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Hey Kate

Really appreciate you taking the time to respond and help out!

So for a business that is currently operating in USA, Canada, Australia, NZ and opening in UK and Germany soon with further expansion on cards how would you tackle this scenario:

I already have a .com.au that ranks #3 on Page1 of Google for highest traffic keyword
I have a .co.nz that ranks #5 on Pg1 for highest traffic keyword

Now looking to do do a .co.uk howver someone has pinched it. Do you suggest going for:
.com/uk/ 
uk.domainname.com (and keep reusing subdomains
Or a .co.uk domain?

Just as an FYI  and to throw futher spanner in the works.... my .com.au domain ranks on #2 for Page1 of Google UK for my target keyword as its currently not very competetive

Any feedback is helpful!

Thanks gents!

Hi this blog post Rand mentions a list of bad web directories - I asked couple of years ago if there is an updated list as some of these (Alive Directory for example) do not seem to be blacklisted anymore and are coming up in Google searches etc?

It seems due to old age of the blog post (7 years ago ) the comments are not responded to.

Would anyone be able to advise if which of these good directories to use?

https://moz.com/blog/what-makes-a-good-web-directory-and-why-google-penalized-dozens-of-bad-ones

Thanks Rand! That makes sense, I was under impression they will all show up eventually but it makes sense that they arent as comprehensive!

Hey Kate

What would you suggest for a .com.au domain that is now looking to expand into UK?

Would you suggest uk.domainname.com.au or www.domainname.com.au/uk/ ?

Is there a best practise for this?

When using Wordpress (or similar) are all the Media fields needed to be filled out?

ie. Title, Alt Text, Description?

Would you have all these the same or different? Specially as then when you insert the image into the page you also have Caption on top of the 3 above bits of information?

When using wordpress are all the Media fields needed to be filled out?

ie. Title, Alt Text, Description?

Would you have all these the same or different? Specially as then when you insert the image into the page you also have Caption on top of the 3 above bits of information?

I agree & also I'm all for searching for previous responses but sometimes you can spend over an hour looking for similar questions and responses and then need to post your own question having waste an hour of time reading through info that didnt help your particular problem.

Have you tried to look through this article https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/3111061?hl=en or search through Google Help secitons?

Just to add to Nicholas' question above about Site Explorer, I know some of the links to my website that have been around for over 12 months (ie from my personal blog) and show up in Google Webmaster tools are not flowing through to Moz

Any ideas?

Hi there

Ive recently taken on managing www.wetspotcharters.com.au and to my horror after eventually finding a way to log into the back end I've found out that its running Joomla version 1.5.17

Would anyone have any advice as to how to upgrade this to latest version or preferably, migrate the site to Wordpress without losing much of its current look and feel (which will eventually be replaced one page at a time)

Thank you in advance

Hi there

I've just redirected a few of my pages (created in Dreamweaver) using the PHP Redirect function, I am wondering how do I create a manual sitemap to submit to Google to reflect this or will Google pick it up automatically based on the below?

Example:
URL Being redirected: http://industrytix.com.au/cuban-club-perth-tickets.php **New URL:  **[http://industrytix.com.au/buy-tickets/cuban-club-perth-nyd/

Redirect code:](http://industrytix.com.au/buy-tickets/cuban-club-perth-nyd/) Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://industrytix.com.au/buy-tickets/cuban-club-perth-nyd/" );
?>

THanks for your responses Abhi and Tammy, does anyone have any more feedback or suggestions before i give this a full re-haul?

You could just redirrect all HTTP links to HTTPS using a .htaccess document

https://www.captiga.com/linux/redirect-http-to-https/

Have you tried to group the links by domain/subdomain?

Someone can have their website URL in their Forum signature for example which would show up every single time they post in the forum so potentially you could have 1000 links just from that alone.

Also it can take very long time for someone to get penalized for spammy links it's not an overnight thing by Google.

Hey David

Check this MOZ Blog post about Rel=Canlonical appropriately named Rel=Confused? 

Sounds like he is using a free version of WIX hence the letters and numbers, if he paid the subscription fee and hosting he can pick a unique domain name with no letters/numbers

Is this how you intended the site to work/ (ie as described above)

For example if you go to any of these 3 sites:
http://www.ticketmaster.com.au/
www.ticketek.com.au
www.bankwest.com.au

Then after that load their mobile site without deleting any cookies or changing any user agents, all the mobile sites load up straight away:

m.ticketmaster.com.au  
m.ticketek.com.au and
m.bankwest.com.au

Have a look through this Google Artilcle which might help:
https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/common-mistakes?hl=en-US&utm_source=MFT&utm_campaign=MFT&utm_medium=incoming-link#blocked-resources

http://m.avogel.ch/de/ihre-gesundheit/erkaeltung/alles_ueber_erkaeltungen.php - Mobile Page... are you 100% sure that is set up correctly? I've tried to load the mobile version in my browser and keeps redirecting me to full site. Even using the mobile emulator on Chrome I cant log up the mobile site keeps redirrecting to full site.

All other websites that I know that have a m. subdomain for mobile site load up with no issues at all in computer Browser.

Is the mobile site made using one of the Mobile Apps or something similar?

I would suggest try use Google Webmaster tools and use the 'Fetch & Render' option so you can see how Google is rendering the mobile page

Hi there

Have you tried to do any A/B Testing to see what converts better and has a higher engagement rate?

Services like Optimizely https://www.optimizely.com/ you can do free Live A/B Testing with very minimal coding required (apart from putting in the Optimizely script into the Body of the page)