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Hi Emerald, First off, great response above by Andrew. I just wanted to throw in a suggestion on using a web host such as site5. They are a US based company like you are looking for but they also provide the option to choose your server location - one of which is in Sydney Australia. They should provide you everything you need with US support and reliability, but with a AU server location. http://www.site5.com/hosting/web/ Just select your server location to get the details. Thanks, Casey

I haven't used them but they were recommended to me: www.translations.com Otherwise go onto the platform of your choice - gumtree, odesk and get someone to translate it for you If you go to this seomoz video http://www.seomoz.org/blog/smx-advanced-andy-atkins-kruger-talks-international-seo-and-yandex-whiteboard-friday A number of people in the comments identified themselves as Russian seos. A few DMs could get a Russian SEO on seomoz to translate for you (for $) Otherwise: Arabic SEO companies http://www.seomoz.org/marketplace/companies/index?q=arabic Russian SEO companies http://www.seomoz.org/marketplace/companies/index?q=russian

I wouldn't even bother with using PR to judge the value of anything. For a link I'd check it's moz bar stats, age of domain, number of root domains linking in, and where on the site, and on the page you get to have a link... plus how many other links are on that page. I also hope you're not paying too much for a directory link... couple of quid at most

You have two options (well, 1 real good option) - This is a site wide 301 redirect onto your branded site. Brands will always beat keywords in Google these days, so it's the obvious choice. If you can change any of the inbound links to the new site that would be great too, as it will send the right signal to Google that you are looking after the transfer and doing it well. Brand names work well in Google as they are trying to minimise the anount of keyword rich domains that pop up on a regular basis. See the following posts for more information on Brands: http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/what-signals-could-make-you-a-brand-in-google http://www.seomoz.org/blog/dear-google-big-brands-arent-enough http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-next-generation-of-ranking-signals For more help with your transfer, you should look at a .htaccess rewrite (hopefully someone will jump in with a suitable one..!!) Hope this helps enough for now, Regards Aaron