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Ideally your home page is going to be your highest authority page, also target a few sub category landing pages with related content to that specific page.

Ideally you want to only target 3 keywords on each sub category page with related content to that specific keyword.

Best practics:

1. Use different content on both the NZ and AU website.

2. Target links from the NZ websites for the NZ.

3. Try to host locally for the NZ site (not a huge concern)

4. GEO target the .nz domain in Google web master tools.

5. Use GEO specific locations, addresses and contact info on the NZ site.

It is advisable to link out to high quality related sites where possible.

Also link out to websites within the content as said about it can be more effective than linking out via a blogroll.

Hope this helps.

No problem, my advice further to this is also to try and get your site included into Google news as this is going to be one of your best traffic sources for local news.

To be honest I would put a fixed description on the page even if it changes 5 times a day.

You can have a description which is targeted to the news page and also a title which is targeted to the news page, rather than a random news story from that day.

In my eyes having a fixed description is a better strategy.

Another thing you can look at doing is if your site is added via Google news you can obtain Google news site links for the latest news, this is more of an advanced strategy, more information here:

http://jamesnorquay.com/google-news-additional-site-links-feed/

(only a limited number of sites have this)

No problem happy to help, but do you have Google webmaster tools, check out the GEO targeting on that too. If you use a .br domain it should automatically select it to Brazil.

But yes try and target local content and local links, if you build all your link profile in .co.uk you can run into some problems.

Good luck with the site

I think the key with having a quick running site is more a usability one, if the site runs slow especially e-commerce users will bounce to other websites and competitors.

Site speed has been noted as a small factor to ranking yet their are 100s of ranking factors.

Godaddy servers are not the best at all from my experience, I have tested a few servers their a while ago, depends on what type of server you are after too - dedicated server, shared host ect.

Also up time of the server is another important factor, geo location of the sever i.e is it close to your main user base is also important with e-commerce.

A good post on how to get site links for your website can be found over here: [http://www.hochmanconsultants.com/articles/sitelinks.shtml

T](http://www.hochmanconsultants.com/articles/sitelinks.shtml)he competitor may be using some of the above factors.

Usually from my experience it is hard to rank for non brands generic terms, even geo centric terms unless your site has the exact match domain and is a real power house in the niche/authority.

A few important things:

1. Make sure you have the TLD for that country.

2. Make sure you have local content in that laungage for the country.

3. Make sure in webmaster tools you target that country.

4. Make you have links from that country, i.e geo specific.

From my experience hosting will not be a huge rank factor for GEO targeting, I have many websites hosting in the US yet they rank well in GEO areas, yet if it is an ecommerce site I would advise for local hosting.

A good post on making Facebook comments on your site indexable is here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/make-facebook-comments-box-indexable-by-search-engines

But yeah as far as making comments into a dedicated URL I don't think you can do it.

I hope this helps,

Regards,

James Norquay

If you are referring to the title of the website it could be better to use lines "|" instead of commas, for example:

Heating and Air Conditioning | Jones Plumbing

Also it is advisable to keep the brand term at the end of the title and also the keep the title under 65 character including spaces.

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...

Some times Google does a shift in rank, a poor site can come up in the ranks and then instantly go back down. If the same site is still their in a week re investigate.

Hi Mate,

You can do it via image sites too, a great one is FlickR to tag the images and then have it rank for image terms,

Pinterest also works well in this space, another thing if you have time and access to blogs you can have 10 authority blogs all post the image of the brand and have it rank for 10 different blogs.

You can also do it on PR news websites same way.

Quora may work but the other methods will be better.

Hope this helps.

Hi,

I think you answer your own question, some times people fall short and only limit forum traffic to forum keywords.

You need to be smart and have sections on your forum like:

• News section

• Blog section.

So rather than just targeting the forum traffic you can target multiple sections in your forum article section, have guest posts from other Bears fans and do soo many more things in this area.

Also make sure you use exact match search for your keyword research.

Kind Regards.

James.

You could implement the canonical tag onto the HTTP version of the website.

Another problem when having a quick look at this website is that all your title tags are the same with the brand term at the front, this is not advisable at all you want to put the brand term at the end of the title and your generic terms first.

I would look at getting an SEO audit done to fix the issues with the website.

Hi,

I have seen numerous similar problems like this with the CMS, ideally you need to implement the canonical tag onto the home page and then you should 301 all the other URLS which have links to the main url been: http://www.crosscountryallied.com

This includes the non www version of the website.

Yeah their is a good chance they will, ideally you need to make different content which is local market.

I.e use different content on your US and GB website, many people make the mistake where they copy the whole site and then wonder why the US site out ranks the GB site.

The best case scenario is where you have local content writers making content for each market.

Alexa is not the best way to track a website, it only looks at people who use the alexa tool bar, it is evident that many indian webmasters are using it.

I would look at OSE data for the domain, PR, how many pages and most importantly check out other articles on the site too see the pages it is going on...

Thanks for sharing this post Unlucky it never made it to the main blog..

Kind Regards.

James Norquay