I recently created a copy of my website from here https://www.thecolorkind.com/ to here: https://colorkindstudio.com/ and I moved all the blogs to this last domain but they have some links that still redirect to the old domain.
We have more than 200 posts and it will take sometime to update/replace each link on each post. So, is there a way to replace all the links on my blog posts https://colorkindstudio.com/blogs/news to have the new domain?
I have two approach to solve this.
You redirect/forward all the request from https://www.thecolorkind.com/ to https://colorkindstudio.com/
If you are using GoDaddy then this might help - https://in.godaddy.com/help/forward-my-domain-12123
Second approach is to use some JavaScript to see if an anchor tag have thecolorkind.com in it's href attribute and if it does then replace the link with colorkindstudio.com.
Let me know if tis helps or if you need more insights.
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A contact of ours would like to repost our blog content on their website but I’ve always been told not to do this as it would be seen as duplicate content by google and hurt our SEO and drive traffic away. Is this correct?
It is indeed bad practice. Google is good at picking up who posted the article first and who has the duplicate content. If your contact is ok with it they can add a canonical tag pointing to the page that they took the content from that will make clear to google that they do not want rankings from doing so and that the original content is at your page.
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I have a little issue concerning the sitemap of a website.
The website is : http://parmemarin.com.
If I go on http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ and try to generate a sitemap for my website I end up with only one link in my sitemap which is _inc/conditions.php
There is no index.php or other of my links (index.php?page=...)
Can someone help me on this one ?
Thanks
Well, that could be a problem with xml-sitemaps.com, it could be a problem with your site, or it could be a combination of both. I don't know that service, so I can't tell how it really works and what it does.
Skimming through your markup, I noticed that you linked to some URLs without encoding the ampersand. & (if used for parameters) should be & if you link it in HTML.
I wonder: Why don't you build your sitemap yourself? You are the only one who knows for sure which pages exist on your site. Collect all your URLs and put them in a file, like http://www.sitemaps.org/ describes.
thanks, for your answer.
I had totally forgot to delete the meta : no index, no follow ... That clearly didn't helped :)
I read about canonical tags in HTML and from what I understood it is used to help search engines to realize which is the original content. I have articles in my recently created blog, which I have pasted in certain other popular websites. In those websites I gave back a link to my original blog post with the canonical tag. But yet my blog page is not visible in search engines (other websites do show my article). Before I had pasted onto other websites, my articles were indexed on google and could be seen on the 1st page. So I guess, there is no problem on my SEO part.
Can someone please suggest a method where my original blog gets higher preference for the content?
You can use cross domain canonical tags.
So if you have duplicated content on other domains you can use the canonical tag on those pages pointing back to the original page on your site.
This a great way to deal with syndicated content; of course you would need code level access on these other websites so you can implement the canonical tag.
More info below
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/12/handling-legitimate-cross-domain.html
Don't just copy paste your articles on every place on the internet, that will not do you any good. After writing a good article go to other sites and write something else about your articles like what your article is about, how it is helpful to someone, something like that so that people and websites come to your website to read your article. For this you don't need "canonical"
If you copy paste articles to other websites, it will only create duplicate content issues and will only harm your SEO efforts.
No, it is not required for your Blog section to do canonical issue.
Canonical means Google displays same pages with different URL.
The first thing is not submitting your article in different websites I will not give you any benefit in your ranking. If you write a good and quality content you should post in only one website if you post in different sited google will consider as a duplicate content. So it's better for you you can share your approved blog link in social media sites and also do social bookmarking, microblogging. And after you don't need canonical tag.
As #moobot said you can indeed use a cross-domain canonical tag to let Google know about the original source of the content. How exactly are you adding the canonical on other domains?
The canonical link should be in the head section of the html code. If you're adding it yourself somewhere in the body tag that's not going to do you any good.
Check out this article for some other common mistakes with the canonical tag
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.nl/2013/04/5-common-mistakes-with-relcanonical.html
#metadice mentioned that copying your content all over the web isn't good for your SEO and i agree completely. If you do this for some extra backlinks or something i would recommend you to stop doing this.
Hope my answer will help someone who has this same question.
I am trying to have forum title in the url so for eg, my forum title "grass is green" shows ups in the url as www.myforum/forum/grass-is-green.php and not www.myforum/forum/viewforum.php?f=5
I have tried doing the changes given here http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=1053375 but the changes are not reflected and the url stills appears as before
Please help me out .. thanks in advance
The mod you linked to doesn't affect the URL, it looks up the title and changes a link's text in a post. What you are looking for is a SEO mod that rewrites / redirects URLs. A quick look through the phpBB site and I see a couple, but they seem to have issues. These types of mods can also break if a topic gets renamed. The original "...&t=250" link would work, but the ".../old_topic_name/" would break.
To quote one of the phpBB Support team members: "We do not recommend any SEO mods. There is no real reason to mess with the URLs like that. The search engines index them fine as-is."
Hope that helps!
My neighbour popped over last night to ask me for help with regards to his company's website. He said that it used to be ranked pretty high on Google but has since fallen off completely.
Now, I'm a Windows App programmer hence my request for help. I took a look and there the meta tags seem ok. I recommended that he add a <h1>heading</h1> to the pages with a page title to help reinforce the content.
I also suggested that finding related websites and getting them to link to his site was good for search ranking.
Are there any other general strategies / tools that could help?
He site is: http://www.colofinder.co.uk/
ps. BTW: this isn't just an attempt to have StackOverflow link to my neighbour's site - I'm aware that links from SO don't add to its ranking.
Go to http://ooyes.net/blog/a-step-by-step-15-minute-seo-audit-%28a-sample-from-seo-secrets%29 and read it. Then go to http://www.searchenginejournal.com/55-quick-seo-tips-even-your-mother-would-love/6760/ and read it. Then go to your friends site and look at it with that information in mind. Off the top of my head, I would add flip the company name and page title in the "title" tags. Look at the google analytics account and see how people are coming to the site. That will give you an idea of where you should start your efforts to build a workable base.
First of all he needs to be make sure that his website contents are well managed and to the point. Then Page title has to be pin point, meta tags are obsolete so try meta description. Then Main Heading should be under h1 tag, sub heading under h2 and further sub heading h3. Try to update your website one in a month.
Use community websites like Facebook, Twitter and linkidin and other related forums for posting updates about completed projects and must give inbound links. You can use your company name as an inlink to your primary website and project name as an inlink of subpage of your company website.
Keep on posting at least once in a week. Post website URL to online directories will be a great help. Do not use Blackhat SEO techniques like cloaking. Do not use any invisible text/div in your website. Make sure that whenever you give your website link any where, give the most to the point and appropriate link.
Your link should have to have that stuff against you are posting your link/sublink. Make a section on your website for tag clouds/google tags, this will be a great attraction for search engines and they will link your website to other popular websites.
Make sure these tags should be directed to top ranking website which should have relevant material. I hope this will help. Feel free if you have trouble to understand anything i have mentioned above. Best of Luck