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Did you read what Google says about that issue?

Duplicate content and international sites

Websites that provide content for different regions and in different languages sometimes create content that is the same or similar but available on different URLs. This is generally not a problem as long as the content is for different users in different countries. While we strongly recommend that you provide unique content for each different group of users, we understand that this may not always be possible. There is generally no need to "hide" the duplicates by disallowing crawling in a robots.txt file or by using a "noindex" robots meta tag. However, if you're providing the same content to the same users on different URLs (for instance, if both example.de/ and example.com/de/ show German language content for users in Germany), you should pick a preferred version and redirect (or use therel=canonical link element) appropriately. In addition, you should follow the guidelines onrel-alternate-hreflang to make sure that the correct language or regional URL is served to searchers.

What I can tell you from our experiences is that pulling pictures from a different website (as long as it is also hosted on a differnet server) makes sense according to the performance of the site where you display the pictures.

As long as you have verified the sites within WMT you don`t have to worry - if you have outsourced pictures and they are used by several other sites which you also own or maintain, there is no problem using a picture sitemap for several times and all your domains.

Having thousands of pictures in a shop at least means to consider outsourcing the sources of your pictures and pulling them to the original site. You have to think about how much pictures you have - I would always recommend option 1 as you already mentioned...

The problem is if google just only thinks it might be suspicious they will penalize the site and YOU have to prove that this is unjustified... it`s only a risk for a lot of trouble... keep campaigns like that small and as secret as possible...

better: never do things like that. If your site is good, links will be established automatically...

Replace them step by step: delete the bigger one and then immediately upload the new, resized, smaller picture... so the first thing which you should do is create the new pictures before replacing them. Kemp in mind that they have a 4:3 ratio and that at least one edge should have a minimum of 300 pixel.

If you use the same name for the picture (example.jpg is the name for the big one and is also for the new picture) this procedure won`t have any negative effects on your site.

You are not! Your thoughts about that issue are absolutely correct. I also would recommend that things like that should be done (if they have to be done!?) in a very moderate way!

Linkbuilding using campaigns that offer something (doesn`t matter what) when others create a link to your site is a kind of "buying links". Of course this is not an uncommon way to create links but Google will always take a closer look on how you do that - if this is done excessively the risk is high to get a penalty.

Hi! (please see the screenshots)

Your website seems to be a very young site. Young sites always receive a bonus according to their rankings from Google but they have to prove if they are worth it.

If I take a closer look on your visibility chart (I used searchmetrics) then it becomes clear that your site has suffered from several up and downs. The harsh fall-back im may this year indicates that you were hit by the penguin update.

But the visibility chart also shows that your site has recovered from that very fast. Normally this is not a regular recovery development - this recovery process usually takes longer.

Actually the trend for your site is "up" and as far as I can see within your backlink structure there is no need to do some drastic re-optimizations. It`s very frustrating loosing good rankings but those where not established yet. If your site is a very young site and your rankings start good or even very good, this is a circumstance not a consequence which is carved in stone or on which you can rely on.

Be careful with linkbuilding - use a moderate speed and continue with your content in the blog. You have to be patient - not the best answer and maybe not the answer you would like to read but thats my opinion and its based on experiences.

**There is one single exception I have to make: your categories under "services" seem to be a little bit spammy according to the density of similar keywords. Some users might say that this looks a bit "too much of everything" and so Google might recognize this as well! Maybe you should think of using a different structure with less of the same (key)words?   **

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You are welcome!

Maybe one more little thing:

there is a useful tool for free. Its a german website but you dont need to know the language.

Just take a look at this keyword density tool (it`s browser based):

http://keyworddensity.online-marketing-solutions.com

Paste your text in there and press "Prüfung starten"... what you get is an very good hint about which keywords you`ve focused on (with intent or unintended) - you should reach the green colored percentage. 4% usage of your keyword(s) is a good amount but this is also controversial

Maybe there is a similar tool in english but I don`t know that... wish you all the best!

I cant see any significant advantages if you would do that. Its not wrong to set up a few links to that site from your articles but not that much.

You have to imagine that your site has a certain amount of linkjuice. Everytime you set a link to a different site without the nofollow attribut you pass a little bit of your link juice. So if you do excessive linking from your site to others this makes no sense. Dont get me wrong - you should not use "nofollow" with all your links... its a question of: to which site and how much of your linkjuice you should/want to pass through...

Furthermore I took a closer look on your text at your main page and as far as I can see you don`t mention the term "Diani beach" there.

This is not the only and especially not a reliable criteria to rank for your keyword but it would be helpful to use your keyword in your text exactly as you name it. Your term is "Diani beach" not "Diani" or "Beach" ...

You have a very strong and healthy social media background thats great! Yout texts are good and nice to read... youve done a good job there. Your text (on the main page) is unique... continue things like that.

