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60-70$ a month is way too much. Today you can get free Cloud CDN + Proxy acceleration from a number of providers.

I believe the current progress is pretty much relevant to user but do provide the option to change the location if user want to manually change it! (it will be a good user experience) To get all links crawled by search engine, here are few things that you should consider! Make sure sitemap have all links appearing that have on the website. Including all the links in the xml sitemap will help Google to consider those pages Point links to all location pages. This will help Google to consider indexing those pages and make it rank for relevant terms. Social Signals are important try to get social value of all location pages as Google usually crawl pages with good social value! I think the current approach is awesome just add manually change location option if a visitor wants it.

That's kind of what i was thinking, now regarding the sub domain that's a great thing you bring up there. So would you suggest for a new site i'm working on, doing a sub domain multisite install of wordpress-  I should prob keep the www in tact as well then?

Thanks Ryan.  Very helpful.

I would agree with mctip_it.  The description is a little long.  The keywords tag is not helping you at all (other than telling your competitors what keywords you are targeting.)  Bing recently caused a stir when they announced that YES, they do use the keywords tag in regards to SEO.  Then, they came out and clarified that actually it was a negative ranking factor.  Sites that stuffed their meta keywords tag were more likely to be engaging in spammy SEO.

Hi Paul, We have the same issue, so will be interested to see what is said here. Our site changed from www.stonehills.co.uk to www.stonehillsselfcatering.co.uk using 301's and none of the link juice has copied over at all

What I've read is EMD's don't have the impact they once had but have an impact. My question is since I'm a believer in an EMD what if an EMD is available? In my opinion, I still see value in them. The issue becomes if it is one broad(er) search term and you can get it, OK. Just don't put too much time and energy into that. I can promise that if you dont have it and do great SEO, you will still do well. There are even some that say a .us or biz extension will do. I've read that us and biz extensions take longer to rank. But in regards to my question about hyphenated EMD's.... Is a hyphenated EMD the next best thing to an EMD? I met "some" and was not impressed with his data - whether verbal or written. (It is typically anecdotal). I do not like .us or .biz, but I will tell you it is a personal bias. The bias is drawn from a belief that some might see those as having less authority in some way and therefore they might impact CTR. As to the "next best thing to": No, the EMD is the next best thing to the hyphenated. Yes, Google really does see both the same from the vantage of what is there. Obviously, if it saw both the same exactly, that would be a problem. The beauty of the SEO community as a whole and especially of this one is that you have a collective that believes you must test and learn continuously. Since I originally come from the medical field, I value that scientific approach very highly. Even better, we are willing to say what is opinion and what the data says. An example is this: I have given you a link to learn SEO from moz re domains. When you go to this you will find that here on moz it says: Avoid hyphens. Hyphens detract from credibility and can act as a spam indicator. Well, I totally disagree. I would like to see the prove up for both: What is the prove up for hyphens detracting from credibility? acting as a spam indicator? Who/what is it indicating "spam" to? To me, I do not see it. I have many here on moz of whom I respect highly and value their opinions on SEO/SEM/analytics, etc. who disagree with me. Yet, in that same link it says that one should avoid: .info, .us, etc. To a greater or lesser degree I agree but for a different reason. I don't like .us, .co, .biz, etc. but I use .info on a semi occasional basis. I have a specific legal practice (highly competitive) in a large US city that we use a hyphenated .info domain name that is greater than 15 characters (its 25). When we took over the account in late August 2011 they did not rank on page 5 for anything. We did the following: rebuilt site with new domain and 301'd all. Then, we did real SEO to include: brutal on page, Local, amazing content, great meta descriptions that speak to the query, phenomenal coding, author schema... and we force the site owner to produce content or pay us to produce content by showing him the results from that. Soo, we outrank same domain name no hyphen .com, .net, .whatever in 5 of 7 important categories. Stay with me, this is going to get even better: Another tool I am providing prior to my final point on this in hopes of helping you out of the jam you are in is this: The Google SEO Starter Guide and a question. Go through it and show us where Google is discounting spammy hyphenated domain names. By the time you are through with it, you will learned a lot of valuable SEO tools and the answer will not matter. Lastly, here is the real issue you must address: Of all the things in SEO that need to be focused on, on a scale of 1 to 10 in value to the site, you are worrying over a 2 at best when the one further up are more important. From working with clients and being willing to accept some of my failings, I have learned we all first seek the easy answer. Unfortunately, in pursuit of the easy answer we often miss the right one. I hope this helps you or anyone engaged in this wonderful quest we work in, Robert

I just thought I would share an astonishingly good (or is that poor) example of the problem at the moment.... Do a search on www.google.co.uk for "wedding venues in buckinghamshire" (no quotes needed) and most of the results from page two onwards are coming from a single domain! Simply terrible results, IMHO!  How broken is that!

Thanks EGOL. I appreciate the feedback and agree with your feeling about too many questions equals don't use.  My client only uses Cloudflare for email address obfuscation.  Do you have any opinion about that particular service and the fact that it makes the email address look like a broken link to a crawler?  Do you think Google is savvy to this type of thing or that it is likely to hurt search rank? Thanks again, Matthew

The link tracking is using a 301 redirect so 99% of the juice will be passed along to your page. As Jason said OSE has a slight lag with updating their index. Try out http://www.majesticseo.com/ for additional link information. In my experience they tend to update their fresh index more offten. Good luck - Kyle

Yeah, wish I could give you a simpler answer, but I'm afraid it might end up being a little tricky. Hit the biggest problems first, and at least you can manage time/money a bit. The one bright side is that the rules should be no harder to code in ColdFusion than anything else (PHP, ASP, whatever). It's just the core logic that's tricky.

Wow, I didn't know you could still contact domains with private registration. Now if I can just convince him to let me devote time to this, there will be hope! Thanks for all your help!

You are right I think my seo guy purchased some links. Do you think changing anchor text for those incoming links can help us? If no and we are unable to contact the webmaster of the sites for link removal what are the other ways? Thanks

Hi kyle thanks for the answer, I have tried with this code: RewriteEngine on  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=13$ RewriteRule ^/page.php$ http://www.example.com/newname.htm? [L,R=301] But it doesn't work. Is it possible that it requires page.php?id=13 to exist? I don't have anymore the file on the server... Trying to reach page.php?id=13 it responds with a 404 error. Any solutions?

Hi Bilal, There is no 'one solution fits all' solution for getting rid of these links, it's simply a case of visiting each site and seeing if they have a process to remove your entry, and if not contacting the Webmaster to politely request they do so. Here is a great guide to clearing up your link profile: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/how-to-create-an-excel-spreadsheet-to-remove-link-spam-post-penguin I would suggest following this process to get rid of the worst offenders. Personally, I'm a big believer in balancing out your link profile by acquiring new, authoratitive links rather than chasing to get rid of old ones. It seems a much more positive tactic to me, although it's not right in every scenario. With Google specifically highlighting you have got damaging links, it might be worth highlighting the most toxic ones and looking to have them removed, whilst at the same time looking to acquire new healthy links. Good luck David

Hi Samuel, Unless your site is targeting a specific country, then leave it blank. Don't be tempted to point it at US or UK, as you will be essentially telling Google that your site is only relevant for those users, and you will see your international traffic dip. Good luck David

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