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Blank mind and cant find the Google research (or maybe it was someone else) that showed that sales were better when running image ads alongside your text ads

Does anyone have that link?

Cheers

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Having one language on your root domain and others on seperate folders includes complexity with no value. Push us customers to xyz.com/us and follow that for everyone else

Complex content duplication problems lie ahead for you! think about how many combinations of language pages you are about to create

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How do you plan to build an audience ahead of time to promote your documentary programme? What are you expecting back from the time, money and energy you have to invest here?

Get some partners. Get onto the social platforms of other british political commentators and use their already developed communities to promote yourself

A suggestion: make a "blogging competition widget" that each blogger must embed. You get your link back and this sends traffic to all the other blogs who are taking part and further promotes the competition while looking less dodgy

ps, make sure every blogger wins a nice badge / honorable mention button

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I dont think there is a black and white answer here. Id persue everything topically relevant over a PR2.

I think SEOmoz have disable the intial fast crawl and only the full crawl is available. I think it says the initial crawl can take 4 - 7 days (altho it has not taken this long in my experience)

Email help@seomoz.org with your account details and ask them to look for you, they are really good at getting back

mybrandjapan is clearer to me and likely to have more synergy with links terms etc

EGOL's idea could work but I am allergic to subdomains, often more of a problem than a solution

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Ive used Xenu and SEOmoz in the past but Dan uses IIS as standard and gets great data out, have a look, definitely worth adding https://seogadget.co.uk/how-to-install-and-use-iis-seo-toolkit/

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Can you make it into a widget? Then everyone who takes part can have the widget on their blog?

Meaning then any of their readers can easily submit a paragraph to the contest via the widget. Might be an interesting way to do it that gets people to take part while also giving you a lot of reach

stick a line in there "win an ipad with the best next line" and you then incentivise people to take part

Here's a story in the UK's most well respected newspaper http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2011/jul/15/kayaking-white-water-rafting-croatia

The writer goes on a holiday to Croatia and then there's a whole nice link section with prices at the bottom of the article etc for a company they have a deal with at the bottom. No indication of paid links, although obviously its paid for in some way

What you can get away with depends who you are

I second the dont be scared of document size recommendation BUT you need to understand the audience you're trying to access and what you want them to do - you havent given us anything to go on really

If people are already pre-bought in and you just want to capture email addresses, then you just need somethign simple and use conversion optimisation to maximise capture

If its early in the buying cycle and you are trying to educate customers, then go to town - add maps, video, images etc as appropritae and make sure to tag them well.

I have also started to write my content with the SEOmoz LDA tool - its pretty fantastic for making sure you don't miss anything important out and end up with a rich, informative page

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

http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/not-freaking-out-about-the-eu-cookie-legislation

MBG usability drives me nuts, but it does work. You need to invest time into learning how it works & to get the most out of it. Also you need to make sure not to give crap, weak sites your content

1 At the top end you have research guys like Forrester research, Boston consulting group or even Econsultancy's paid reports.

2 Banks like Merrill Lynch  & Capgemini publish the yearly World's Wealth Report and in general banks have a high output of financial and commercial papers.

3 Doing Google searches like japan report inurl:.pdf can provide a lot of papers on a topic.

4 Mendeley.com is a good place for finding scientific papers and connecting directly with scientists if you want a quote or specialist research done

5 Roll your own report with a surveymonkey survey

I could go on all day talking about data sources, but without knowing what you need its not much use - the data source is dependent on the project, there is no one place to go

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Ive never seen any benefit proven and certainly wouldn't bother. Here's a short video from Matt Cutts answering just this question

I would say its unlikely to affect the rankings or cause Google any confusion.

Make sure your content is significantly different between the sites and you should see no cross over or cannibalisation

Its a different world out there - the industries are not as developed, the site metrics are way lower that what you would expect from UK/US, in most cases. Generally, tactics, thinking and approach to SEO is way behind - remember not many of these sites would have felt panda or penguin - so many are happily buying low quality directory links still

Also US based crawlers don't do a very good job of picking up non-english sites so your potential investigative resources are a lot smaller

Trying to get SEOs in the under developed markets to understand that they cant buy links has been very challenging! If you do find any resources, please share

You definitely need someone native to help and I suggest trying a lot of different strategies in order to find something that works.

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I suggest you read this http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2012/12/10/how-important-was-blogging-to-okcupids-success/

I (and many other in the industry) have admired the brilliance and marketing effectiveness of the OKcupid blog for many years. That article reveals how much work something of that effectiveness takes to create!

"The posts each took four to eight weeks of full-time work for him to write. Plus another two to four weeks of dedicated programming time from someone else on the team. It’s easy to look at an OkTrends post, with all its simple graphs and casual writing style and think someone just threw it together, but it probably had fifty serious revisions. And we threw out a lot of research that didn’t turn into good posts. "

People often have high hopes for a blog: "if OKCupid can knock it out of the park, why cant we?"

What is your success criteria? Can you put in enough time to actually hit it?

99% of people don't hit it and waste their time. You have to be pretty determined to be part of the 1% that make a calculable difference from their blog

Thats pretty much what I thought. I was also thinking some of the text was large, which is good for an okder audience, but some is rather small. Id find a decent, large size and stick to it

I also think your elements could do with some more space between them, to help uses read and chunk the page visually

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