Calling All Techies …
When I moved my blog to the same server as my website, my assumption is it would help my main site’s SERP. It has, though it has come in fits and starts and with some odd side effects along the way.
As best I can tell, this is because the search engines don’t seem to realize http://myblog.daltonsazhomes.com is a subfolder of http://www.daltonsazhomes.com. Also, since I started this blog, I’ve all but disappeared off Yahoo! where I used to rank quite well.
One day the blog will rank well. The next day my main page ranks well. And then the next day, neither is anywhere to be found.
I’ve been trying to find the correct code to institute a redirect and thought I had it early yesterday, though it appears the only result was to kill off comments for a while. And that isn’t at all what I wanted to do.
Sooooo … for those who are far more technically inclined than I am … does anyone have a handy code which would accomplish the goal of having the SEO give credit to my main site for the work here on the blog?
All suggestions are welcome.
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Jonathon, I recall reading somewhere that the trick is you want to have the blog URL look like this www.maindomain.com/blog instead of this blog.maindomain.com. I think I read that over on RSSpieces a few months ago.
I think you’re right, Michael. The trick is how to do it without killing off all of the links to the prior posts floating all over the place.
The redirect seems like the best method but none of the code I’ve tried seems to do it.
You mean I get to encourage you to hire a professional now? I’ll whip up a “Save Jonathan” T-Shirt if you like.
-Athol