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Not in a reasonable way. Search engines provide results based on matching content to the user's query. If a user searches for a term in English then you would need to provide that term on your page in order to rank for it. You would also need to optimize your page for that term (title, header tags, url, etc). You presumably have already done that for the English version of the site. If a user makes a search query using an English term, they presumably understand English and are seeking a website written in English. If a result was provided in another language that would be a bad user experience, the page would definitely have a higher bounce rate, and that may cause the rankings to drop.

Thanks cabbagetoe. If i tweet this link again, what should my tracking code be ?

My understanding of how a CDN is configured is it's a back-end server change. The HTML will still appear as mysite.com/image.jpg but when a request for that image is made, your server will tell the user's browser to fetch it from cdn.chicago.akamai.com/mysite.com/image.jpg. Your server still hosts the image and is the primary source of the image. That image is duplicated on CDN servers throughout the country and world depending on what cdn plan you purchase. So in short, the images are hosted on mysite.com and images should not be taken out of the mix. You can confirm this by checking well known sites which use Akamai: cbsnews.com washingtonpost.com facebook.com

Hi, Algos do change around the world, different things can be seen in different markets. For example Google will favour .com.au domains in the Australian market because it is country specific TLD's. Sure you can GEO target the domain via webmaster tools yet it will not be as powerful. Also country specific links will work in your favour and copy which meets the users language for your area. Do some TLD's have more spamy things going on? Yes I agree some areas we see that .com market Google has really been fixing it up for a long time other markets are a bit slower to move, yet with all the recent changes to the algo like Panda we are seeing all TLD's come together in a more combined sense. Hope this helps.

I agree with Ryan completely.  I would only add that the ultimate metric is your ranking for keywords, and as you are the only one who knows what is happening to your site and link profile, you need to track and measure everything to see what effect your changes have. Link scape is a great tool, and certainly one of the best on the planet. But it, like any of the tools need to be assessed with an understanding of the task they undertake, their methodology in doing so, and a clear understanding that it, and all tools , are guides, mere hints if you will, as to what is happening in the hallowed halls of Google search.

This issue needs to be cleaned up. It can definitely affect your rankings and search results. Steps to take: 1. Contact your web host and inform them you wish to redirect all "non-www" URLs to their "www" counterpart. This request is quite common and can be done easily by your host. 2. After your host makes the change, verify that it works. Visit a couple pages from your site and remove the "www" prefix. When you hit enter to visit the non-www version of the page, the "www" subdomain should automatically appear. 3. Since your site is only 12 pages, take a close look at your site. Check every page and examine the URL listed in every link. Be certain the URLs use the "www" prefix and you do not have any broken links. 4. When you are finished, try creating a sitemap. You can generate a free sitemap at http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/. If your site has 12 pages, your site map should show 12 pages. If it shows more, try to figure out why. 5. You can also use the SEOmoz crawler to get a detailed look of your site if there are further issues with your sitemap that you cannot figure out. Once this issue is cleaned up, it will probably take a month for Google to clean up your site in their index. You can log into Google Webmaster Tools to monitor the status. The "number of indexed pages" should decrease a bit each week.

Hi Kimberli. I do see an issue with your site's setup. Currently your "www" subdomain and your main domain provide the same content. http://www.kimberliskuties.com http://kimberliskuties.com Both of the above links bring up the same page. Your site is duplicated on the internet. It appears your site has all of it's links going to the "www" form of your URL. The easiest resolution is to contact your host and let them know you wish all of the traffic for your site to go to the "www" form of the URL. This is a very common request and the change can be made instantly. After the change is made, try testing one of your internal links such as http://kimberliskuties.com/storm.cfm?funnelaction=865. Notice I offered the "non-www" form of the URL. If the change was made correctly the page should appear and the URL should include the "www". One other thing I noticed...your URLs are not friendly. They all appear identically with only the trailing number changing. I would suggest working with your web designer to try to offer readable URLs such as www.kimberliskuties.com/photos and similar URLs. This change would be helpful for SEO and users.

This was a good answer and deserves to be labeled as such. I decided not to pursue this since I have been lucky to take the top spot for important key phrases. Thank you for such a well crafted answer.

Thanks for the advice. There are roughly 7600 of these news excerpt page accessed from different areas of my site. A complete archive of news excerpts is accessed here: http://www.admissionsquest.com/~SchlPostedNews/index.cfm/DisplayMax/999999999 Additionally, school specific news excerpts are available from the various tabs on profiles that have connected school news RSS feeds. Here's an example of a profile & a linked excerpt: profile: http://www.admissionsquest.com/cfm_Public/pg_SchlInfo2.cfm/SchlID/842/School/The-Webb-School news excerpt: http://www.admissionsquest.com/cfm_Public/pg_SchlNewsItemDetail.cfm/SchlID/842/School/The-Webb-School/SchlNewsItemID/7764/Headline/Registration-and-Orientation-Day-Schedule In terms of them drawing traffic via search, they do. I see visitors accessing these pages via google, etc. on a regular basis. Based on what you see above, should I: 1. eliminate our excerpt page model and shift to simply displaying links to new items? Via this approach, clicking a link would take the visitor directly to the school's site. Right now, they have to visit the excerpt page before clicking the link to jump to my clients' sites. 2. add the tag  to keep them from indexing? 3.  or maintain the status quo? Thanks again for chiming in, everyone. I very much appreciate the feedback. I look forward to your responses.

I haven't heard anything regarding DMOZ shutting down. Where did you hear that?

Hi Keri Thanks for the thumbs up Must be a lot of people out there with the same question; the post on this topic, on my site, gets a lot of visitors. Thanks again.

Hello, Its a Hotel Website into Massachusetts. Average Monthly Google Searches for Hotels in that city and country is 6500 (of all 46 keywords) and we are getting 4200 to 4700  clicks out of those 6500. Average user stays on website for 6.5 minutes, business has gone up 35% compare to last summer. but 23% of 4500 clicks is 900; which is still big number. so trying to bounce rate up to 5%. Now JAVA is not the problem so I have to find out what is real problem, or where I can improve it. Need to work hard on it.

Both yes and no. Yes, it's a linking strategy. PA 48 and dofollow-links. Nothing wrong with it. No, I wouldn't build links in that way. That notebook you linked to seemed to have bad structure and it was written spammy all over it. It would be intresting to see what other thoughts you mozzers have about this. I'm splitted in two.

No, not at all. It is a common practice for sites to set up geo-location where if a user is from the US the site would appear in English, and if the user is from France the site would appear in French, and so forth.