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Hey Antonio, Maybe I'm missing something, but I only found one issue. You want to 301 redirect www.solmelia.es to es.solmelia.com. A 301 is a permanent redirect which will pass on your link juice and tell Google that this it the new page and the old one is no more. The guide I linked to gives tips on how to do it in various platforms, but most people use their robots.txt to do this.

Hi Antonio, Just make sure to keep it consistent within markets and languages, at this moment you have to make a decision for your global domain structure and that depends on your marketing/business strategy and technology capabilities. I'll use Canada as an example of URLs I have seen: www.domain.ca (EN content) www.domain.ca/fr (FR-ca Content) www.domain.com/fr-ca/ (FR-ca content fr.domain.com (FR content) ca.domain.com/fr (FR-ca content) I can keep giving you examples, on how easy is to create a big mess with a global structure. In the case of www.motionpoint.com we use subdomains for languages not for countries, but we keep it consistent for the whole site but Spanish, which we should have ES instead of Espanol. but that will give you the idea. The more clear structure you have the easier is for search engines to relate your content to a language or market. Let me know if this helps. Blas

No, looking for weekly, daily, or even monthly seo reports on a particular website, www.melia.com. A report to track results and recommendations. Unique reports are more than welcome.

When you say 'database driven', do you mean that your content is displayed via script?  If so, getting that content indexed won't be easy.  This is becoming a very common issue now that companies are going for a dazzling site rather than taking seo into consideration: http://www.brainhandles.com/techno-thoughts/does-google-index-dynamic-javascripted-content If you are stuck with your investment on your current platform, I'd start creating static pages that target specific keywords rather than trying to get individual job pages indexed.  You could have a static page specifically about "nurse practitioner jobs".  Linking to individual opportunities would be labor intensive, but you could build a solid collection of well-targeted pages to get more impressions from organic search. Link-building always helps, as you probably already know. Good luck!

Multiple sitemaps help! There is a really good article here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/multiple-xml-sitemaps-increased-indexation-and-traffic and I think this is where you're going to need to start. One thing you can do is help google with pagination: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html In google webmaster tools under site configuration there is a section for URL parameters. I would look at that too. If you want to fix all of the url parameters like: ?profession=RN&speciality= then maybe use $_POST instead of $_GET or set up landing pages for all of the different types of pages. What does: http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/20034082-crawl-diagnostics say?

I would look into why your site is generating multiple urls for the same page first - so far it would seem the duplication is occurring because of the query string being appended to the url. If you can prevent that - the next thing is to use the canon tag to point the duplicate pages at the original, and on the dupe pages add a "follow noindex" tag - this means you will be telling google that you know this page exists and you are aware it is the same as another page, and tell them which page it is you actually mean. The canon tag should be in the head, and have the full url of the original page that you want to rank. The duplication of the page is the issue here - changing your titles will only mask it for a few days.

I have a couple thoughts for you: Make sure that your database is creating pages that are crawlable by search engines. Create unique content for those pages that are optimized for keywords and other SEO best practices. Especially check what HTML your database is spitting back out, not all CMSs are created equal. As far as what to do with those job pages after the position is filled, that's really up to you. I do think that people expect filled jobs to disappear into the void. Though you could put a "FILLED" announcement on the page and create something where it would recommend unfilled jobs that were similar. On an e-comm site I worked on, we decided to leave up sold out product pages, but make it super clear they were sold out (and of course, they were not linked internally anymore), due to the traffic coming from search engines who'd crawled those pages and external links. Then the pages had a "recommended products" on them which drove people to similar items.

6 duplicate page titles seems a relatively small amount. Duplicates are an issue in that search engines have to decide which page to rank. Applying the canonical link element can help with duplicate page titles sometimes, but if you are optimizing for different keywords on each page i do not think Google penalises heavily for this (I could be wrong) it just makes it harder for them to know which page to rank. If you are certain of the keywords you wish to rank for (and show this) throughout each page individually I do not think you should have a problem with your page titles.

I have seen one interesting solution for this in retail/ecommerce industry. Knowing that iPhone will evolve in different versions webmasters name their pages: domain.com/iphone (not domain.com/iphone4) The version is contained in changeable elements such as title tag, meta description and content. Another thing you can do is merge various page of similar or same content into one canonical version (using rel="canonical"). When pages expire it would be a good idea to take users to the next best piece of content - to maximise SEO value you would redirect them using 301 if the change is permanent or 302 if you anticipate the job to come back at some point in time. By recycling the same URL after job re-appears you will be preventing creation of disposable URLs and runa  cleaner site. Any old links pointing to those pages will not be going to a 404 page but to the old URL thus capturing the much needed link juice in the correct place.

