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Hi You have two ways If use Apache you can do with .htaccess If you use Windows you can do with IIS The advantage of this action is that you take domain authority of the first site( for example without www) for the benefit of the other domain( for example with www) Can you comunicate to  google with webmaster tools, also after: "Will the www. links replace the non-www links when it comes to keyword rankings?" I think that you don't lose the ranking positions Ciao Maurizio

Thanks for your answer Ryan I understand the point you're making about the duplicate anchor text back links and will look into this. It's still ironic that the problems surfaced once the issue with the YouTube account  set in. I'll see how to turn the rudder. Thanks again

Just a quick reply that the disavow tool is (according to Google themselves) there as a last resort for link removal, not as a first step. It's to be used only after you've done everything you can to contact site owners to remove the bad links.

Hello Marisa Thanks for the reply. That makes perfect sense - I was thinking along those lines, I just really wanted to make sure I hadn't missed anything!

our site is selfmade with our own cms. we could handle it with absolute links, but that isnt the solution i am looking for. the question is "is the solution we are currently using, a spider trap?", if the answer is yes, we need to make it happen that only a few sites are ssl secured and it doesnt depend on session. thank you marisa.

http://www.ovh.com/fr/index.xml OVH has a fairly decent reputation, i don't have any personal experience, but they should be fairly decent. http://www.ovh.ie/aboutus/ovh_infra.xml

Having rel=canonical is recommended for all pages of your website, even if it's the original version. It's because for example if your url is: http://domain.com/url and you have that set as canonical on the page, and someone references to your page as http://domain.com/Url http://domain.com/URL http://domain.com/url?ref=feed The canonical URL will still be http://domain.com/url and hence won't count as duplicate pages.

thanks

You can add rel=canonical to them or use 301 redirects. You can find more details here: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

good job! Ciao Maurizio

If you can get a link from that site to yours, go for it.

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thanks for the suggestion, i might go with press release distribution

There is a good set of questions and information at http://www.mytrafficdropped.com/ about helping to determine if you have a penalty or were affected by a particular algorithm update.

I'm afraid there's no one "right" answer. Country-specific TLDs do have some extra power, but the problem is that then you're splitting everything - content, links, social mentions, etc. If you have the budget to really build up a site and market it in each country, then ccTLDs are great. If you aren't ready to go all-in, though, I'd probably recommend against it. I generally would not rely on machine translations. They tend to be a poor user experience and Google can often spot them and may consider them to be thin content. A good translation done by a native speaker is perfectly fine. In this case, I'd also use the hreflang tags to let Google know that it's a language/region-specific piece of content: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=189077 Finally, in most cases I'd recommend sub-folders or sub-domains. Sub-domains may split authority and can act more like separate domains (but without the power of the ccTLD). There are standard practices for sub-folders, like "http://www.sepndbitcoins.com/au" and "/nz" - and this can help Google more easily understand the site structure. If the pages are all in English then I'd definitely recommend hreflang tags - they'll help Google sort out the region-specific content. You can target sub-folders in GWT. See this page for more information: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=182192#2

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