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The answer to this question depends upon -- the strength of your site -- the competitiveness of the niche -- who is competing in the niche -- how much work you plan to do to promote the page -- your skill level -- and many other factors One of the biggest problems in online marketing is faced by the client who asks an SEO to promote his website.   SEOs often give them a monthly price to work on the site - such as $1000/month - and have no idea of how long it will take to get a return for the client.  SEOs can give a severely low number and work happily for a long time without producing results. Why? Because the SEO is doing $1000 worth of work per month but the competitors are doing $5000, and the client sees his rankings fall after hiring the SEO.  Furthermore, the SEO might be charging $1000 and don't know what he don't know and that $1000 has negative value for the client - for example, those hit by Penguin. It takes a lot of experience, knowledge and study to know how much force must be applied to move the needle.   Sometimes you can know what to do and how to do it but you don't have the ability to pull it off. "One may know how to conquer without being able to do it." Sun Tzu "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."  Sun Tzu http://classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html

I see thank you for your reply.

Sorry for the late answer but it really depends. If your site is about bikes and host news about tour de France and the giro and so on then you may not need to add bike tour for Bordeaux because you're already talking about France bike tour. But you're a traveling company you may have a page about France and Bordeaux respectively, so it may be needed to include those keywords just because the breadcrumb has to be unique, otherwise it may be confusing. So in most cases I would say that one instance of your money keywords should be fine, usually at the higher levels. Ex: bike tours - France - bordeaux home - bike tours France - bordeaux I suppose that everything below a bike tours France will be bike tour related. but as I told you before there may be exceptions. I hope I haven't confused you!

Thanks for your comment Paul

Ok good to hear. By the way between a menu anchor text and an anchor text in content further down the page both linking to the same page the which one is google going to use ? I know it uses the 1 st one it see but is the menu not really "considered" by google...https://www.seroundtable.com/google-footer-sitewide-links-weight-21540.html  isn't it best to have one link in addition to the menu if the menu is not given much value...

You should be fine either way as long as there is anchor text and a link being rendered on the page.

So having both would be best ? wouldn't it ? From what I understand if I only have in content links the search engine won't understand the structure of the the website or will it understand it ?

Hi A site wide menu at the top is essential. If you don't have links to, say, sub categories in that menu, then have a side menu with the lesser (lower) pages in there. Make sure they are linked through the anchor text you deem to be the most searchable term. Yes, Google 'counts' - (follows and uses it to help index for search terms) the menu links. The menu is either a structural set of links at the top on the website on every page. Or a list of links in the left or right-hand side of the page on certain pages. I fear there may be a slight misunderstanding of terminology & semantics here as I have tried to be very clear, Regards Nigel

Like that in robots.txt Disallow: /my-private-terms.hmtl

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That answers my question. Thank you,

Thank you for the information, I will start working on that.

you are welcome. if you like you can mark the question as answered if you liked my answers. cheers

I am considering js it because I am afraid that PR leaks thru it ... should I be ?

Ok that is good to know, I will wait and see if this is what happens. Thank you,

My homepage was at the same spot. So, should I expect an increase in ranking for my homepage and blog pages in the next few weeks ?

Thank you for your quick and detailed reply. It confirms what I thought.

What could also help is to ensure that you host the domains on different servers and have more unique content where possible. Itenaries would be the same but I am sure you could re-write the activies. Also the main pages of the website, the pages which you are relying for ranking on popular keywords ensure that the content is unique. If one of the two websites is more valuable in SEO prospective then take that love first, ensure that the Search Engines pick it up, before taking the other live. additional points in order to stay seperate: have google analytics and web master tools on different accounts for each website.

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