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Thanks for the question. First, you're not crazy! Second, I'd suggest reading all of these Moz resources on international SEO, Hreflang, and CcTLDs. They should answer all of your questions. Just a couple of other observations. First, I would divide your English subdomain into two like this: en-us.domain.com en-uk.domain.com (Although, I'd personally prefer to use subdirectories such as domain.com/en-us and domain.com/en-uk.) The reason for this is that you can continue to tailor the subdomain to each location in addition to language. In just a basic example, the UK subdomain may want to have text in British English and show pounds while the US subdomain may want to use US English and show dollars. In Google Webmaster Tools, you can also tell Google that a certain subdomain or subdirectory is targeting a specific country. There are several other things to do as well -- again, I'd suggest that you read the linked documents above. Please feel free to post if you have any other questions!

The majority of your inbound links will likely be to the homepage. If one set of keywords describes what you do but are shorter tail than the rest, those are good homepage keywords.  You will naturally attract more homepage links though - so the authority should be much higher overall.

Some years ago people used to make this claim about W3C validation badges too. A badge is a badge is a badge. It really is unlikely to affect your search rankings one way or another.

What I do when I want to get an idea of how frequently Google crawls a page is I look at when it was last crawled. If the cached date was a long time ago, Google probably doesn't crawl it that often. If it was recently cached, it could mean a more frequent crawl—but it also might be that I just caught it at the right time. So I look at a few similar pages to see if they agree. (To see when a page was cached, do a search on the URL of the page in question—just put the URL right in the search box. In the results, look next to the green URL in the result which is the page you searched for and there is a little green triangle. Click that, and you will see "cached." Choose that, and it will bring up the version of the page that Google has cached, along with the date it was cached.) Don't worry too much. Even without your fixes, Google will figure out the situation on its own and start showing a preferred URL anyway. But yes, it is generally a good choice to show yourself in the best light and follow best practices to make things as easy as possible for Google.

Thanks for your reply, but the link you pointed me to isn't my situation.  I'm not redirecting to separate urls.   Mine is this: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/configurations/dynamic-serving I HAVE to figure out what Google is doing in my situation because if I don't and I assume wrong, then lots of pages for either my desktop or mobile friendly  won't be indexed. Surely lots of website owners have had their developers create a minimal mobile friendly site with less content and pages than desktop users get and chosen the dynamic-serving approach, but I have yet to receive a reply from anyone who has faced that issue..It's a very serious issue for me because either I have to consider dumping the dynamic serving in favor of separate mobile urls (if that would work), or I have to do a ton of programming to add in content so that all the urls have both mobile and desktop content.

If it were a brand new site and the target markets were pretty equal (or the Brazilian market was relatively small), I think the sub-folder approach is a good bet. You could use <rel="alternate" hreflang...> for language-equivalent pages, and the combination of a .com plus language/country targeting should work fairly well. In this case, though, since the Brazilian market is so strong, and you're already dependent on that .com.br domain, I think making the switch completely would be very high-risk. From an organic standpoint, I would advise against redirecting the .com.br domain to the Brazilian sub-domainfolder I'd suggest either launching the new domain with  <rel="alternate" hreflang...>and no Brazilian sub-folder, or, as you said, setting up <rel="canonical"...>from the sub-folder to the .com.br domain (and keeping that the main site for Brazilian visitors). As the new site gains ground and you see how it performs, you can always switch them out later.</rel="canonical"...></rel="alternate" hreflang...> As Michael said, make sure you're not double-dipping on the Adwords side with two domains in the same region. That could land your account in hot water. For now, if the .com.br stayed canonical for Brazil, AdWords should continue to use the .com.br site. You can set up regional/country campaigns for the .com site and target them specifically. That shouldn't be a problem and will give you time to build up the quality score and history on the new domain.

interesting..thanks!

Yes, search engines definitely know that subdomains are hooked to your domain, and there's evidence that search engines will count links toward a subdomain to your domain. However, there's speculation that those links are slightly discounted in the level of authority they pass -- they are a stronger signal to your subdomain -- and it's still best practice for your SEO to put your blog on a subfolder instead of a subdomain.

great thanks ill give that a go

Thank you very much for helping me out:)

Interesting. I tried it on one of my sites and I just didn't like how glitchy it was. I'll probably wind up doing it the old fashioned way on the rest of my sites.

Sure, without /category/ in the URL structure I can't block Googlebot using the robots.txt No problem, now I can use the noindex for all the posts. Thank you so much Oleg. Regards, MIke

Just curious...and excuse my ignorance... is the Structure Data Markup Helper the same thing as the Data Highlighter ?

Hi, Linda, what suprises me is that the difference is so brutal... and before this number was higher. The URL is infoempresa.com, it´s a Spanish site. Thanks again! Aleks

My very best educated guess (after talking with dev friends here at Moz) is that CloudFront is supposed to be used for long-term storage. This means the content isn't expected to change frequently. This is great for images and other static things. However, this is also a signal to Google not to crawl your site as often as it won't be changing that often.

Haha! No problem.

Hello, As other users have suggested we don't have a direct keyword suggestion tool but upon campaign setup we will pull a few suggestions from an integration with one of our partners. We also offer keyword opportunities which are words sending traffic to your site that you are not currently tracking. Cheers - James - Moz Help Team