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Hi Niners, I wouldn't use subdomains for international website. Instead I'd use subfolders. Subdomains can be considered as totally separate websites, while using subfolders you "gather" the link juice in a more efficient way. But that is a personal opinion. Regarding your question: I'd create a profile in Google Webmasters Tools for each of the subdomains/subfolders Do not forget the international targeting for each of the profiles I would submit to each of these profiles it's own language based sitemap if you are talking about an international website, I'd consider using Hreflang markup. I hope this has helped. Gr., Keszi

You could put that portion of the page into an <iframe>and it wouldn't get indexed. However, I would not suggest doing that.</p> <p>Instead, I'd look into why that portion is what Google has decided to show. Remember, we write meta descriptions hoping that Google will decide to show that text in the SERPs. However, Google decides which is the best information to show and will adjust that information based on the user's search query.</p> <p>Is your site's information hierarchy sound? Meaning, does that aside information have headings or tags that make it more important to the page than your main information? What on-page factors may be causing Google to extract that side block information rather than your main information?</p></iframe>

Hello Billy, As you're probably aware, load balancing services are for distributing traffic to more than one server in order to maintain high performance even when traffic levels spike. There is nothing wrong with this from an SEO perspective, as it all happens server-side before the user agent (e.g. Google) ever receives anything. It is a common practice amongst enterprise-level websites. However, you are right to be concerned about this implementation, as it is definitely not the intended use of the technology, and sounds like a workaround instead of an actual fix. It may be a good workaround if you only allow one version of the content to be indexed, and ensure proper use of cross-domain rel canonical tags. Or you could even simply block anyone, including Google, from accessing the non-canonical version (on your subdomain, I take it) by returning a 401 (unauthorized) or a 403 (forbidden) status code.

great!

If im not mistaken google do group certain keywords into an ad group right? So i assume if you rank that one certain keyword on that group it also does for other keywords in the group? correct me if im wrong

Ouch! You would need to get some sort of code other than 200 to fire a 404 or 301 would be best as you can direct users, you can also try to block those URLs via robots i suppose, and the third option you can try depending on what you can do is a rel=canonical link pointing towards the correct page which would help all seems a bit manual though might be worth seeing if there is a longer term solution. in an ideal world a 301 would be perfect (or at a min rel=canonical tag).

It is pretty interesting how often the same question is asked.  Its good to ask, better than just chose the easiest way - both are right - in that point the folder would be the right decision. Give Horvath a thumb up

Brilliant, thanks for the clarification Matt. Much appreciated.

You can use Google Webmaster Tools if you do not have Screaming Frog. It will show you where the link is linked from and how long it has been reporting a 404.

Thank you guys! I did it with the Yoast Plugin, works perfectly!

Glad you got it sorted out. If you're 301-redirecting a lot of domains, I'd suggest doing it gradually or maybe holding off on the lowest-quality domains. Google can see a massive set of redirects as a bit of a red flag (too many people have bought up cheap domains and 301-redirected to consolidate the link equity). If the domains are really all closely related or if you're only talking about a handful (<5) then it's probably not a big issue.

Hi Leonie, Thanks for your answer. I am indeed dutch so this will help a lot! groeten

Hi Bulserik regarding those two questions, if we look just at Google, they are not taken into consideration by Google for International SEO. On the other: because they don't harm a site; because they are used by Bing for geolocalization and geotargeting (Bing does not use the hreflang) then, it is a good idea using them. Check this old but still valid post on Bing about how to geotarget for them: http://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/2011/03/01/how-to-tell-bing-your-websites-country-and-language/ Finally, just to be sure: remember to create Google Webmaster Tools profile for each subfolder and geotarget them for their corresponding countries.

You can find the 35 temporary redirects that Moz reports using the Screaming Frog tool. You'll see the redirects for individual links under the "Response Codes" tab. Look for the "Redirect URI" column. The fastest way to find all of the redirects is to go to "Reports" > "Redirect Chains." This will show all the redirects on the site. I think you have to purchase a license for this feature. If you are trying to find redirects that have been set up for incoming links from external sites, you'll have to access the .htaccess file. I also do a site:domain.com search in Google just to see if there are old links still in the index. Then keep an eye on 404 errors in Google Webmaster Tools after the site launches.

Hi there! Did you see the most recent comment? An example URL would be very helpful! Also, what tool(s) are you using to crawl your site? Christy

Hi Ray-pp, Thanks for this. I think we will redirect to similar pages. Much appreciated!

They're called mini-sitelinks, and Google decides when to display them. Here's a post from when they first debuted: http://readwrite.com/2009/04/16/google_gets_sitelink_one-liners

Go over Phil's article carefully, especially the comparison bit at the end.  There are times when YouTube makes more sense, but mostly it's either big brand awareness stuff, or things people would start by going to YouTube to find, e.g. rock videos, TV show excerpts, some viral content, etc.

Update all internal links to point to the new URLs.  301 redirects don't pass 100% of the link juice. The best option is to create a 301 redirect rule(s) that handle all possible situations.  If that's not practical, then just worry about the ones that are linked to by external websites.  You can spot these by making the transition to the new URLs, then watching for 404 errors in Webmaster Tools, and looking for pages linked to by external sites. If you're using IIS, you can actually do some pretty complex logic in your 404 handler and make it return a 301 in certain cases.  Check this post I did a while back.

No problem!