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Excellent question Socialdude. So, First we tackle 301 from example.ie to example.com or example.com/ie. My first inclination is to do the redirect to the .com/ie due to the likelihood of url to url content being more similar. The argument could be that since .com is domain you should redirect to root domain as opposed to sub directory. I am still inclined to go to .com/ie as I believe this will still ultimately impact the root domain. Next, since you will want pages to rank in respective SE's in each country, I would want links going to sub directories as much as possible. So, to improve fr, I need links to fr pages, etc. I look forward to others opinions on this. Best

I agree, run a new XML sitemap, get it installed into GWMT (Google WebMaster Tools), and verifying you aren't seeing any issue with regards to the site, crawl errors, increased 404's will also help your efforts! Cheers.

cheers thanks for your input. Makes sense

You could. But make sure that the pages in there have some sort of "in-context" relevance to your pages as well. This would be better than a blind redirect. For example: abc.com/apples should be redirected to yoursite.com/fruits. No thumb rule here, just trying to make it effective for the old site.

I'd be really cautious about making yourself look spammy by putting too much of your duplicate content out there. Instead, I'd focus on doing great in the social places where your customers are based. You said you're going to registar 150 (this seems excessive), but not use them. In order to get good social signals, you actually have to build content and groom your accounts. Who wants to follow someone on social media who basically has a dead account?

Cheers thanks - it's a nice list alight. I'm currently working it

you could try blocking via x-robots in the htaccess file: http://www.blackdog.ie/blog/remove-sitemaps-from-serps/

Hey, I researched this a few months ago and the best I could find was Buzzstream http://www.buzzstream.com/ It was cool because it would crawl a website and scrape the contact information, Twitter & Facebook URLs. One of the manager's gave me a webinar about how to use it effectively. It wasnt perfect, but it was the best I found.

Proper On-page optimization doesn't guarantee you that your keyword will appear in SERP. For this you need to increase your Page Authority by getting some good links. Also according to your screenshot I see that you didn't use your keywords: ALT IMAGE (which + 20% of on-page opt for particular keyword) H1 (which + 30% of on-page opt for particular keyword) And make it or <bold>at least 1 time.</bold>

Hi Socialdude, Did you get this sorted out, or would you like some more advice still?

This is a really interesting question, because Google webmaster doesn't actually display rankings, but "average position." For example, let's say you rank #1 for a keyword phrase, but another URL on your same site ranks #50. In this case Google will report your average position as 25! Now this is an extreme example, but "average position" in Google Webmaster tools is almost always lower than your actual ranking. Or consider the example below. SEOmoz ranks #1 for "seomoz" but Google Webmaster reports the average position as 4. It doesn't really make any sense.

If I wanted to outrank this competitor www.hannibals  catering.com,  would it help me or not to use our keywords in the footer like they did, or is there a better alternative?

sure will thanks for your input it's really appreciated.

There is no evidence i have seen that shows a subdomain acts any different to a subfolder. Rather the opppersite http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/ http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/01/feeling-lucky-at-pubcon.html by the way, a TDL, referes to the .com in your example, root domain is example.com and subdomain store.example.com

If I put in facebook.com/1194488854 it redirects to your profile.

I'll have to check the redirects & make sure there not directing to the sitemap. & yea I have the sitemap setup in Google webmaster, & to my knowledge there is no anchor text links on the site leading to the sitemap.xml

EssEEmily has fantastic advice. I haven't seen your website but it sounds like it would do best by contacting journalists directly or trying to get in touch with websites you think would run your story. As long as your have some form of credibility this will be the best method for you. Social media is great but you have to really know your target market and have realistic expectations. Again, haven't seen the website and so can't comment further. I can say that paid forms of social marketing have worked out very well to get the fire started. Buying StumbleUpon traffic usually works well. If you can dump $50 into an SU campaign it's usually money well spent. I had a lot of success with Digg a couple years back. They are starting to make somewhat of a revival so if you can keep an active account going (note: submitting and voting on many stories, not just your own) it will eventually pay off. (On a funny note: I actually got banned because my front page ratio for each story was 30% - ha! Boiled my blood because I wasn't doing anything wrong) Google News inclusion: find a resource that is similar to your own that syndicates to Google News. If there isn't one, become that resource! Look in the Google News guidelines and submit to get included. I had a buddy that ran a general news source that got me in when I needed it. Haven't messed with GN in ages though so I don't have the domain bookmarked anymore. I'll PM you if I find it, if you want? Anyway, best of luck on your campaign! And a happy Friday to you!

cheers thank dude, feedburner seems to work fine for me in all browsers. & cool, i'll submit the feedburner feed to the rss sites. thanks for your input.

Hi Is that a page where the homepage shows up instead of the desired page?  I didn't see anything from your domain on the first 1-20 results. But see the screenshots.  That's a highly competitive term.  And then check out your client's domain's backlinks and facebook shares.  Very sparse. That clearly needs a lot of work.  Ryan's right, it does seem you've got your on page SEO down pretty good.  I'd take a look at your backlinking and social sharing metrics now, especially building links to those inner pages you want to rank for. Maybe there's a better example where the homepage shows instead of the menu page?  That was the original question you had, yes? -Dan EgkoYzLyg A82cpNJ6p