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Hey guys! So, I have a site related to coffee, I wanted to clarify certain things.
My site is just going to be about coffee and everything related to the world.

So currently I'm building coffee recipes and informational content (later I'll move to machines and something more)
I have a page which is bestcoffeeintheworld.com/coffee/ which talk about the hardest keyword

1. Should all my URLs be like this?: bestcoffeeintheworld.com/coffee/benefits-of-coffee
bestcoffeeintheworld.com/coffee/how-to-make-capuccino... etc?
Or should I do bestcoffeeintheworld.com/coffee/INFORMATIONAL CONTENT
bestcoffeeintheworld.com/recipes/RECIPES ?


2. Should I ask google to ''index'' my page in the search console? Or sooner or later it will be automatically done?



3. If I change the URL of a page and don't have any backlinks, should I set up a 301 redirect or it doesn't really matter as that page hasn't ranked high neither has backlinks. Will it be removed or should I ask to be removed?


Thank you!
 
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1. I prefer to keep my slugs at the lowest level. Meaning:

bestcoffeeintheworld.com/benefits-of-coffee
bestcoffeeintheworld.com/INFORMATIONAL CONTENT
bestcoffeeintheworld.com/RECIPES

It looks much better and less spammy. Plus, if you want to use pillar <-> support article strategy, then just interlink articles properly and Google will know what is what.

2. Let it index naturally, don't force feed Google. Without patience, you won't get far anyway.

3. Don't change URLs of your pages once you set them up. Make up your mind immediately and let it be as it is. If you really need to do that, then just change the URL and that's it. If you don't have any traffic nor backlinks, it doesn't matter.
 
Nargil said:
1. I prefer to keep my slugs at the lowest level. Meaning:

bestcoffeeintheworld.com/benefits-of-coffee
bestcoffeeintheworld.com/INFORMATIONAL CONTENT
bestcoffeeintheworld.com/RECIPES

It looks much better and less spammy. Plus, if you want to use pillar <-> support article strategy, then just interlink articles properly and Google will know what is what.

2. Let it index naturally, don't force feed Google. Without patience, you won't get far anyway.

3. Don't change URLs of your pages once you set them up. Make up your mind immediately and let it be as it is. If you really need to do that, then just change the URL and that's it. If you don't have any traffic nor backlinks, it doesn't matter.
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that’s some solid advice for you and especially understand the patience part
 
Nargil said:
1. I prefer to keep my slugs at the lowest level. Meaning:

bestcoffeeintheworld.com/benefits-of-coffee
bestcoffeeintheworld.com/INFORMATIONAL CONTENT
bestcoffeeintheworld.com/RECIPES

It looks much better and less spammy. Plus, if you want to use pillar <-> support article strategy, then just interlink articles properly and Google will know what is what.

2. Let it index naturally, don't force feed Google. Without patience, you won't get far anyway.

3. Don't change URLs of your pages once you set them up. Make up your mind immediately and let it be as it is. If you really need to do that, then just change the URL and that's it. If you don't have any traffic nor backlinks, it doesn't matter.
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Hey! Thank you very much for your answer.

1. I think what I'll do is to create a main content about ''coffee'' which is the main keyword and then relate all the coffee INFORMATIONAL stuff to that page. (Although I don't think I'd be able to rank for that keyword as it doesn't have a clear seach intent on google as it's primarily showing local results.
After that, I'll do another main content page for coffee RECIPES and just link them with the recipes.

I SHOULDN'T link the INFORMATIONAL blog posts to the RECIPES right? (is that because the bot could be confused?)


2. Alright, thank you, yeah, I know patience is key and this isn't about ranking on first page easily and fast.

3. Great, I'll follow your advice and from now on I'll just keep my URLs simple and will change the ones that I got so far as I don't have any traffic yet.
(So, as far as I interlink them well, it's not neccesary to have the category on the URL right?)


Thank you very much and sorry if I'm asking obvious questions, thanks!
 
ArmFl8 said:
Hey! Thank you very much for your answer.

1. I think what I'll do is to create a main content about ''coffee'' which is the main keyword and then relate all the coffee INFORMATIONAL stuff to that page. (Although I don't think I'd be able to rank for that keyword as it doesn't have a clear seach intent on google as it's primarily showing local results.
After that, I'll do another main content page for coffee RECIPES and just link them with the recipes.

I SHOULDN'T link the INFORMATIONAL blog posts to the RECIPES right? (is that because the bot could be confused?)


2. Alright, thank you, yeah, I know patience is key and this isn't about ranking on first page easily and fast.

3. Great, I'll follow your advice and from now on I'll just keep my URLs simple and will change the ones that I got so far as I don't have any traffic yet.
(So, as far as I interlink them well, it's not neccesary to have the category on the URL right?)


Thank you very much and sorry if I'm asking obvious questions, thanks!
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1. If your site is within the same niche, like coffee and not coffee and cats, then feel free to interlink everything with everything and you will be just fine.
2. Good.
3. Almost nobody has category in the URL these days. Categories are even rarely set to index. Mostly they are noindexed if you don't have any content on them that you want to rank for.
 
