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You should create a dedicated domain. I also recommend going after hosting in the languages' country that you most want rankings in. Check out Bruce Clay's International web - http://www.bruceclay.com

In my opinion, Linking out to Business/Gov/Local authoritative sites can help built that trust in your brand, in the Eyes of the searcher. and Google will acquire these info about your site too. ( that u do exist and your are legit---> Trust) For example BBB badge, NLA (national Limo association), FAA.gov, Local Chamber of commerce.

I wish that were the case, but the site wasn't down. I looked into the errors, they were redirecting to a subdomain that no longer exists.

Daniel If the site in question is indexed at Google under the https method rather than http, then yes, it should provide the same value as an http indexed site.  a quick inurl: https; check just now brought back over 1.6 billion pages.  Random checks of various keyword rankings for queries that contain a mix of http: and https: brought back a number of them where https: sites ranked higher than http: sites, including some with site links and multiple entries as well. Also, I've got a couple financial institution clients who use https: and haven't seen any more difficulty ranking them through typical SEO methods.  Which just reinforces that belief.  If anyone here has had differing experiences I'd like to hear about it as well of course...

I can say this much, I have had a link to my college football blog on my linkedin profile for a long time. In GWT it does not show linkedin as a domain that links to me. In OSE it does not show linkedin as a domain that links to me. So my guess is either they are unable to crawl or find the links in my profile, the links are nofollow, or they simply aren't passing any link juice. Just checked, there are a few links to my public profile and it is http and not https, so it is being crawled and is indexed. The links are not nofollowed. Seems the links aren't passing and juice.

That's a nice list you've got there, I particularly liked the disclaimer about public relations at the top of the page ;-). We're putting something together that's similar, but coming at it from a PR agency perspective rather than straight linkbuilding for SEO. Well, the wedding's over so this may not help the OP directly, but could be useful for others: For tech clients we use sourcewire regularly (and find it works very well) For cheap, releases that still give half-decent links and get picked up by google news, we often use www.journalism.co.uk (which I didn't see on your list and costs about £30 for the basic service) As a (slightly) amusing aside, we put an April Fool's blog post up about being appointed the PR agency for the royal wedding - would you believe we actually got a couple of enquiries from journalists asking us for information about it! I dread to think how many more enquiries we would have got had we used a wire.

Christopher, I'll add to Pashmina's answer in saying that just like any other data point, I've personally always used data from the Google keyword tool and any other similar "solution" for trending insights only, not for real analysis. Another possibility is in how you use the resource.

Wissam beat me to the link to SERoundtable. I quote that one at least once a week in here -- it's happening to a lot of people.

Sorry it was a bit late to help.

Well, first off, you don't have very much content on the pages to start, which could hurt you in the long run. Now to answer your question, I'd say that the content is very similar and in the end one of them will get filtered out and the other won't get filtered (this is all deemed by Google). They will both probably stay indexed, but unless you have unique and different content for both, one will stay in the SERPs and one will be in the supplemental index. That's my two cents.

And it would also violate a couple of the terms of use of TripAdvisor, as they specifically prohibit copying and scraping of their content. You're likely to encounter the same problems with duplicate content and copyright in other similar sites, too.

Great Question Scott. This particular domain has stumped several other people. uk.com is not a valid cc tld.  The proper cctld for the uk is .co.uk.   What you're looking at is two-letter rootdomain on a .com.  It's just like shoes.com or anything else.   People can basically buy subdomains from the owner of the uk.com rootdomain and host their websites there.  As you can see, it's a clever strategy because they get alot of diverse incoming links from all the subdomains they sell on their root domain. Pretty clever, huh?