You don't need a sitemap on any site, but its a good thing to do on any site if you want the best SEO. The document type doesn't matter because the engine crawlers don't change based on the version of the standard you're using.

Your site is offline. Please put it online, then we can see it. If you want see a site in pure Html5 just visit my website related to a coming soon italian movie (click to see it) In the source you can see the html5 code including snipped from schema.org. For this website, I created a custom DTD to adjust various w3c validation errors.

If you must hide content with AJAX to meet the design requirements, use whats called graceful degradation. In your case it would mean placing all the content that appears on any given URL into the original resource that loads within <noscript>tags.</p> <p>For example if you have a page for cancun and depending on what people click different parts of the cancun resort show up, put all that info into <noscript> tags on the cancun page.</p> <p>But I think John Barth is right. I didn't see any AJAX on the page, only php. If you're loading content using PHP you've got no worries, all the magic happens on the server and is served up to engine bots in full.</p></noscript>

I would tell you to ditch Flash, but there's no flash in the example you gave us. It's all good ol' fashioned Javascript/AJAX. Their site doesn't degrade very gracefully without javascript. In fact, the entire site is offensively slow and difficult to navigate. However, I'm happy to report that without CSS or Javascript, the site loads just fine. I don't see any issue with it being indexed apart from you'll need to canonicalize your pages, and the silly URL parameters: Example: subcontent.php?sc=our-family-tree That would look so much better if it were: /our-family-tree Otherwise, it's really hard to judge the SEO of a site without content, because I'm mainly looking for title tags, meta descriptions, navigational structure, anchor text, keyword usage, and so on. http://me.graficode.com/preprod/subcontent.php?sc=our-family-tree

The phrase your client selected will be very challenging and require solid dedication and SEO work. Your client wishes to rank for "Complete ME". My definition of ranking is appearing on the first page of Google results. Using that definition, you are trying to compete on generic words rather then a unique brand. This type of ranking is the most challenging. It is made much more difficult based on the following: "Complete Me" is part of a very famous movie line "You Complete Me" said by Tom Cruise. "Complete Me" is also part of a song "You Complete Me" by Keyshia Cole. There is a wiki page titled "Complete Me" which will take one of the first page result slots There are books, clothing line and an opera which use that phrase. With the above understood, here are some steps to improve your rankings: 1. Make a page optimized for that single phrase. The page's title should be "Complete ME" 2. Use anchor text where appropriate throughout your site directing visitors to the "Complete ME" page 3. Earn links from other sites using "Complete ME" and several variations of anchor text 4. Use solid SEO on the page. Ensure your title is a H1 tag which includes "Complete ME", and your content uses the term at least a couple times.

Hi Antonio, The best way to check if the site is using cloaking is to go into your Google Webmaster Tools acccount and "Fetch as Googlebot", then compare the code to see if googlebot is being shown the same code as the user. However in this case, I would suggest that your concerns are being prompted by the use of CSS to hide text within the page so that it is not visible to the user. I located this in your main.css file #homepage-content { position: absolute; height: 1px; width: 1px; overflow: hidden; top: 0; left: 0; } Basically, this is a massive amount of text which has been shoved into a div that measures 1 pixel x 1 pixel in the top left corner of the page. This is a practice which is not viewed kindly by search engines. As to improving optimization there are a couple of things that are fairly obvious: Using Flash for the rotating images is not our preferred option for a couple of reasons. First, any user with an Apple iOS device will see only blank spaces as these devices do not support Flash. Second, bots are not able to retrieve information from Flash documents in the most cases. jQuery is a much better option as the presentation is visible to everyone and also allows you to obtain some SEO value from image file names, alt tags and inserted text. The majority of the images in the flash presentation do not really represent what people expect from a  "Resort". If you want people to convert then you need to engage them and I think that the images that are being used now are not helpful in selling the product. Hope this helps, Sha

Some quick notes regarding your site: you have a flash-based page but you have the HTML code fully supporting a non-flash version of the page too. Very well designed. You are using 11 H1 tags. Try changing to 1. The other tags should be H2 or H3. your Resorts menu shows the other brands have their own primary domains, not subdomains as you suggested. You could merge all your sites into one. This would offer the advantage of combining your DA into one site, allowing all pages to rank better. I think my client is using black hat tactics such as cloaking. You are right. The website is using black hat tactics. In the future if you can share EXACTLY what leads you to this belief, it would probably make finding the problem easier. As you can see, the home page shows almost no text. Even with the flash disabled, the home page appears the same but the image viewer shows a single image instead of a slide show. The html shows a large amount of text which is hidden in a div called "homepage-content". The div is set to be invisible: height 1px, width 1px, overflow hidden, etc. This behavior will be detected by search engines and directly lead to a severe penalty. Most likely the site will be pulled from the index.