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Hi everyone,

I need the community opinion on something. I am webmarketer and SEO for a pure player who runs a couple of e-commerce sites.

On one side we have bigsite.com. It makes all our revenue. I have been in charge for years. Results are good.

We have smallsite.com. It is starting. But small revenues for the moment. We have a new SEO working on this.

My question is :

We always had a banner on bigsite.com's homepage, sending valuable traffic to smallsite.com.T

he new SEO, has footer sitewide links from smallsite.com to bigsite.com homepage.

Considering both sites share same ssl, server and company name, I am quite sure this is out of google's guide lines and would hurt bigsite.com.

Do you agree that this is wrong from the new SEO, and that it could hurt my work and the search results for bigsite.com and smallsite.com, as well as team work ?

Thanks

Thanks Patrick,

I read that last year and it is the best ressource so far on the web. But I am not sure it applies to my case.

Thanks.

Hi guys,

So, this is a tricky one. My server team just made quite a big mistake :We are a big

We are a big magento ecommerce website, selling well, with about 6000 products. And we are about to change our domaine name for administrative reasons.

Let's call the current site : current.com and the future one  : future.com

Right, here is the issue

Connecting to the search console, I saw future.com sending 11.000 links to current.com. At the same time DA was hit by 7 points.

I realized future.com was uncorrectly redirected and showed a duplicated site or current.com. We corrected this, and future.com now shows a landing page until we make the domain name change.

I was wondering what is the best way to avoid the penalty now and what can be the consequences when changing domain name. Should I set an alias on search console or something ?

Thanks

Hi Guys,

I have mixed http and https content on my ecommerce store.

My server people is telling me force all to https as it is better for ssl certificate.

All versions of the site are declared on search console. Can forcing https and not having more mixed content impact my site badly ?

Thanks.

Hi AARAINDIA,

I do have countries set in Google search console for both site. Although my seo extension was writing french texts on spanish site. BIG MISTAKE !

Thanks for office and phone number tip. Great one ! Is that a snippet to write in the header ? Maybe I should try a geolocalised pop up on french site to send spanish trafic to spanish site.

Best regards.

Thanks for that.

Hi Martjin.

I dont' use them, but I think it is important to mention that the 2 sites have tow different domain names, like if they were 2 different brands.

Thanks.

Hi There,

I have a problem I need an advice for.

I run an e-commerce site in French. Things are going well.

I also run the Spanish version of this site. We are starting to sell. But nothing like French site.

I have traffic coming to the French site from Spain from visitors with Spanish language and they don't buy anything. That is strange as the conversion rate is good. Si I want to redirect them to the Spanish site.

We sell phone parts. Our SEO is mainly based on brands, make, and reference numbers. So keywords are almost the same in both languages. Of course, site.es is aiming at google.es, and site.fr at google.fr

So I am wondering. If I redirect these visitors to the Spanish site, Will it affect french site's SEO?

Thanks

Thanks !!

Ok. I guess there must be a way to set rewrite rules for that, as that many redirects could impact my site's performance.

Have you got any recomendations on that ?

Well,

We are asked to make the new site because these 2 categories of product don't have the same audience. B2B and B2C.

Thanks for your reply.

Hi,

We are a wholesaler for electronics parts and accessories on our main site

Our Business for parts is more B2B. Accessories is more B2C oriented.

Right now, our catalog is not the best SEO Friendly kind. We want to move all accesories to a new site.

Now. So as not to get duplicated content, and user experience, I guess the best is remove all category pages and product pages from our main site.

That would generate lots of 404. What would be the way to handle this as we are talking about hundreds, maybe thousands of pages ?

Thanks.

Thanks. That is exactly what I was looking for.

I am about to make a domain name change for my online shop.

I have heard  that redirecting my HTTP to my https is a good SEO Practice.

I have www, non-www, as well as https-www and https-non-www declared in Search console. Both have non-www set as preferred domain.

Is the redirect rule from HTTP to https really usefull ?

Thanks

That's really true.Perhaps the best solution is to have another shop @ sellparts.com/buyparts

Perhaps the best affordable solution is to have another shop @ sellparts.com/buyparts ?

It then could be another site on the same Magento install with different shopping cart extensions.

I really appreciate your help. Thanks.

That answer, truly, is a spot on. Combining sites is actually what our competitors are tending to do.

The matter is that buying and selling on the same site is a really tricky thing to do on a Magento based website as shopping cart aren't prepared for that and custom development is a nightmare on the long run.

One last question. What about if, buyparts would be on a subdomain where shopping carts wouldn't be shared. The development would be easier.How do you think it could affect the SEO ?

How do you think it could affect the SEO ?

Thanks.

You are absolutely right and I am glad you pointed it. English isn't my first language...

Buyparts.com has a REALLY low traffic and revenue as no SEO work has been done on it. It receives very few orders a month although the potential is good.

Nonetheless, it will never make the profits of sellpart.com. sellparts.com represents 99% or our revenue.

Thanks

Hi Guys,

Hope you'll be able to help me with a technical problem I am facing right now.

We are a company right ? We own 2 webistes.

Let's say one sells car parts, the other one buys second hand car parts to refurbish them and sell them. (It is not our case, just an example very similar to ours).

sellparts.com

buyparts.com

Both are ecommerce websites, with large catalogues (7000 skus). sellparts sells a lot and is a big actor in its market. buyparts.com doesn't work nad has a really low DA.

My new SEO external consultant, which I am not too convinced about, is telling me to cross link the sites on product level using cross-linking extensions. He want have them do-follow.

That would mean having hundreds or thousands of links with really similar linking patterns.

buy [parts] [model ] [make]

sell [parts] [model ] [make]

That to me seems a bit too much and I am worried it compromises the sellparts site's SEO.

So should i no-follow the links ? Or do it differently ?

Well,

I have client account examined here on MOZ. He's got huge duplicated content and it definitely sounds to me like it is duplicating the content from the site to Ebay.

I'll post back about that, but definitly something to consider. I guess if Google has to choose beetween a site and Ebay... it is going to be tough to fight for SERPS against Ebay.