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Yes! It is possible for different pages in the same non-country specific TLD to rank in different countries without running into duplicate content issues, even when the text is largely the same. You'll need to indicate to Google, bing, and other search engines that the page is meant for a specific geo-targeted audience. Here's how. From Ian McAnerin, brilliant international marketer, comes this elegant solution: Create the folder: www.mywebsite.com/uk Inside, create pages labeled: www.mywebsite.com/uk/name-of-your-page-uk. Do this for all the pages you want to have rank in the UK. Remember - you need only one or a few landing pages for the UK and then send the UK readers into your site as needed. The UK landing pages all need to have the following - uk in the url local UK address and phone number written in British English (use the appropriate spellings, grammar, and choice of words. Ie: the UK has 'lifts'' the US has elevators Build at least ONE localized link to the page. Ie: for a UK landing page, get at least one link from a UK based website into that page. You can buy a UK site for this purpose (www.mywebsiteuk.co.uk is probably available) Learn more about Ian's brilliant international ranking solution here: http://www.mcanerin.com/EN/articles/301-redirect-geolocation.asp

Hi Keri.  Thanks for following up.  This turned out to be an issue with an auto-generated breadcrumbs script.  I don't know what the intricacies of that were but we were able to remove it and get this issue straightened out. Thanks again! Megan

Hi Craig, If you are running Apache with PHP, then you could look into mod_rewrite and do some URL rewriting for your urls to look like /login/lostpassword instead of /login.php?action=lostpassword Best regards, Guillaume Voyer.

Hi Keri, thanks for the follow up. As for the specific question no I have not really found a concrete answer. Currently we have left the duplicate navigation alone and focused on more pressing updates. Sorry that I don't have more info to share.

Hey Guillaume, Thanks for pointing out the alt tags, can't believe I forgot to mention that (doh!). Good points with how to address the speed issues. Cheers, Josh

When did you set your campaign up Barbara? It tends to update once a week as the crawls happen. Regards, Andy

Thanks for the quick reply. Sounds like sensible advice! I just needed to be areassured that when too good to be true, it probably is. Thanks again Andy!

Hi, I confirm this problem is not new, it already existed 5 years ago when I started doing SEO. At that time, I ask about this and I've been told that is might be because the 10 results and 100 results queries were not returned by the same servers that might have not use the same algorithm. I also noticed a strange behavior from Google two weeks ago that navigating from pages 10 to page 1 wouldn't display the results in the same order than navigating from page 1 to page 10. Like if once you reached the 10th page, I would be then using a different server using a different algorithm. Best regards, Guillaume Voyer.

Hi, in the end I didn't go with microsites. As part of the site build we optimised the urls (using a CMS) and everything else on page we could and 301'd the old URL's to the new versions. Everything ranks as well as it did or better since lanch (4 weeks ago).

I'm assuming the keywords in these domains are generic in nature? There are two ways to go - 1) Build other sites on the domains and leverage them in some manner.  This can become a huge task to manage - instead of promoting one site, now you have a whole group of them to deal with. If that's your plan, IMO this is a risky time to make a big investment - at least, not until we see how Google is going to implement the keyword domain changes iNET referenced. If the domains get direct navigation ("type in") traffic, they could be redirected to your primary domain.  In that case, search becomes a moot point.  But buyer beware - only the top quality domains get this kind of traffic in any volume -make sure the seller has reports to back up any claims and beware of traffic-boosting scams.

Hi! I'm following up on some older questions that are marked unanswered. What strategy did you decide to take here? Do you have any thing you learned that you could share with us, or still have questions? Thanks!

Thanks Elias for your fast response.  You are correct in assuming that the URLs are not optimized & i appreciate your feedback.  I totally agree with you about creating websites for both users and search engines, from my experience this is often overlooked.

The only other tool I use regularly is called SEO Ranking and it is an iPad app and also for the iPhone. It helps to be mobile with these things I am sure there are lots out there - perhaps others will be able to chip in with some additional info? Regards, Andy

Hi Keri, Thanks for your message.  I am still looking for solutions. What I was thinking is : click on a partner link in my site opening an internal  page testing the Ip of users by country by PHP REMOTE_ADDR']; and sending users to the good affiliate link in function of his IP. The user arrive to the partner site. Can you tell me if it's a good idea or not and if it's SEO friendly ? Thanks in Advance, Renaud

Hi! I'm following up on older questions and am wondering how you're doing with your site now, and if the rankings have improved. I see that you're at least indexed in the US right now, with plenty of pages in Google. Can you give us an update and any information that might be helpful for someone else in a similar situation?