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Have you confirmed that Googlebot is being redirected as well and it's for sure a 301 redirect?

If the redirects are IP based, it's possible Google figured out that there is an IP redirect (which is NOT recommended) and therefore, for a brand search, are giving the main domain with the US content - which is all they can see with an IP based redirect.

For your third question:

1. Stop the redirect. Use a JS prompt to ask people to set a location preference and set a cookie based on that.
2. Use sitemaps to push all country content to the SEs.
3. Think about a responsive site rather than an m.domain.com - but if you must have that, make sure to make a separate sitemap for that and claim it in Webmaster Tools.
4. Ensure that your mobile content is marked up correctly and if needed, the right canonicals are in place.

That sounds like it. You need to add both versions of your site (http and https) to WMT and see if there is data in the https. Then make sure that you pick one (if you go https, make sure you have the right certificates set up) and redirect any requests for the other to the right one.

Hi BT,

About WMT vs Analytics, it depends on how you are looking at the data. Can you tell me the specific reports and time ranges? Remember, organic traffic in GA is not just Google, there are a number of other SEs out there. It could have to do with a number of things outside of that as well. Are you looking at the right profile in WMT? HTTPS vs HTTP and www vs non-www, plus subdomains in all of that can make a BIG difference. Same thing with Analytics, it depends on where the code is installed.

I would focus on the goals that historically lead to revenue. If they all do, calculate that. None of these things should be a page visit though, that's not a strong engagement metric. If I were you, I'd do:

1. Visit duration threshold (objective:people explore the online catalog)

2. This might help, it talks about support sites, which isn;t you, but if you implement it correctly, it can help you, just don't copy this implementation https://blog.kissmetrics.com/pageviews-time-on-site/

3. Click on a distributors website, track each individually (objective: people visit the distributor page)

4. https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033068?vid=1-635779271421213638-3696063864

5. Click on top social sites share buttons (objective: people share the pictures and info in social media)

6. https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033068?vid=1-635779271421213638-3696063864

7. After 30 seconds of video watch, it registers the goal (objective: people watch videos)

8. analytics.js and Tag Manager: http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2015/05/11/updated-youtube-tracking-google-analytics-gtm/

9. ga.js: http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2010/11/09/video-tracking-google-analytics-introduction/

10. Contact form completion (objective: new distributors contact them to be a new distributor)

The articles above are sometime ga.js, the old version of analytics. If you are running analytics.js, you'll need to work with Tag Manager. Hope that makes sense and helps.

The one issue I see is that at least for the homepage, these two sites are identical. You have so many different geo-target sites, but between two sites of the same language regardless of location, does anything change? I'm seeing no differences on the homepage so I need to ask.

This might be part of why .be is cached for .nl, you're not giving them something new to index. They are hreflang'd as well, which is telling them even more that the content is the same.

I am going to assume that .be launched before .nl, or has gotten more play in the search results. Something is making it the go to for Dutch.

Good Answer Tim, but I am going to add a bit.

Since there are varying services, Tim's recommendation of domain.com/us and domain.com/uk is spot on. If you don't want to change URLs, I understand. You can keep the current URLs, you can geo-target the root to the UK and /us to the US. This route is easier to scale and if you grow each country as it launches, the domain gets stronger which helps each expansion in the years to come.

Now, if you are geo-targeting, there won't be much need for hreflang. If there are some product pages that are IDENTICAL across the two countries other than a few changed words, you can add HREFLANG. Technically speaking you wouldn't need it if the content were written and the pages crafted to each country, but until you get to that point, you can use HREFLANG for the pages that are duplicated. Mind you, this isn't best for your audience, but I get that for starters, that's easier. Do test the pages in each market to see if any modifications can be made for each market.

I don't recommend launching a .co.uk unless your customers/market demand it. That's a lot of marketing work to build up each one.

It sounds like your best bet is / geotarget to GB using Search Console, create a /us for the US, claim that in Search Console and geotarget to the US. Then use hreflang for any duplicated content.

Hope that helps!

I actually wouldn't change the domain unless you are doing it for another reason. It's been around since 2007 and I am reluctant to tell you to dump it in favor of a new one. Changing your domain sets everything fresh and you'll most likely seen a bigger loss in organic traffic.

When was the reconsideration request accepted? Can you give us a timeline of everything that happened?

Have you checked out that tool yet and answered the questions? I can help you with the technical implementation, but need to know what's best for your business first.

First, please don't ignore UX. That is a big part of how the search engines operate today.

