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- ********0
hi trooperbill,
so i have my site in google's cache(i get to it using info:yoursiteadress)
, it says the cache dates from 16 juin 2009 02:05:53 GMT, now i have made changes to the web page, do i need that google crawls again the webpage to see changes?
- noRGB0
Is there a target range of keyword numbers that is recommended to use? If so, why? I have a client whose SEO list he gave me this morning is about 32 keyword terms. Frack.
- I heard that keywords are redundant anyway. Put 100 in if you want. *not an expert********
- I heard that keywords are redundant anyway. Put 100 in if you want. *not an expert
- trooperbill0
noRGB i wouldnt recomend targetting 32 keywords at one page, accross an entire site should be no problems. BTW i caution you against using clickt supplied keywords as these are usually not well chosen. instead spend some time on https://adwords.google.co.uk/sel… remembering to change the location to yours and brainstorm some terms - here you will get what your clients customers call ther products and services!
- btw netbook keyboards suck hence the typos lol.trooperbill
- attentionspan0
Ok, this might sound a bit stupid. Im using modx on one site, if the url is changed and still indexed in google, when u click on it u go back to frontpage, in this case would i need a 404 error not found page?
Im concerned google sees this as cloning if there is no 404?
Or is it alright to just redirect to frontpage?
- trooperbill0
best option is to 301 them to the correct page.
- trooperbill0
noRGB if your talking about META Keywords then dont bother as they wont help with Google cuz it doesnt use meta data to rank your site
- breadlegz0
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- johnnnnyh0
I have a site which is not doing well in Google. Using the simple search term for the artist's name (andrew litten) got his web site to page 5 (!!) on google. Really struggling with this so I emailed trooperbill.
Am amazed that trooperbill's excellent (and speedy) response last night had ranked on page two of google for my search term almost immediately.
Still, at the moment my site is not doing well! But am taking trooperbill's advice. Great service.
Even made me log back in here which I've not done in a long while.
Thanks!- any chance of a follow up comment on my blog plz!trooperbill
- trooperbill0
no worries. glad to help!
Just keep on with the link development and where possible drop in his name :)
- ********0
hi trooperbill,
google passed thru my site but only updated its cache with the index file, all others links are old ones and i've already updated my sitemap, what's there to do to have updated all the pages links?
- trooperbill0
how big is the site?
- ********0
about 15 pages
- ukit0
Hey trooperbill,
I'm considering purchasing an existing domain that has good pagerank and linked to by several sites. If I buy it the existing site will presumably be wiped out and I will have to start over with the content etc.
What's the ideal process of transferring the domain so the pagerank is preserved? Do I need to worry about incoming links being broken? What about the site potentially being offline for a week or so - will that hurt the ranking? Thanks.
- trooperbill0
@creez maybe its suffering from duplicate content, is it a light text site?
- trooperbill0
sorry its taken so long to reply ive been at glastonbury WHOO!!!
- trooperbill0
@ukit yes this is true however using clever 301 perm redirects can save the IBL juice!
and leave the site online as much as possible before flicking the switch to put the new content live... down time is your enemy there as it interupts a spiders access to your site which gets you flagged and your crawl rate decreased which in turn stops the new content from being indexed etc...
- trooperbill0
Any more Q's ?
- attentionspan0
yes trooper !
ive had a site with both www. and without www. indexed so its rather a mess.
Ive decided to keep it without www. did a 301 on htaccess, and put it to preferable in webmastertools.
Now my question is the site comes up on page 4 with a specific keyword, but its indexed with www. if i remove all indexed sites with www. from google and submit a new sitemap to google without www.
How will my placing be on those keywords that i use to get some results with, will it be gone completely and will have to wait a few months to see some new results, or will it just replace the existing www. sites ?
- trooperbill0
it will happen at the same rate as your recrawl so anything from a few days to a few months. 301 is a good interim workaround and youve done the right thing by using webmaster tools.
its also beneficial for you to do an inbound link check and make sure your IBL's are usnig the correct www. address to link to you! as this is probably the only thing that could maintain your duplication issues.
hope that helps.
- blaw0
trooperbill, did you get the email I sent you?