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When you say they want to duplicate the site entirely, do you mean structure or written content to another language (Hindi). If you target multiple countries then your would be better having landing pages for the relative country and content pages localized and feeding juice to the .com to gain domain authority. This can have value in both mainainability in development costs and allow easier expansion into other markets. Many large sites, Microsoft included would switch content from site.co.in to site.com/in and deliver specific content there and their main content via site.com/content....

If you do create three sites with the same content you may eventually get a duplicate penilty where rankings drop suddenly but you will definitely be splitting the link juice 3 ways. You can easily setup google webmaster tools with the three domains and tell them to give value to the .com if you localize instead of duplicating.

I Agree with Egol, and actually http://www.videoconference.com.au/ and http://www.videoconferencing.com.au/ are both parked domains and probably for sale. Check http://whois.domaintools.com for owner details.

I have Google reporting different capitalization as duplicates, so now I ensure all pages have a with the lowercase version of the page. This ensures Google does not split the juice between, what it thinks are two different pages. It is a spin off from when Fresh-fish.hmtl could refer to a different page to fres-fish.html etc.

so, the two terms being accepted as different keywords is just mimicing how Google handles these terms. Check Google Webmaster tools to ensure no pages are being reported as duplicates, or let Roger do his weekly scan and check the results.

Do you ftp copy one domain to the other? If this is a manual process the excluding the robots.txt that is on the test domain would be as simple as excluding it.

If you automate the copy and want code to function based on base url address then you could create a Httphandler for robots.txt that delivered a different version based on the request url host in the http request header.

I noticed a lot of Adsense in prominant places on your pages, even a big banner from on-line dating. Is the site doing well with AdSense? If so, you visitors may read a little of what you offer then click through to the next site. I know if I see a site covered in ads, I am more likely to return to google and check the next option. The ads Google Adsense is applying are also quiet out of context. e.g. Imagine a big burly bikie visits your site to read about motorcycles, does he see an ad for Harley Davidson, no he is presented with ones on 'trying to conceive', how does adsense make that connection?

Also people love to see active fresh content and the dates on your entries as I click each of the top links show 2009 or 2010 articles. There is also significant time span between articles inside the one topic. As Egol says have allok at high retention sites and see what you are doing different.

If you cover such a broad range of topics, users may just be interested in the specific one they came to see.

I would also suggest to move 'recent comments' and 'recent searches' higher toward the top of the column and login further down. If you want people to click through to other article on your site then make sure they are prominent. I also see 'leave a comment' but do not see any comments just ads.

To lower bounce rate you need to

• provide information relevant to your visitor
• have fresh content
• make it easy for the visitor to find other interesting articles
• decide if you want ads or visitors

There is my quick usability study.

I agree with Ryan but question the usability factor of 260 links on your page. Have you done a usability study to check how easily your end users can find the information they are after. It can be daunting for a robot let alone a human to sift through all the sub-menus on your categories. It brings to mind Telstra and Optus sites that take a significant time to find the information your are after because of the huge number of options.

I also notice that when you change currency that a prompt is displayed that 'all items in the shopping cart will be deleted' even when the cart is empty. Should you not check if the cart is empty before displaying the message, otherwise the prompt is defunct.

If you want to still display them but not have the robots index them late populate them from a JQuery async call on demand as the user hovers over a menu item. You would need to ensure they are linked somewhere or on a sitemap so the search engines can still find them.

From a developer's point of view: If you do not already have the new system in place, I would suggest a MVC move rather than aspx on the dotnet platform and put a cfm handler in place to map the pages at the controller level. Goggle will not know know there has been a change and you site will perform much faster. Microsoft is tending to move away from the aspx to the more structured mvc version anyway.

If you want domain.com to get the rank for domain.com/french you can set in the head section of ./french .italian etc to pass the juice back to the main site. I would think that <a (anchors)="" would="" be="" better="" than="" 302's="" as="" these="" are="" not="" temp="" redirects="" but="" links="" to="" language="" variations.="" i="" also="" ensure="" that="" have="" a="" tag="" in="" the="" html="" section="" <span=""><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="fr-fr" lang="fr-fr"></a>

With Google's continuing focus on usability and user experience coming into their ranking algorithems more and more you would expect they would give less weight to product-feature1-feature2-feature3.com than product.com. The fact they are gearing up to show performance in analytics data suggest that usability in gaining in importance as is social significance. How many people do you think with use up most of their tweet with your url?

