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If they do not want to set up a new domain you can try and make new "sub folders" on the website to target the new country then what you can do is GEO target this sub folder in Google web master tools too. example: website.com/au/

If the client does not like that idea you can set up a sub domain and then target this via web master tools. example: au.website.com

hi,

you can start by doing an analysis on Open Site Explorer -

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/

Then you can do on page analysis of the website too see what factors they have, you can use SEO Xray, you can do an onsite audit, check the internal links.

I would also advise to use other software such as majestic, I would also look over google to see onsite metrics, also check social metrics for the website.

Many factors come into play when a website is ranking number one for a highly competitive term.

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Or if you are looking to post your articles on a reliable PR service which usually shows up on Google News I recommend - http://www.officialwire.com (yet it is a paid service) for a free service I recommend http://www.prlog.org

To be honest it would be better to have unique content on the whole page, but if that is not possible just place the unique content near the top of the page so it is crawled first then have the other content after that.

I would make all internal pages which are 404 errors, turn them to 301s to relevant pages on the working site.

I need to see an example of this home pages with this relevant index page you desire to 301 it too.

I think it is more to do with the PR flow of your internal link structure, sure you can have 500 links per page but its going to drop the overall level of PR flow. I feel 100 links per page or below is a good number to run by, but as above if you keep adding more and more links the PR flow internally will be lower. Matt Cutt's even states this in the video, which is an important point and states target the important pages.

I would really need more information on this blog structure for example is it sitting on a sub domain?

In my opinion the best way to treat a company blog and with the blogs I have worked on in the past we do have our list of mid-low tier keywords we aim to factor into posts, yet if the post is going to sound SEO spammy we do not include the keywords in titles, move for the url, really foucs on top quality content and bringing in content that the users will want to share. Develop a content strategy around the blog plan what you will add to the blog over a term of time.

I would advise on the following:

• Video content (how to videos/ any thing interesting depending on your niche)

• Infographics -

• Market trends/ analysis - show your customers you know your stuff.

• Community events, I have seen a few company blogs where they show weekend events near the company and how they are involved, it is easy content and easy traffic. Have a separate section for it.

We blog to make the customers love the posts yet also ROI is factored in.

Hope this helps.

Hi,

This happens when you have a business which is very close to your business or when an old business is in the location or when you do a bulk upload and the listing is merged. I recently did a job where we had over 700 locations for one client, several business locations had images from other stores which were old or next door. What you can do is upload your own photos for the location (hard when you have 700+ locations) or you can click on:"Report inappropriate photo"' Hope this helps.

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James Norquay.

Is the content unique that is the main question?

I would not delete the blog I would look at putting 301 re directs in place and mapping out content and urls on the new site.

I would also look at moving across content if it is unique, you could even add content to a sub domain if it is not that great.

Still waiting on my T-Shirt and Trophy, I have 2,462+ Moz points, maybe Rodger Bot does not post to Australia hehe All good maybe Rand will deliver it to me at SMX Sydney next year lol?...

To be honest you can have a post with great images and only 200 words of content and it will do better then a long post of 1000 words.

Really just aim to make blog posts with over 200 words is my advice, take note of sites like Mashable they have 200 words and video content and it goes viral like crazy.

Ideally you want to have sub folders on the website rather than sub domains, due to the key point if people are externally linking to the website it benefits the whole websites rather than just one sub domain.

In September 2011 Google did make changes to count sub domains as one main site but I still have some concern in regards to the usability of a sub domains vs. a sub folder and also the external link value.

Hi the best thing you can do is track down all the 404s which have the most in coming links and then 301 re direct them to the most appropriate related pages. If not just 301 redirect them to the home pages is the next best bet.

The thing is SEO software is not going to do SEO for you it is only going to assist you with processes and make things quicker.

To me I think SEOmoz is the best at the moment for what they offer, i.e OSE, ranking tracking, errors tracking, followerwonk, link finder ect ect

Raven is good too but SEO moz is better then Raven in my eyes,

You then have 100s of other tools I mean for Enterprise level, for small business, for link building.

If you can not make unique content on both sites then add canonical tags to the main website you wish to rank higher.

I would advise to make unique content on both websites if possible.

To be honest if you have a high quality site with great content and then you come in and fill it with ads it may not be the best strategy.

In regards to link wheels the strategy has developed over the years, where people have the money site and they build content hubs on say 40 different websites and all spam back links to the main site, it is probably not the best strategy and Google has been aware of it for a long while.

It depends on how high quality the site is if it is going to be hit or not, if the site is really high quality with a huge link profile it may be able to by pass a Google penalty.

In the end of the day Google can crack down at any time no matter how large the site is look at the BBC News story in the media today.

1. MajesticSEO is another decent link tool, Ahrefs is very good as well.

2. I like White Spark for citation finding.

3. Optimizely is good with CRO it depends on your budget tools go from one price to VERY expensive some are 4,000+ a month.

4. Hootsuite for social management is good, I also like Topsy for social monitoring.

5. Wordpress is good if you use the Genesis framework ?

Give it a few days for the rel canonical to kick in, it is not going to fix the problem over night. If that does not work you can try and switch duplicant content to sub domains on the website, or make unique content on these pages.

The thing with running a article based site it is not wise to use articles which are already indexed on other sites, this will cause the pages not to be indexed on your site and you will receive no organic traffic.

To prevent something like this you would need to use the Copyscape API on your site and pre check all content which is added to the site prior going live - http://www.copyscape.com/api-guide.php

The API calls are not cheap though this is a viable option for checking large amounts of content on a daily basis.

Hi,

If you own both the sites you can just do a 2 way link exchange if they are in the same niche, if they are related sites and you both own them I do not think it is such a bad thing.

I mean if you are really worried about factors around Google placing value on these links then you need to think of all the possible factors in which Google can see networks of websites:

• Is Google look at my analytics CID codes on websites I own, an easy way to spot networks?

• Is Google looking at Whois data?

• Are you running Adsense on all these sites with the same publisher ID code?

In the end the best type of link building is not using your own websites it is going out into the market and looking for quality link opportunities, making great content and syndicating it to related sites, the list goes on really it is endless what you can do.