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The applicable bounce rate would be more along the lines of time spent on your site between Google Organic clicks, still you could see some benefit from more visits to the page in general so the adwords sourced traffic won't hurt. If applicable you could also run a campaign targeting SEO value as an outcome. See: http://moz.com/blog/advertisement-investments-organic-roi-whiteboard-friday.  Cheers!

In the past when I've worked on something similar, having the ccTLD was such a strong factor for the types of business each company was doing locally, that it also was key in assisting conversions, and supporting the local marketing teams. That's one consideration. Another way I'd look at it is via translation. Pretty much every site can avoid duplicate content if they are always using their localized translated versions of any material originally written by the .com, save for the overlapping English ones. In that regard it's a consideration of either writing different versions or using rel=canonical to point to the site that you want to rank the most for that particular document, again probably a consideration of the region of the article by customer, client, etc, i.e. if it was an article about a UK client or offering than the rel=canonical should point to the UK hosted site. But I'd still consider taking on hires to help with translation and copy writing as there sounds like there could be quite a bit of it. Going in reverse, you could probably have any English versions hosted on the ccTLDs point back to the .com as canonical. Cheers!

Thanks for clarifying.  Each site needs it's own author page.  I am comfortable with creating reciprocity with GG+.  Thanks!

Hi Greg, what did you find out? Please update the question and let us know if it has been answered, thanks! (Christy)

The site is 10 years old, the blog 4 or 5 years old, and has held top positions for extremely competitive keyword phrases such as 'health insurance quotes' and 'individual health insurance'.  The site was hit by penguin,  a panda, and subsequent pandas.  I successfully recovered the site from an 'unnatural links' penalty, which required the removal of a lot of links.  The site began to rank for primary keywords, but not great.  Top 50.  I saw this as an accomplishment. I hope that helps.  I left out details initially because I was hoping someone could be able to tell me if what I am experiencing is indicative of a known issue.  Thanks for your help, happy to add more detail.

Hi there, I would agree with your developer in using 301 redirects to ensure all static pages resolve only to the HTTP version while the secure pages resolve only to HTTPS. As for SEO, the search engines should follow these 301 redirects just fine, but it might also be a good idea to designate canonical URLs to tell the search engines only to index non-HTTPS pages just to be safe. The PHP code below automatically detects which version of the page is being accessed and automatically inserts a canonical tag to tell the search engines to only index the non-HTTPS versions. $currenturl= $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; //Check if it is using the secure https port which is 443 if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] == “443″) { //connected to secure port, formulate the http canonical version $canonicalversion=”http://”.$currenturl; //echo the canonical version to the HTML as link rel canonical tag echo ‘’; } ?>

What's your plan for the new pages?  Are you going to support both http and https browsing of your site for all pages?  If so Streamline Metrics answer is spot on. Or are you switching all your pages from http to https?  Do realize that having all secure pages means the browsers won't be able to cache anything from page to page, and makes page sizes slightly larger, so your page load times will suffer for every page view.  This is a major reason why most sites are non-secure for as many pages as possible, and are only secure for pages that need it.  I'd strongly consider doing this, or supporting both http and https (with canonical tags) if possible.

Hi, The IP would be static, and in most cases it will not be shared, but the cloud host server itself is shared. I am not aware of any Cloud environment that would run off of DHCP. I am not sure what they are currently paying, but Rackspace is VERY good in my opinion and quite reasonable in price. I also know that you CAN get a Dedicated Cloud Environment with Rackspace. But even with the shared cloud environment I have my own private and public IP's and root access, but it is in a shared VM envrioment. So therefore it is not PCI or HIPAA compliant if you are barred by security concerns SEO Repercussions In my opinion if you were switching your TLD to a new IP alot, this might cause some trust issues or residual issues, but changes like this are expected. So to answer the root question, NO this should not affect your rankings A good item to keep in mind is resources, since you are currently dedicated you may want to look at your utilization and verify that a move to a shared space will not affect your load utilization as a 2 Gig dedicated server is a little different than a 2 Gig Server in a Shared Cloud Environment. Also keep in mind too verify you get a datacenter in the clients home country. Hope this helps w00t!

In purchasing domains we have changed... registrar from an Asian company to a USA company, registrant, all contact persons, all physical address, all email address, moved hosting (from one USA host to another USA host), changed DNS, changed IPs.... all of that was done the same day. No problems.

http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/25141119/Linkscape%20Schedule "Our goal is to update the data at least every 4 weeks." There's an update due on the 18th, also worth following SEOMoz on Twitter/Facebook as they tend to post an update once Linkscape has been updated.

5 Steps: Take screenshots of ALL webpages Get a report on exactly how many pages were scraped and have evidence (usually Googling the site titles is very effective) Take screenshots of the meta data: Right click, click on view source, and take screenshots Once all is recorded send the website owner a Cease and Desist letter informing them to take everything offline and manually take off the pages from search indexes If they don't comply at that point any IP lawyer will help if you have all the documentation. Some will take the work pro-Bono because there's huge money to be won, especially if you did all the work for them already. Do NOT issue Cease and Desist letters without the screenshots. Usually what these guys will do is to change the appearance and add content to the meta tags and at  that point they will claim it was not plagiarized while still hurting you. It will not stand up in court. However, if you documented the scraping the only option the website owner will have is to take the plagiarized content offline completely. Any edits they do at that point is considered a scraping/plagiarism because you documented the offense. We've been able to prosecute 13 companies already. One company we publicly called out on Twitter during a popular chat leading to the company's downfall in 4 weeks. FIGHT FOR YOUR CONTENT!