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Thanks a lot Serge!

Hey Joseph, Great question. Typically, the only two options I recommend are either YouTube or Wistia. The short answer is either of these platforms are great, but depending on your goals one might be better than the other. If your goal is to increase traffic to your website, Wistia is typically the better option. This is because your videos are optimized to rank with Wistia, and your pages will actually rank with the videos. YouTube is great for brand awareness and pushing a specific video strategy out to the world. This is because it's already a great platform and many people use it. The good news? You can totally use both. I've seen many brands upload a video on their site using Wistia and then upload that same video to YouTube 2 weeks later in order to grab the best of both worlds. I personally don't think this is necessary (it might also be confusing to users having similar content in two completely seperate places), but it's totally doable and legitimate. Hope that helps!

Yeah, that's what i thought. Basically, it would be splitting campaigns into two/several. Well, thanks for the advise!

Hi Alan, Have you tried contacting Kickbox? Sending to bad recipients could really be quite harmful, damaging your reputation as a sender. It's unlikely that this would be worth it in the not so distant future. Good luck, Zack

A "head term" is essentially the opposite of a long-tail keyword.  For instance if you find a long-tail keyword that gets 100-500 searches per month and isn't too difficult to rank for ... say that keyword is "homes for sale in vancouver bc" ... the head term in this case is "homes for sale" which would be getting a lot more search volume but would also be extremely more difficult to rank for because everyone is trying to rank for it.  In this case, if you're a national brand, both keywords are useful to you so you can create a page optimized for "homes for sale" (the head term) and optimize it for both this term and the long-tail. Flimsy example, I'm sorry, but my mind is blanking and this is the best I can give you! haha.  Also just noticed this post is over a month old but I'm gonna post this anyway in case it helps anyone.  Cheers.

Hi there, I would proceed with caution with any of those options. First off, what is the hosting situation with each of these URL's? You are going to have to be careful since inter-connected websites linking to one-another is going to give Google plenty of red flags and might suggest a PBN is in use, which may bring on more scrutiny of your main domain. 301's are not ideal in this situation since they are used primarily for re-branding purposes. In other words, for when the content of a website is being shifted to a new domain. This is a pure link scenario, without the same brand change. 301-ing multiple domains to a single domain just isn't how they are supposed to be used. Will you be penalized? I'm unsure. Is it risky? You bet. a) If you do go the redirect route, definitely don't link everything to the Home page - 301's are meant to be page-to-page changeovers meaning your Home Page redirects to the new Home Page, the Category Pages redirect to the Category Pages, etc. If each of your websites have the same structure, then it's not such a big deal. I'd still be wary of going that route, though. b) Linking all the domains to the Home page is probably the best option assuming you aren't hosting each of these websites on the same server. If you have anything but a-class hosting (i.e. shared, etc), I wouldn't go this route. c) Linking domains to internal pages is probably your safest option, since it spreads the links around in a more relevant manner and won't impact your entire site the way the same links would on your Home page. This is due to the new updates to to Penguin. If you go this route, you will be able to test whether or not these links are hurting or helping you for rankings on specific pages without risking your entire site. d) Again, probably not ideal to 301 redirect any of these websites to your new site. The only benefit that would have would be to redirect traffic to your main site. If that is your ultimate goal, then try to use best practices outlined in a) above. However, if this is for a link juice and ranking purpose, then redirecting will not be as effective as linking. Keep in mind that redirecting also impacts the strength of that domain's link profile, so 301's are actually going to take away from the strength of the links your other websites produce. I would go with option c), rolled out gradually, opting for a couple of pages and measuring ranking fluctuations as a result over a couple of weeks. If you see gains, keep going. If you see losses, you know what the problem is and you can fix it easily. Before I did that, however, I would investigate the hosting situation and relationships between these sites to minimize the potential impact of link spam suppressions and penalties. Hope this helps provide you with some extra information. Don't be afraid to reach out if you have any further questions or need clarification. Good luck! Cheers, Rob

You're right on target, it's not a good idea to index search results. Google doesn't want to crawl or index other search results in its own search results. There are some exceptions for gigantico sites like Yelp or TripAdvisor when showing their search results pages are actually the best option, but if you're not at that level and especially if you're an ecommerce site, it's not recommended. You wouldn't be harming anything by excluding search from your robots.txt file. In fact, many top sites exclude search results to preserve crawl capacity and for indexation reasons. You'll also want to look at parameter handling in Search Console, this article from Google will get you started.

Julie thanks for your reply with which I agree mostly.  However there may be a opportunity to use good names if the passage of time and removal or dropping of all links has 'sanitized' the url.. question is how to have this confirmed...

Thank you Samantha your answer is very useful !

I looked up IMDB, seems to be that movie/celebrity/TV website. It is well interlinked, but I don't know if that's it. I guess the more (with great relevance) the better. I like the never twice rule, why do you do that? Thanks.

It seems you have a system which redirects users to the default page. When I try the site http://www.mercimamanboutique.com/ - It has a canonical http://www.mercimamanboutique.com/fr-fr/ - when I switch to German and go back to the same url it has a canonical http://www.mercimamanboutique.com/de-de/ The site seems to exist in https & http - may be better to redirect everything to https (although this is probably not related to the issue you encounter) Dirk Update:  I also noticed that the main rel alternate doesn't exist - http://www.mercimamanboutique.com/ is redirected to http://www.mercimamanboutique.com - I guess it's better not to use url's that are redirected but to use the final destination url

That's just the result of my frustration for not having more than a single answer after so many days of opening this thread. I have not offended or dissed anybody specific with that. My intent was just a wake-up call to anyone could bump into this thread. So, EGOL, please, let's stop here, ok? I am really interested to know if someone else can give me constructive feedback and advice. Thank you fr your cooperation.

Hi there, The first search is for your exact brand name, meaning that there's a huge likelihood of that particular search being for your brand and nothing else. Because of this, Google can figure out that the searchers intention is to find you, and will show more of your website in first position. The second search for 'cars ireland' is a lot more generic and might be searched by users that aren't familiar with your brand. For this reason, Google wouldn't show your organic sitelinks because you're unlikely to be the best result for the majority of these searches. I hope that helps, Sean