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Sorry the title was indeed misleading. I assumed that by making my website faster in India, it would help its ranking.

That said, what about using a country-based TLD domain instead of a subdomain? I do own webhostinghero.in

Would that help my rankings even though 95% of the content would be the same on the .com and .in with the appropriate href lang tags set?

Thank you but I'm not looking for help on how to make my current website faster. Like I've said, the website is really well optimized in terms of speed. Cloudflare is not an option. I tried it and it causes lots of issues with the site and it actually made it way slower than it actually is. I use Amazon Cloudfront as my CDN.

I want to make my website faster in India AND improve its ranking in this specific country. Using a CDN or Cloudflare won't do that.

I've got a blog with some tools and business directories (https://www.webhostinghero.com). Actually my website is in English and is hosted in the US since its biggest source of traffic is from there. My second biggest traffic source is India. The issue is that while my website is really well optimized (in terms of speed), it is still slow for visitors from India.

So my question is: Would it be possible to have a copy of my website on a web server located in India and use a sub-domain (ie.: in.webhostinghero.com) to access it without being penalized by Google? Would that be considered duplicate content? What would be the HREF LANG tag set to for India (EN-US, EN-GB... EN-IN??)

I thought that having a sub-domain for a specific country could also help its rankings.

Thanks in advance for your inputs.

P.S. Sorry my english sucks.

I recently bought an SSL certificate and moved my site over to HTTPS. Now how do I make the change in Google Webmaster Tools?

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en

Every cafepress domains have the exact same content for the most part.

Part of my website is a blog and I don't see the use of using a country-based TLD except if I'm going to host it in another country to increase performance.

That said, there's also a directory of companies accompanied by user reviews and various data. I would like to target other countries with this directory by listing only companies from these countries.

How would you suggest to handle this?

I would like to know if it is possible (and beneficial) to target other countries using country-based TLDs?

When visiting a company website for instance, you often get redirected to your country's site. For instance, when you visit cafepress.com from Canada, you get redirected to cafepress.ca.

Since both websites (cafepress.com and cafepress.ca) have the same content, how they get away with it with no duplicate content issues?

I'm using https://serps.com/tools/rank_checker

I've got some pages that appear somewhere around #25 in Google. Every now and then, it just goes away from the top 100 results for a few days (even up to a week) and then it comes back. I've got other pages that rank around #8 which falls down to about #75 for a while and then it comes back.

But while a page may be gone from the top 100 results in the US, it still ranks at about the same place everywhere else in the world (+/- 10 positions).

I've seen this happen in the past but never it happened so often.

What gives?!?

I just saw this link appear for my website (www.webhostinghero.com) in ahrefs.com this morning: http://freedatingsiteregistry.com/tag/website-template/

(search for text anchor "hosting reseller")

Obviously it's a scraper site. Other than that, my link profile is clean.

Should I disavow this?

I know there's no such thing as a perfect profile but when you're building links, do you try to maintain certain ratios such as:

• dofollow vs. nofollow
• exact match anchors vs. raw URL anchors vs. random anchors (click here, visit site, etc.)

Thanks!

My website is fairly new, it was launched about 3.5 months ago. I've been publishing new content daily (except on weekends) since then.

Is there any reason why new posts don't get indexed faster? All of my posts gets +1's and they're shared on G+, FB and Twitter.

My website's at www.webhostinghero.com

What is the best way?

• Using a different domain
• Using a subdomain of the main site
• Using a folder of the main site

What's your take?

I'm thinking about implementing Disqus on my blog.

I'd like to know if the Disqus comments are indexed by search engines? It looks like they are displayed using Ajax or jQuery.

Yes they are spammy, they have keyword-rich anchors.

I tried to contact the website owners but these websites seem to have been abandoned a few years ago.

I guess I'll leave it at that. If I get a problem related to unnatural linking, I'll know which ones are the cause.

There are speculations about a Google update being rolled out today (Sept. 12).

That said, it is difficult to say without knowing what your website is.

I bought an existing domain name on Sedo sometime ago and launched a new website on it in early June this year.

I noticed there are about 5 or 6 spammy links from directories that were obviously bought by the previous domain owner but they're pointing to pages that never existed on the new website.

Other than that, the link profile is 100% clean and it's quite good actually, lots of links from my content being shared on social networks.

So should I be worried about these links? Like a lot of webmasters, I'd like to avoid using the disavow tool, I really don't trust that thing.

The higher the weather, the more changes there are in SERPS, that's all.

Some are saying there was an update earlier today so we should see this reflected on mozcast tomorrow morning.