301 redirects are called permanent, but that's not really the case. They are permanent only as long as they are in place. If you want to see this, do everything as Andy said and then remove the redirect. You'll notice your traffic drop and when you put the redirects back the traffic will recover. Go ahead and do this every year and you'll see that each time it drops. We've dealt with drops that happened from domains that haven't been active in over 5 years, so as EGOL alluded to, keep them forever.
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TheeDigital is a full-service web design and digital marketing company that specializes in WordPress development, custom programming, and responsive, mobile-friendly web design. We create award-winning websites and offer our customers SEO, SEM, paid search advertising, social media, and other digital marketing services by our Google certified team. Since 2004, TheeDigital has achieved Google Premier Partner status and client successes that include 300% increases in qualified traffic YOY for businesses of all industries and sizes.
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RE: How long should an old site redirecting to a new site remain activated on a server?
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RE: Google Search Console - Why is my average mobile position better than my average desktop position?
Sounds like you rank for a lot more terms on desktop than mobile, and probably not as well for a lot of those terms. In addition, it could be that a lot of the mobile searchers are in your area, which tends to make you rank higher because of the localization.
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RE: ScreamingFrog won't crawl my site.
I'm not sure if this has been fixed already, and thank you for Dan for chiming in, but I was able to crawl around 700 URLs.
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RE: Why has my search traffic suddenly tanked?
As L Slversen said, your Google Analytics tracking code is missing so you wouldn't be recording traffic. This probably happened with your theme changed and likely the traffic you are still seeing on the site is not legitimate, more than likely ghost referral spam traffic.
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RE: Pornhub-forum spam
As Bob said, these porn spam referrals are just the latest in what looks like it will be an unending fight to keep your analytics data clean. We keep our list fairly up-to-date with the latest spam referrers if you want to try to filter them before they show up in your account.
http://www.theedesign.com/blog/2015/blocking-spam-referral-traffic-google-analytics
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RE: Two Different Domains exact same content
Sometimes this is done unintentionally, and there may be no ill-intent. Either way, one should be properly redirected to the other.
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RE: How To Cleanup the Google Index After a Website Has Been HACKED
Doesn't have to be so tedious. If you have a list of URLs you can use the bulk removal extension for Chrome found here: https://github.com/noitcudni/google-webmaster-tools-bulk-url-removal
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RE: Strange 404s in Screaming Frog
This is typically caused by a link on the page that is not formed correctly.
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RE: 'And' vs '&'
A quick way to check for an association in Google is to search and see what is highlighted. I chose to search for "Barnes and Noble" who reside on barnesandnoble.com and whose brand is Barnes & Noble. The answer is that no, they are not associated, but that doesn't mean that your site won't show. Obviously Barnes & Noble has established themselves as a brand and will show if you search with and or &.
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RE: Social Media Content - Duplicate Content?
Pedram,
No worries. By packaging, the process in which we are sending content out their to get viewed.
For example: A picture can be optimized for a variety of social networks including Flickr, Google+, Facebook, and Twitter, which is great, but you need to plan how you are going to send it out there for people to see. Is it going to be an album as part of an event or is it just going to be a simple picture upload, because it's something funny that your audience will enjoy. Twitter you can't create albums, so simply taking pictures "live" during an event is great but then you can upload a 100 photos later on to Facebook/G+ as part of an album. You can even on Facebook create that album as part of a historical event and add it to your timeline.The overall point is that each social network is different so just because you have one piece of content, doesn't mean that you can't use it in different ways.
I hope that explanation helps out.
Cheers,
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RE: Franchise sites: Should each franchise have a subdomain or subdirectory?
Best for SEO is with a subdirectory. Subdomains can be treated as separate websites.
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RE: Forcing Google to Crawl a Backlink URL
You might try pinging the site out or just building a link to the site.
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RE: Social Media Content - Duplicate Content?
Pedram,
We've never heard of someone getting caned for duplicate content, for sharing things on multiple social networks. If you do have one piece of content, that you are sharing to multiple networks what you are going to want to do is repackage that content. You can deliver content in different ways in social networks so play around with that.
As per your "followed" vs. "no-followed", the majority of social networks these days are "no-followed", I would suggest starting with where the audience of your niche is. Find out the demographics of your product and then find what social networks they use.
Hope that helps!
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RE: How does a collapsed section affect on page SEO?
As long as the search engine can read all the text, I see no issues. Modern designers put text in multiple tabs or partially hidden until expanded all the time these to create a better user experience. It is generally only hidden from the user using css and is fully visible in the code.
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RE: Using a dash or underscores in file names.
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/76329?hl=en
Use dashes. Underscores don't specify any specific function whereas dashes are specifically word separators.
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RE: Local SEO: City & County Pages
As Miriam said, check if people search for the county. In the particular area where TheeDesign is located (Raleigh, NC) we are referred to as the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) but almost no one searches this way. The county is Wake County, but few people search by the county name either (more in some industries than others,) and typically the city is the highest search terms. So you have to debate whether the extra effort and planning is worth the extra visitors or not.
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RE: How long should an old site redirecting to a new site remain activated on a server?
301 redirects are called permanent, but that's not really the case. They are permanent only as long as they are in place. If you want to see this, do everything as Andy said and then remove the redirect. You'll notice your traffic drop and when you put the redirects back the traffic will recover. Go ahead and do this every year and you'll see that each time it drops. We've dealt with drops that happened from domains that haven't been active in over 5 years, so as EGOL alluded to, keep them forever.
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RE: Updating inbound links vs. 301 redirecting the page they link to
Quick fix = do the redirects.
Best practice = do the redirects and try to get the inbound links changed as well.
It is best if you can get the links changed, but always be sure to do redirects as well as there may be other links that you are not aware of.
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RE: Duplicate Content Issue WWW and Non WWW
Came here to say what Ray already said.
TheeDigital is a full-service web design and digital marketing company that specializes in WordPress development, custom programming, and responsive, mobile-friendly web design. We create award-winning websites and offer our customers SEO, SEM, paid search advertising, social media, and other digital marketing services by our Google certified team. Since 2004, TheeDigital has achieved Google Premier Partner status and client successes that include 300% increases in qualified traffic YOY for businesses of all industries and sizes.
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