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Hi Steve,

I'd like to reference this site www.cityfeet.com that i did in one of my earlier posts. This site ranks extremely well for any geo targeted search for the keyword "office space for lease" . Type in " office space for lease dallas" or "office space for lease new york" they are always in the top search results. Their URL structure is below:

http://www.cityfeet.com/cont/new-york-office-space

http://www.cityfeet.com/cont/tx/dallas-office-space

So it seems like you may have to adopt a dual structure on the site. For the more competitive search terms you can have the keyword close to the domain name. For the others , you can have a state abbreviation and the city keyword next.

Hi Rafiqul,

The site overall does not seem like it is user friendly. All i see are ads on the site and not a lot of quality content. The keyword "love messages" has been over used on the home page and might be the cause of a penalty. I also see that you are using "infolinks" that highlights different keywords on your page. From a visitor standpoint, it's not very appealing and might be causing some issues.

Hi Jorge,

Option 1 would be good if you have a lot of sub pages that can be classified under the "utilities" section. This would also help the search engines to index and classify your site pages better also benefitting you on the SEO side

Option 2 would be recommended if you don't have a lot of content that can be classified under "utilities"

Think about the user first and what would be benefit them. To directly answer your question, in my opinion , the closer the link to the home page the better it would be from an SEO perspective.

We use network solutions and have had a good experience with them overall. Very good customer support.

Hi,

2 really good links below discussing this topic:

How to do SEO for different countries

International SEO - Whiteboard Session

Cheers,

Just to add to Mihai's response, you can always delete the sitelinks from the GWT if there are some irrelevant links showing up for your website.

Hi Brittany,

While it is not essential to have meta descriptions for each page, especially if they are not indexed by Google, there can still be some benefit to having meta descriptions for pages people are linking to. Users can see the meta description if the page shows up during a search query, and sites with strong meta descriptions tend to come across as more professional. There is always a chance the page can show up in other search engines and directories, so you won’t want to worry about random text showing up. There is no real ranking benefit to meta descriptions, but Google does indicate whether meta descriptions are too long, too short, or too similar in Webmaster Tools, so it would seem Google would consider proper meta descriptions to be of at least some value.

Hi pikka,

While rel=”next” is used much more commonly based on search engine research for this query, the two do appear to be interchangeable for all intents and purposes. For best practice, it would be recommended to use the more common term rel=”next” just for safety’s sake, but I would not worry about any other terms using the apostrophes just yet.

Very good process and well explained in the blog. You should do a You Moz post on this showcasing case studies and results that you are experiencing with your clients following this process.

Haven't figured that one out either :). Apparantly Roger Mozbot  does not like questions being deleted , only edited:)

I would agree. Delete option is not necessary.

Quite a generic question. IMO this forum is best used for specific questions/issues you may have. You'll engage the community much better with specific queries.

Thanks Logan, appreciate the prompt response.