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Buonngiorno from 16 degrees C cloudy wetherby UK,

A client has cloned their UK sites copy for a US version. What theyve now got is a USA site and a uK site with exactly the same copy, the only difference is the suffix.

Am i right in saying this will cause problems when for example a browser enters a phrase and two sites appear in the SERPS. Is a solution to this to block the usa site from appearing in the UK (is this possible?).

Yes i know the true fix is to change the copy but we are dealing with clients here

Grazie,
David

Buongiorno from 18 degrees C Wetherby UK

On this site http://www.milwaukeetool.eu/ the client wants to hold on to the EU site despite there being multiple standalone country sittes e.g. http://www.milwaukeetool.fr & http://www.milwaukeetool.co.uk

Why would you ever need an EU site? I mean who ever searches for an EU site? If the client holds on to the eu site despite my position it's a waiste of time from a search perspective is the folowing the best appeasment?

When a user enters the eu url or redirects to country the detected, eg I'm in Paris I enter www.milwaukeetool.eu it redirects to http://www.milwaukeetool.fr. My felling this would be the most pragmatic thing to do?

Any ideas please,
Cioa,
David

Buongiorno from 18 degrees C Wetherby UK...

Client asks -  "My swedish site is http://www2.kingspanpanels.se/ how important is having the swedish suffix in the url with regards to rankings in Sweden?"

I find these questions really challenging, its like the Hey if i change this url my SEO problems will be fixed, as if its that easy.

So my question is - "How weighted is the url suffix / ccTLD in terms of SEO success for a territory / country" Put another way "If the swedish suffix .se was removed would it impact rankings in any way in Sweden?"

Grazie tanto,
David

Buongiorno from the river Wharfe

With Googles crusade to penalise sites with dodgy backlink profiles I'm looking for an automated tool which could flag up any dodgy links. Yes ive used Open Site Explorer but I really am after something that gives me a simple "yes theres a problem and heres where it is" type solution.

Any inights welcome
Grazie tanto,
David

Buongiorno drom hot & humid wish the clouds would clear ofdf wetherby UK

On this page https://www.facebook.com/philpottsltd and illustrated here
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/philpotts-official-page-as-is-1_zpsf900b6b3.jpg
Is the reason the Philpotts Facebook page does not appear for target term "Philpotts Sandwiches" down to no mention in the description & no mention in the url?

Would like to know the classic way to do on page optimisation ( I know this is will be very limited ) for a Facebook business page.

Grazie tanto,David

Thanks for all your replies, like the idea of seetiing up an adwords account not hooked up to credit card
Grazie tanto

Buongiorno from 22 degrees C too damn humid Wetherby UK,

The other day a client wanted to know how much a ppc campaign would cost with a specific bank of keywords. So off i went and loaded in the key words and set the ads thinking it was not live....

A week later i get a tap on the shoulder asking why weve been invoiced for £xxxx oh dio mio!! The damn campaign went to live. So ive got two questions:

1. Do Google adwords automatically go to Live once youve loaded up phrases and ads, i really thought it would have made it more obvious, A " Would you like your campaign to go live" prompt would have been appreciated.

2. As a safety measure is configuring a Google Alert in Analytics to ping when paid traffic is picked up not a bad idea just so ive got a warning sytem set up so to speak.

Grazie tanto,
David

I'm going round and round in circles with this one as everytime I ask Hootsuite they tell me the same thing and it does not work so here we go...

I want to monitor another competitors social media activity. Specifically i want to see if they are active in Facebook, Twitter & Linked in.

But am i right in saying you can only monitor social activity of a competitor if you can connect Hootsuite to there social media account via a stream.

Put another way imagine Lacoste say - "Right give me a report on what Nike is doing on facebook". Is Hootsuite useless unless you can connect it to Nikes Favebook business page?

My misery is best explained by this url - http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/tracking-via-hootsuite-3jpg_zps2fa47469.jpg

If Hootsuite has this limitation then whats the point in Hootsuite promoting itself as a socail listening tool when as soon as you want to monitor a competitor you hit the proverbial brick wall.

Maybe I'm using the wrong tool & hootsuite is limited or I'm a bit thick & it can be done.

Any help welcome, I'm likely to be see jumping out of an office window in a town near you very very soon

Ciao from 24 degrees C wetherby UK,

On this page http://www.perspex.co.uk/products/palopaque-cladding/ this line was added to block indexing:

But it has not worked, when you google "Palopaque PVC Wall Cladding" the page appears in the SERPS.

I'm going to upload a robots txt file in a second attempt to block indexing but my question is please:
Why is it being indexed?

Grazie,
David

Big thank you

Buon pormeriggio from I can smell Whaler Chips Through the window Wetherby,
When you Google Thakray Medical Museum 2 sites appear in the SERPS, yikes! Now the .org site is no longer hosted & point to the .co.uk site when clicked on but in a nutshell I wantto get rid of the .org site
as illustrated here:

http://s216.photobucket.com/user/zymurgy_bucket/media/two-versions-same-website-yikes_zps182e6e12.jpg.html

Actions taken so far:
1: Wembaster tools re index request for the .co.uk site
2: Redirect configured to point .org site to the .co.uk

What else is left apart from updating the xml site but ultimating i do not want to see the the .org site but it doesnt exist (well id did a few month back but is no longer hosted so i am told)

Any insights welcome,
GRazie tanto,
David

Ive Just jumped through the subscription hoops for both Hootsuite &  Sprout Social. Ive noticed they just ask for 1 account to monitor but i want to research another clients social chatter. So my question is:

"Do you have to pay extra to monitor say three brands?"
Grazie

Thank you for all your replies, now i a actually do some research before jumping in!
Grazie tanto,
David

Greetings from Hot & sweaty Wetherby

Ok imagine you want to launcg a socaila media campiagn for a client but before you jump into creating a facebook business page you decide to do some research first ie youw want to know if & where you brand is being discussed. So my question is:

"What social media tool can you use to identify which social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook etc) is being used to discuss a brand"

Thanks in advance,
David

Yes I have heard this may be a better way - i like the idea other users can access it

Buon pormeriggio from 24 degrees C slightly cloudy Wetherby UK

I want to open a facebook business page for a client but i understand it has to be attached to my personal facebook account. This is a pain, one day I'll leave the digital game which then presents a problem for the next administrator, I mean i can hardly pass arounf my facebook user name & pasword.

Then to add to the conundrum i hear the fix is to regioster a business account sound good so far but then you cant do this if you have a personal account... err WTF!

So my question is what do socail media agencies do when they open facebook business pages, surely they are not ties to personal accounts?

Any insights welcome,
Grazie,
David

Ok Chris no worries, apology accepted, amybe i drank too much coffee

Thanks Tim, very Helpfull & so what if you produced the content

Chris,

Ive no idea what your talking about and to be honest I'm quite cross youve jumped on some bizarre theme of geocommentspam.

Why oh why did you do this? This is the first time Ive ever had a reply from a cynical viewpoint and had the audacity to tarnish my profile by playing judge & Jury.

Maybe youve drank too much cofee I just dont get how a question or any questions Ive posed could be in any way remotely related to brand building.

For the record this is the second time youve given me an obtuse answer whilst other responses from other community members are 99% on the money. So if anyones in line for a slap on the wrist by an administrator it should be you for playing judge & jury.

Well done mate, have a great wk end!