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Hello Ricardo,

This is actually a difficult question to me or may be the information is too much scattered but I got a way to reply you that might help you come up with answers to many of your questions...

If it would be my business or if I will be working for this website this is something what i would recommend.

• Domain

It is always great to talk to customer in their own language so if we can talk to customer in their own language and with their country TLD this will help them trust us easily instead of a single website that is based in English (universal language).

I would prefer to have 3 domains with content in 3 different languages that is English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Example:

1. www.my-hotel.com
2. www.my-hotel.com.pt
3. www.my-hotel.es

Let’s take English version as the main website (as it’s a universal language) and the other two websites as branches.

• Google Maps

Google Maps does offer local listing for Portugal, Spain and England. If you have physical location available within 3 areas you will be able to register each website within the targeted area.

• Facebook Page

Again as I said it’s great to talk to customers in their own language. If cost is not the big issue the it’s great to have language based pages targeting the right kind of people but if budget is the issue then its great to come up with one but active facebook page (English should be the language).

When you have one page in English you should understand and take care of the customers in other countries as well and entertain them from time to time accordingly.

Hope most of your questions are covered... let me know if you have further question in mind...

If the links in the footer of the website are of the same websites (internal pages) then removing them from the footer (as per my personal experience) will cause ranking fluctuation ...I am not sure why you are removing it but if it is because you want to stay away from the penalty caused by site wide links then IMPO with internal pages this won’t be a problem...

If you really want to remove the link from the footer the best idea is to remove the links one by one and see the impact of it on SERP rankings overall...

that's what i said.. it should display when someone search for you in the search engine.

I think format can be different from website to website... for blog using this in the post will not really a good idea but if you are a service website with 15 to 20 pages that its great to use it on all pages.... where as with eCommerce the scenario is different...

I don’t believe on 70 characters theory anymore as Google is looking for pixels and title space that appears in search results is more depends upon pixels...

I think adding a company name (not URL) at the end of the title is great but it should appear in the search results... i don’t see any great SEO value out of it but it is surly great from the branding point of view...

nops for pages within the domain you should use '-' to separate it instead of '_'.

The reason why you should not do this in the main domain is because it looks spammy to many people as this is the format that most spammers use when buying keyword rich domain names...

Dave i am not sure why you are using the encrypted version of URLs that is https instead of http but if you using it there is no need to add http version in the sitemap... only add https URLs and submit the xml sitemap to Google website tools.

Personally I don’t see any need of adding xml sitemap’s URL in a robots.txt file as you are including xml sitemap to Google webmaster tool anyways...

Let’s talk completely about branding, I would never recommend you to go for .co domain when .com and co.uk is already taken by other companies...

It’s always an advantage to me to add keyword in the domain name but don’t push it too much if you are not getting it focus more on branding and choose a domain name that is easy to remember.

For separating keywords in the domain i would say do not use it and if it is necessary then use ‘-’ instead of ‘_’.

Hope this help!

Ops my bad :s sorry! Well honestly when ever this happens with us what we usually do is to share the page on social media (Google+ and twitter preferred) and also link to external websites if possible...

Usually with social sharing and links give Google a hint to crawl the latest version of the page... currently the page’s social value is zero (the age that you mentioned in the 2^nd comment)

I would advise you to share the website socially (why not add share button on pages) and do some quick basic link building and you will see Google will crawl the new pages of the website within few days of time...

I agree with David!

1 hour of downtime cannot cause this effect on permanent basis... the best idea is to dive in to Google Analytics and check the date of drop in traffic and this may be the same date of Google penguin or Google Panda update...

If this is the case you have detected the problem and you should prefer fixing it!

Obviously it really depends on what you really want from that forum... but in a normal state it is always good to go for sub directories instead of subdomain...

Matt Cutts of Google also did a post on his blog regarding this you can read it here http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/ and i guess this will help you more...

Hope this helps!

