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 More options Jun 25 2008, 7:05 pm
From: Andy@netAttention
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:05:59 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Wed, Jun 25 2008 7:05 pm
Subject: Re: 6 months since we mostly dropped out of the search index
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Hi John,

Thanks - that's a big help.

1. We've removed any remaining on 302's and changed to 301.
2. The robots none tag has us stumped. Can you see when this was?
3. We're already well on top of the URL issue too and have redirected
(301) the canonical domains to be sure.

So, hopefully, things will improve soon?

Thanks,
Andy

On Jun 25, 11:03 pm, JohnMu wrote:

> Hi Andy and welcome to the groups!

> It seems that someone did a complete redesign around mid January. You
> can see some of the old design athttp://web.archive.org/web/20070823193356/http://www.gadgetguy.com.au/
> . In general, the best practice would be to have all the old URLs 301
> redirect to the appropriate new ones. However, in this case, there
> were a few things done in a suboptimal way:

> 1. Old URLs are 302 redirected to the homepage

> 2. For a period of about 3 weeks, it looks like you had robots meta
> tags with a value of "none" across the site.

> 3. Until recently, many URLs had many keywords and spaces in them. For
> example, you can see this onhttp://74.125.39.104/search?q=cache:xWJcPWZfH8MJ:www.gadgetguy.com.au...

> It contains a link like this:
> <a href="photo-and-video-photography digital camera camcorder
> videocamera handycam canon sony panasonic nikon channel 7 sunrise
> australia-5.html">Photo and Video</a>

> This ties in with my previous comment on long, difficult to understand
> URLs. There are a lot of URLs that could end up showing that
> content... this means we might spend a lot of time crawling through
> URLs that are really just duplicates. URL length is not an issue
> (apart from making it close to impossible for users to link to your
> pages without copy&pasting the URL).

> At this time, I would work on designing a very simple URL structure
> that allows you to use relevant keywords in your URL so that the user
> can understand what might be shown on the page. Also, you would want
> to make sure that all canonical versions of your existing URLs
> (including the old style ones) are 301 redirected to the new & simple
> URL structure.

> Hope it helps!
> John


 
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