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Hi! My first (warm) suggestion is to allocate budget for content localization. Having just the template translated is not enough for having visibility in markets like Spanish, Chinese or Russian, and this is not just because you won't rank at all for queries in those languages (hence you won't be discovered by users in those markets), but also because English is not so known, so it is possible that people will bounce out very fast, and that is going to be a very bad user signal, one of those that Google more and more is going to take into consideration in its algorithm. Said, that, you are doing right using the hreflang, because it is suggested by Google itself also for cases like yours, when only the template is localized: You keep the main content in a single language and translate only the template, such as the navigation and footer. Pages that feature user-generated content like a forums typically do this. What I don't agree is about the use of the rel="canonical". The combined use of hreflang and rel="canonical" is quite tricky in international SEO, so let me try to explain my negative to cross canonical use with hreflang. The rel="canonical" is used to suggest Google that a page is identical to another one. Google, then, will not consider the canonicalized URL and show in the SERPs the canonical one only. But with the hreflang you are giving Google a signal that is contradicting the rel="canonical" one. In fact, you are telling Google two opposite things: Do not consider this URL because it is canonicalized to this other one; Consider this URL because I want you to show it in this specific market (i.e.: es-ES). What Google must do? My suggestion, then, is to quite the cross canonical and leave the hreflang annotation only. Google, infact, finally is able to understand that - albeit the content may be substantially identical to the one present in another page - that specific URL targeting that specific international market has tiny differences that means a big changes in meaning (i.e.: currency) for that targeted market, hence Google won't consider it into a Panda schema. I hope I was clear enough

Thanks mate. That was a very informative answer. It's not that I am making some hand made items as the example of Matt was but I have a very small amount of deals that come and go every now and then. I will not redirect or give a 404. I think that I will keep the page but explain that the deal is over and that there are more deals relevant to this one. Forcible redirecting in my opinion is the worst in every situation except if the intent of the next page is Exactly the same as the previous which 99% of the times is not. 404 could be ok but the deals i offer are hard won and i dont want the traffic to just go into a 404 wall. Adding the relevant deals seems like the best way to go. Thanks again

Hey there Patrick, Thanks a ton for responding to my question. I too indeed have the hreflang tags within my site but still use a redirection. I will try changing that as soon as possible then. Also what kind of redirection should i use if someone chooses another language in my site? Right now the redirection is set as a 301. I have heard a lot of chatter talking about a 302 redirection. Any opinions?

Hi Angelos. You have a great question and there are a few ways to take this. What I would recommend is having your www.example.com be a starter page that doesn't have your "homepage" content, but rather, asks people to pick a language. You can detect it from their browser settings or from the IP (whatever you do, do NOT redirect anything based on IP address) and prompt them from there, or just list them all. That page would be your x-default in HREFLANG terms. It's the page that doesn't have a language. Then all of the others would be linked to from there. This would of course have English as /en. You don't have to do that though. If you prefer, you can totally have www.example.com as all English, and just have the other languages under their subfolders. I would detect if you think the user prefers one of the other languages and use Javascript to popup a prompt to ask if they would prefer that language. If they say yes, then set a cookie and take them there. If not, it keeps them on the English URLs. Just please don't redirect anyone based on IP address. This can cause problems down the line. I hope that helps.

Agreed with Dennis. I generally use Feedly which has good suggestions for related feeds. I think Zite is similar to Flipboard?

Hey there Don thanks for the answer. No i am not referring to the domain on my profile thanks for searching though. You are right i am having some server issues that are causing many many problems. Anyway I will probably come back with another question soon enough! Thanks again !

Thank you so much for replying to me. Sorry I’ve just realise I’ve made a mistake in my first comment. We are using .com for our main site and we plan to add subfolders for individual countries in the future. Currently, we only have /row for all the countries outside of the UK that we deliver to. Thanks again for getting back!

Yes but when you "no follow" link juice that would have been passed to that page is loss (and not diverted to other pages), in turn that means that any pages that is linked to from the login page does not get any juice passed to it.  And when you think something like a login page is linked from every page that's a lot of link juice to throw away (collectively). I understand your point about the crawling, but unless you have lots of new content (or updating content)  I would take the boost from the maximising link flow though the site. I have removed "no follow" from internal link (like login) before and have seen general boost in rankings site wide before ( not scientific proof granted)

Hi Angelos. Yup, you can do that. Here's a full guide here: http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection and you'll want to pay attention to the parts regarding page to page redirection, such as: RedirectMatch 301 /poker-face http://www.example.com/poker-faces You can typically find further redirection support from your server host and related to whichever CMS or web software you're using.  Cheers!

That is odd. I'm unfamiliar with that markup other than as an RSS emulation here: https://gist.github.com/jonathantneal/5096851 and used with RSS / Atom feeds: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287.  Maybe your forum software is doing them in this way in order to provide users with the corresponding RSS feed when subscribing to the post.  I'd look into the documentation for your forum software to try and get a better insight into why it's there.  Cheers!

I don't think canonicalization would be inappropriate here. Each page is different, but each page of a forum topic is supporting the OPs' main post on the first page. You can canonical the subsequent pages and pass the authority to the main page so it ranks highest. If someone uses a specific search term that another person used on page 4 of the topic, that page will still show in Google's SERPs and direct the user to the deeper page, rather than the main page. So, we're not applying a canonical tag because of duplicate content issues, but to support the forum topic's parent theme. I suggest adding rel/next logic to your site's theme and let Google rank the subsequent pages accordingly. Once proper canonical and rel/next tags are implemented, I wouldn't worry about duplicate meta information.

Have u tried any of these? https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ https://xmlsitemapgenerator.org/sitemap-generator.aspx http://www.web-site-map.com/ Or take a look at Chapter 8 of the Moz guide. It has insight on xml sitemaps as well.

You'll want to use pagination markup (rel=”next”/rel=”prev”) to handle this. See this article for specific guidelines.

Hi Angelos, Wondering - Did you went for RSSEO component, has it worked for you !! Thanks

Hi Angelos, you've received some great responses. Did any of them answer your question?

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i can endorse rsseo as well. but joomla may not always be the best option, however it will get the job done.

There are a lot of them: PRWeb, PRnewswire, i-newswire, PRLeap. And as mentioned earlier, Google does not give a lot of importance of links from Press Release sites, but if you have a good story you can use the PR sites to tell it.

Hi Angelo, Excellent question! From what I can see there are some concrete steps you can take for immediate links: You can research where you competitor's links are coming from (or research which websites and Blogs are relevant) and then try to obtain links from these websites. How "odd" then that most of the high-profile websites will however ask you to advertise (in some way)... which basically means you will be buying links from domains with authority (against Google's T&Cs wasn't it?) Commenting on Blog posts is always a quick tactic that allows you to create branded backlinks, while potentially opening up extra opportunities with the Blog owner. Register with directories (also good for Local SEO/Google+ Local) Try to find pages with broken links on websites that are of interest and notify the webmaster while kindly requesting a link to your own domain. Or, you can put your PR cap on and come up with an "idea" for content in the hope of organically increasing your links as described previously.  A good idea goes a long way! As to tools to use, I do like Buzzstream since it takes some of the pain out of linkbuilding.

Consider using .htacces to rewrite the url?