the advice is what i would do on face value... its a little hard to go indepth here with the types of questions asked. if you check the blog i try and tackle a big issue on each question although i admit theres not enough hours in the day to fully respond to every aspect demanded by each question.
- adelverzichtet0
hi trooperbill,
what about aggregating sites? we started http://www.lesprit-nouveau.com a few weeks ago. google does not seem to like it. why?
- trooperbill0
easy. its 302 redirected (temporary) to /news/ when it should be 301 (permanent).
- use http://www.interneto… to check your redirects are permanenttrooperbill
- adelverzichtet0
thx, i changed it to 301 :)
- trooperbill0
np
- ukit0
"i'd say go with multiple sites, just make sure theyre on different class C's that way you can cross link them and pass juice."
Can you clarify this part? What are different class C's?
Also had a question I had about keyword domains - does the order of the keywords matter - I'm guessing it does, but how much? If lots of users search for "tech widgets," is widgetstech.com valuable at all?