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How large is your site? Bing WMT offers a means to directly submit up to 10 links per day, up to 50 per month. I would recommend adding any category pages for your site which are not indexed. Next, go through your site and add any missing sub-category pages. Once these steps are done, you can begin adding your most important pages.

Check out this post by Lunametrics on Designing a Google Analytics Friendly Site. You'll see that there is an advantage to having a little more structure and organization to your URLs when you want to go back and look at your analytics.

Hi Jason, I'm following up on older questions that are still marked unanswered. Did you figure out what to do here (and if so, what did you do) or are you still looking for some advice?

I am going to leave the SERP, Yellow pages etc the actual number. The places I am wanting to track are on our main corporate site and on the branch specific websites. As far as PPC vs Organic etc I want to track all traffic sources. Right now I am most interested in trying to get a better web vs non-web tracking at the branch level. This will help me show how much business the web is driving vs local paper phone books, word of mouth, etc.

OZNAPPIES' idea is a good one, and the technical advice is totally sound. Here's another idea: show the English language homepage by default, but determine the user's preferred language. If your site supports the identified language, include & display a hyperlinked text-box/graphic-banner suggesting the visitor "view this site in {the user's identified language}" which links to the homepage for that language. Regarding which country gets the SEO rank for the "domain.com" - it depends on where your links come from, your overall domain authority, the page authority for your targeted page, and the geolocation factors referenced here. The same site could rank well in multiple countries, by the way. For example, this page on "diagnostic troubleshooting" ranks well in the U.S., the U.K., France, etc. However, if you have the resources to make targeted sites for each language/territory, I recommend you do that.

The Homepage URL disappeared because you deleted the file so it no longer exists. Redirect the old index.html URL to the new wordpress homepage URL using modrewrite in HTACCESS. You need to do that to pass the homepage PR2 pagerank juice to the new homepage URL or you're throwing the PR away and most sites homepage is the one with the highest PR.

I recommend avoiding javascript redirects as they can be considered cloaking. Here's an idea: show the English language homepage by default, but determine the user's preferred language (from the accept-language header sent by the browser). If your site supports the identified language, include & display a hyperlinked text-box/graphic-banner suggesting the visitor "view this site in {the user's identified language}" which links to the homepage for that language. Useful links for reference: http://www.seomoz.org/q/best-practice-to-redirects-based-on-visitors-detected-language http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-guide-international-versions-of-websites http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7paVYBgH0Hw

I have used SiteTuners for landing page optimization. Highly recommended.  Great people!  Smart too!

Ah...Great news! Glad to help and I hope the new site will do well for you Sha

I have read entire blog post which was recommend by you. Kate Morris has given us such a great post and suggest to create unique content on product pages. But, It's quite hard for me to create unique content for Manufacture Detail tab for 7K+ products. Can I go forward with Ajax or Java Query to make it hidden. So, crawler will not able to crawl that content. What you think about it?

thank you for that, i will concentrate on the main site instead of buying urls

This is sth that has been happening for a long time, so I would like someone to take a look to the source code of www.hotelelgreco.gr and tell me what's wrong.

Thanks!

Hi David, First, my preference would always be to use 301 redirect to send pages that no longer exist to a new URL. Using a 301 passes link juice and signals search engines that the old page should be de-indexed and the new page indexed in its place. Barring some issue with your rel=canonical tags, which would be the first place to look, I would check other things that can send signals to the search engines about freshness: meta refresh tags update frequency reported in your sitemap custom crawl rate setting in Webmaster Tools Then of course, there is an analysis of the differences between your old design and the new...have you made a significant change to your menu(s) and/or internal linking structure which has made it harder for crawlers to follow links to all pages in your site? Hope that helps, Sha

Make sure you do the url to url wherever possible. If you don't, you won't know in a couple of weeks based on my experience. (One of the best pieces of SEO advice ever came about that very issue. When we went back in and changed each url to 301 within days we saw DA and PA go up!).  I look forward to hearing your progress. Robert

Ah, I see. That has happened, but only to a very small extent - when I look at analytics, I can attribute  70%+ of the dropoff to a two-word phrase with 3 variants. It was their primary phrase by a good margin, and the traffic has tanked, even though they maintain rankings for it. It's very confusing. I did notice on insights that in 2010 and 2009 there were a few months of each year where insights went from very high interest to 0 interest. It's happening in 2011, too, and we're currently in one of those periods. The start of that 0 period in insights coincides roughly with the traffic dropoff. That said, I'm wary of deciding that that's the reason. There -were- changes to the title tags and content at that time, and it's hard to believe that it's just bad luck . The primary traffic source for this phrase was Yahoo, not Google. The traffic drop has occurred in Google, but to a much lesser extent (Yahoo dropped about 50%. Google only dropped about 20%). Another reason for me to not want to give too much credence to the insights info.