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It depends on how you define "relevance". From a search engine perspective, a page's relevance is determine towards a particular keyword or phrase based on numerous factors. The given page's title is one of those factors.

I agree with Ryan. In my openion, two important things you have to do for any TLD to work well for you is to ensure that you have relevant information and do not divert your content focus, the second is that tell Google your destination target in your webmaster tool area. I have few good ranked info sites and find that regardless of your domain level, you do it right, you'll rise as a winner!!

So true. I think sometimes it's good to forget that the search engines even exist (gasp!), and build sites for our customers that they will love and promote for us. OK I'm dreaming a bit now, but I do believe we should put our customer's first and question why we are doing something for search engines that adds nothing to the customer experience.

Hi Roy, Storwell is correct, the best bet is to send an email over to help@seomoz.org. I don't think there's a simple option for being able to change the day right now, but they can help you out at that email. Thanks!

Hi Dunamis, Many thanks for your answer, but in case I don't use the canonical, is correct what I explain? Thanks

I haven't used them but they were recommended to me: www.translations.com Otherwise go onto the platform of your choice - gumtree, odesk and get someone to translate it for you If you go to this seomoz video http://www.seomoz.org/blog/smx-advanced-andy-atkins-kruger-talks-international-seo-and-yandex-whiteboard-friday A number of people in the comments identified themselves as Russian seos. A few DMs could get a Russian SEO on seomoz to translate for you (for $) Otherwise: Arabic SEO companies http://www.seomoz.org/marketplace/companies/index?q=arabic Russian SEO companies http://www.seomoz.org/marketplace/companies/index?q=russian

Here's a link to more info about geotargeting in Google Webmaster Tools. Also, for other search engines (like Bing), you'll want to set content-language.  Read more about how to do that here.

Thanks Ryan - just what I needed to know.

WOW... thank you... just read your comments very helpful Will now read the links you directed me 2

Great question. I recently wrote an entire blog post about this very topic. Instead of listing all your options here, I think I'll just link to the post. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-personalized-search By the way, sorry about the intermittent problems with the Rank Tracker. We're aware of some instability and our team is working on it. Also - for non-localization, set your location to "United States". Not perfect, but it works pretty well. Good luck!

Hi This is a substantial question, which can have many possible answers.  First, bear in mind there are no "one fits all" solutions - there's no replacement for having a good look at your specific situation.  For e-commerce a >50% bounce rate may be bad, while for a news or blog site (especially when landing on a full article deep within the site) a 50% bounce rate may be pretty good.  So it does vary with the niche. But to actually answer the question, you'll probably want to experiment with on page things, like design, usability, content quality - and especially take a look at the book "Don't Make Me Think" if you haven't. But you should also make sure the right people are finding the right pages in your site.  For example, I had a site that was ranking very well for a certain term, and getting some good traffic.  But it turns out that key-phrase, and the intention behind the search was not aligned with what the site actually had to offer.  So we re-targeted to a more appropriate key-phrase which cut the bounce rate in half! Also, if you have an e-commerce site, be sure the terms you're getting traffic for are transactional in intent (intent to purchase something) vs. informational.  If someone is looking for information but lands on an e-commernce site: higher bounce rate. Lastly, a good benchmark I find is: how do you perform in brand searches?  This is where you want bounce rate to be lowest, time on site to be highest etc.  Someone is specifically looking for your brand, which should get the best metrics.  If these are not where they should be, then you know your on page can be improved. Lots here I know, but hope it helps -Dan

299$ for initial consideration by Yahoo (doesn't mean your website will be accepted for sure).