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Hi From an SEO perspective there are no risks in taking this approach, but you will be limiting your overall visibility in local markets because Googlebot will only see the English version of your content. It will not see any of the translated versions at all and therefore you will struggle to rank in your local markets such as Spain, France, India etc. In order to take full advantage of available local search volume you'll need to set up separate URLs with fully translated content (do not use Google Translate!) for your target markets. But in the meantime, no it's not bad for SEO (in so far as there are no risks), but it is not beneficial. Hope this helps and good luck!

Hi Gaston, In the past I've used MobileDevHQ (now called TUNE) and AppAnnie. MDHQ used to be free I believe, but now is a paid tool. AppAnnie is a paid tool but there are some functionalities available for a free account I think so they may be worth checking out depending on what you need.

Thanks! This clears things up.

Hi Dirk Many thanks for the information and your explanation. 40% of traffic coming to the website is from America and 50% from the UK so why do you think that so much traffic can come from the US in view of what you said. I can use this going forward and really appreciate the time you took to answer. A thumbs up from me. Kind Regards.

You can use different methods other than subdomains e.g. folder structure /nz/, /us/, /uk/ etc after your domain or ?hl=en parameters (this is what Google does). https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en Setting up your site with hreflang tags would be the first step, make the site change language depending on IP/location - after that start working on rank.

Hello Adrienne, SLI is going to have some features that BigCommerce isn't going to have in their default site search. However, as you said, BigCommerce has come a long way in this area. It really comes down to features, and what is important for you. For me, I look at three main areas: Ease of use and user-experience for the consumer Relevancy of results Analytics In all three of those areas, BigCommerce has it covered. It's easy to use, provides relevant results (and search suggestions), and you get reports like Keywords Without Results and Worst Performing Keywords (among others) which help answer all kinds of questions, from which pages to optimized to which products to source. I used to send the buyers at one store these reports quarterly, and they sourced many new, top-selling products because of it. If you're missing any of the SLI "learning" features in BigCommerce's standard search, you may be able to get them with an add-on like this: https://www.bigcommerce.com/apps/searchspring-advanced-site-search/ (Note: I haven't used SearchSpring).

Neither Apple nor Google straight-out give you keyword data in their consoles. However, there are a few workarounds. Apple has recently added "Apple Analytics" that give useful data, including device types and referring sites. They likely may add KW data in future. GP (Google Play) does not report keyword data in the Developers Console but (surprise!) when connected to one's GSC (formerly known as WMT), all sorts of juicy data (including keywords) is viewable in GSC.  http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2015/05/rolling-out-red-carpet-for-app-owners.html App Annie is very useful for competitive research. It's the best tool out there, followed from a distance by Sensor Tower, App Figures and others. But the best guestimate for volume they offer is "Results" for an app store search, which just means how many apps show up for it. Sensor Tower has a guestimate volume based on the AdWords KW tool.

Sounds to me it's more like a PR thing + a organisational restructure to get business wise not in trouble with laws etc.

Switched the theme, problem solved. Thanks everyone

Hello, to see all the links to a page have a look at Google Webmaster Tools (now called Search Console).  If you go to 'Links to my site' there is a list on the right called 'Your most linked content'. If you click on this it will give you a breakdown of the links to each page which Google are using as ranking factors.

Ah then, that's a bigger question. You're using an excellent tool, Yoast. Stick with it. It could be it isn't configured properly, you're in a highly competitive market, or there are other issues getting in the way of your advancement. After a quick look at your site, three things jump out: structure, speed and links. (1) Your site structure is extremely flat, meaning your link equity is getting disbursed across almost every page on the site. You should aim for a short, fat pyramid structure with top level pages being your most important. You're also inconsistenly using www and non-www links internally to the site. That's contributing to the next problem and diluting your link equity because of unnecessary redirects. (2) Your site is slow. It ranks very poorly using Google's speed test. Speed is an important ranking factor these days. (3) You seem to have a lot of questionable incoming links to the site. You might need to do a link cleanup. I'd recommend a complete SEO audit and suggest you reference this extremely helpful post from Moz in order to understand the types of things you should be looking for.

as your website has more pages, manual taggin becomes more difficult and problematic. Especialy if you have multiple people doing it. And on most websites the queries visitors enter are not very similar. (google has new queries constantly) Thus find a search provider (Google can do that for you) to help site search!

