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Hi Mark

I'm assuming it only banner ads which you are looking advice with.

We started banner ads a few weeks ago, with mixed success (so far).  I would recommend remarketing, it converts well.  I would guess there is a little bit of cannibalation going on, but I still think it works (reminds customers of you, and make you look like a big brand)

Because of our industry the categories/topic are usless to us.  (In my last job in the furniture industry, we found the categories/topic more useful)

The Keywords are very tricky because you will find you ads appearing on sites that have little to do with you business, just happens to have the word on the page. So far we have not had a conversion yet from keywords, but a free "ad seen and converted".  I'm also having problems with analytics's picking up all the banner clicks, but I think its because of a quick bounce (analytic does not even get loaded to record the bounce)

I would start with a very small range of keywords and monitor it closely and use negative keywords and block site that are no good to you (flash game site are the worst for 100% bounce rate).

We started in on region, and once we are happy with the banner campaigns we are going to expand them out (we are already going to expand the remarketing campaign as its working)

Hope this helps

I asked them before, but they basicly just copy and pasted from the FAQ, saying its up to google.

Thanks for the reply, but looking into that, its over a year old, and that  issue seems to be resolved  (the trustpilot reviews are being show on the page the original poster is linked to)

Also the Trustpilot FAQ says that its review should show in adwords (but it takes 2-4 weeks), but it can not guarantee that it will show.

Trustpilot basicly advertise the fact its reviews are included in google adwords:

The reviews your customers publish on Trustpilot may appear in 3 places:

• Google’s normal organic search results
• Google Shopping Merchant Reviews
• Google AdWords Merchant Reviews

Note: "Google’s normal organic search results" , I have never seen this before with any 3rd party review site, review scores in organic search always come from rich snippets (that I have ever seen)

We have been building up our reviews (with trustpilot)  over the last few months, which has been picked up by google's reviews, and on the 2 July we passed the 30 reviews mark, (takes about a week or two before it shows the reviews on google reviews).

So we have had + 30 reviews for over 6 weeks now,  our score is 4.8/5  but are "Seller Reviews" is still not showing on our adwords.

Is there any other reason our seller reviews would not be showing yet?

Our system does this and I think its a bad Idea (for us any way),  our target market is UK and Ireland.  But when google was crawling our pages they were only getting the US version of the site, so all that nice text we had for the UK and Ireland pages was was missed by google (the US page was the systems default page, with no custom text).  I just copied and pasted our UK & Ireland text to the US default page, then we started to rank for some of the targeted keywords.

Now our problem is that is google bot is getting the prices us dollers instead of Pounds or Euros so for some of our rankings it picking up meta data and showing $ prices in the serps for the UK.

So my advice is be careful, it might seem like a good idea for users, but google will only see the US version of the site

To answer you questions:

• How will Google index these pages? Will it index the www.mywebsite.com (Japan version) in its Asia archives and the www.mywebsite.com (US version) in its North American archives?

It will only index US version for all

• Will Google penalise us for showing different content across Geo-locations on the same URL?

To my knowledge no  (we used they system for 3 years and rank modestly)

• What if a URL is meant to show content only in Japan?

Not sure what you mean, but you need different urls for different content

• Are there any other issues that we should be looking out for?

See what I said above

If the page is something like 90% the same then you will get a dupe error warning

Also moz report does not take into account canonical urls

The report will let you what pages that its is a dupe with (where it says "Other URLs" click on the number)

mine is updating fine, you should contact support

I thought it was a decent idea... probably should have said that in my first post  ( but I did give your thread a thumbs up)

I thought that was what "Featured User" on the community page was.... but looking closer, I guess not

I agree with Thomas contact amazon asking them to remove it for copyright reasons

and/or issue a dmca take-down notice with google (chilled effects), so it will at least it will be removed from the SERPs

there is http://www.majesticseo.com/ which alot of people use (and like/prefer).

Moz's crawl is not perfect, but for me it does the job  (the links it misses most likely don't have much, if any weight anyway).

it can take an month or two for it to be picked up.  The current crawl data was collected over May 19th to June 26th

(more info here: http://moz.com/products/api/updates)

But if the link is  on an obscure site or buried super deep, it might not pick it up at all

My experience is the average to the public e-commerce sites are that, but other like b2b sites mid week is busier,  but mostly all are quieter at the weekend.  But granted that different sectors will be.... different

Mike is right

If its s e-commerce site (selling to the public) that is a very typical pattern, Monday being the busiest day  with the weekend being quieter.

why would you want to do that?  Https is usually slower than http (so you might lose rankings on that alone)

This blog post by one of the moz team should answer your questions

http://moz.com/blog/domain-migration-lessons

Unfortunately it seems that the e-commerce (which is closed sourced) is built around this geo IP location system.

When I checked the cached version of the site it was indeed the American version, which was just the default simple version of the homepage (no keyword text)

I then google searched stings of texts from our UK / Irish homepages, and no results found

So I then created an American version of the homepage (just a dup of the uk/irish homepages)

A week later did my search test, and got a hit.

Now we are starting to rank for a few more keywords on the homepage

Thanks for the reply Andy

If you don't mind PMing me once you have a good look at magento vs opencart and come to a conclusion.  I think we are doing similar tasks, so maybe we can compare notes?

I was leaning towards Magento, but you have given me something to think about with opencart.  How big is the community? are there many opencart developers out there for doing small jobs? is there a plug in for payment gate ways like realex or sagepay?