Ops but i see this website (http://www.websitedevelopersuk.com) in Google search results... try this URL and you will see the website in the search results http://goo.gl/h8irr

It would be great if you can share some real numbers here! This way members in this community can help you better with the ideas they have in their mind (two heads are better then one!)

looking forward for some DATA from you.

SEEMS LIKE http://www.markupcloud.com/  is good! (Got a good clientele)

Ask them more about their clients and choose one!

Milos, not really sure about others but it is really tough for me to say anything about your specific case without having a look at your website.

To me every case in terms of UX is different but obviously its most depends upon users and how they have behaving on the website. Generally i think you should not focus on words but you have to look in to analytics to get some data in hand regarding what pages are most visited, how users are behaving on the website, how user behaviour is impacting sales and then come up to some decision about eliminating or changing any page of the website.

Even though you said people are engaging well with products on the home page you have to see what route most visitors choose to made a conversion and consider the changes accordingly.

The advice would be to discuss the website in detail with any SEO so that help can help you with different scenarios and possibilities...

I n order to increase the Page Rank of the website i guess there should be link on the home page as well as links on the specific pages...but the point to consider is that quantity of links might not help you in this case but you should consider quality links pointing back to your site...

Interesting discussion! I would love to start with dividing the 3^rd party website in to different forms.

1. 3^rd party websites like Yelp.com and other Yellow pages websites
2. 3^rd party websites like trip adviser who allow limited niches to promote their services (niche related portal)
3. 3^rd part websites like SEOmoz who are the leaders in their industry and give you a chance to build your authority within the community over the period of time.

Option 1:

I think this is something here many SEO firms and freelancers are focusing already but i still think it needs more focus and concentration. If a business plays a vital role on 3^rd part websites like stay action, reply to questions and reviews and communicate with the clients on regular basis i believe this can seriously help businesses get some serious leads.

This will be a great option for local business who offers services within a limited area. Websites like Google Maps, Yelp and other yellow pages websites are great in that case...

Option 2:

Portals or websites like Trip Adviser or more are helpful but one need to spend some major time there... I personally don’t think that many people are investing their time on building strong presence on these websites, although business with limited online marketing budget should focus here specially websites from travel, Real Estate and hotel niches.

I think service providers (this goes to me too) should invest more time building strong presence there because i think many people use these kind of portals before making any decision so I think building strong presence will make a difference.

Option 3:

This is the most interesting and time taking at the same time. Websites like SEOmoz who are the industry leaders in their particular niche but does not offer SEO services are great place where you can build your brand. This can be possible by being active in the community, commenting to daily blog posts, writing guest posts on the blog and building strong and communication with the community not only on the platform but on other channels like twitter facebook and emails.

This will help you build yourself as an expert within the community and you can get a chance to get more leads for your business.

Hope this helps, love to listen your point of view on this...

Justin my answer will be short and smile and i am pretty sure that you will not like it too much!

Now when you said you don’t have enough links, so you have two options left

1. Similar to others you can also order junk links
2. Or focus more on quality links pointing back to your website (that can and cannot be guest posting)

Move for option one will make your condition worst, you might even fall from #11 spot (dangerous option)

Moving for option two might take a bit of a time like (a month or more) but you will move to page one with stability and you will make more money from it.

The choice is always yours but keep yourself updated with the result of each option available.

Francisco, depends which medium you like the most i mean reading or looking to videos... but if you prefer reading the very basic of PHP with examples and tutorials then i guess this guide by plusnet should help!

http://community.plus.net/library/website-design/a-beginners-guide-to-php/

Having a lower number of links in OSE is common to everyone if you go to Majestic SEO you might find the accurate number of links.

Thanks Mark for the Google words and your insight about it but I am still not convinced with the ground realities...

Setting up a Geo target in Google webmaster cannot block you on other areas (this make no sense to me!). There is a strong possibility that US websites may not rank higher in UK search results but the website will be completely blocked (i don’t agree)

I have a website that has a preferred location as UAE and I can literally access that website from all regions... and on some general keywords it is ranking well in US although that is not my exact location...