Hi
I don’t think this will affect your ranking, I am sure you are familiar with the process.

No matter what, changing your domain name will affect your search engine rankings, largely because each search engine responds differently to such changes, but you can substantially limit the damage done. Google has taken the lead as usual in dealing with URLs that change and will quickly index the new file with virtually no interruption if you follow some fairly straightforward procedures. AllTheWeb quickly followed suit. Unfortunately, the procedures described below do not work in the same way on the other major search engines.

The critical element in successful url redirecting or domain forwarding is taking the time to make sure that ALL links to your old page from directories and other websites are updated. That step must be done. Unfortunately, it is the most difficult step, as many links may be on sites that are neglected or even abandoned.

Google has published guidelines on changing your URLs. See, Google Information for Webmasters : "Once your new site is live, you may wish to place a permanent redirect (using a '301' code in HTTP headers) on your old site to inform visitors and search engines that your site has moved."
hope this helps ..:)

I suggerst you to adopt the following :

The best way to achieve this is to modify your Document class, set your canonical in your controller, then render it in the header controller.

Edit system/library/document.php

add:

private $canonical; to your class variables up top.

Then add the following methods:

<code>publicfunction setCanonical($url){ $this->canonical = $url;}publicfunction getCanonical(){return $this->canonical;}</code>

In your header controller add:

$this->data['canonical'] = $this->document->getCanonical();

Then you can set your canonical dynamically in the header controller:

<code>if(isset($this->request->get['_route_'])): $canonical_route = $this->request->get['_route_'];else: $canonical_route =''; endif; $this->document->setCanonical($this->data['base']. $canonical_route);</code>

Or you can set it manually in your controllers using the setCanonical method.

Hi

I dont think that you're doing any wrongdoing here unless you're just showing average stars of reviews. However, even if you have plan to show all reviews on the categroy page just make sure to implement canonical tag.
here is complete guide for canonical tags :https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en

Hi

I dont think you can use rel-canonical tags in httaccess however you can define the rule for follow / no follow tag through htacess.

Hi Becky,

As far as i understand Google will not ignore however Google do treat some part of the page as more important than other. For instance, if you have written a description of the product and some of the description is been hide.
Google, will take that as the important piece of content been displayed for user and least important been hide.
I do not see any point for Google to ignore the fold one.

Hi Markerle,

Yes it redirect you to the home page or Moz login page. Just logged in you Moz account through Moz site and then refresh your browsing site. It will update your login with plugin automatically.

Hope it will help

Hi Ben,

Its just issue with configuration, i reckon to uninstal the plugin and reinstall it again. This issue will be fixed. In relation to the issue with word count, this is also due to misconfiugration.

I hope this will help

Hi Paul,

I also would not recommend 410 for this purposes. I think, you should go for 301 this will help by all means. In the case of any niche links to those old pages or any osrt juice you may have on those pages will shift over.

Hope it would helps

That's a good question, EMS.  The robots.txt protocol can get kind of 
confusing when you think about it too long, and it sounds like you've 
thought about this a bit.  However, in this case, it might help to 
look at robots.txt from the perspective of the spider.

When a spider finds a URL, it takes the whole domain name (everything 
between 'http://' and the next '/'), then sticks a '/robots.txt' on 
the end of it and looks for that file.  If that file exists, then the 
spider should read it to see where it is allowed to crawl.

In your case, Googlebot, or any other spider, should try to access 
three URLs: domainA.com/robots.txt, domainB.domainA.com/robots.txt, 
and domainB.com/robots.txt.  The rules in each are treated as 
separate, so disallowing robots from domainA.com/ should result in 
domainA.com/ being removed from search results while 
domainB.domainA.com/ remains unaffected, which does not sound like not 
something you want.

The problem you might have with the setup you have described is this-- 
in order to keep domainB.domainA.com out of the results, you would 
need to have domainB.domainA.com/robots.txt exclude robots, while 
domainB.com/robots.txt welcomes them.  This means that you would need 
to have a way to make domainB.domainA.com/ and domainB.com/ serve 
different information, and judging from what you've described, you 
have not set up your server to do so yet.

Of course, it is always possible that I have assumed to much about 
your situation, so it is a good idea to use Google's robots.txt 
analysis tool (see http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8475
) to see if your robots.txt files already produce the results you 
want.

If using robots.txt files doesn't solve the problem, and assuming that 
you want to continue hosting all of your content on domainA.com, one 
strategy you really should look into would be setting up a 301 
redirect from the pages on domainB.domainA.com/ to domainB.com/ .  If 
you need more advice on how to do this with your server software, your 
hosting company's tech support would definitely be the best place to 
start, but this group is here to help if more isues arise.

Hope that helps!

Shockingly, when asked point blank if affiliate programs that employed juice-passing links (those not using nofollow) were against guidelines or if they would be discounted, the engineers all agreed with the position taken by Sean Suchter of Yahoo!. He said, in no uncertain terms, that if affiliate links came from valuable, relevant, trust-worthy sources - bloggers endorsing a product, affiliates of high quality, etc. - they would be counted in link algorithms. Aaron from Google and Nathan from Microsoft both agreed that good affiliate links would be counted by their engines and that it was not necessary to mark these with a nofollow or other method of blocking link value.

