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Have heard stroies about chinese based sites which aggregate content been struck with a loss in rankings.
Yet also on a side note I have been hearing stories about .com.au sites been hit recently even though the roll out was April for the com.au side of the business.
I will have to chat with a buddy at work who runs some multi lingual websites for clients and see if any effect has been had.
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.
I had a quick look some things which pop up:
The competitors have more links then you.
The competitors have a lot more internal linking going on, even though the website is poor.
Your website seems to have some duplicate content issues, I have pulled a few pages on copy scape API and saw some issues.
Things I would work on:
Make a company blog to add great content.
Use more internal linking
Use social more effectively.
Do more relevant link building.
Fix all the on site basis, many issues with your website.
Hope this helps.
hi,
Was the post on the main blog:
Or was it on You Moz user blog:
The main blog has the title tag:
hi,
It seems the competition is just syndicating documents via education facilities to acquire links. to be honest links on low end tutorial sections where documents can be syndicated are not that great, they will hold some value yet it will not be that strong. I have seen this with competitors it is the same as paying off students to make blogs on edu blogs about your brand their are soo many un ethical things in the market which I wouldn't advise people to do ever.
You can be smart about it and acquire far better links for example if you do free work for a uni or you sponsor a university event, you just need to brain storm quality ways to achieve links on edu sites.
Regards
Change them for sure, it is worth the effort.
302 is a temp redirect and will pass no juice.
301 is perm and it will be far more beneficial.
Some tips to increase B2B tweets.
Make a blog on the domain, create good content which suppliers and friends will want to share.
Contact suppliers about your content see if they will tweet things on their accounts.
Make a document for B2B suppliers to download, to download the content they must tweet first.
Make corporate video and link it via FB shares.
As others have stated Google tests changes for keywords. One week you can rank the other week you may not rank.
My advice for making a more stable rank is the following:
1. Build links for this specific keyword.
2. Build great content for this specific keyword.
3. Push internal linking for this keyword.
4. Research competitors see what they are doing for this keyword.
5. Test many SEO techniques to find out what works and what does not work.
Regards,
James.
Hi,
To be honest with you I do not think it will be a problem, I have dealt with one website where we have sub folders with 10 various languages.
If the sites currently rank in both markets it should also be ok imo.
Have you also set up sub folder GEO targeting in Google webmaster tools too?
Regards,
James.
Hi,
My advice is to have the blog on a subfolder within your website, it will have a positve effect for your SEO.
Example: www.website.com/blog
Do not have the blog on a sub domain i.e: blog.website.com or do not have it on a random website example: randomcmopanyblog.com
When you have the blog on a subfoler you can gather internal link juice and also have a positive range of fresh content on the website.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
James.
Hi,
My advice is to have the blog on a subfolder within your website, it will have a positve effect for your SEO.
Example: www.website.com/blog
Do not have the blog on a sub domain i.e: blog.website.com or do not have it on a random website example: randomcmopanyblog.com
When you have the blog on a subfoler you can gather internal link juice and also have a positive range of fresh content on the website.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
James.
Hi,
Algos do change around the world, different things can be seen in different markets.
For example Google will favour .com.au domains in the Australian market because it is country specific TLD's.
Sure you can GEO target the domain via webmaster tools yet it will not be as powerful.
Also country specific links will work in your favour and copy which meets the users language for your area.
Do some TLD's have more spamy things going on? Yes I agree some areas we see that .com market Google has really been fixing it up for a long time other markets are a bit slower to move, yet with all the recent changes to the algo like Panda we are seeing all TLD's come together in a more combined sense.
Hope this helps.
Hi turning off personalized search is hard because even logged in or logged out Google can still hold search results.
Some ways you can do it are:
1. Add &pws=0 to the end of your search terms.
2. View the keyword in your selected market via AD Preview Tool - https://adwords.google.com/select/AdTargetingPreviewTool
Well to be honest if it is a TLD which you can SEO even if it is a domain hack any thing can be possible imo.
.IS is the country code for iceland.
I have seen ranks for .me, .tv and many more wthin search engines.
I mean "www.who.is" has around 911 root domains, 45k links pointing to it.
What kind of numbers and SEO does your domain hack have?
Regards,
James.
I would not worry too much that is just a .info spam website, what the do is they use content spinners to generate very low quality articles then they keep churning them out on their websites.
It is all a ploy to gather more revenue from existing ad units. The thing is they probably do not even rank.
I wouldn't say so, if you use brand terms for a specific anchor text terms, and then you join that up with another factor such as an EMD (exact match domain) factor. Connected with correct on page optimization. Then you need to target only a percentage of the natural links you acquire to have the term within the anchor text.
Yeah the better the quality score the better your CPC will be, $1.56 is for new advertisers.
You could also look at pulling all long tail versions of this keyword and seeing if you can gather lower CPC, also miss spellings could be cost effective too 
Good luck with it
We have implemented the reviews function on a few website in my opinion it is worth it.
I mean things like REL author and other Schema's are 100% worth looking at.
Well the CPC is around $1.56 for that keyword, so I think if you want to target 5,000 fans for that keyword it is not going to be easy.
to be honest it is not worth getting into a fight with a competitor and posting on their Facebook page, I would look at alternate strategies that are going to drive likes to the clients page.
If competitors post very negative and un true things you can always delete them and move on.