My Blog pages are out ranking my main website
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My blog was on wordpress.com for over 18mnths and I have just moved it to my domain - rankings are charging as a result - up and down!
My current concern is my google.co.uk search position for garden art - my home page http://www.gardenbeet.com has been number 2 for over 12 mnths - now my blog is number 2 http://www.gardenbeet.com/garden_design_blog/garden-art/
this is not the best landing page to generate sales from my shop - any suggestions?
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I fyou have 301 redirected, then you dontneed to use canonical
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All pages i checked did not have any. they do now.
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Yes, we can do that, the canonical need not be exactly the same content. At least in tests I did worked : /
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ooo take that back - there are posts under garden art without a link to home page - thank you for picking that up!!!
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i have already done 301's from my old wordpress site to my new blog location on my main domain..
also I cant really use a cross domain canonical to direct traffic from my blog to home page - its not the same content?
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yes, thatnks - that is the long term plan
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hey thanks for your response - in general if i have written a post about garden art I would have a link back to the home page on the term garden art in the post
also the top menu has a link to the home page through the SHOP
where else should i place a link?
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Randfish last spoke about cross domain canonical in whiteboard. Where you could indicate to Google all your previous blog page to its current home in a few days and that home took this position. See if this helps:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/cross-domain-canonical-the-new-301-whiteboard-friday
Another solution would be more risky to create a url for another http://www.gardenbeet.com/garden_design_blog/garden-art/ and use the original to do a 301 to your home. So theoretically the home would take her position. I've done it a few times and it worked.
Hope that helps.
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I suggest that you make the header the same in the main domain and in the blog... So the logo can always link to your home page (shop) and the button Garden Design Blog will always get you on the blog main page. I know it's a bit of work but that's how i see it proper for not confusing search engines or your clients...
Hope this helps
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First thing i noticed, there is no links from your blog to your home page. it looks to google that the blog is a sub site. make sure every page in your site links to the home page. in theory you should link to every page from your home page and back to the home page from every page and no cross linking to give your homepage maximum link juice, but of cause that would not be user frendly, but you should have that in mind when thinking about linking.
Without getting too complicated make sure ever page in your blog has a link to the hoome page
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