As Charles said, an IP based 301 redirect is a very bad idea. Please, please don't do it. It will only hurt you. Google only crawls from the US, so they will never see the redirect. And as Charles said, US people traveling in the UK would not be able to get to the US site.

Also, like Charles, I am confused. You have 2 domains, but want one. I think that is what you mean. You have .co.uk and .com, but would prefer to have everything on .com. That's possible, in my testings, having a .co.uk is not a guarantee for ranking. It can help search engines understand your target market, but regional TLDs (ccTOLDs) are meant for businesses that only operate in that country, or have content/products/information that is specific to that region.

.com on the other hand is a generic TLD, it is not focused to one country.

If you want the .com to rank better in the UK, there are a few questions I need you to answer. In fact, go here: http://outspokenmedia.com/international-seo-strategy/ and let me know what result you get from those questions. Then I can help you with the technical setup.

You need to still "own" that domain in WMT if memory serves correctly. But it could help. Do the URLs 404 right now?

Interesting question. You only transferred the domain to someone else? Do they understand the content is not coming with the domain?

What is your expectation of moving the content to another domain? What are you trying to accomplish?

As long as the content is not showing for the old domain, I'd wait until the other site's content is either removed or updated to the new owner's content, and then move the content to a new domain. It shouldn't cause any issues.

It is my opinion that this kind of "duplicated content" is not hurting you. There is no need to put this kind of content into an image. Duplicated content like this is largely ignored. There are bigger fish to fry. If you are looking for things to do, work on ensuring your product content is 100% unique, engaging and do some conversion testing. It's a much better use of time.

Hi Batchbook,

I am going to give you a slightly different answer than seowoody.

The issue you are looking at is geography based, not language based from what I can tell right now. That means you don't need hreflang (maybe). This might be different for the actual situation though. Your customers needs determine what route you should go down for international, and I can't tell you what to do without knowing more (Like SEOWoody said).

With all of that being said, use this tool and report back to me your end result (it's something I built). Then I can help you figure out how to deal with this:

http://outspokenmedia.com/international-seo-strategy/

Your Spain site is most likely getting Latin American traffic because it's in Spanish. Does your offering(s) change in Spain vs Mexico? If so, you should have a Mexico focused site. If your offerings don't change based on the location of the customer, then you probably just need one site in different languages.

For the sake of my example let's use 4 URLs, 2 homepages, 2 internal pages (one for each language).

• www.domain.com
• www.domainjp.com
• www.domain.com/page.html
• www.domainjp.com/pagejp.html

I am suggesting that in the of www.domain.com:

In the of www.domainjp.com:

In the of www.domain.com/page.html:

In the of www.domain.com/pagejp.html:

Using hreflang will just tell the search engines that they are the same pages, only in different languages. If that is true of the pages on each site, then you should implement a structure like the above. You would want a language change option on the sites just in case someone wants to change languages, but it's not necessary.

I would highly recommend hreflang between the two pages. It needs to be implemented on both sides. Each one referencing itself and the translation. Please let me know if you need code examples!

I see the ads have been removed, but as I crawl the site, in just 5 minutes I see 26k pages, but your initial navigation doesn't mention the brands I am seeing in the crawl. It might be that Bing thinks you are hiding content. For anyone to full assess your site, they would need access to your webmaster tools accounts and analytics.

The sheer amount of content on your site stands out to me considering the navigation. But that is all I can find on first pass. You links might still be another but that would take more analysis.

Oh just saw this as well, you have a potential duplicate content issue:

• http://servicemanualrepairs.com/book/2008-mazda-cx-9-owners-manual/
• http://servicemanualrepairs.com/book/tag/2008-mazda-cx9-owners-manual/

I would disallow all tag pages and get your navigation figured out, that might help some.

I actually think it has less to do with schema and more to do with things like Freebase. It's the same as the one box showing up in branded searches in Google. I don't know the threshold or metrics for how to get that, but I know you at least need to have the same consistent information across the web about your brand.

As Bob said, I'm really curious if anyone has insight as to metrics or thresholds.

It sounds like you might be using an automatic redirect based on IP. Is that true? If so, that's why Google is only showing the US numbers. They don't prefer one over the other, but you are inherently only showing them the US numbers if you are doing that redirect.

My suggestion is to let people set their location with a javascript based popup that sets a cookie. That will then modify the numbers. If you prefer Google sees the metric numbers, show that to any user that doesn't have a cookie set.

Make sure it isn't an IP based forced redirect. Google only crawls with a US IP address (which would cause indexation problems) and any automatic redirect could make some customers mad. As an American in the UK for the last 10 days, I can promise this is true.