Comments on: SEO Advice for Bloggers from Matt Cutts

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Make Money Online — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:00:42 +0000

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Michael Fultz — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:50:23 +0000

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Community Building — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:51:52 +0000

This all seems like pretty straight-forward stuff, but it is worth reminding is all of the basics from time to time!

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By: JoLynn Braley

JoLynn Braley — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:15:08 +0000

Thanks David, I’m still not convinced that this won’t affect rankings….just because Google “doesn’t care” about how many slashes are in a url still doesn’t mean that the url has changed….and I understand what you’re saying about redirecting using .htaccess.

I was hoping to hear how it went for anyone who has done this after having already been blogging. It sounds like you will be leaving your blog as is….I will have to decide if I want to change mine or not. Thanks very much for your feedback David.

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By: David Culpepper

David Culpepper — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:25:03 +0000

If you don’t ever intend to do anything but blog then it is ok to install your blog in the root of your domain. He just means that should you decide to do something else later, it is an easier transition to make if you have the blog in a subdirectory.

By: David Culpepper

David Culpepper — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:19:23 +0000

If you use the proper 301 redirect you should should not see any drop in rankings. The 301 redirect tells Google that this page has permanently moved and since Matt has already told us this:

“Google does not care about the number of slashes in a URLâ€¦ so URLs like blog/year/month/day/title are not a problem.”

We know that adding another subdirectory to the URL does not matter. So in my opinion, if your .htaccess file is setup properly you will not lose any rankings.

With that said, do you have something else planned for your main URL? If not, I probably wouldn’t change.

By: David Culpepper

David Culpepper — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:11:28 +0000

No idea how it why it would matter but since he works for Google, I will have to take his word for it.

By: JoLynn Braley

JoLynn Braley — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:03:34 +0000

The one part of this that I think is the problem…”subdomaining your blog is not a real tough task and a killer .htaccess file can work wonders in redirecting”…..if you end up moving your blog to a sub-directory off of your domain after you’ve been blogging for a few months, doesn’t this affect the indexing of all of your posts in google?? i.e.: on my site, what was once http://www.thefitshack.com/2007/04/03/how-to-use-your-brain-to-lose-weight/ will now be: (http://www.thefitshack.com/blog/2007/04/03/how-to-use-your-brain-to-lose-weight/)

So, even with redirects set up in .htaccess, won’t this affect how your posts rank in the search engines? If you have a top ranking post in google, could it get knocked down through re-indexing once google crawls your site and finds the new urls?

I’m very interested in feedback from anyone who has moved their blog after they already had been blogging for 6 months or so, and hearing whether or not this affected you negatively. If I’m wrong about this and it won’t have a negative affect on my post rankings by moving my blog, I’d really like to know. I’ve been meaning to move my blog and now a few months have gone by, so I wonder if I should do it now or not.

Thanks!