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sanonline
Joined: Mar 23, 2008
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Posted: 2008-Mar-23 12:27
Hi all,
I am fairly new to seo. I have a problem at the moment. I have a domain name, let's say it is called www.mydomain.com. On this domain I run various different small websites for companies. Two of those small sites are ready and listed in google with good rankings for the right keywords. One of them is registered as e.g. companyA.mydomain.com in google and the other (by my mistake I guess) is listed as www.mydomain/subdomains/companyB.... This is not my biggest problem however.
The problem is that on the main domain (www.mydomain.com) I have made a business directory. The business directory has the possibility to navigate to the small company websites but the primary purpose is just to give basic information about companies (eventually thousands of them).
I am trying to get it listed in google. I followed (I think) all the correct guidelines, so not keywords stuffing, cloaking, fake information...everything is ok. But I have registered it a while ago now and even if I type in the full url in the google search box, it will not show up (only the one who is registered as www.mydomain/subdomains/companyB, because it is part of that url). Even if I click the 'show duplicates or similar' in google, the main site will not show up. What am I doing wrong? I don't think google has banned it because the other two sites do show up.
Any advice is greatly appreciated...
Many thanks,
sanonline
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g1smd
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Posted: 2008-Mar-23 17:34
Google will find that site once some other sites begin to link to it.
Have you got incoming links from some other sites that Google already lists?
You can fix the sub-domain canonicalisation problem with a set of 301 redirects to the correct version of the site. That question has come up many times before.
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sanonline
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Posted: 2008-Mar-23 17:55
thanks, a few more question (as I am still learning):
1) incoming links I am creating (upon registration in google I also entered it in DMOZ and some local sites). But does a link from the sub sites into the main site help? For example a link from companyA.domain.com to www.domain.com?
2) With the sub-domain canonicalisation problem I guess you refer to the subsite www.domain.com/subdomains/companyB which should be redirected to companyB.domain.com
a) I read somewhere that search engines don't really like redirects?
b) Can you point me to an example how to do such a redirect?
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g1smd
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Posted: 2008-Mar-23 21:05
Links from sub-sites can potentially be seen as being spam. You need links from other sites, first and foremost.
If you have the same content at multiple URLs, let one URL serve the content with "200 OK" status and make all the other versions of the page serve a 301 redirect. Make sure that all your links point only at the real URL (the "200 OK" version) for the content.
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&filter=0&q=g1smd+r=301
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