My cousin has given me her old website to "redo" which is on a Google Sites template. I have separately created a static website with Ruby on Rails setup and Bootstrap but am now scratching my head on how to transition her old Google Site to this new layout (I want to keep the original domain name).
Also, the good thing about Google Sites is that when I search for her business, it pops up on the right side of the page and sometimes pops up at the top for google local search, which is obviously great for marketing/SEO.
I did read something that Google doesn't support other platforms (I think) which is why I'm wondering if I can redirect and still retain the SEO benefits. Any resources or suggestions would be great, thanks!
Setup your new site with new ROR template.
Register and verify your new domain and old one on Google Webmaster
Create a custom 404 page for old domain which suggests visiting new domain.
Redirect your old urls to new one by a 1:1 redirection with 301, "Moved Permanently", like www.oldone.com/games to www.newone.com/games
Submit your sitemap of old one to Google and BIng, they will see 301 and rewrite their crawl cache.
Fill out change of address in Google webmaster and add new site's sitemap.
Above method is the best SEO friendly site moving method.
ps: Not exactly ROR question .
Edit: I don't really know about google pages but one of doing this would be, deploy ROR site somewhere and use iframe in google page to project it to google page.
In your google page,
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use options like height="100%" to cover the entire page.
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I'm building a website for a company, I build this website offline so google won't index it, with the reason that google don't see the codes yet and thinks at the official launch that we copied the text/codes from an other website.
Sadly I encounterd a problem. I need to implant the facebook social plugin, sadly does this plugin only work when the site is online. But as I said putting it online can be dangerous for future Google SEO.
Is there an other option where I can see the facebook plugin but it is not online yet or is it okay for me to just place it online already on (for example) www.example.com and later put the released product on (for example) www.released.com.
Any toughts on this problem?
Why don't you place the website online in a folder that is blocked for Googlebot via robots.txt?
That way you can test all the online elements work and not have to worry about users and search engines finding it and listing it.
An alternative could be to use the .htaccess file to limit access only to your IP address - that way, you'd be the only one to see the site live.
I created a CMS for a website and integrated Google Analytics. The site changes it's content every week (adding, editing, removing pages and URLs) and I rewrite the sitemap every time when one of this actions occurred.
The problem is that the web crawlers from Google detect a lot of 404 error pages.
What I am doing wrong?
Getting reports about 404s is perfectly normal and generally no need to worry about them.
Check where does Google find those 404 URLs, you can see that in Search Console (formerly Webmaster Tools), and see if you can fix them. If you cannot, if you have great content, sooner or later you'll get better links.
What you could do additionally, is to create custom 404 pages, where you link to content on your site that's similar to the missing page (if it's possible to determine that), or that's popular on the site.
Also if you feel that the page is for content that won't be coming back on the site. you can remove the URL for their index by using the remove URL option.
My question is "How to integrate apache and google site via proxy"?
I found this tutorial but it didn't work as I expected. It redirect to google site instead of keep my domain in address bar and change content only.
In my case, I want whenever people access to http://mydomain.com, they will see the content from https://sites.google.com/site/mydomain/
Thanks!
I think it's not possible because you can't acces on the dataBase on your Google Sites. The url of your Google can't change.
i want to remove the pages that i have removed from the server from google
or redirect them
the pages that i have removed from the server are
www.mysite.com/id?=9898
and
www.mysite.com/pagename.html
the new pages are
www.mysite.com/pagename
so i removed the sitemap from google and created a new one and uploaded it
my problem now is google give me crawl error because of the removed pages like www.sitename.com/contact.html and the
indexed page now are only 2 pages
why he can't see that i have removed this pages and when i search on google the removed pages still appears
Better then uploading a new sitemap, is to redirect from your old pages to your new ones. Here you can geht informations about a 301 redirect.
Your problem is, that Google in fact can not know that the pages www.blabalbal.com/id?234234 and www.blabalbal.com/speaking_url are the same page. So you have to tell Google. A good method is the redirect from above.
You should fix this, because Google maybe crawls both webpages as unique ones and comes to the conclusion that this two pages are duplicate content, which is a bad thing for your rankings.
You have to use Disavow Tool - Google to get this done completely.On google search for Disavow Tool - Google and you will get the first link ,login to this by google ID and follow the instructions.USe the same google ID through which sitemap was upload in google webmaster
When I google for cms tutorial my website is the first link which is obviously great. Unfortunatly it is showing the Under construction title I was using when I was updating my site. When you click on the link you of course you go to my website but the title link still remains "CMS TUTORIAL SITE - Under construction" in google instead of the name of the actual page.
How can I request google to re-index that page, I allready requested to remove the cache for that url with the google webmaster tool.
You could request to update your url here.