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Ah, I apologise. I knew someone from South America who targeted a .co (Colombia's TLD) subfolder to Brazil, so I thought it was okay to do that for others. I've just looked it up and Google started to allow .co to be geotargeted in 2010, so I must have missed that. The clues are even in at least one of those links I provided. Slaps forehead I don't think you want to mess with 301 redirecting the .it to a .com and risk losing some of the authority that's built up - would you say there's also a chance Italians prefer to click to a .it rather than a .com? Do you see yourself expanding to target other countries in future? If so it might be worth using the .com and geotargeting a .com/de, .com/fr etc. You also have to consider whether you have the resources to keep more than one website updated. Other than that I can only think it's best to continue in your current form and do everything else you can to get the /de ranking higher in German speaking countries - obviously the language (use a native to write your content as well as help with the keyword research), and if possible include an address based in the country you're targeting on localised pages, is it possible to include some German information on your Google Places listing (if you don't have one, set one up!)? Get inbound local links (maybe encourage German-speaking visitors to post on local review sites?) and get listed on every review, booking and tourist information site you can in the target country. Maybe you could get some German travel guides written for your city if you haven't already, perhaps something that could act as link-bait if there's anything unique or quirky you could come up with (a top 10?) or get guest posts written for German-speaking sites with a link to your /de subfolder? The upside of doing this over the .com solution is all the links you get from Germany etc. will go towards the overall Domain Authority, rather than it being spread between the .com and .it. Of course all this helps even if you can geotarget.

Takes time for rich snippets to appear.  Google is finicky and IMHO buggy.  I'm assuming you are using the rich snippet tool - but if not check that out.  Secondly, check your competition who is getting rich snippets and revert to what they are using on a subset of your product pages and see what happens. Lastly, read this post from Google Webmaster Blog to see if you are incorrectly doing anything to your code. Good luck.

Just an opinion... if the page is a weak PR6 or better I don't think that there will be any problem.  That should put enough spider activity into the page.

Peter is correct below.  I think you are heading in the wrong direction.  After your explanation here, I understand a little more about where you are going.  Here is what I would say to your question: 1. All "old urls" (and all versions of) will need to have a 301 redirect to the new SEo friendly url.  The currency is a different issue.  You cant redirect that because you would never be able to show multiple currencies to the right users.  In the curreny example, you could use a canonical tag to the most popular or default currency. 2. Directories and IA (information architecture) of your site have nothing to do with redirects or canonical tags.  As Peter pointed out below, /spain/malaga is a totally different page than /spain.  You dont do anything special with tags here, you just create unique content for each of those pages.  You pass proper link juice upwards by internally linking your /spain/malaga page up to your /spain page, and every other page that exists below a main level directory page.  Essentially, you want all deeper pages linking up to your main directory page. 3.  In the small cases that you will be using the canonical tag, you put those tags on all the pages except the original page. Hope that clears things up.  I was/am still a bit confused as to your structure, but think this should get you in the right direction.

Oh, got it - so this is a standard 301-redirect scenario, but Google just isn't honoring it for some reason. That's unusual, certainly. Have you checked the headers? I use the SEOBook tool, for example? http://tools.seobook.com/server-header-checker/ I don't mean this to be in any way condescending, but I always double-check them, across a variety of URLs. You have to make sure that the redirects are working the way you think they're working (and aren't chained to other redirects, etc.). Did you redirect page-by-page, in the sense that every old URL has a new URL? Sometimes, the home-page or main-page redirects work, but deeper redirects fail (due to minor changes or incomplete .htaccess code). Did anything else happen during the change? Did you change the URL structure, design, etc.? Did the "new" (to you) domain have any existing history? Is it possible you inherited a problem, like bad links or a bad history?

Hi Dignan, The appropriate thing to do in cases like these it to go through the REPORT A PROBLEM link at the bottom of each problematic Place Page. It's a good idea to be signed into your account while doing this. Describe the situation and link to the correct listing for your business in the wizard. State that you have only one address - the one on your authoritative listing. Ask that these 2 other listings be removed. Wait 4-6 weeks to hear back from Google (could take considerably less time these days, actually). If you do not see resolution, then take the matter to the new Google Places Help Forum. The new forum will be here: http://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/maps Explain the steps you have taken and ask if a Top Contributor can please help you obtain resolution. *In your shoes, I would also do some sleuthing to try to figure out where the other data is coming from...it's coming from somewhere and discovering the origin may help you to surmise what is going on. Hope this helps and good luck! Miriam

I'd just link to the category archive, but make these categories really strong.  On a couple of my blogs I've created static content at the top of the category pages, then built external links to them to rank them.

Hi Gonzalo, I had just analyze your website both www & non www. I had come up with following perspectives that are shown below: URL: http://www.pacomarca.com/ PR: 4 Alexa Rank:18752550 Backlinks: 32 & URL: http://pacomarca.com/ PR: 4 Alexa Rank:18767880 Backlinks:114 From the above analysis it is clear that the non www has more number of backlinks, so it is better to redirect www to non www. Redirecting www to non-www If you want to do the opposite, the code is very similar: `RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^my-domain\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://my-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]` In this case we are explicitly typing the domain name. I'm sure it's possible to do it in a generic way, but I haven't had the time to work one out and test it. So remember to change 'my-domain' with your domain name! If you want to know how to redirect the inner page then please check the link: How do I redirect all visitors to the 'www' version of my Web site (or vice versa)? I hope that your query had been solved.

Hello Cindy Another thing you could consider is to remove the www redirector and see if that then does the correct redirect immediately That would stop the doubles and as the domain isn't going to be in the index eventually, you don't care about having both the www and non-www live.

If your rankings are good then I would leave it as it is.. put it on the list of future plans and then change it if you do some major dev work that requires you to change urls

Hi there, Unfortunately, Blogger is very outdated when it comes to professional blogging. It lacks a lot of the independence and functionality. It is bad to the extent that you cannot 301 redirect a blog on a URL like myblog.blogspot.com if you decide to move over to a domain of your won. If you client is just using the Blogger software within their own domain already, I would seriously consider having them move to Wordpress. Google shows no sign of putting the sort of effort into Blogger that would elevate it to the level of Wordpress in terms of what it can do, and as you undoubtedly know, Wordpress is virtually limitless in what you can do with it.

Hi Jason, Yes i'd swap back to the .com, also try and keep the link structure the same as your old site or you will lose all your current search engine traffic. -Brent

Came back here to ask you another question but you already answered it! awesome! thanks man!

Thanks, that is good to know that there is at least some benefit for these. I'm going to do it.

Thank you Egol. Your insights were very helpful. David

Thanks, Ryan. I was confusing those. To execute the sitemap index, would I just point the crawlers to the index? Do you have any links to overviews of how to set that up?

There is a new German based service called strucr.com which does exactly this: analyzing large sites and their internal linkstructure. But it is mostly for realy large sites. Other options you have is to use xenu link sleuth and crawl your site by yourself.

These could be mostly internal links - are you linking to "/index.aspx" from your navigation, logo, etc.? In OSE, select "from [only external]", and you won't see your internal links. That can really skew the count.