But note the point they had not mentioned what will they do with low quality links.

From the above points it clear that Google will passes a link juice. But still many of us in affiliate industry uses a parameters and redirects in affiliate urls. Reason is just simple not all the affiliate are as genuine or reputed as Amazon. So if your links in 50 sites and may be 40 site can be those which Google does not like so links from those site may harm your site.

So as I said above its always good to save website's image while leaving some link juice.

I suggerst you to adopt the following :

The best way to achieve this is to modify your Document class, set your canonical in your controller, then render it in the header controller.

Edit system/library/document.php

add:

private $canonical; to your class variables up top.

Then add the following methods:

<code>publicfunction setCanonical($url){ $this->canonical = $url;}publicfunction getCanonical(){return $this->canonical;}</code>

In your header controller add:

$this->data['canonical'] = $this->document->getCanonical();

Then you can set your canonical dynamically in the header controller:

<code>if(isset($this->request->get['_route_'])): $canonical_route = $this->request->get['_route_'];else: $canonical_route =''; endif; $this->document->setCanonical($this->data['base']. $canonical_route);</code>

Or you can set it manually in your controllers using the setCanonical method.

Hi Use the following

`# Redirect all "not correct" domain to www with https

# (is not important if comes with or without https):

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example.co.uk$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]

# Redirect all non-ssl to ssl.

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.co.uk/$1 [R,L]` 

hey

just go through the following standard in order to get rid of this issue.

https://moz.com/blog/why-wont-google-use-my-meta-description

http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2067564/how-to-use-html-meta-tags

The naked domain gives an extra room for your permalink to be more visible on SERPs thus making some extra keywords visible instead of being chopped off. So it has an SEO benefit for people who are habitual with creating long-tailed keywords inside permalinks.

If you think shorter is better, then the non-WWW approach will make you feel better. There are apparently no “technical” benefits to using the non-WWW approach, only that it reduces redundancy and is no longer needed. To be practical, it makes no drastic change whether to use a naked domain or domain with www as the sub-domain. A domain which is hosted at the root directory like www, is better remembered by people as a brand. People are habitual to recognizing websites with www extension and are observed browsing sites in address bar using the www extension most frequently.
The following advanatages you may get from it

1. Ability to restrict cookies when using multiple subdomains.

2. Using the WWW hostname allows for easy segregation in the file tructure of your website.

3. More flexibility with DNS.

   However, my preferrence is always to use WWW

You can ready further guide on this page: http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/www-vs-non-www-for-your-canonical-domain-url-which-is-best-and-why/

Hey

I think  you should go through both for analysis purposes however in order to moving forward you should be focusing on one URL which contains www.

here are the link for you to help yourself to understand the difference between these.

http://moz.com/community/q/root-domain-and-subdomain-links-opensite-explorer

https://moz.com/help/guides/links/link-analysis

Hi
I don’t think this will affect your ranking, I am sure you are familiar with the process.

No matter what, changing your domain name will affect your search engine rankings, largely because each search engine responds differently to such changes, but you can substantially limit the damage done. Google has taken the lead as usual in dealing with URLs that change and will quickly index the new file with virtually no interruption if you follow some fairly straightforward procedures. AllTheWeb quickly followed suit. Unfortunately, the procedures described below do not work in the same way on the other major search engines.

The critical element in successful url redirecting or domain forwarding is taking the time to make sure that ALL links to your old page from directories and other websites are updated. That step must be done. Unfortunately, it is the most difficult step, as many links may be on sites that are neglected or even abandoned.

Google has published guidelines on changing your URLs. See, Google Information for Webmasters : "Once your new site is live, you may wish to place a permanent redirect (using a '301' code in HTTP headers) on your old site to inform visitors and search engines that your site has moved."
hope this helps ..:)

In my opinion this could be address by using canonical tags however, 302 redirection is never been advice for this purposes.

Here is Google guide for your batter understanding. : https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en

Hi I would say to check few things if you're not sure is the site is spam or not. Mostly, the site impression, feel and looks say it as soon as you land on any site. However, there are possiblity you still remain unsure. I personally use the Google Chrome Plugin to see if the hostname are not suspicious or some wired name. I have MOZ bar plugin again to give domain overview, it also provide me DA and PA, which helps me to understand overall where is that domain stand.

Off course, these all primary elements helps to determin the site we are going to post content or aiming to get back link is not going to harm us anyway.

Hi

I dont think that you're doing any wrongdoing here unless you're just showing average stars of reviews. However, even if you have plan to show all reviews on the categroy page just make sure to implement canonical tag.
here is complete guide for canonical tags :https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en

I do agree with Patrick,

This always seems to come up in conversations and I try to sway people against this method.

Sure it may work on a small scale, and I have tried this method myself. But the drawbacks outweigh the benefits.

One final (and big) point to that I would like to reiterate. If you really intend to own and run multiple domains and get these sites to show up in the search results, you will have to double your SEO work”… Another good point. Simply ranking on a keyword really does no good when you can do the same on your own site with minimal effort.