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Recently I deployed a new version of the site and it is not at all an authoritative domain. I deliberately didn't redirect the old urls to the new one and the site with completely new url structure was indexed by Google within 4 days. Then I used the GWT url removal tool to remove the old urls from Google's index which was done within 24 hrs.

I did it as an experiment and the results were fine for me.

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.

Well you cant use that keyword in isolation i.e. you will then use related keywords as well to optimize that page. But it is recommended that you use single language throughout the site. But as you say that this particular keyword is used in both the languages, I suggest to visit few competitor sites and see what they are doing and how.

It depends. It's not necessary that the keyword which is ranking well for a site in English would do well for the same site in Spanish. It depends upon the search behavior i.e. what people are searching for when looking for the same product or service across different regions. You can go through the article on http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2188992/How-to-Run-Foreign-Language-PPC-Campaigns . It is written for a PPC campaign but applies well for the organic rankings also.

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If you are trying to build links via different IPs or proxies, it means you are doing something fishy.

Do it in an acceptable manner i.e. try writing original and quality content, don not submit the same piece of article at multiple sites and don't indulge in link schemes. If you can produce good content and attract natural links, it would be the best way to build long term profitable links.

Thanks for the update Keri!

Hi,

The Crawl Diagnostic section of my campaign reporting is displaying 406 error code on almost all the pdf files of my website. But I can access them normally and there is no problem while doing so. Then, why this error status code?

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Shailendra Sial

Please refer here https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?hl=en&pli=1

The first option i.e.  /web-design/price-cost-calculator/ looks natural and is a better choice. Although you can have the second option as well but it doesn't look nice from users' point of view and gives an impression of over optimization.

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Hello,

I see there's a full-stop (.) in the title of SEOMOZ's home page. Why is it so?

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Google states that use of rel="alternate" hreflang="x" is recommended when:

• You translate only the template of your page, such as the navigation and footer, and keep the main content in a single language. This is common on pages that feature user-generated content, like a forum post.

• Your pages have broadly similar content within a single language, but the content has small regional variations. For example, you might have English-language content targeted at readers in the US, GB, and Ireland.

• Your site content is fully translated. For example, you have both German and English versions of each page.

Does this mean that if I write new content in different language for a website hosted on my sub-domain, I should not use this tag?

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Shailendra Sial

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

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If you want to have the same content in different language or different content in different language, the best option is to go for ccTLDs like yoursite.gr for German, yoursite.fr for French etc. But this arrangement requires lot of investment in terms of money and other resources and is not feasible for everyone.

So you can go either for a sub-domain or sub-directory structure like:

fr.yoursite.com or yoursite.com/fr - French

gr.yoursite.com or yoursite.com/gr - German

For more details you may read http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2010/03/working-with-multi-regional-websites.html

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I believe it doesn't matter as the only concern is speed and it has nothing to do with SEO.

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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But if the language is different, e.g. French, German, Chinese etc., can same content in sub-folders or sub-domain be used?

Hmm...so if I want to have multiligual sites and ccTLD is not possible for me, I can use either of them, right?

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.

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.

Since you are about to drop the pages talking about the "concrete countertops", i would not recommend to use canonical tags. This tag is helpful when you have the duplicate content on the same domain or two or more different domains. But in your case you will not have the content.

On the other hand, you can use this tag for the content that you will migrate from old site to the new one.  In one of the Whiteboard Fridays, Rand spoke about the swiftness and effectiveness of canonical tag.

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