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I've had some run-ins with case-sensitive URLs in the past and it drives me crazy, I don't understand why CMSs still do that!! While canonical tags are a perfectly fine way to handle this, there's a better solution. Brian Love wrote a great blog post on how to do server-side URL lower-casing. I've used this on a few sites and it works great.

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Hi Aviad, The answer to this depends on the following or at least these should be kept in mind while making a decision on it - 1. Resources company is ready to allocate - Is company willing to spend more money buy having different websites on TLDs or just having one website is feasible? 2. What does the company want from brand point of view? This is bit of a vague question and maybe no one has the answer to it but its probably worth considering this. Now, talking from SEO POV, different TLDs could potentially yield you better results as these are dedicated sites for different locations. 1. GEO TARGETING - You could host these sites on their local respective IP addresses. 2. LOCALISED CONTENT - Localise/customise the content of the website better since the websites are dedicated to specific countries. 3. USERS EXPECTATIONS/PREFERENCE - TLD might give you an added benefit as search engines tend to show few TLDs on first page (from my observation). Also, if you think about it from user perspective, they prefer browsing a website that seems more local. Buying a product from company.uk might be much more appealing than buying it from company.com or whatever the global website is. Now talking about having a global website, its not that bad at all if you optimise it well. 1. GEO TARGETING - You dont need to host the website on separate ip addresses since its just one website. In order to have it load fast in different countries, you could use CDNs. CDNs are really good and if you get a good subscription, it could give your website a good SEO benefit. 2. LOCALISED CONTENT - In order to talk to the users from different geographic region, you could have specific dedicated pages sitting within the subfolders such as company.com/uk, company.com/jp etc. This way you will be able to speak to the users by customising these dedicated pages. 3. USERS EXPECTATIONS/PREFERENCE - I mentioned above that users prefer to shop from TLDs more. If you have subfolders on the website, then you that good however, users can still see that you are a global website. This is something that you might wanna think about. Hope this gives you a bit of idea on the thought process for understanding what will be best for the company. Malika

Thanks, I guess I'll have to wait and see once we are out of the sandbox. If nothing chances I'll start suggesting changing that keyword. Thanks again

Hi there! A while back, Rand wrote a great blog on this topic for Moz: https://moz.com/blog/21-tactics-to-increase-blog-traffic-2012 Here are the summarized points: Target Your Content to an Audience Likely to Share Participate in the Communities Where Your Audience Already Gathers Make Your Blog's Content SEO-Friendly Use Twitter, Facebook and Google+ to Share Your Posts & Find New Connections Install Analytics and Pay Attention to the Results Add Graphics, Photos and Illustrations (with link-back licensing) Conduct Keyword Research While Writing Your Posts Frequently Reference Your Own Posts and Those of Others Participate in Social Sharing Communities Like Reddit + StumbleUpon Guest Blog (and Accept the Guest Posts of Others) Incorporate Great Design Into Your Site Interact on Other Blogs' Comments Participate in Q+A Sites Enable Subscriptions via Feed + Email (and track them!) Use Your Email Connections (and Signature) to Promote Your Blog Survey Your Readers Add Value to a Popular Conversation Aggregate the Best of Your Niche Connect Your Web Profiles and Content to Your Blog Uncover the Links of Your Fellow Bloggers (and Nab 'em!) I think this is a great resource that will provide a lot of insight into your question! Let me know if this helped and if there is anything else I can do to assist. Good luck getting that traffic up!

Yo Jo, Social visits for multiple Moz campaigns all show "0". I've checked GA which shows social visits from Twitter, Stumbleupon, etc and I've checked that the GA number (eg UA-42970474-1) is the same in the Moz campaign. Why is Moz not showing some of the social visits GA is reporting? iVhAV

Thank you very much. And what do you think about the other questions?

