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I know this has been covered and I have searched through posts but can someone confirm for me:
I have always had robots tag index, follow on my index page only I have noticed on other sites that it is on every page...is this essential
Thanks
Woody
By default, spiders will index and follow all the pages they can grab. Keep the NOINDEX command for pages you dont want to get in SE index, if any. If you want every pages in the index, you are better to leave the tag out.
Thanks for the quick reply Macguru, could you also advise me on this
I have had my site companyname.com running for 1 year+ and we are pretty much on most SE/directories I have recently started companyname-keyword.co.uk, this is a direct copy of our main site and I guess this can be bad news so I am going through one site and changing all the pages. My question is should this be a complete change as in Title/keywords/description and body text and also when completed should I link my .com site to my .co.uk site would this bring any benefits
Woody
I am glad you care about duplicate content. Yes, if you adopt this strategy the content must be different in all ereas. Both sites will benefit from cross linking. I also think your site will benefit from the .co.uk domain. If your subject is better for UK traffic, you will get some better positions on UK engines and directories and attract a better quality traffic from it.
If your site has a very large amount of pages you could also consider using sub-domains to partition it in sub categories. EX: keyword1.companyname.com and keyword2.companyname.com.
IMHO you are about to improve the situation if you carefully work it out. Try to rethink and rewrite your site specifically for UK traffic, if possible. I would not try to focus on changing some zones in batches. If this is relevant to your perticular case, step back and rethink the new site. I had better results by this method than starting from a copy.
May be it did something wrong in the process, but when it was time to submit a modified site to some third party, they found the later not very usable, and sounding weird.
Good luck!
