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I think they would automatically use Google.es. When I went to Spain in January, Google recognized my location and served me up the Spain search. One way to easily check your results is to do it the old fashion way. Do a search for it and count your rank manually. Since there are 10 per page, this is easily done. Also make sure you have your campaign settings set to the proper version of Google when looking at SEOmoz ranking.

This is EXACTLY why I see your work as such an invaluable part of the SEOmoz Q&A Keri. You rock!

Hi Blas - Very interested in talking to someone at your company about the services you can provide.  Please have someone give me a call 770-391-5054 - Atlanta, USA.   Thanks. Matt

Is this data 100% accurate? One person could be responsible for all of the search for some long-tail keywords. SEOs are known to be compulsive ranking checkers and can enormously inflate search counts. Are there other methods or tools for measuring this better? I would not believe any low-volume data. I run adwords and bid enough to make the first page when I want quick volume data from a reasonably known source.

Hey Mate, Ranking in other NON usa search engines is generally easier yes even google because they are not in need of as much spam control (us stupid americans at work). My suggestion is just build quality links and provide valuable content on the site and your rankings will go up. What term are you trying to rank for if I may ask?

There are many variables involved with a redesign.  The biggest concerns being: Are you using the same url's from your previous pages?  If not, did you 301 redirect them into the new corresponding pages? More importantly, did you make sure to check which pages had links pointing at them, and make sure those were reused or redirected? Is the new redesign more efficient?  urls like domain.com/blue-widget instead of domain.com/reallylongstretchofcharacters Have you submitted a new sitemap?  Did the sitemap change? Is the website faster/slower?  Do a google speed check to see how its doing <80, you may need to make a couple minor changes. Has Google went through and indexed your website?  How many pages have been indexed? Do you have well developed content that is created with keywords in mind - without being spam? Anyway, if you made sure to 301 redirect all of the old pages, or reused the urls, you should see a recovery.  I'd advise that you do a big link building push right away, though, in order to speed up the process, as well as be beneficial all around.

Yes and No, i dont think that these redirects are directly harming your seo but having a home page on the base url does help in terms of allowing visitors to feel comfortable. I think the main issue that could harm your seo is that perhaps that you or someone else in the past or future has built links pointing to your home page which does not exist. If you are going tyo keep it as is then the priority needs to be on this extension of your domain and flow out to the rest of the site. Hope this makes sense.

Zac, Thanks for the detailed response. While I haven't yet fully analyzed what you have asked us to do, few points, 1. We are using "mobi" instead of "m.", so the two domains are totally distinct. Is this a bad strategy. 2. The headers in the web and mobile version have a meta tag to point to the other version of the article (link media=handheld, link media=screen) 3. Which SEOmoz tools do we need to use to compare the two pages (we are new to seomoz) 4. One concern we have: Google quickly crawls our mobi site but not our web version of the article. We don't see any offending warnings on Google webmaster tools 5. We will do the xhtml thingy today regards Mahesh

In Webmaster Tools, go to URL Parameters under Site Settings.  You will probably see some of the parameters you want to block in the list.  Click on Edit next to a parameter you want to block like "?app=members" and then choose the appropriate settings to prevent Googlebot crawling. I don't know if that is the preferred way of doing it, but that should block those dynamic pages.

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Dan totally nailed this here. In essence, use pages for static content and posts for news, blogs etc. If your site is mostly static, use pages. If you are coming at this from a purely 'SEO benefit' perspective then you are not going to get an SEO bump from forcing static content into posts or vice versa.

If you want to go to the www version, then you want "^www.oberoihotels.com$" and {R:1to url="http://www.oberoihotels.com/{R:1 look for this tag you dont want to have 2, if you already have one add the code to that one. let me know if you have anny problems

Another approach is to guesstimate the traffic. There are tools out there calculating a visibilty ranking by pulling ranks for large sets of keywords and giving domains a point value by combining their rankings with the search volume. The result is a somewhat standardized measurement for all the keywords a domain is rnaking for. Being no.1 for iphone brings more points than being no.10 for oven etc. One tool is sichtbarkeitsindex.de . AFAIK recall 1 point is roughly 10.000 organic visits per month (not absolutelly  sure about the number though...)

I would give it a try. Having a 4 year old domain (probably registerd to your name) with existing backlinks and a natural link profile is worth a lot. The worst thing that could happen is that your exixting links will be devalued a little bit b/c they are no longer relevant for the topic. Make sure to 301 incoming links to / or another reasonable page, thus getting the linkjiuce. If you use wordpress as cms this is pretty easy: just add this to your header.php and test if it works (with life http headers or so) Get a local profile with google, bing etc and start from there.

If the pages are not used and not linked to in your site, remove them and 301 redirect the URLs to the new addresses. You are right about the pagination and noindex, follow, but another solution which may be better is to use rel="next" and rel="prev".  See this for more info: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html

Asking for step-by-step guidance is not a good idea.  Every site is different.  You need comprehensive knowledge.  Start with the SEOmoz beginners guide, watch the videos, regularly watch whiteboard friday and read the blog.  Ask specific questions here.