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I have done this before for a huge site in 7 languages and had many a debate over the years with Matt Cutts on it.

The short answer is multiple TLD's

Reason:Matt Said in a video and for the life of me I am unable to find it. That if they allow sites to rank in every country then people will just create content for them to get extra traffic, if they created a tool in WMT people would just tick every country saying their site was relevant. The only sure way was if they created a TLD and put some hard work into it.

doing xyz.com/jp/ is an option and then targeting a "Geographic target" in "Site Settings" but it will not get the same power as a TLD specific to that Geographic location. TLD are a very strong indication of location.You will have to setup sub folders in WMT like separate sites and target each directory with the "Geographic target".

Also, this is something I have been saying all day long, separate sites are good because you never know when Google is going to slam you with a penalty for a silly reason. You would lose all your locations in one go if they are on the same domain. But only have one site down if it happened.

Also have a good read about "hreflang" this will help you make a few decisions as this is new since the time I worked on the Multi-regional site.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077

Definitely  http not https

Ok this gets more strange, I just check on my cell phone as well with wifi switched off and I still get n/a for pagerank on 5 different sites.

PA and DA show up correctly.

What the hell is going on? My business partner in the UK is experiencing the same issues as well as others I have spoken too.

I really need to get to the bottom of this issue, but I am at a total loss right now.

Just installed search status on firefox on another computer and have the same issue! That computer has never ever loaded up my website and is on a totally different operating system etc...

WTF? LOL

Same with PaRameter Pagerank 0, I cant understand what is going on.

The homepage says PR5 so I know its not the tools

I just used installed Status Seo Chrome tool bar and it says PR 0 for the same page? i just dont understand it?

Its not a great Idea to interlink in the first place and you can get a Google Penalty for that.

301 Redirecting can be very powerful as the links that point to Site A will now point to site B directly. Plus all the links that site B might already have.

One powerful site is better than two not getting full attention.

However as I have said many times, Google is on a rampage and it seems wise to have a backup site these days if you get hit by a penalty.

If your description tag is only 10 characters, then Google algo will not find it useful and will replace it with what it thinks is best. It can do this for your Title tags too. Sometimes using Dmoz.

What PR did the page say? Also what tool do you use to see the PA & DA?

I have lost all internal PR on my site when using the browser toolbar, only my homepage has PR now, the rest are unranked. It has been like this for a few months now.

Can anyone confirm this for me please? The site is yourcityoffice.com

If you have any other interesting ways to check PR that do not involve a toolbar or tool bar equivalent. Please let me know.

Using the WMT tool to remove bulk pages like that is the best way for a speedy recovery, so good decision on that one.

Panda actually runs about once a month right now, so I would expect to wait around 4 weeks before the changes are integrated and maybe a few weeks more for the content existing on the site to be re-crawled and calculated to see where your site should be placed.

Also if your main content that exists on the site is not the best of quality then you may need to do some work there.

Was it an unnatural links penalty? Around what date did your search results start to return?

I am but there are issues, WMT has some serious issues few people know about.

When you download your latest links and compare it with the previous one (lets say two weeks apart), now check the same date for example 1st June. The links will be different! For some reason a vast majority of dates will have different links. So if your file is like mine and has 16,000+ links, going through them and working out dofollw/nofollow/notfound is hell on earth to do even once a month.

Google does not want you to recover. If they did they would give you some assistance in this matter, instead they direct you to ahrefs and majestic etc.. That do not have as all the links either and leave room for mistakes. If they wanted you to clean up the mess you or seo agencies made then why not give us the tools to do so and we would all get a good job done.

Anyway I don't want to hijack your question with my rant LOL

Ahh I sent you a link to a site that explores those links and creates a list, I thought you needed it to build a list.

The tool I use for my browser is SearchStatus by Quirk, its for firefox and it does some amazing stuff

http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/

Your homepage contains very little content and Google loves content.

I would either look to add some more content or I would create the page http://tastebuds.fm/ meet-people and focus on that page going into more depth about actually meeting people and how the whole systems works to help achieve the goal of meeting people.

This will reinforce the objective of the site and offer a nice amount of juicy content for Google to dig through.

The order of elements in any tags do not make a difference.

Also you can have rel=nofollow without and quotes and Google will still recognize it.

Also Google will test out new algorithms and then roll them out country by country.

That would be considered a paid links and not one you have earned because the article is written by yourself.

If you nofollow the link then that would be OK.

Google is clamping down everywhere they do not want people to do this sort of thing and acquire a dofollow link as a result.

They want you to go to the editor and tell them you have a wonderful business and if they like you business they may want to include it in some way in an article/blog to their customers.

I had a frustrating chat a little while ago with a Google Employee regarding a site of mine that was in a manual penalty.

I was forced to look at every link coming to my site and determine what was natural and what was unnatural in the eyes of a Google Web Spam team Reviewer.

Links that were simply low quality and clear as the day is long that someone else had created much like the links you are talking about were deemed my problem and for me to remove. There were people linking to my site in forums that clearly had hundreds if not thousands of posts some not saying positive things about my company (very very rare but there is always one.) and I was forced to include those in the disavow file or have them removed. Madness

The level to which you need to keep an eye on your links right now is totally out of control and all though the links you speak of are not a problem now, the way Google is going they will be in the future when they find something else they don't like about you.

Question is how much time do you have on your hands to monitor this kind of stuff all the time.

If you want some middle ground, prepare a disavow file with links you are worried about that way you can submit them it at a moments notice.

I have not found a great many services that can help network people in the manner your looking for and have often thought about it being a good business idea.

However, I find twitter to still be one of the most powerful, the people that matter are on there you are able to search for them and you are able to contact them and once you find one Twitter does a great job in recommending others. On a website you just have a contact form or a phone number that takes you to a call handler/receptionist most of the time which can be like hitting a brick wall.

I do not feel that enough people are using LinkedIn for that purpose to make it as effective but it is also worth a try.

But I am not aware of some independent OTHER service that is out there connecting people by industry.

Watermarking can have an advantage in Google images. If you have lots of images your brand will show up often and people will get to know it, without ever having visited your site.