Hi there, As a link building tactic, I think that what you're describing is perfectly fine and within Google guidelines as long as a few things are true: The resource you're linking to is genuinely valuable and high quality The pages you're getting links from a relevant, high quality and not just "made for SEOs" This type of link doesn't make up the bulk of your link profile - you should try to get links via other methods too and not just rely on this Longer term, Google may get better at working out which of these types of links are lower quality, but I don't think they will ever put a blanket rule in place to mark them all as low quality - there are just too many that are genuinely useful and relevant. I hope that helps! Paddy

Hi RankingFast! It seems that you have two questions here: How do I get my page indexed with Google? How can I rank for the term Home Based Business?' I saw that you asked this exact question previously with another site, so I'm going to assume you have a basic understanding of SEO, if not, I'd recommend reading Moz's Beginner's Guide to SEO. Answers: The page is already indexed with Google, I checked this myself. So step 1 complete! This is the hard one. You've really got an uphill battle for a few reasons. First, the domain you're using is a landing page app (generally used for one-off campaigns, not organic traffic) & Google knows that. I'd highly recommend migrating to your own site as quickly as possible. Second, I'd recommend trying to build some exact match (or close variants) anchor text links to the site. Third, I'd revisit the content. The quiz is likely great, but Google cannot index the contents of the quiz very effectively. Try adding some additional content lower on the page so that Google has a bit more information to work with here. Try using terms that have high lexical similarities to your target term. Fourth, I'd highly recommend keeping all the content on one site. It seems the quiz migrates you to yet another domain. If you must use a landing page system, try using one that allows you to make it a sub-domain (Unbounce does this, and most others do too.). If you can do these things, you have a chance to rank for that term. But otherwise, I think you're going to have some issues here. It can be done, but if you're going to climb a mountain, I'd recommend having the right gear for the job (meaning a dedicated website & more content). Let me know if you have any further questions! Good luck! Trenton

Thank you for your response. Rather than me try and explain further (it is complicated). I've just removed the offending content from the page. Thank you for taking the time to answer.

There are a few different things this could be, none of which are that much cause for concern, thankfully. Some questions to ask: Where are you seeing the rankings fluctuate? In the Google interface? In a ranking tool? In multiple tools? Since Google is testing things all the time and results are more and more personalized, it's pretty common to see keyword fluctuations, especially in rank tracking tools. I would check the keyword in a second ranking tool, and also Google it in a private window, to see if you can duplicate the results - if not, it may be a quirk of the tool and not of the rankings. Along those same lines - do you see your organic traffic to that page fluctuate along with the fluctuations in ranking? Since you're on page 2, you may not be getting a ton of traffic from that specific term, but it's worth checking on. If that's not the case and the rankings really are fluctuating, what other changes can you note in the SERPs during the changes? One example from my own life: I had a client who was targeting a term that Google seemed to be trying to figure out whether or not it was appropriate to show local/localized results. The presence or absence of that local pack changed that SERP a lot. Ranking fluctuations like this are pretty common, especially once you drop off the first page. If it's not seriously impacting your traffic or conversions, I wouldn't be too concerned about it. Your best defense here is a good offense - try to bolster that page's rankings and authority to get it on page 1. I know that's easier said than done, but it's a lot easier to deal with ranking fluctuations when they're between spot 4 and spot 7, instead of page 2 and page 5.

Do you buy houses in Ukraine? I thought such business should be tied to some place, so maybe try targeting keywords relevant to the area in which you operate? By looking at your website, I have no Idea if you're buying houses in my area or in Saudi Arabia. Your main page hosts all of the content from the blog section, which is weird and bad because there's now a bunch of keywords breaking the semantic cluster. Title and H1 tags on the main page are also bad, may as well keep them empty. There are no images on the main page, and there are no images in the blog posts. It's overall a very bad website, and you should put a lot of time into it.

I think you could spend a ton of money and time on a strategy like this just to discover that it was a disaster. Google is smart. They can figure out when content is just churned out and is the same as every other website out there. You can use some filler content, but pages without any unique content rarely rank, are often penalized, and don't convert customers very well. It's best to offer something that the consumer can't get elsewhere, so that they buy and refer friends to you. If you're same same, why should they return?

Hi Andre, Our sub-domains has the activity like forums where lot of users are participating. It's hard to control it with broken links, external links and some spammy content. So we are interested to move the "optimised" sub-domains to sub folders and leave the others. And if the page title repeats in pages of sub-domain, is that bad  and dilutes the website transparency? For all our website pages we have give "topic name | brand & keyword" and same for sub-domain pages like "topic name | brand & keyword". Is this hurting us? Having keyword along with brand name across the sub-domain pages hurt rankings? Thanks

If the blog is on your domain and has good, genuine content, and the commercial pages are on that same domain, then I don't see any problem or risk in doing it occasionally if the topics of the category pages are naturally referenced in blog article content. Now, if you start stacking and stuffing and going wild with tons of links or links on low quality pages, then it could become a genuine problem.

Any update on this Jac?