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When it doubt view the cached version of your site and click to see the text version only.

Example: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.google.com/&hl=en&strip=1

I include location in my local listings as a matter of habit. Have not dropped it to test and see if it has any effect. Keep in mind that there are other signals Google uses to work out the relevance of a local listing: Location (proximity, completness of the profile / information, outside references in directories, mentions of numbers...etc). I read a really interesting article about this recently here: http://ontolo.com/blog/phone-number-co-citation-analysis-local-link-builders

RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^page/([^/.]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [L]

If you're using the numbered (e.g. page=102) IDs:

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^article/([0-9]+)/? article.php&article=$1   [R=301, L]

Conversion optimisation.

Our Current Sitelinks:
SEO Services SEO Packages About Us Contact Us Advanced SEO Topics Link Building Viral Marketing FAQ

Our Past Sitelinks:
SEO Services
SEO Packages
About Us
Contact Us
Advanced SEO Topics
Link Building
Me Nofollow! Blekko Search Engine

Removal of: the two above introduced two new sitelinks which were much more relevant.

You're welcome. If the .de site hasn't been online until now then it will be some time before you will earn Google's full trust of course. One thing we've noticed was that websites with higher pagerank / links / trust / authority get indexed more thoroughly (deeper, wider...etc) so enabling for a nice natural link growth would be important in the early days of the site if all that content is going to be indexed by Google. Remember that Google's pagerank is more or less invisible to webmasters these days and when it does update it's really stale as far as data goes. So don't obsess over a toolbar pagerank and think about ideal places to score a great, authoritative link from.

Best of luck with your site release!

Just to add that I would personally be scared of having domainname.co if I know my competitor has domainname.com - too easy to spell it wrong and send free traffic the wrong way.

For one of our clients we have purposely trimmed down the title tag two merely two words and reduced the description to a one liner thus creating lovely white space with reading clarity which makes eyes focus on it.

By doing so we've improved our click through rate by 20%.

Sounds like Google likes this feature and will not remove it unless they figure users don't like it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbpfjzEBAM

1. Type in your brand. Usually pops up (you can check if you have it in Google Webmaster Tools)
2. Get to position #1 for the term and you'll get the sitelinks if the condition 1) is met.

If you're talking about controlling what Google suggests it seems it's based on user choices more than anything. Although I did have a few suprising sitelinks which I had to manually remove in GWT. It did not make sense as they didn't get enough traffic to justrify Google's decision.

Going offline.

Have a TV or radio ad and tell people to search "your keyword".

I believe this was successfully executed for phrase "seo found" in Australia. http://www.google.com.au/search?q=seo%20found I was first suprised to see a peak in search volumes in Google Keyword Tool and was later told that they had a massive advertising campaign for this phrase.

This is something I intend to try in the future.

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I am not a big fan of internal link nofollows and find the whole thing more or less pointles and it's better to let Google crawl through your site freely. Site architecture /structure is crucial. One thing we did recently was remove links which lead to same pages and trimmed our link count down by 30%. Another feature we've introduced was a featured box which contained products which we knew needed some internal link love. Typically ecommerce sites have popular products by no way to specify which product pages to feature manually (or at least in a controlled way).

Are you using faceted navigation at all?

I can tell you exactly what happened to one of our client's websites. We went into a similar debate over a .de and .com domain and as a result of inability to come to an agreement (between SEO and developers) both were released with no canonical handling whatsoever.

The outcome was good, perhaps due to a bit of luck. What happened was that Google figured out that this was another geographic region site and allowed for both pages to be indexed, cached and found in results (one for google.de and the other for google.com.au / google.com). So when I searched for the same sentence in "quotes" it would bring up both results without omitting.

If I can make an educated guess, it would be a mix of geo location (contact details, tld) and the fact that layout added a substatntial amount of difference to both sites (as one layout header, nav, sidebars and fotter were in german and other in english).

In what timeframe are you looking to add german translation to your pages?