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Hi Yozzer.  Here's a tool you can use: http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-ww-monthly-201004-201104 From the drop downs below the chart you can select Mobile Browser or Mobile OS and then select different locations: Worldwide, Continent, or Country.  In the legend at right you can also turn on or off different data represented in the chart. When you mouse over a data point within the chart you'll see the percentage of use for that Browser or OS.  Hope this helps some.

If the content of your site is location specific and geared toward your target audience in your target audience language with a target audience tld you shouldn't have to worry much about using a CDN, especially if the CDN helps speed up the user experience in all locations.

You can also use advertising that is city / neighborhood specific via Google AdWords and Facebook to help drive more initial traffic and possibly gain more links from other local sites.

If applicable, also add your site to location services such as Yelp, Google Local, etc.

All these things will help your target city rankings more so than CDN server location.

Hi Joshua. Since the domain is so new, the tool is basically telling you that you don't have much "link juice" to go around, so you're easily going to have more links on page than Google will consider important.  This is natural and as your new domain gains links from around the web you'll be fine.  I noticed that www.rapturecamps.com is well established so sending a few more relevant links directly from there will help with the situation.

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Right. If both languages are to be that dominant it could justify the use of a subdomain for the English weighted portions, but it would take some clever coding to get it right.

You're welcome and I'm glad we could all help.  It can be a frustrating endeavor when things go wrong, you don't know why, and don't know who to ask.  Hopefully the people here helped give you both insight and some peace of mind.

Great question Neil!  Google uses optical character recognition (OCR, more specifically OCRopus) to convert visible print into search searchable text; hence, you're able to find terms in Google books via Google search. Link text is also recognizable due to the standard 'http' format, so even though you'd never be able to click it via an old book in the library (who knows what new ones will do!) Google Books is still able to recognize the link and treat it as such in the digital, Internet realm.  Now, a website that is being mentioned in books has a high likelihood of having a robust backlink profile, but that notwithstanding, I'd bet that Google would give an high amount of trust to a link that makes it into its OCR database.

As for street view, that is pushing it!  Who knows though, there's merit in giving a website online exposure for the offsite work they do via billboards, store fronts, etc.  I think you and I both would love to know the people that could truly answer that one though, huh?

Dunamis has given you some exceptional suggestions that really helped answer your reply to me in regards to creating calculators and link bait for people that may not directly produce clients but could easily give you all the backlinks you need. People that have grown up with the Internet are actually in their 30s now and beginning to become concerned about things applicable to raising a family: savings, retirement, new businesses, financial planning... These are all areas that you could tap into. Catching up on this thread and reading the various suggestions it seems to me like you have plenty to work with.  Great answers from the MozVerse!

Since it's native Chinese speakers I'd weight everything towards that priority, i.e. title tags begin in Chinese and then have their English translation. Obviously your going to run into problems with length there, but in other on page areas you should be fine. If it's only one page I'd also lean towards choosing zh as your language setting. One strategy that you could pursue however would be to code two separate, but duplicate pages, one in English, the other in Chinese that are on separate subdomains then as someone goes through the page they could study flash card style with translations being pulled from the other subdomain via a lightbox or something similar. It would be difficult and more work, but you'd also have more ability to really strengthen results, one for English and one for Chinese. Bilingual pages aren't my specialty though. I think a French / Canadian SEO could add some valuable input here as they have English and French as dual official language. Pinging someone from there could be useful, especially in a place like Montreal. Hopefully my above suggestion helps somewhat. Sorry I can't add more input about the science.

Wait. Are you saying Sarah's ovations of my suaveness are insincere?!

Looks like a scraper program that either hacked or bought up old domains and is creating self-referential link farms. Your friend might have purchased a domain that was part of this network and now there are still links out there pointing to him.  Dunno exactly.  You could check out the ownership history in DomainTools.com

I've seen things like this before but not this exact scenario.  Wacky!

Is your friend having trouble getting his blog to rank?

Google can read both so you're ok. There's always a risk in trying something new, but there's also a reward to being among the first to do something.  Since you're in the company of Wikipedia and Google translate works rather fluidly you should be fine.

I think your ignoring the human element in backlinking.  You're not trying to copy what appears natural you're trying to create content and websites that are easy for people to link to naturally.  There is such a huge range of sites in Google's index that you have to do some pretty aggressive SEO to get punished for what you do.

