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Hello Gary,

The better solution for sure is to host sites in their own county like mentioned here: http://www.dirjournal.com/articles/multilingual-seo/

At the mean time you should take the product into consideration as well. If it has low serch traffic and not really competitive in the target country you can give it a try with one page, as a tld for english sites does not prohibit it to rank in France for example, so traffic and competition matters, but different tld and hosting are better choice in the long run.

If you are doing it with one site you can implement a content delivery network so that you pages are loading faster in target areas and taht is good for seo, however it does not replace the signal the local server gives to google about the target area.

Hello,

Are your products gone forever for sure? If you place 301 or 303 the visitors clicking your pages from the serps will see a new content instead of a 404 eror page that is for sure, so it has its user side benefits. However if you are ranking for these products in google and these words are bringing in traffic to your side i would think twice to delete those pages. I you delete the actual content you are ranking with the useres and the engines will see a totally new content, so if you lose your product specific pages you will also lose your rankings sooner or later.

I would leave those pages but do a little reorganizatin on the landing page. I would push the current content a bit downwords and place a one-two line convincing text why you have finished to sell those products (why users should not serych for them longer) and give an alternate better solution for the product type they are searching. So like we have finished selling lithium batteries as the new xy technique has longer 2x life period, and has half the time to charge. You can look at these astonishing products here

Do you know any methods to block robots.txt file from external users?

According to my knowledge this possibility does not exist. One fast method to get over this is to get a crawler program to crawl your urls, so that you can quickly copy out all url in the folder paste in in the robots.txt and leave aout the one that you want in the index.

in analytics you can actually see the links that send you visitors. You can have a look at them under traffic sources and linking sites. However this is not a complete set of sites linking to you.

An intresting thing to know would be if the site has already got several inbound links. If not I would definately start up with rewriting the urls with the aimed keywords and redirecting the old ones to the new ones.

This is a hard work for sure, but has its beneftis.

The actual linkbuilding startegy is another question and it is different in each ad every case depending on the subject of your site. You should try directory listings, blogs and forums to start up.

Open site expolorer here by seomoz, or you can try open site explorer by yahoo. Here you can find a list of some more if you would like to try multiple ones: http://www.toprankblog.com/2009/11/1-seo-tools-for-tracking-inbound-links/

Hello,

This is seriously hurting your seo. The best way to get it over to implement canonical links in the head section of each page, so that it will tell google which page to display in the serps. You should choose the all lovercase letter one with no .aspx ending.

Thanks Cisaz

I am not intrested in the payment itself but rather in the basket function and this kind of webshop stuff

What plugin should I use to make a webshop taht is good for seo as well?

Should I use wordpress indeed or should i use some other open  source CMS?

Great question, honestly, i haven't got a good answer

The case you mention is not sandboxing but penalty due to bad links. Sandbox only occurs with totally new domains in the first few months. Maybe you or the previous owner of the domain have purchased bulk links and google discovered it. You should remove those links and ask for reconsideration in google webmasters.

I think than you had better consider legal steps. If they have acces to your content from a third domain or ip they can also do that from a furth or fifth one. So no metter how many ips you will block, if they do know you feed address they can subscribe with a completely new one. In my opinion if this is the case than legal solution should be the best for you.Copyright your articles.

hello Boson,

I can help you with google. The thing you are looking for is: first click free. You let anyone to access the first page of your content when getting to your site from the serps but request them to log in for the second one. You can do this with a session id. In depth: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/10/first-click-free-for-web-search.html

Maybe one of the simplest solution is not blocking those sites to access your content. Make your h1 tag a link to the actual post. So if you have a post title post1 on the url domain.com/post1, the post1 heading on the top of the page should point to domain.com/post1. So if anybody  steals your content than they will point back to the original content on your site, so of all copies your site will be he strongest one with the most links.

I would also place links in the content body pointing to my other pages, so anybody copying my content would be appriciated as they are giving handful of backlinks in return. I would also write a little info panel in the bottom: this atrticle was originaly posted on: www.domain.com and written by xy.com. Find similar articles here: domain.com/relatedposts.

In the mean time I would place a leagl statement that copying my content is all right, but just with the links included.

You have to cotact with your programmer to change the url for you, or in some cms systems you can do it in the backend.

What do you exactly mean by scraping? IF they steasl your content, than using a new url is not the best solution fo you.

Rss and rankings: rss usually contains the same information that is already available on your site on some url (not in all cases of course but usually). If that is the case than  the feed only has negative affects on your rankings as it duplicates the content: the exact same text that you can find on domain.com/xy can be found on domain.com/feed/xy. So if that is the case you should not worry about your rankings.

If you change your url you should also redirect teh old one at the same time, if you do not do this than all of those who are yet subscribed will lose your feed, you do not want that. If you redirect, than anybody who knew the old url will get to the new one. I think it is pointless.

I would block the ip adresses i do not want to access my content. You could also try to apply legal stuff: say nobody is allowed to use your copys on their own sites. It is easy to find out if anybody does.

Hello Everyone,

What plugins do you use to speed up wp?

Sorry, my English sometimes suffers a little bit:)

I am just simply intrested which answers were marked as good.