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I don't get it. If I ask my friend (volunteer) to blog about my products, or set up a page or whatsoever claiming that I sell the best products in the world, why is that against google guidelines?

Google says maximum once every hour (just imagine if news sites, like NY Times were indexed weekly). So don't worry about submitting every two days.

I can't help you with any personal experience and I suppose nobody will be able to as I can't even examine a method to test this. If I were you I would just like you put every effort in planning my seo, finding the best tld. So its just sometimes worhs to listen to another opinion: I think nobody will have such isue tested and numerically graphed. So choose either domain and put every effort in gaining local links. Both domains will be able to rank everywhere, maybe one is a little bit better than the other, but tell me the method to test. You won't know. So just go ahead, purchase one -(I would choose es) and go ahead link building. Everybody saying something will be just guessing.

It is legit as carries user benefit. I'm pretty sure that is forwards link benfits as well.

I think this is not real SEO itself, but rather cross-marketing or brandring issue, however owner of all brands is the same I suppose.

2011 eanking factors survey finds acorrelation: those sites that contain outbound links are tending to rank better: http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors#metrics-5. It further more states somewhere (maybe in the video, I could not find) that linkig to Microsoft may bring better results, while linking to some other big company (exact company name is there you can look for it) triggered a fallback in rankings.

So linking to quality content by itself may should not cause a fallback.

Sorry, I noticed later that you have above the fold buy noe button as well.

Yes. So you adapt the content and you are able to place those buy now buttons that you have on your home page for example. if user goes off your page than he may be just wandering around, reading the content, than starting another search for surety bonds. Don't misunderstand me, I don't say that exactly this will happen for sure, but you give a chance for it to happen.

In our short term memory we can deal with 5-6 infos at a time. Your page is one. the content of the new page is the second. The environment the user sits in adds the third and maybe the forth. Changing channel on the webradio while reading: fifth. So I am trying to make you see that if short term memory is overload than you may be getting off the original path you came from. This is human nature and psychology: you can't hold everything i mind. You give user the CHANCE to go away.

I would not give a chance by publishing the same content on my site and placing the buy now conversion buttons so that you offer users the next step to take to become a customer.

Back to your main page: I would place that Buy now button a bit higher. I have once read a survey that states that around 80% of clicks on a website happen above the fold. I could not fond that for you but here is a comparison for you between above the fold and below the fold advertisements: http://emediavitals.com/content/improving-ad-performance-above-fold-repetition-brings-more-clicks. Above the fold is absolute winner.

Maybe I would adapt the content to my site so that the user is still able to read it, but you are able to add conversion points that lead the users back to your conversion channel. If user leaves your site can find another intresting link on government site than click through than not knowing where he came from. As far as the content is on your page you can control where the user is able to click from a specific page.

One other maybe even better solution would be to implement a see all button, to list all products under one page for the engines. Look here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html

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I would examine which countey has the biggest search volume and choose that domain (suppose that will be Spain) In this case you have primary targetting for that country, that does not stop the site from ranking elsewhere, as you already see in the SERPs. Just get enough links from other countries. If you choose .com you will miss the opportunity to add specific targeting to at least one of the taget countries.

Here's a great video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm9onOGTgeM

They will definately go away with canonicals, but take page content into consideration as well. Can the second or third page bring a different value for the visitor? May it appear in the serps for other search querries than the first? If this is the case than with canonilizing second, third etc pages you stop them from ranking in google. If they do not bring additional user benefit, than be no afraid to plce the canonicals.

I have a domain with no keywords on it

What does that exactly meen? you don't have the keywords in the domain itself or the content of the page does not reflect your desired KWs?

bought another domain with the keyword on it

I suppose that KW is included in the domain than. How many KWs do you have? 100? 50? or just one? If you have multiple keywords (which I suppose) and your original domain has many inlinks than you can take into consideration working with your original domain. If you have multiple keywords and one is good with the exact match domain but you lost 10% of inkoming link juice with the redirection, than I am not sure that it woths. That domian won't be necessarily good for the rest of the keywords.

Take these into consideration before redirecting. For the redirection part canonicals and 301 redirect are both good, in both cases you loose 10% linkjuice, however canonical is often suggested by more webmasters.

It is for sure that the second link's value taht you get from a certain blog is slightly less than the first links value. First of all blogs are on a different subdomain. Subdomains are treated different than if you have links from more folders. Secondly, google owns the best engineers on Earth, i think they are quite are aware of the situation that a lot of blogs sit on the same root domain, however they have different owners. I personally did not do any tests according to this subject but this really has never been a question to me that these are treated as individual sites.

As you are seeing well from the percentages you mention, the second page still gets traffic, but you can get the greatest results in the first 3 places of the first page. I think if you are optimizing than always go for the first and you will see the difference in number of visitors obtained from the first and the secong page in youranalytics.

You should decide which pages you want indexed. You should ask someone who uses Magento about additional practcal tips, I haven't used it so far. As i see parameters appear when you filter results according to price or some other technical parameter. The problem is not just the parameter in the url, but also that the title of the page reamins the same although both content and url is changed.This way you are generating duplicate titles as well.

One solution might be to place canonical link elements when results are filtered as those are not specific to your search term. The link should tell google that the canonical page for filtered results is the category page itself. So for https://www.theprinterdepo.com/printer-bundles/refurbished-laser-printer-bundles.html?price=3%2C100 the canonical page would be https://www.theprinterdepo.com/printer-bundles/refurbished-laser-printer-bundles.html. Be aware with simply removing attributes because if those pages are already displayed in SERPs than you might lose traffic. Canonical would be the best solution I think.

Than redirection surely takes place. If it is a 301 one than you shall be all right

Once I had a project where my rankings have improved a lot by raising yslow points from 80 to 96. Cms was joomla, the design of my choice was a totally white one, to load fast by itself but even this way adding some extra craft seemed to be benefit. Since then I tend to be concerned about this issue although I haven't done nothing like testing with it since that project. Maybe I'll do again a planned improvement to see again how much to care about these factors. Thanks for the advise.

I think this is evertything you can do. Do 301 or implement canonicals from the non slash versions of the urls to your preferred slash versions. There will be only a handful I think who will type in your urls manually rather them copying and pasting them when they want to link to it. You can do nothing with the rest: as you said: ask them to correct or bear that 10%loss of link juice.