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Don't forget to read blog post by Gianluca on "International SEO". Here is the link : http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-dropping-the-information-dust Hope this help you out.....

In the query, if the brand name is slightly misspelled, you will still be ranked high (most likely 1) in organics.

Yes, actually the 'Crawl Diagnostics' tool that comes with SEOmoz Pro does let you export to CSV.  There are just two limitations: It isn't in real-time (and I've typically leaned towards instant gratification ). It may not find every page (to give you a real life example, one of my many experimental sites has approximately 1,000,000 pages .... in checking the Crawl Diagnostics export just now, SEOmoz found 10,319).  But for smaller sites that our agency works with, it's pretty much spot-on.

Hey Dan.  Thanks so much for your reply.  Your post is awesome and very helpful. I'll follow up if I have any more questions.  Thanks so much for your help.

OK thanks. Ian

They already have Google confused and they are serving up .co.uk pages in the index https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=site:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sandtoft.co.uk&oq=site:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sandtoft.co.uk&gs_l=hp.3...7614.8078.1.8242.3.3.0.0.0.0.346.346.3-1.1.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.7Aw11D7yXBY&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=aa7a9b1de1b17414&bpcl=38897761&biw=1920&bih=909 I agree with the move for a UK site to have a co.uk domain just make sure you are doing it accress the board, properly forwarding the .com and updating all sitemap.xml files and internal navigation P.S. block your plugins folder in robots.txt check webmaster tools for duplicate title tags and make them all unique Optimize your title tag you have <title><a class="l" href="http://www.sandtoft.co.uk/resource-centre/photo-gallery/photo-gallery-images/?photoID=634&DSID=12">Sandtoft Roof Tiles - Photo Gallery Images</title> should be something more like <title><strong>Grey Slate Roof Tiles</strong> | Sandtroft Tile Store</title> with the description of the tile at the beginning of the tag, not the name of the company, that's your domain name you'll already rank for that.

Besides just avoiding low quality links the best thing to do is only do things you would normally to increase brand awareness.  Only go for quality links that will drive traffic to your site.  They will also help increase your rankings,   Link bait is also a great way to get people to link to your site and share your content too.   Have you looked into doing some Press Releases if you have news worthy things to talk about or quality guest blogging? They are all good ways that will not get you penalized by google.

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Thank you again, John. I will fix this, based on our discussion.

OK thank you both

No problem friend. If you remember the same happened with XML sitemaps standard. In the beginning there would be little resistance but going forward, the standards will be accepted and respected!! Best regards, Devanur Rafi.

Hi Moosa, The answer will vary based on the specific situation. If you buy domains which have backlinks then redirect them to your site in an attempt to pass PR to your site, you are attempting to manipulative search rankings. That is clearly a problem. If you buy keyword domains and put up 1 page sites with the goal of ranking for those terms, then forwarding them to your site, that is also clearly a problem. If your site is SacramentoVacuums.com and you purchase all the local area site names (RanchoCordovaVacuums.com, FairOaksVacuums.com, etc) and redirect them to your site for the possibility of type in traffic, that is not a problem. Even if you purchased 100 such domains...these domains do not have backlinks, they don't have a site, you are not attempting to rank any of them, you are simply trying to gain a bit of extra traffic. If you are concerned, you could always 302 redirect the sites. That would be an unusual implementation, but I do not see any problem with it.

Thank you alex i will have a look now. Cannot believe that different tools are bringing back different results

I agree with both Andrea and Miriam in that the best-case scenario would be one site that provides links and information to different locations, provided the branding and business model support that of course.

Thanks Stremline. Yes, it was clear from this report from Pingdom.com that our SSL validation icon was the biggest culprit bogging down our pagespeed. We are moving the JS to an interior page and then linking to that page via the .gif image icon to see if this helps. After that, is seems our next biggest culprits could be images. Some of them are association images that could easily be combined into one optimized image. The two "problem child" javscripts seem to be  "iaf.js" and "CCI-utils.js"  - Although I don't code javascript I believe these pertain to site functions like the popout navigation menus. Awesome tool. Thank you. Do you have any developer tools that can help determine when javascripts load (pre versus post), etc. Thoughts? Thanks again! Dana

I thought I'd come back and re-post the solution in case this shows up in SERPs or anyone other Moz members are looking for this answer (courtesy Noah Wooden of Izoox). HTACCESS: <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On # Strip set of opening-closing parenthesis from URL and 301 redirect.     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} [()]+     RewriteRule ^(.)[(]+([^)])[)]+(.*)$ /$1$2$3 [R=301,L]</ifmodule> Remember to put this in the proper 'order' on your htaccess file if you are doing any other redirecting. The code above 301 redirects URLs with parentheses into the exact same URL minus the parentheses.