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I agree that it is really hard to convince people to generate content and even when you convince them they will usually fail to produce it. Now.... keeping that in mind... can you understand why it is not a good idea to distribute you content to other websites?   Especially if it is great content.   Keep this very limited, very valuable and very hard to get resource to yourself so that you get all of the traffic, you get all of the links, you get all of the likes. The people who will not produce the content just do not have the will to compete.  So, if you can produce content, instead of doing SEO for people who don't have the will to compete start producing content for your own site and you might have great success.

Thanks John.

Hi Juan Miguel, For the non-www to www redirects, from http://piensapiensa.es to http://www.piensapiensa.es you can use: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www. RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L] On the other hand, to redirect: http://piensapiensa.com and  http://www.piensapiensa.com to http://www.piensapiensa.es you can use: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^piensapiensa.com [nc] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.piensapiensa.es/$1 [r=301,nc,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.piensapiensa.com [nc] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.piensapiensa.es/$1 [r=301,nc,L] Thanks, Aleyda

Thanks mememax. I got it now. The problem is that I have only one htaccess file. www.piensapiensa.es and www.piensapiensa.com (the two domains) show the same web there's only one site, one CMS, Wordpress. Thanks again for your time.

Hey Juan, On the old domain have this in your .htaccess file RewriteEngine On RedirectMatch 301 (.*) http://www.domain.es/$1 Then you may want a separate HTACCESS rule to forward all traffic without www. to use it RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www. RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L] I hope that helps, but I have a feeling I may have missed the point of the question. Let me know if I did. Andie

ok thanks Andy

Thanks Andrew

It's one hell of a Swiss Army knife for webmasters & SEOs huh? Another big fan here too. (But like all powerful tools - ya gotta know what to ask it and how to interpret the results in order to get the most from it - which you did.) Paul

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Hi, First of all Google dosen't have any penalties for duplicate content.  There are some filters that are touching duplicate content but there are no specific filters or penalties from Google for duplicate content. You won't rank with the duplicate content (one of the versions) but that dosen't mean you are under a penalty. In some cases you might also rank with two pages - 1 and 2 as position if the "space" is not very tough. So even if you will let this in the format you have it now - you won't get into troubles with both domains- again, with one you might not rank - that's about it. As far as solution, if the dot es is targeting Spain - you should't 301 redirect to dot com. You can use rel alternate or rel canonical cross domain in roder to provide the information that the content is the same. 301 redirects will also work if you choose one of the domain as the main content source - it's safer and faster but in my personal opinion you will need to assess the market, the content and take a decision based on that - don't rush into things as , again, you won't get any penalties or filters for this. Hope it helps.

Thanks Jeremy for your quick reply.

If you are focusing any of your strategy on local search there are worthwhile directories to look at using such as Yelp, foursquare, hotfrog, bing, google+, citysearch, superpage, YP, localize, info group. Regardless of the value that comes directly from these links, there are other more indirect but valuable results of being listed and getting reviews on the review directories. SEOMoz getlisted.org is a great free tool for these. Also, if there are any reputable niche or industry directories that relate to your business, those are worth investigating. Hope this helps.

Hi Juan, Have you looked through the link building section in the Beginner's Guide to SEO at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links? There is a lot of good information there. There is no easy solution where you download a piece of software and increase your rank. You may see rankings increase in the short term, but then likely will need to spend a considerable amount of time removing these links after getting a notice from Google about unnatural links. Also, review Google's guidelines about content. Under Link schemes, they discuss unnatural links that violate the guidelines (http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356). These links include: Forum comments with optimized links in the post or signature, for example: _Thanks, that’s great info! Paul paul’s pizza san diego pizza best pizza san diego_ Google also frowns on user-generated spam, including "Spammy posts on forum threads" and "Comment spam on blogs" (http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2721437&topic=2371375&ctx=topic)

Thanks Takeshi!

Although PDFs are indexed, Google recommends creating a copy of that PDF in HTML. There's no reason for leaving a page in PDF if you want it to be indexed. Check Matt Cutts video on the most common mistakes SEOs make. He mentions converting the PDF content to an HTML version: watch?feature=player_embedded&v=421aTJI2Nxc

Hello! How is your site structured? Do you have languages on different subdomains (e.g. en.yoursite.com / es.yoursite.com), folders (yoursite.com/en), some other way (yoursite.com/mainpage?lang=en)? The first one will allow you to split your link sources in a more efficient way. However, in general, link should be obtained from a related source. So if some page on your site is in spanish, it is obvious you want to be linked from a spanish page, which content is related to your topic.

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Thanks Oliver!

Thanks Kevin.

Thanks Paul for the reply.