When one link from a reputable, high strength site can mean more than thousands of lower quality links (in both visits and rankings) there's definitely a benefit to developing relationships with people that add content to and maintain websites: reporters, bloggers, forum posters, etc.  Of course they don't want to be manipulated any more than Google wants to be manipulated.

There's not a one size fits all strategy to backlinking just as there's not a one size fits all strategy to interacting with people.

With the addition of the forum Google is telling you that you're still a site about "coffee machines" but you're also a "forum" about "coffee machines". Still to reinforce the strength of your core content try linking back to pages on your original site from your forum.  Also check for categorization issues in the sitemap and structure of the forum. You can also do goofy stuff like changing a thumbs up system to a "roasted beans" "raw beans" system.  Things along those lines.

The main thing is that you're not seeing a reduction in rank like Dejan asked.  If you're worried about advertisers missing out on your site being about coffee machines you can address this via the DoubleClick AdPlanner Publisher Center.

Does your situation benefit from having higher content pages that rank for your target keyword plus variables and long term additions?  If so that might be an easier path to tread than something like page 1: kitten, page 2: kittens, page 3: young kittens...

If you're really looking into cranking out the content you're more along the lines of a eHow or other Demand Media property and then yes, you'd need a program to prevent duplication of both content created and keywords targeted.  Still, even they get variable content by avoiding overly similar topics.

Finally, if header, footer, and side bar info is complicating things too drastically you could take steps on some pages to keep it unindexed via flash, image map, or by minimizing where applicable.

You can search for long quote, supposedly unique phrases in Google. If you find multiple pages from other domains you'll have located duplicate content. Duplicate content isn't a death knell though as Google understands that there are many sites out there which scrape and farm content. With enough authority you should outrank those sorts of sites and also be able to highlight your original content status in Google Webmaster tools.

If you have copyright status to your content you can always pursue DMCA removal requests.

Ah. Sculpting in the sense that I'm familiar with is more so a function purely of PR strength.  I think as long as you're not pushing the boundaries of contextual relevance and spam you'll be fine interlinking related silos.  In the example I provided above, if they suddenly linked to a newly created page on their website about creating an online casino account it would probably be discounted and problematic.  Same thing if they linked to an trusted neighborhood externally.

Here's an excellent recap of linking in general: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/10-illustrations-on-search-engines-valuation-of-links

and a highlight of linking to bad neighborhoods: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/more-on-nofollow-at-seomoz-and-how-bad-outbounds-can-impact-websites

If you're internal links are all fairly similar semantically you won't be an outlier.

Also, when you click in to the report you're able to export a CSV, "See the full list of issues by downloading your Crawl Diagnostics export file (.csv)."  That will help you line things up pretty quickly.

It's a bit of an apples and oranges comparison.  Sculpting is applicable for large scale sites that are having difficulty keeping pages indexed.  If that's a problem you're facing you may have to do away with some contextual links in favor of passing as much link juice as possible through the entire network of your site.

On sites not facing indexation problems, contextual linking is another asset towards the enhancement of internal pages.

It sounds like you have the skill set to be effective with Open Site Explorer,  spreadsheets, and management via your CMS.  The graphs and reports you mention are often handy to agencies reporting to clients that want a simple report. Since you're plugged in to the pulse of your site you don't need the extra fluff.  I did recommend Zoho in another post for someone seeking out project management software, but their online docs are top notch as well. Structuring your data and projects to be shared with your internal team and targeting completion date milestones should help with what you want to achieve.

No offense taken.  And that's why I answered the ROI question as I did.  If you're selling large scale real estate or heavy equipment one or two sales may be all you need for the year... it's a much different answer than if you're an affiliate for elastic wristbands.   It sounds like you have a solid understanding of the business side of your business, so if you have cost effective solutions to doing what you want to do you should be fine.

Variable link text applies to your internal website pages whether from your own site or externally; however, you'll be best served by giving your most competitive terms and most important pages one relevant link from your home page. On internal pages you can link to those same pages with less competitive and semantically related keywords, but avoid overly linking to one page multiple times per page.  It's also useful for the links to be in context of the rest of your site. Halogen Software does a good job of this (http://www.halogensoftware.com/) Note how in their left-hand navigation they use a contextual link and then use a nofolllow for the "Find out more..." link to the same page.

I can't really speak to the worth applied in this effort.  That depends on your own ROI. But a carefully crafted site will pay long term dividends down the road, even more so as it gains external links with similar keywords.