What I would recommend you is to build more links. According to the opensitexplorer you don´t have much external links. Try to promote your site with the aim to get linked by sites with similar content.

The whole thing is a very, very big topic. It`s controversial and there are many, many opinions out there on what might be important to do that your rankings will improve.

There is not enough time to mention all the aspects but maybe other mozzers will add some helpful infos for you as well?! I hope I could make a useful contribution?!

A very interesting question!

You have to think about that issue more precisely: is the whole content of the site changing? Or is just a section of this page rotating?

If there is rotation of a section only, this won`t do your site any harm but if the whole content changes every time the site is opened / re-loaded, then this might cause some problems.

You have to give this site one static component, even if it`s just the title of the page and 2 or 3 short introductional sentences which do not change so frequently. Put them at the top of the page.

If you do so and the rest of the site changes, then the worst case would be that Google will change the descriptive text while displaying the answers on the search queries only.

It might also be a question of how this rotation of products is technical realized?

Your plan ist definitely a good thing!

A short and precise URL is a relevant ranking factor, a significant factor from which your site can benefit a lot...

I would recommend that every time someone asks about that issue.

A 301 redirection will pass the linkjuice to the new URL, I don`t think that you have to consider about loosing PA.

It`s possible that it might have an effect on your serps BUT just changing the order of bullet points, this is no real criteria for unique content.

Imagine that there is software which is able to identify plagiarism. If you run that software the result would be, that your sites have the same text/content and therefore it`s identified as DC - this is what Google will recognize also. I

t doesn`t matter if you arrange your information in a different way then.

So the question is if this would also have a negative impact? Don`t you think so?

have you seen this conversation and especially the last statement there (JohnMu)?

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/SH56eHjNEL0

it seems that you don`t have the option at the moment...

Please keep in mind this is just my opinion/experience and no advice (you might need a lawyer for a reliable answer on that issue):

To register a site as a trademark seems to be a very tough thing to me. You have to imagine that a website consists of a lot of elements which are already under certain copyright laws.

If you use themes for the navigation, for buttons, pictures or even if your complete site is based on a theme which you might have adjusted these are all elements which you can`t claim as a trademark so easily.

You have to distinguish between the whole site and maybe just a brandname or logo. A brandname or logo can be registered as a trademark if it fits the requirements. If you can protect the brand of your client I would always recommend to do that because it gives him/her a lot of protection against competitors ...

Imagine this example: our company is called MusicStore... this is a generic expression which will never be registerable as a trademark. So now you can imagine what you have to keep in mind:

• be the one who gives the highest bids at Google AdWords

• always register company name related domains at first

and much more just to avoid that any competitor can use our company name to profit from...

If your client has any perspective to do business with his idea/brand for the next years, it is always worth to protect its brand... it means less hassle!

take a look at this post:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.de/2013/06/backlinks-and-reconsideration-requests.html

this should help you to answer your question

to sum it up: there should be a valid reason why you submit a reconsideration request... what "valid reason" might be can be found in the article of google (link above)

"How important are the image height/width attributes and would you expect a best practice site to have them included ?"

This is not the most important SEO thing in the world BUT according to your 2nd question

"I hear not having them can slow down a page load time is that correct ?"

That`s the point! The question related to this issue is how relevant the whole thing might be?

Modern browsers and broadband connections seem to make this insignificant but just in case there are some visitors which are not using the right settings they might get pictures unscaled and your whole site will be shown non-responsive... by the way, use responsive designs if you can to avoid that...

Ive always been told to use these parameters . even if you dont need it it ensures that your code is a little bit more perfect

The easiest way would be to add a new language to the existing site - YES, that`s right.

Just think about the option to register a .co.th domain and redirect it to the site where your content is in Thai language (maybe a subfolder).

If you implement the english text on a .co.th domain as well this will be interpreted as duplicate content.

The perfect thing (from the point of view of a SEO!) is to use the right domain. E.g. french content using .fr, english content using .com / .co.uk / .co and so on

This is no must have but the perfect match... our company has made good experiences with that BUT also with using "only" specified folders for each country.

The aim should be to keep your url structure as short and clear as possible - Google likes that. Using different domains in that case helps a lot but its only one ranking factor within a huge bundle... if you can afford it I would recommend the perfect solution but dont mind if you cant or dont want to...

Sorry, no experiences with subdomains so far...

searchmetrics & sistrix are international tracking tools used in Germany... but not for free

I think that a link from www.9slides.com wont do you any harm BUT its not worth the work in comparison to a link from slideshare! The site has no real visibility, no PageRank, only 1 Top10 position within Google USA... slideshare has also a very bad visibility but as we all know visibility is not the only point, as well as the PageRank is not an unique feature... but if you take a look at all those aspects, slideshare is the better source for a link... just my opinion supported by the stats from the sistrix tool

never mind... it`s kind of a joke (teapot / coffee pot) - behind this "joke" is a 200 code which means "ok" ...