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Thanks for the reply. It confirms what I thought. I just wanted to get input from more experienced colleagues so I could make an informed decision.

Understanding business they link build for (CRITICAL!) Search skills (advanced search operators, semantic flow) Use of our internal link management database (recording, categorising and tagging links) Content writing / ordering Establishment of a real internet persona Natural email writing Phone skills

Saibose, Do you think links from a wordpress blog are better?

Use words like: Kangaroo, Fosters, Wallaby, Shrimps, Barbie, Castlemaine XXXX, Strewth? Ah, the double English problem (rising to the triple and quadruple when thinking about USA and Canada). I can give you a few things but I've not had enough success with any to say they are undoubtedly the way forward. Another site a) Subfolder - /aus/ b) Subdomain - aus.domain c) New TLD - domain.com.aus Rather than hash out the pros and cons here's a recent Whiteboard Friday - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-where-to-host-and-how-to-target-whiteboard-friday Also check the comments for some good suggestions and sites.

Go to the http://www.gumtree.com/ and create an ad for a house (or whatever), the in field help they give to get users to give indepth information is great without seeming forced. If you incentivise your community via "likes" or rankings, then they will want to provide this information i.e. make it in their interest to provide you with information

I think he meant to say QDF. Quality Deserves Freshness. See: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-query-deserves-freshness

Hello Ilya, There are several good responses here, and I think some of them would depend on how large your site is and what types of pages they are. Judging by your URL example below, I'm guessing it is real estate related or at least that you have localized pages in different geographic areas. You have a few issues here. First, this video might help, but it is sort of outdated and misleading in some ways. There may not be a set limit (i.e. we're only going to index 10k pages) but how much of your site gets indexed, and how often it gets crawled is based largely on the quality of your site (assuming all other factors are there, such as sitemaps and crawlable navigation, etc...). And the quality of your site depends on many, many different factors. Of course the two most important for this discussion would probably be uniqueness/usefulness of the content, and the amount of links the site and sections of the site, as well as the deep pages have. The more links you can get into those deep pages, the more likely it is that Google is going to crawl more often, and index those pages. You said you "can't" get links into those pages. If you can't get links into them, they probably aren't "quality" and therein lies your problem. If by "can't" you just mean there isn't enough time in the day for you to build links into ALL of these pages, you can still build links into as many as you can. This will get the bots crawling down to that level of your site more often, and make it more likely that this level of your site will be indexed. Here is another useful link, although it is dated as well: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-indexation-cap Having fresh content (with a fresh "last modified" date) usually does, in my experience, entice Googlebot to come back more often. Does that translate into "indexing" more pages? I don't know. But I do know that having better content and more links into those inner pages does translate into more indexation, and not just for the pages linked to externally, but for that entire section/folder/directory of your site. Consider user-generated content on those pages if you can. A lot of VERY popular review and realestate sites' deep pages would go unindexed without it. watch?v=gW7AUnZvSAE

I think that I would use the homepage to promote my most profitable, most brandable and most linkable content.  After adopting that philosophy I would increase/decrease the number of links on my homepage to see what produces the most visitor engagement and conversions. But, getting to your original question... if you are getting your butt kicked in the SERPs you need to go out after links and likes and produce more of the content that attracts them.  SEO is a battle of resources and those resources are linkable content and links/likes, etc.

Consider creating a user agent detection that will use a different style sheet when a mobile device requests it. OR you can use the mobile user agent to create progressive enhancement - building whatever the device wil allow.  Check out some of mobile css and/or progressive enhancement resources online first for more details.

If you goal is to 301 all the pages of the new site to the old one, I would suggest to make the new site with the right pages for the different search terms you target, let it be indexed and ranked, get a few backlinks to keep the domain somehow "visible" to google. This process should take a couple of months. Once this is done, create a redirect script on the new site. If you want to rank deep pages of the old site, the script should redirect user to the page of the old site which correspond the best with the new site page. If you want to rank the homepage of the old site, just redirect all requests to this homepage.

Considering you can't get penalised by a backlink form a spammy site ("negative" SEO), I would submit the site to the travel platform if it does no cost much time/money. Reading your response to Gianluca, it looks like the backlinks are not so spammy so you should do it without fears.

The page on your domain that has the iFrame in it would get credit for both (assuming you have analytics on it :D). The visitor would actually be on your site and the iFrame is just a window to the other site where they can see the content.

SOme positive impact increase in CTR, because after these updates all the spam sites hit down towards and our website get more exposure...

Traffic Likes, Follows, Adds Leads Conversions

I would do it only for the most trusted of brand name directories - Yahoo!, Better Business Bureau, and maybe Best of the Web, but probably very little else.

Hi WillyF, we're wondering if you have any progress to report with your rankings, or if Google responded to your reconsideration request with any more information. A lot of people are real interested to see if anyone is recovering from Panda/Farmer, how long it's taking, and how they did it. Would love to see an update here!