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Good luck.  Hope you can explore the many options with them.

I would definitely at least clean up the article HTML and structure before launching the pages, since you don't want people who might land on them before they're updated to have a weird experience. As far as optimizing them for SEO, I think you could go ahead and make the pages live and roll out edits as you make them. Prioritizing the pages based on highest-traffic/best-converting first is the way to go. If switching your platform is going to make your site easier to crawl, you definitely want to do that sooner rather than later - plus, having the new pages live will allow them to start accumulating some links even before you make keyword-related changes. In general with a major change like this I recommend changing as few other things as possible simultaneously. It's OK to make more gradual changes, and it gives Google fewer things to get used to at one time.

Hi, Most of the sites reuse stock photo's on different pages - as long as you make sure that the rest of the content on the pages is unique & interesting this shouldn't be a problem. Just don't use the same image over & over again, as it's looks pretty bad & is degrading the user experience. Dirk

Thanks guys - that's very helpful.

I am going to give you a little bit advice. I never submitted my blog or website link  in search engine. Cause i always think, search engine will find me, I am not. I saw it indexed after few weeks. But i got a result, which result gave me lots of stamina and speed. YAH i submitted my link, When i was working with product. If you are working with blog. Don't need to manual submission in search engine. Search engine will find you for ranking your keyword. That will make you happy. Beside If you want to submit manual, You will find a submission tool. every search engine provide this tool. But if you think that  i have no time, i want to submit at a time in lots of search engine. Search third party tools by keyword ( "Search engine submission tool"   ) You will get lots of third party tools.

I wonder if they just installed it and didn't make any configurations? That would be my first guess since they left it up to you (the client). I wrote an article about setup on nginx (seems to be your environment). Take a look at that post and specifically the virtual host server config where I enable specific PSM filters for that website. Oh, and I'd also check the nginx.conf file to see if it's turned on. Responded to your PM as well. #ngx_pagespeed module settings pagespeed on; pagespeed FileCachePath /var/ngx_pagespeed_cache; http://www.rankhammer.com/blog/2513/page-speed-module-nginx-setup-on-linode

If you pay them, then they put you on their second network of sites.

Don't forget the importance of mobile when it comes to local landing pages!

@Martijn told you the key, is not a good idea, use the flow in https://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/choose-your-international-strategy-tool/ and the resources of @Patrick Also take a look to these tools: http://www.internationalseomap.com/hreflang-tags-generator/ http://www.themediaflow.com/tool_hreflang.php To not make a mistake with the hreflangs Hope it helps

Hi there Along with the Google Mobile Friendly Test that Dirk suggested above (which I HIGHLY suggest using during this time), I would also take a look at Google's Mobile SEO Guide, particularly in the Signal Your Configuration section. From the sounds of things, you might want to look at the Separate URLs section. It's super easy to read and provides examples. There is a LOT of helpful information in there that can help you prepare your website and take advantage of best practices. Hopefully this helps! Let me know if you have any questions or comments. Good luck!

Domain authority is the key here, now only their links get crawled but they all get ranked, usually in the top 10.

Thanks again for your response Gary. With regards to how many reffering domains and backlinks, it depends on how much i trust various bits of software (eg. Majestic SEO) when they tell me if the link is live or not. In total there's about 3,200 referring domains historically with over 350,000 backlinks (lots of spam). Looking at whats live today, thats about 600 domains and 30,000 backlinks or so. So far I've audited all links (from whats live) into keeping, changing to no follow or removing. Ive reached out to all no follows successfully and I've justified in depth the list of domains I'm keeping. I'm now in the process of reaching out to the poor quality links (first wave) and have covered about 200 referring domains. The main question here is just exactly what to do with the rest of the links that majestic and GWT are telling me are no longer live (after checking some examples, there are some live that say they aren't live on majestic). Initially I was just going through them and throwing poor quality ones (even if they no longer link) straight into the disavow file to be safe. But since, I've worked with my developer to create a script to check which of the 2,500 none live domains are still live (and therefore cutting down my time considerably). So overall, I am confident with my approach on links that are live (as this is the standard approach) and I am being as thorough as is possible. But when I wrote this question initially I was unsure whether I had to deal with the 'none live' domains (mainly because I didn't know whether to fully trust Majestic when its saying that they're not live) and so I wanted to check whether it was something I needed to do because it would be extremely time consuming. Hopefully you understand where I'm coming from with this? Sam

+1 to what Rene said, google is not forced to use your meta description (especially when the website is in a "complicated" niche).

Just like everyone else here responded, ssl is no major ranking factor. Implemented ssl on 8 websites during the last 4-6 months and there was no change in ranking.

I was actually trying to give you the tools to figure out what's cached and indexed. You can just run a site search for the content and look at the cache, though. For example: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wIHvFryFPo4J:www.kingskolacheny.com/%23!cateringandcontact/c1d94+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us If nothing shows up it's probably not indexed.

When it comes to any directory, you probably want a nofollow link. It's not technically against the rules to pay for consideration to a directory, but that's usually just code for "pay for a link." Unless this has a high traffic/monetary value to you, it's probably not worth going for.

You've probably solved this already, but you first need to figure out whether it's a Panda or a Penguin penalty. This is probably a link-based penalty, but I can't say without seeing the site. If so, you'll want to work on link removal. A good place to start are on links with a high spam score. Try to get them removed, and add any spammy/purchased links to a disavow. Let me know if you still need some eyes on it.

Sure, I haven't heard of read about any impact in terms of SEO. I do hope that the new browser from MS can keep up with the expectations! Just let IE die already You could also try stackoverflow.com and get a more technical aspect of the HTML5 tag and what it could mean in terms of structure and faster code.

that was very helpful.  Thank you!!

Considering that traffic for this site is about 4,000 visitors per month and the domain authority is 23 and a page authority is only 32 would that make it easier and faster to recover traffic and ranking? The site currently has about 400 pages, what if I prepare re-writes on about 100 pages of text before the domain change and then gradually add this content after the switch. Would that speed recovery? I intend to re-write the content anyway but perhaps to do so after the new domain gets launched. On the other hand I may keep the domain as is if this switching is too much trouble. However the URL does not match my company name and I am concerned this discordance could be harming the site long term.