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Hi,

The thing about country level TLD's is they will rank well in that country, If you use a .com.br domain it may not rank well in Australian results or USA results only for the brand term, even if you geo target sub folders on the domain.

Can you acquire the .com domain? From my experience .com works the best on a global level.

My advice is to use the domains you have for specific markets on the CC TLD's yet for other areas which you are not able to acquire the domain use SUB FOLDERS on the .com domain and then GEO target these sub folders in Google webmaster tools.

Finally do not use sub domains it is not a wise strategy, you will have no internal linking value.

to be honest Ezines are going to yield smaller results, you really only want to target the big ezine websites which are high quality and indexed by Google news.

In regards to what other strategies you should use to build backlinks for your ecommerce site some good posts can be found here:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/creative-link-building-for-ecommerce-sites

http://backlinks.com.au/15-ways-to-build-backlinks-post-google-penguin-update/

I would look at using more of the above methods over lower quality article submissions

Hi,

I work in SEO for the Australian market.

My advice is if you host e-commerce websites then I would advise to host the website in Australia, you want speed you want to host it where the user base is.

Furthermore if you are looking for hosting deals many Australian companies now offer good rates, I use Ventra IP I am quite happy with them.

Also in regards to power of .com.au, it is far better then using a geo targeted .com in my experience.

Hope this helps.

Kind Regards,

James.

A few options:

1. As david said make the page a 401 page.

2. Try to remove the links on scale, review why they are comming in i.e same IP address, same who is, request sites to remove them, if they don't remove add them to the disavow.

I wouldn't 301 pages this will just transfer the problem to a new websites, ive seen numerous cases where domains have been hit because of cross site 301's.

Hi,

I had a quick look it seems this site has around 2,000+ pages of content in a different language on a .us domain, so they are targeting people who speak chinese I believe from the US market.

Quite a good idea I guess, I also believe the competition would be lower as .cn domains would not have the same power as the GEO rich .us domain.

If you have great content, a huge number of pages and a few very targeted high quality links you can rank for a whole lot of long tail keywords.

Regards,

James.

I think the main question with link removal is the following:

Are you trying to get out of a Manual or Algo penalty.

1. If the link is no follow - do not worry about it (many of these junk sites are no follow)

2. If the site is using a BRANDED anchor text or a URL anchor text on it I would not worry to a degree.

3. The main links you need to look at are GENERIC anchor text based links, the thing with these dodgy submission sites is if they have generic follow links to your site then yeah I would try to delete them and disavow.

It is really a case by case scenario, another think you can do is use the Majestic Bulk backlink checker on the URL level for any link removal you can check 150 urls at a time so it is good on the fly.

My advice is not to use sub domains as Google treats them as a separate domain, when you have a sub domain you have no flow of direct link juice as you do when you have a sub folder.

You only really need to think about sub domains when you have duplicate content issues for example.

Example of a advisable blog URL:

website.com/blog

not advisable:

blog.website.com

Hope this helps, Regards

In the end of the day the best thing you can do is make unique articles on your blog, if you want to showcase content only of another site what you can do is take an image of the content then write a paragraph below the content about the image which you have from the other site (an idea)

But the method I usually use is to make unique content on most of my blogs, and not copy it accross sites.

Hi Mate,

To be honest you do not need to add your main keywords to every web page to see a benefit or increase in rank.

You need to be smart about how you optimize your website,

Some advice:

• Make a blog on the website, add relevant information about your local area talk about things you are doing to help the local community. You can mix it up with a few industry reports to gather high quality links.

• Work on off site link building, make sure you have all your suppliers linking to your focus on high quality links.

• Work on adding to the social benefit of your site, grow your social base.

I hope these three points help.

Kind Regards,

James.

You can try the following:

• Hire a student fresh out of uni.

• go to uni and say you are looking for an intern.

• hire and established writer.

• Look for niche blog in your sector and ask for content writers.

• Overall finding a good writer can be done in many places you just need to test them before you hire them with some basic content work too see the style.

I would not worry too much about text to code ratio as an exact number.

Things I would more so worry about are the following:

1. Do you have more then 200 words of text per page.

2. Do you have low amount of code errors on page.

3. Do you have alot of code space on the page (I have see this numerous times.

4. Make sure you have the key text elements near the top of the page when Google crawls the content first, also your key on page elements.

If you have a limited budget I would work on targeting only a limited number of pages and a limited number of keywords.

You can run into problems where clients have limited budgets and they have a site with say 10k pages.

I don't think you would ever optimize every page of a website you have pages on sites like T's & C's and Privacy Policy Target the low hanging fruit and pages where you can gather quick wins, I would go top 10.

Depends what CMS you have, can be easy or hard, you can do the redirect in the htaccess file using a 301 for the correct page. Some more information here: http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles3/spiders-301-redirect.htm I would also talk to your developer if you are not sure how to do it.

Kind Regards

If it were my site I would split them up into 6 separate pages, so you can optimize each page by itself, also so each person has their own unique URL.

You can really target the <title>+ URL combo on names of employees, have around 350 words of content for each employee too and then also have images for each employee.</p> <p>It is the same where you have offline businesses with many store locations I advise to use separate locations for each place of business.</p> <p> </p></title>

I think eBay's feed and Google is not 100%, I noticed some people were having issues when they changed their store name on eBay and then tried to transfer the feed rating data over too Google Shopping.

Have you submitted the eBay feed to Google Shopping?

Did you change your store name?

Overall this seems like something that eBay tech support or Google Tech support need to look into if you have done all the correct feed submission / ratings data and you do not have any issues with your eBay account.

Step one: sign up to <cite>www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster</cite>

Submit a site map and check if the site is indexing correct.

Some areas which bing focus on (similar to Google)

• Backlinks quality, build high quality backlinks.

• Anchor text use on posts - Make sure you have good relevant anchors.

• On page optimization tactics

• Age and authority of the domain, from my analysis Bing treats aged and trusted domains over time more effectively.

• also focus on targeting sites via Yahoo such as yahoo directory.

• work out who is ranking well for terms and reverse engineer what they are doing.

I own a few generic .me domains, they do not have the same level of authority that a .com domain holds but it also depends what type of business you are running. If it is a social site a .me domain may work for example.. look at formspring.me a huge social site or about.me...

To be honest I would probably go with the option: "MOSTLYMATCHINGKEYWORDcompany.com"

In my eyes .com is still king in the domain world on a global level,

.com means commercial and for business.

I have had some decent success with .net over the years, but in the end of the day the best success I have seen is from .com domains and .com.au (my market)

Most big business go with the .com domain too, that is why they are still so expensive.

Hi,

I think the best way for you to set up your site is to -

1. Run the Facebook Page API on the website here - http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/

Then also add likes to content pages on your website where people will like the content.

2. The whole debate around if Google can even value Facebook likes is an argument on itself, Alot of people claim FB likes hold no value and the best thing to use is FB share buttons - discussion can be found here.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/does-google-use-facebook-shares-to-influence-search-rankings

I think the best strategy is to test multiple share buttons from social sites, see what has influence it has on ranks.

IMO Goolge+ will be a big player in this space we will see more in the near future.

Regards,

James Norquay

Probably not wise to hide the business address, it might impact on how it ranks from a local point of view.

The only reason I can see someone would want to hide an address is if they wanted to shut down a location or move a location.