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Actually, the bots may not show up in GA because it's a javascript logging system. However, if you have access to AWstats or some log file on your server, you may be able to get the information that way. I'd find out what stats system you have on your server, then start doing searches for people that have already written tools to do what you want.

Yes, maybe in the case of a hotel name.  But for Chinese language, they translate the word for example "London Hotels" to their equivalent. So for area pages it might be worthwhile.  Other top ranking companies e.g TripAdvisor do not translate the folder name at all. Just change the domain TLD. Thoughts ?

OK, what advantages if in the future we decide to move the site to the local region e.g Asia ?

Good, glad to have helped

Another thought might be to place a noindex on the new pages to start with and as we migrate and 301 redirect the old to the new remove the noindex on the new pages ? Thoughts ??

Another thought might be to place a noindex on the new pages to start with and as we migrate and 301 redirect the old to the new remove the noindex on the new pages ? That can work but it's not an approach i would use. It seems like a lot of extra work, you run the risk of forgetting to remove the noindex tag on some pages, and also you may wind up not having pages properly indexed for a month. If you publish a page today, Google may crawl the new page and see the noindex tag. You can then remove the noindex tag but Google may not recrawl the page for some time leaving your site without an indexed page. As part of the process of publishing the page, I would 301 the old URL to the new URL immediately.

Just to let you know I am German by birth and I moved to United States a young age however return their quit frequently. to get your point though if you use a content delivery network such as Akamai, limelight, Max CDN, go to http://builtwith.com you will see plenty of fantastic content delivery networks http://trends.builtwith.com/cdns to be honest I would recommend price wise Max CDN is very competitive. A company like high wind specializes in having your server wherever you want it and still getting that perfect time  plus location information geo-tagged where you need it so your network runs perfectly. Here's their link. http://www.highwinds.com/network/index.php I will say this and I may be a little biased however German companies tend to doing extremely thorough job. I am proud to say I think SEOmoz has done that type of job here. I hope this is of some help, Sincerely, Thomas Zickell

No a custom written CMS, so it should be fairly easy to code.

Hi Neil. The sites we have done are all new but from experience dealing with moving to new urls the best thing to do is create a mapping document in excel. It'squite easy if you know that for example: www.domain.com/berlin-hotel is moving to www.domain.com/de/berlin-hotel. Then all you need to do is put in the 301s based on the mapping and monitor WMT for issues - you will always miss something. From what you are saying however there is no logical structure to your site - which will make this harder. I have had to deal with this in the past too, you might just need to identify all of the more important pages and 301 these first and go via mechanical turk of get an intern in or something to just plough away and find all of your urls. If you have an XML sitemap you should be able to get them all pretty quickly and map from here. Hope this helps.

I find the whole tripadvisor SERP thing highly annoying as an SEO and a search engine user, I don't know what Google are thinking of with their allowing Tripadvisor to be 1,2,3 and even sometimes 4 and more on the SERPS like this, it is NOT what the user wants, nor the hotel. They need to spend time simply on a Tripadvisor update! How much of online search is travel/hotel/restaurant/attraction related? Must be immense. I want to see Panda,Venice, Pengiun, Tripadvisor....

How strange that today we check our rankings for the profile pages and they are pretty much back to as they were with regards rankings, including pages that we didn't even modify. I believe either Google had a problem crawling our site, a DNS problem or a problem with the Panda update they released last Friday. I was 100% sure before that our content, meta etc was correct and couldn't see why we would of been punished.

All I can do is echo Ryan's point on this one, he does a great job of summing it up.

Could it be because it takes far less character to write the same sentence in Chineese than in English. "Blue Widgets" would be 蓝色部件. If you tried real hard, you could probably write a whole paragraph in the title. It might be a good idea to translate it to English and see how many characters it would be.

Hey tommo, you are correct- and I understand your concern. For rank tracking.... Yes, it is 'technically' against Google's guidelines to scrape for rankings, however- Google is very aware of SEOmoz, and has never publicly stated anything against them. (They did ask SEOmoz to stop reporting pagerank a few years back though.) Although this is anecdotal and doesn't prove an endorsement.... at a lot of conferences, and on some whiteboard Fridays, Matt Cutts has been in touch with the Moz team. This puts me at some ease about Google penalizing all Moz users. After-all, this is an entirely white hat community As for everything else besides 'rank tracking'... seomoz uses linkscape, their proprietary crawler and index of the web. This means, whether you are signed up or not, they may still crawl your site (and probably will), because that's how OSE gets data to return in open site explorer. One final point to keep in mind... SEOmoz uses several data centers around the US, so using their rank tracking would lead back to them, not you. Anyone could just as easily track your rankings as you could, so how would Google know to penalize you? They really couldn't because otherwise, all you'd have to do is setup a campaign for your competitors and watch their rankings fall. If you're super concerned, you could use everything in the web app besides rank tracking, and you'd have absolutely nothing to worry about (and the price would still be worth it- in my opinion). Does this help? [edit] Please Note, I am completely white hat, and if I had once ounce of suspicion that search engines frowned on the rank tracker in the web app, I'd stop using the rank tracker. And that's a decision everyone needs to make for themselves. Above all else, I study the hell out of webmaster guidelines and try to follow every rule and piece of advice that I can.