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The trick is finding someone that covers your sector. If it's an e-com site, the Internet Retailer Top 500 is popular and a newer list from website magazine: https://www.internetretailer.com/top500/ http://www.websitemagazine.com/web100/2013/ There are a variety of comercial services: Compete.com alexa.com comscore.com Many vendors work with a large number of sites and get access to their analytics, and it's not uncommon for them to publish aggregate benchmarks from their client bases: http://www.rimmkaufman.com/thought-leadership/quarterly-reports/ http://monetate.com/research/#axzz2MP5G0Wug

Thanks Irving. Yes, our marketing department would like to cross-promote our other sites, so the SEO element is not our main concern here. Clearly nofollow the links seems the best policy to ensure we cross link without falling foul of Google.

you can test it out and remove the canonical for the not fully equivalent pages ... and unfortunately there is no other solution than a canonical to fix the pages that have a fully equivalent content. just test it out and keep a close eye on it and please do update this thread thank u

Personally, I don't like long pages of endless text, tend to be over-faced and move on. I much prefer something broken into bite-size chunks. However, you can't argue with the masses - I can't imagine reading a camera review on DP Review that is 14 pages long, but then all on one page! There should be no SEO downside whichever way you go, as long as the article is good.

Hi Simon, Setting up a ccTLD is definitely the best approach but it seems like it is anot a solution.  How about creating subdomains or subdirectories for each location and use rel="alternate" hreflang="x" tag and Google Webmaster Tool to Geo-target?  The tag and the tool will tell Search Engines that these content are for people in these location in these languages.  It should avoid duplicate content and you don't have to use 302 redirect. Do you think that will be a possible solution for you?

These links sound relevant and extremely wholesome. Great websites link to other great websites all of the time.

I was just writing a client based on their rank tracking data (crawled just today) so this is news to me - which module again? Campaign > Rank Tracker? (I'm not sure why but my client's data was all in tact, or is this another issue?) If it's not overstepping things here, I'd recommend having a few tools to check ranks. One I use is a Firefox extension from SEOBook.com/tools called "Rank Checker" - but it works best if you can run 10-15 KWs at a time, change proxies, and do it again so you don't get banned from using Google...but I'm not sure that sort of thing is frowned on at SEOMoz or not since I'm still new here. I personally use 3 different rank trackers for issues like this - you always want a backup just in case.