Those are Visual Composer blocks! They're displaying that way not becaue the previous designer made a mess of the backend, but beceause your're not editing the site in the Visual Composer editor. The WP Gutenburg editor doesn;t undersrand them, therefore it turns the page into shortcodes. If you're in the right editor, it's not hard to manage.
You say don't worry about pages that aren't ranking for anything but when you migrate over to the new site aren't you going to lose the page existence time period of the page as a factor for seo?
Hi quick question. I have created a DEV site for my already #1 ranking website. I am busy following the steps laid out in your video. Once I am finished with the new DEV site, how do I update it so that it becomes my new site?
Hey Victor - is there a reason you don't just leave the unlisted video up on RU-vid and then use the link to tell your website where to load the hero video from? I figure the compression is already done by RU-vid during the upload process and it saves your web server having to serve up that 9MB file when RU-vid could be doing it instead.
yes anyways thanks for your video. I have one problem with my current website about SEO it still keep old link that using Codeignitor but i already change to wordpress and start host. Can u advise how to do it ?
Hi Victor! Interesting video, still very relevant in 2021. The video has been very helpful! Although i'm a little confused on the last steps of the process. You have the new design on a test site, how do you transfer that over to the "real" domain? In your case it would be to transfer the design of tddpreview.com URL to tmail21.com URL? Again, thanks so much for the great content!
Thanks for the vid! What's about the pics? I've got tons of pics in the media, that rank good. They shouldn't not be used within the new design. Should i copy them in the media of the new site and redirect all the pic-links to new addresses?
Thanks for this Victor! I really appreciate your tone in your videos and content. It's not super hyper hey look at me! It's realistic and calm, thank you for that. As a web developer I tend to be pretty introverted so having someone not yelling and shouting is a huge plus.
Great job as usual. I have a website that originally started as a woocommerce ecommerce site with just tons of products. But I saw the need to turn it into a blog instead with no need of the woocommerce product pages. But because of trying to do ecommerce I have about 23,000 pages of products, EAN, UPC and automatically generated woocommerce pages I dont need anymore. I want to create an updated website and Some of the category pages created will be 301 redirected to a new pages on my new site. But whats best to do with the 23000 pages? Redirect to my home page? No index? Which would be best for SEO?
Hi, Thank you so much for your video, it's very helpful! I am starting a re-design project and the client's current website does not have SSL security. If I add SSL but keep the URL structure will the SEO be affected and do I have to set up 301 redirects anyway? another question would be: if they stop paying for their previous web host does their old website get taken down/not work anymore? -Thank you for your time!
Hi Camilla thanks for your comment! No, you don't need to setup redirects from HTTP to https on the URL string. That will take care of itself. If you stop paying for your host, yes, the site will be taken down. If the new site is hosted somewhere else and you have pointed the domain to that new host, then it's okay to let the old host expire. Thanks! Victor
Great video! I just have a question since I'm currently in the talks of redesigning a client's website and we plan on keeping the same URLs. My question is: Once I'm ready to launch the new website, what happens to the URLs for the old website? Since I'm going to be using the same URLs, do I have to manually change each URL on the old site and then select the "discourage search engines from indexing" on the old site to keep it from being indexed? Thanks!
Hi @Jessica, Thanks for your comment. Step 1. is you want to make sure that the URL structure from your 'old' website is the same as the 'new' one. For any pages where that is not the case, you want to make sure there are redirects setup so that the 'old' link goes to the 'new' page. You can use the Redirection plugin in WordPress for this. Other than that there is nothing you need to do. The main thing you want to keep in mind is that the purpose of all of this is that you don't have any 'broken links' on your site. So that anyone who linked to your 'old' site will wind up on the same or similar page on the 'new' site.
This really helped me, Victor. Thank you for making this video. Question: why in the world isn't that Link Juice Keeper plugin more popular? I've literally never heard of it but it seems like an SEO game changer.
@justin borge thanks for your comment. Well the truth is you would be much better off redirecting a previous internal URL to a new, relevant, internal URL. I think the idea is that Google will give you more credit for those types of redirects. It looks like blanket redirects that just go back to your homepage give you much less juice than specific URL redirects. This is more of a tool of last resort and especially useful for expired domains.
You have a very interesting video with valuable content. I will study your content and try to implement what you suggest and demonstrate to improve my website. People don't want to buy drills, they want a hole! I first heard a quote similar to this from Mike Dillard's book "Magnetic Sponsoring." I love it. Thank you for taking the time to help us. Subbed, thumbed, All the notification bell.
Thanks so much for this! Exactly what I needed. I’m working with some new developers for my clients new site and wanted to make sure they know what they’re doing
Victor thanks for the video. We have been trying to use Optimize behind a login which generates a unique url and it does not seem to really work. Any ideas?
Hi Paul, thanks for the comment. I don't really have enough information to respond. Google Optimize has an option to split test different urls. It literally just serves up two different urls a pre-determined percentage of times to visitors. As long as it's a unique url that isn't password protected to view, it should work...
@@VictorThomas Thanks for the reply. In our case a person logs in with the last 4 of their account as part of the login process so the url contains those 4 digits. Basically when we create a test (which we can do just fine) the test runs based on the account we used to setup the test meaning user with account 1234 comes onto the site and then the A/B test fires showing the different content/styling but it is based on the account we used to setup the test say 5678 so that when the user does any action on the page it logs the user out due to the mis-match. This functionality may not be available in Optimize and we are in process to convert over to paid service from Optimizely.
Good point Lazar. I probably need to shoot a separate video about this. But the idea is, that creating posts for long-tail keywords is dead. Instead, you want to create a piece of power content that ranks for many long-tail keywords. So instead, you would make the long-tail keyword one of the sub-headings in the article to target that keyword.
@@VictorThomas Ohh thank you for pointing that out, because I was thinking that long tail is better and I based my SEO strategy on that. So it's better to have short tail and then just make some related long tail in the content. Thanks!
@@lazarbulatovic3508 Yeah, It's now better to create fewer 'power' content pieces that target short-tail keywords along with many long-tail keywords at the same time. That seems to be what the big boys are doing...
