Thanks for your support

I´ve checked the sitemap, you find it at ....se/sitemap_index.xml

It´s Yoast plugin BTW.

Sure, notice that it´s in swedish

Example of one page that Google report 404 on is our contact page with /feed/ at the end,

http://www.mediaanalys.se/kontakt/   +   feed/

Hi Aran, thanks for your time!

Meta and sitemaps are clear. I also checked the source code for the specific pages that Google have in their reports, but no link.

I´ve also googled about the automatic feed functions in WP but no problem there either.

Hi!

In Google Webmaster Tools I find *.../feed/ as a 404 page in crawl errors. The problem is that none of these pages exist and they have no inbound links (except the start page).

FYI, it´s a wordpress site.

Example:

• www.mysite.com/subpage1/feed/
• www.mysite.com/subpage2/feed/
• www.mysite.com/subpage3/feed/
• etc

Does Google search for /feed/ by default or why do I keep getting these 404´s every day?

Hi Highland!

I know that relative URLs is anything but good, especially when you also use URL rewrite.

The only question is how Google will react to this?

Thanks for your answer!

Hi Cyrus and thanks for your answer!

The client is using the base tag on all pages on the site, but with different URLs. For example:

Root page: <base href="http://domain.com/1.0.1.0/2/1/">

Subpage:
<base href="http://domain.com/1.0.1.0/5/1/"> OR
<base href="http://domain.com/1.0.1.0/13/1/">

Productpage:
<base href="http://domain.com/1.0.1.0/14/1/">

As you can se they are using a lot of different base locations and unfortunately we are unable to change the base URL and test.

We have problems with both broken links and rankings. Whenever a new version of the system is created, all base URLs will be changed. This may mean that old links are still there and will be broken.

What do you think Cyrus, can this hurt us from a SEO perspective? It must be confusing for Google with all the strange base URLs?

I think the best would be to rebuild the structure and remove the base tag!

A customer is using the <base>-tag in an odd way:

<base href="http://domain.com/1.0.0/1/1/">

My own theory is that the subfolders are added as the root because of revision control.

CSS, images and internal links are used like this:

internal link

I ran a test with Xenu Link Sleuth and found many broken links on the site, but I can't say if it is due to the base-tag.

I have read that the base-tag may cause problems in some browsers, but is this usage of base-tag bad in some SEO-perspective? I have a lot of problems with this customer and I want to know if the base-tag is a part of it.

If he choose option C he will loose the traffic as well, visitors will just come to a dead end.

If you put the visitor in the front seat, I would suggest redirecting the old subpage to a corresponding page on the new site, and if you dont have any as he mention, I would suggest option A.

Hi Andre!

I would suggest option A. If you cant find a corresponding url on the new site, then you should redirect it to the new start page. Then you will take care of the visitors that might find the old pages and send them to your new site + get the most of the old subpage PR.

Recommendations from Google:

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=83105

Good luck!

Hi Jason!

Alex has a good point there, spanish anchor text inside english text will just look spammy.

One thing to remember is that Google recognize synonyms and other languages as well. If you want to build links for the spanish word "perder peso" and find it very tough to make it effective, links from english sites with the english anchor text "weight loss" will help you as well (the effect might not be as good as with spanish, but it will help).

Google will understand that "perder peso" equals "weight loss". But the recommendation is to work with links for the goal language, it´s most relevant for the users and in the eyes of Google.

Here is a great video from SEOmoz Whiteboard friday:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-we-increased-our-twitter-followers-by-250-whiteboard-friday