Absolutely agree, they bloat your site with spam referrer traffic etc. I would suggest putting some blocks in your analytics solution of choice to filter out their traffic from your visitor numbers etc, but also add something like the following to your .htaccess to further try and block them. You could also add the other above mentioned spammy site. Block Referrer Spam RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.semalt.com/ [NC,OR] RewriteRule ^(.)$ – [F,L]

you're running Apache tomcat right? 301 Redirect URLs. Redirect 301 /holidays/about-direct-traveller/british-travel-awards.asp /directtraveller/awards Redirect 301 /directtraveller/holidays/about-direct-traveller/british-travel-awards.asp /directtraveller/awards I am guessing this simply from you having this port open and having no issues with HTaccess 8443 is the default port of tomcat with ssl http://beamusup.com/generate-htaccess/

Hi John, Beside the great points mentioned before these suggestions might help you. I ones saw a few inserted casino / gambling URL’s pop up in a Google Analytics reports. Might be worth your time to check if there are any new URL’s created. Run some security scans on your site to find any vulnerabilities that might have caused the hack. Since you didn’t find it in your database, you could check for any hard coded links with the search through files option in Notepad. If the link is hard coded you should be able to find it. If you are using a CMS like Wordpress, check if all your plugins and themes are up to date. Poor maintenance could have caused the security breach. If your website is hacked, could it be that the hacker changed links to prevent an easy discovery? Might extent your search to more generic spam terms. As Dirk said, don’t wait too long solving this issue. If you are depending on your SEO and you can’t fix this issue within days I would rather hire an expert then wait a few weeks. Goodluck!

Long complex URL will kill your site if they aren't relevant. Try to keep them as small and relevant to the content as possible. For instance: http://www.website.com/This-is-a-story-all-about-dragons-written-in-english-by-dave-nash/1sdfg/34  is terrible http://www.website.com/Stories-About-Dragons would be much better. Dave Nash isn't known as an author and because your search would more than likely be localised English would be the default, and some systems add codes onto the end or middle of the url, middle is the worst! As for Title this is what appears in the code as <title>Stories About Dragons</title> most good CMS systems will allow a different Meta Page Title than a Page Title which is usually encapsulated within a H1 tag. Therefore the URL http://www.website.com/Stories-About-Dragons (Note Google doesn't like spaces in URLS) could have a meta title of <title>Stories About Dragons</title> and a page title of This is a story all about Dragons

Sure. Use a VPN to place your IP in the country you want to test, create a new browser instance with the language set to the target countries language (or language within that country you want to test), and then search the location specific version of Google, i.e. google.co.uk instead of google.com. While not all inclusive of what users will be seeing from within that country, that should give you at least a more informative snapshot. Cheers!

Hi Figen, I fear that will be difficult to find - I did a quick google search & first result was this topic on Moz from Jan. 2013 (http://moz.com/community/q/how-do-you-check-the-outbound-links-of-a-site) . The answers basically are the same - it's possible to to a check outgoing links on one page using tools- however if you want to do it on a full domain - you'll need a tool like Screaming Frog (or alternative Xenu LinkSleuth). If Google isn't providing the info, all the other potential solutions would require crawling sites - most of the tools available on the market give information about who is linking to your site (or you competitor's site for that matter) - but not the other way. Dirk

Hi Ram.Babu, You seem to have a fair bit of duplication on indexed pages of the site, particularly in the area of title tags for author, paginated and forum pages. It would help consolidate your existing SEO equity into more important parts of your site if you noindexed those. Have you profiled the links of your top ranking competitors to see what local and valuable links they have that you miht be able to acquire? I'd start there if I were you. Have you checked for penalties in Webmaster tools?

Lillie_Charlotte, Thanks for the feedback. That's a good source we'll add to the repertoire! Thanks!