As well as the htaccess rewrite, set the 'change of address' in Google webmaster tools to ensure Google passes all link juice to the desired domain.

To quote W3C draft specification on HTML5

Attributes are placed  inside the start tag, and consist of a name and a value, separated by an "=" character. The attribute value can remain unquoted if it doesn't contain spaces or any of  " ' ``` = <  or >. Otherwise, it has to be quoted using  either single or double quotes. The value, along with the "=" character, can be omitted altogether if the value  is the empty string.

The accepted convention is " but according to the standard both are supported.

P.S. Is a version of your site live, if so I would maybe like to blog about it as it is related to what we are doing in baby toddler items (looking at your avatar).

In a previous post Ryan shows a site http://www.seomoz.org/q/herbal-viagra-page-same-da-pa-as-uc-berkeley that has a very high rank and most of their links are in China in Mandarin. So yes, foreign sites do pass link juice and even better if they are relavent to your field.

The fact that the site you are talking about is selling link will mean they will probably be hit by the next round of Panda updates, so save your money and hire a marketting person to create you some great content that people will want to tweet about or post links to.

If you look at the data from the last round of updates, sites droped rank upto 90% so your DA60 could become a DR6 and no value anyway.

Look at your top competitors and what they are doing right and do it better have a look at the current whiteboard Friday video from Rand to see how it is all changing.

By the way we are PR0 but have 8 keyphrases top 3 and 16 on page 1 which equates to a huge continual growth in traffic. We took the hard route and contribute to the industry blogs etc.

The image name is different as it is late loaded by a javascript async call to fetch the image. Images are not considered as cloaking and async loads are a common practice. Since the load only seems to load an image and not text content Google would be unlikely to penalise you. But, all that javascript (19 modules) and the 36sec pageload time could cause you a performance penelty as Google introduces this new metric (they are trialing in their beta).

I would suggest you run the site through gtmetrix.com to sort out the performance issues.

I would and do target content on a range of our pages, where I think we can give the viewer more useful information. If you list a sample menu you could use the 'offers' to provide prices and specials. You can use your customer reviews with the 'review' tag. It is also good to establish your brand throughout with the 'organization' tags. I do think this is a longer term strategy as Google is only starting to make use of some of the tags now and does not have a working test tool yet.

So, overall answer is maybe target your brand on each page and pick specific pages with strong useful content that you begin taging, at least until a good test tool allows you to check results.

Quite the opposite, these are very desirable if used for their intended purpose.

The Alt tag is for accessability handling, so it helps people with visual disabilities to understand the content of a picture.

The Title tag is used to provide tooltip information to the user when they hover over the image.

Both these enhance the user experience as thus are looked on favourably by Google.

BUT, it's an important but - seo's in the past would stuff these tags with useless spammy content. e.g. You have a automotive business so the alt tag:

'car gmh fast cars sports cars red cars porsche' that is bad.

'Our new sporty red porsche makes an easy ride through the windy roads of Denmark' - good

The title tag could say 'Porsche 911 2005 touring the roads of Denmark'

It's all about adding value to the site for the user not manipulating the search engines. So, use alt tag to describe the item in detail and the title to provide extra details. Do not have the same text in both as they have different purposes.

Hope that sheads enough light on the subject.

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It looks like the page may be dynamically generated, otherwise you would need to update that part of the page each time a new rating is given. There is a lot missing for either RDFa or schema.org rich snippets.

You would need to add the mark-up in the code that created the page, and that is probably best left for the site designer.

Since schema.org is the new standard and adopted by Bing, Google and Yahoo, it is the better option. It also has more detail in its schema.

I would get them in the shopper mindset and transfer it to the street. Ask them, do they go into a retail outlet and ask to see the '82374 in category?' as the shop assistant looks at them with a blank expression, or do they ask for a 'womens rain jacket'. When you bring it back to real life examples, I find customers understand what you are trying to convince them. So, why should it be different on line, if you want any rank benifit from the url it needs to have your key words in it. If you are targetting 'womens rain jacket' and you get a mention in a blog etc a anchor of 'www.company.com/womens/jackets/rain' still includes the keywords where as the cookie cutter url does not. It also makes the site look more professionally created than a DIY cookie cutter version.

Brent makes good points and you will see a inital wave ride in rank but it should bounce back higher. I like to also add Canonical head tags to make the new origin of the site's pages. I would also prepare a new sitemap and submit it, if there are a lot of pages, make the move in groups, with a resubmit after each group. We have had pages bounce back much quicker than 30 days too, some in as little as a week.