Nargil said:
1. If your site is within the same niche, like coffee and not coffee and cats, then feel free to interlink everything with everything and you will be just fine.
2. Good.
3. Almost nobody has category in the URL these days. Categories are even rarely set to index. Mostly they are noindexed if you don't have any content on them that you want to rank for.
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Great thank you very much.
3. Yeah I know, category is in no index, but I have a pillar page called ''coffee'' which acts like a category on the site (I don't know if that makes sense)
So instead of displaying bestcoffee.com/category/post it displays: bestcoffee.com/coffee/post

Thanks for your help it clarified me lot of things!
 
ArmFl8 said:
Great thank you very much.
3. Yeah I know, category is in no index, but I have a pillar page called ''coffee'' which acts like a category on the site (I don't know if that makes sense)
So instead of displaying bestcoffee.com/category/post it displays: bestcoffee.com/coffee/post

Thanks for your help it clarified me lot of things!
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It does make sense, but as I said, no need to have it in the URL The entire idea of "supporting articles" is made by interlinking, not by having the pillar article in URL as domain.com/pillar and rest as domain.com/pillar/shitnobodywantstoread. So having domain.com/pillar and domain.com/shitnobodywantsoread is the most common and viable approach.
 
Nargil said:
It does make sense, but as I said, no need to have it in the URL The entire idea of "supporting articles" is made by interlinking, not by having the pillar article in URL as domain.com/pillar and rest as domain.com/pillar/shitnobodywantstoread. So having domain.com/pillar and domain.com/shitnobodywantsoread is the most common and viable approach.
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Awesome, thanks for your help
 
Right now forcing indexing, seems to not help. Better to post links to twitter
 
MunnyMachine said:
Right now forcing indexing, seems to not help. Better to post links to twitter
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I did that because I though that was the way to do it, but I'll stop.
What do you mean that it doesn't work, that it doesn't index your pages anymore? I search for the site: thing and they all appear after several hours.
Twitter only or any social media?

Thanks
 
You can use others, but its what I do. Its more natural than using indexing services and they are hit or miss
 
ArmFl8 said:
Hey guys! So, I have a site related to coffee, I wanted to clarify certain things.
My site is just going to be about coffee and everything related to the world.

So currently I'm building coffee recipes and informational content (later I'll move to machines and something more)
I have a page which is bestcoffeeintheworld.com/coffee/ which talk about the hardest keyword

1. Should all my URLs be like this?: bestcoffeeintheworld.com/coffee/benefits-of-coffee
bestcoffeeintheworld.com/coffee/how-to-make-capuccino... etc?
Or should I do bestcoffeeintheworld.com/coffee/INFORMATIONAL CONTENT
bestcoffeeintheworld.com/recipes/RECIPES ?


2. Should I ask google to ''index'' my page in the search console? Or sooner or later it will be automatically done?



3. If I change the URL of a page and don't have any backlinks, should I set up a 301 redirect or it doesn't really matter as that page hasn't ranked high neither has backlinks. Will it be removed or should I ask to be removed?


Thank you!
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1) First option imo, short but specific make for best urls. So make them short but not too general (and too short).

2) Unless you are in a hurry no dont ask google console specifically but do put effort on the internal linking, for example a sidebar that links to the most important articles (and i assume you have a link from the article to the main page about coffee)
..And obviously it goes without saying but give it a few high authority links (like social media, and if it makes sense try to find a wikipedia page too. and forums related to coffee, there are plenty for sure!)

3) Its best to do either 301 or rel=canonical instead of a 404 or duplicate content.
 
@Nargil have you noticed any negative effect when it comes to using the search console to index them right after publishing? I personally haven't but you likely got a bigger sample size of websites and more experience, so I thought it's worth checking in with you :D
 
BlueBuzzy said:
@Nargil have you noticed any negative effect when it comes to using the search console to index them right after publishing? I personally haven't but you likely got a bigger sample size of websites and more experience, so I thought it's worth checking in with you :D
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I add money sites to search console, but I never force anything whatsoever. Nor even submit a sitemap really. Then again, after the site is released, I am adding 200+ articles. No time for sitemap!
 
Nargil said:
I add money sites to search console, but I never force anything whatsoever. Nor even submit a sitemap really. Then again, after the site is released, I am adding 200+ articles. No time for sitemap!
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Do you find that dropping 200+ articles into a site gets things moving automatically just from the volume, or do you step into backlinking etc pretty much straight away after that mate?
 
blackhato_Owhiteheart said:
1) First option imo, short but specific make for best urls. So make them short but not too general (and too short).

2) Unless you are in a hurry no dont ask google console specifically but do put effort on the internal linking, for example a sidebar that links to the most important articles (and i assume you have a link from the article to the main page about coffee)
..And obviously it goes without saying but give it a few high authority links (like social media, and if it makes sense try to find a wikipedia page too. and forums related to coffee, there are plenty for sure!)

3) Its best to do either 301 or rel=canonical instead of a 404 or duplicate content.
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thank you!

2. Do you mean a link from the coffee article to the homepage or from any article related to coffee to the main coffee article?
 
VSYNC said:
Do you find that dropping 200+ articles into a site gets things moving automatically just from the volume, or do you step into backlinking etc pretty much straight away after that mate?
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I don't need to do any backlinking with the size of the domains I am using. The sooner I upload the articles, the sooner they will start aging.
 
Nargil said:
I don't need to do any backlinking with the size of the domains I am using. The sooner I upload the articles, the sooner they will start aging.
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The information you provide is a great asset to the community for sure mate.
 
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