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Yes, the listing may lose the ranking if those 100 backlinks are from worthy sites.

Most ecommerce sites use the original manufacturer product descriptions in their content. The product features and specifications are the content made by the manufacturer. Sometimes manufacturers insist that the ecommerce sites should use their original content and it is impossible to change what available in the original content and rewrite it.

Hi Bill,

This tactic used to be a favorite one for the SEO guys but now it has faded. Matt Cutts, in one of the Google Webmaster Central videos said that doing such arrangement has no problem with Google but doing it on a very large scale may attract the attention of his team who continuously fight with spam.

I personally suggest that it should be done only:

1. if you are big business house and believe that name squatting could pose danger to your business.
2. Buying and redirecting the different generic TLD of your main domain is fine. E.g. I own mysite.com then it's okay for me to buy mysite.org also and redirect it to the .com version.

Simply buying number of business related domains and redirecting them to the main domain does not helps.

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Shailendra Sial

Having multiple h1 tags throughout the website is fine but having repetitive h1 on a single page dilutes the importance of h1 tags. There is no penalty for such usage because in doing so, the person himself dilutes its importance.

I am sure everyone around here is aware of Instant Pages that Google introduced at Inside Search Event. How does it affect Analytics?

Since the page is pre-loading, does that get recorded as a visitor? If the user doesn’t click on the link, will that impact the bounce rate?

It says, "Gateway aliases..." So you will still be on myblog.ABCD.com and therefore the situation remains same.

The best option is to purchase the domain and hosting service and continue with the blog.

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I believe the site architecture you have in mind will do. This is also known as silo structure or more precisely as "physical silo structure"

Here you go http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35253

Hi,

Yes, it is in Google interests to show different and relevant sites to users.

You said, "2 websites for the same company (very different domains) - both sites are targeting the same primary keyword phrase, however, the user journey should incorporate both websites, and therefore the sites are very heavily cross linked - so we can easily pass a user from one site to another."

I am assuming the by very different domains, you mean different site address because two sites on two different topics can't be heavily interlinked. In this case, I would recommend to have a single website that is performing well in the search engine and merge the other one in it. As you said that users journey should incorporate both the websites, this means they are closely linked. In this case, it would be better to have a single website that suffice users' needs.

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John Barth is absolutely correct. Title attributes add no value to the SEO and acts only as a tool tip. But yes, it could be used for better user experience.

Make sure to add the most relevant keywords as your tags. Obviously they are the keywords used in the post or synonyms

I have read the blog posts by Rand and other community members at YouMoz but i still have a question on trageting and domains / sub-directories usage.

Suppose, my business is located in France but my prospects are in US and UK as well. The issue is, they are not English speakers but French.

• If i use ccTLD, i don't think it will rank well in US and UK.
• gTLD will not be a good option for prospects in France.

What should i do?

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Shailendra

Content has no "direct" role to play in affecting the PageRank. PR is calculated via backlinks. Further, if you want your content to be crawled , indexed and rank in search engines - stay away from frames/iframes.

If you can work on open source technology then Wordpress is a good option

would recommend using a .com domain or a sub-folder like www.yousite/com/jp. The reason being that .asia domain name, although being regional top level domain (rTLD), Google treats it as generic top-level domain. You can verify it here https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1347922

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I believe that the content on your landing page is not very convincing. When i landed on this page i was not very sure about your service but when i went to the Home page and browsed through the pages, i was bit comfortable. I find your Home page better than the landing page in question.

The short answer - no issues. But make sure to properly geo-target it in Google Webmaster Tools.

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There is no set time for this process to be completed. It depends upon how fast Google comes across the old urls and visit the new page. Since the 301 redirect is working fine, you need not to worry about it.

Exactly! You are on the right path. Google states that you should submit the proof of your manual removal work along with the reconsideration request. It will help them understand that you are serious and are working for it and will also expedite the process.

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No, don't remove the links coming from good authoritative sites.

For rest of the links, download links to your site report in Google Webmaster Tools and check if those low quality sites are in there. Start by removing the links that are in the report. You can disavow the links as well but you should be very careful in doing so. Sometimes, people get extra cautious and disavow good backlinks.

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