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Do you really need one? If so WP Super Cache is pretty great. I don't think most sites need it though.

There isn't really a canonical error in the crawl report. There is a "notice" which is really just the number of pages in your crawl that had the canonical tag on them. It doesn't mean there is a problem. Are you referring to the blue notices section in your crawl report on the campaign view?

i.e. Google.com v.s. Google.co.uk

This relates to another question I have open on a similar issue. So if I open the same e-commerce site (virtually) on company.com and company.co.uk, does Google really view that as duplicate content?

I would be inclined to think they have that figured out but I havent had much experience with international SEO...

| has my vote! More for readability than anything.

| has my vote! More for readability than anything.

I like that a lot! Can you rewrite product descriptions without maintaining separate databases? Would that involve a custom field or something?

I kinda figured that was the case.

I know it is going to be more complicated then setting the market in WMT. Any specific advise around geo targeting for e-commerce?

Is hosting on a US server a problem if we were going to launch a site in the UK?

I have a client who has 3 ecommerce sites. They are somewhat differentiated but for the most part sell the same stuff. Luckily 2 of them are quite authoritative, old and rank reasonably well.

Most of the visitors and sales come from the US. He wants to start targeting Europe, Mexico and Canada.

What are your suggestions for doing this? Are we better targeting on the main domains? Not really sure how to do that?

Should we use a subdomain and a new store front for each geo?

Should we use a .co.uk .co.mx and .co.ca each with a unique storefront?

It looks like we are moving to a Magento platform so setting up multiple storefronts on a single database is not a big issue.

Anyone have any experience with this?

Good question!! I have looked at that before and second Aaron's concern.

Has anyone else purchased these? I'd love to hear your feedback?

SEOmoz, are these still up to date-ish?

lets not forget - therapist.com

Well the more specific the search term (longer tail) the less likely it is that there is any data on that term. You cant be confident that a specific long tail keywords will produce anything if there is no search data on it.

IMO I find the idea of "targeting" specific long tail keywords kind of funny. By targeting head match keywords and generating content around those keywords you will naturally rank for long tail (high converting) keywords. But to think that I can anticipate the actual long tail terms seems unrealistic to me, unless it is something like a product specific "branded" search.

Does that make sense? Am I way off base here?

I hold VERY little faith that the numbers in Google's keyword tool are accurate. I think it is a good indicator of traffic levels, especially if you compare it against other sources, like WordTracker, but I try to normalize the numbers and look at them as relative values. I dont believe the actual search volumes.

The SEOmoz tool used to be difficult to use but I find it to be much improved. It is a good snapshot of what types of site/pages are ranking for a keyword and saves me a lot of legwork.

I really like Rands post here. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/10-steps-to-advanced-keyword-research

The process is pretty labor intensive, but I think well worth it if your client is willing to pay for it.

If you can get a really good relevant domain then go with that, but a hyphenated domain is not really good. I personally have found that I would rather go with short and easy, given the absence of good keyword domains.

SEO can't be my only strategy, especially for a new site, so being able to tell people about my site verbally and them find it easily is more important to me.

You have to setup a new URL. The rewrite only redirects traffic. If the page doesnt exist you are redirecting traffic to a page that doesn't exist. No Bueno!

None that I am aware of. What about traffic sources? Did traffic drop? How much and from which sources?

The data is there but not presented as nicely and requires some manual sorting.

Traffic Sources --> Search Engines --> Add Metric "Landing Page" or "Keyword"

There may be duplicates you need to account for if multiple search engines are sending traffic via the same keyword or to the same landing page.

If you only want to see it for a specific search engine and therefore not have to remove the duplicates do this.

Traffic Sources --> Search Engines --> Pick Search Engine --> Change Main Metric to "Landing Page" or "Keyword"

Hope that help. I really like the way they format it though. It is a nice report. I wish they allowed for more custom reporting on those metrics though like adding custom dates and export to PDF, etc.

Sure it does. I would argue that onsite optimization becomes even more important on a large scale. Just given the fact that there is so much internal linking a good onsite strategy can be crucial to success.

Good SEO should also help usability of your visitors too. The reason it is rewarded is because thats what users want to see and Google wants to give it's users what they are looking for the first time.

Good SEO = A Good Site!

Have you submitted a news sitemap? It should only include links to your news articles.

http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?answer=74288

Also it looks like they want to know more about your editorial review process. Here is the standard message from google about being included in News results.

We typically include sites in Google News that:

• have news content reporting on recent events - please note that we don't
  include informational and how-to articles, classified ads, job postings,
  fictitious content, event announcements, advice columns or adult content;
• have content that is original to the site;
• are written and maintained by a clear organization, one that has
  multiple writers and editors with accessible contact information;
• don't solely promote their own activities or products;
• don't violate Google's quality guidelines available at
  http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769#3.

I think this blog post from Rand is just what you are looking for. In short, "Subdomains DO NOT always inherit all of the positive metrics and ranking ability of other subdomains on a given root domain!"

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/understanding-root-domains-subdomains-vs-subfolders-microsites

I noticed that too. Kinda sucks. SEOmoz doesnt want to comp too many memberships i guess. Kinda lame, good thing SEOmoz is awesome, willing to overlook it.

BTW it's funny that you noticed that, yet neglected to thumbs up your own post on a question about the very subject.