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Damnit, the one time I don't ctrl+c before hitting submit, grrr.

Anyway, I misunderstood, I though you were pulling descriptions from a .xml file not having your feed crawled.

Do you really want your feed to be indexed? Just duplicate content isn't it?

I'd think about blocking bots from crawling it (though please seek a second opinion first).

And to answer your actual questions the RSS description is not the same as the meta description (though I'm not sure if adding it will stop readers parsing the feed).

That second link is anchored to the wrong place.

Regardless I also cannot find the .faq page. I just ran Xenu over it to see what it could find, but no broken links showed up.

Afraid I don't use Tumblr either, so eh, pretty useless post. Sorry.

Well, you only really need grave, acute, cedil(la) and circ(umflex).

é = é
à = à
ç = ç
ô = ô

and on the very off chance you need them uml(aut) and tilde.
ü = ü
ñ = ñ

Basically the letter you want and the appended diacritic code.

This page was the first one I found.

Lul, wut? o_O

Put the French words in where you'd usually put the English words.

<title>Sèjours linguistiques et ècole de langue á sitename.com</title>
Etudier le langues et d'apprendre de la maison avec notre programme de grande langue">

Make sense?

Shouldn't be any different than doing it in English But remember to use the á etc for character coding (though FF will sometimes display these wrong until you close the window and re-open it)

Parlez-vous français? If not, write out what it should say in English and ask the client to translate or factor in translation costs. Don't just rely on Google Translate.

As it's a very established site I'd also be careful of following my move host and change whois suggestion as this can look as if it's changed owners. You do want both of these things, but it can potentially have a negative effect instead. Make the client aware and give them the choice. I'd probably still go for it.

Is it a new site or an existing site?

Start by getting a host in France, changing the whois (if necessary), adding the meta language and adding the target country in Webmaster tools. Take you an afternoon or so.

Then work on getting links from .fr sites and tidy up/improve the code as necessary. If you don't know how to change the <title>tags you'll have to read documentation on yur CMS or for HTML.<br /><br />I wouldn't necessarily translate the site into English if you're not targeting English speakers.</p></title>

I like this idea best

You could also specify in webmaster tools to ignore the 'id' parameter but that's a bit risky depending on how the rest of your site is built.

Lots of things

I assume the content is French already

Specify the country you're targeting in Webmaster Tools
Host the site in France
Get links from French websites
Set the language in the header ()
CONSIDER using the fr. subdomain or /fr/ subdirectory (pros and cons here)
Add a physical address in France to the about page or similar (minor/ I can't prove it does anything)
Make sure the whois has a French address
I would guess, where appropriate, there may be some use of 'xml:lang=fr' ([">tag info](<META HTTP-EQUIV=)) (I never use this)
Use accents coding them like 'è' so all browsers can read them (In general search engines will see e and é as the same thing, but users won't like it)

The very best thing you can do is to use the .fr domain, but I assume that's ruled out.

If I think of any more I'll come back

What happens when you view source? Is there a tag?

If it's their I'd imagine you're all right, if not, then you'll need to add it.

You can try a lynx viewer which in theory should return every link on the page (it shows all links at the bottom).

These viewers attempt to replicate what search engines see, but don't really look at much beyond the code (ie if you can't see them it probably can't).

Content wise, shouldn't be that hard to find people depending on what you're willing to pay. You can easily get a decent 300 - 500 word article for around £12 - £20. If you're only paying $5 per 500 words then you're going to get people at the lower end of the food chain usually.

With exams ending students may be looking for more work so you can try http://www.studentgems.com/ beyond that find someone you like on elance or odesk.

I can recommend to you website designers or WordPress coders, but I don't know any good designers that also code into a CMS. I'd say you're actually looking for 2 different people, but also remember that you'll need to give the designer a decent brief, even if you want to let them run riot with their own ideas.

You looking in a particular territory or does it not matter where they are?

Doubt we'll be able to tell you much without the site and since you already have a contact working on it then you're going to get better advice from them than us.

Read through the terms, make sure you nothing they don't like could possibly apply to you (be strict) and wait until your rep gets back to you.

EDIT - Assume there's no malware warning in WMT?

EDIT 2 - (since you updated the questions :])
Yes these questions get indexed.
Getting around the ban is at the mercy of Google. Sometimes yay, sometimes nay.
You'd like to think £50k a month would get you somewhere, but it's almost entirely arbitrary.

If you get lucky with a good contact it is possible that you might get an answer to what you need to change, alternatively they may just ignore you until you go away. So many nightmare stories for adwords users out there it isn't funny.

They're worth about tree fiddy.

What are you actually trying to work out? For me a twitter follower isn't an individual unit but an average.

e.g. Of 100 followers, I get 50 visits a month to my site, of which 2 buy a product for a £100 total profit, so 1 follower = £1

It's not super easy to track, but is doable depending on your goals. I would imagine you want something similar.

Yes, engagement is good, but unless you're making money (or whatever your aim is) from them, then they're worth nothing.

If you're creating content that isn't getting links you need to make better content.

The blog/forum comments and such like aren't just to get links, they're to make people aware that your stuff exists and if it's any good, hope that they continue to read your stuff and link back editorially. Guest post, network, get out there, but you're not going to be able to get a tool or outsource that. Accept that promotion is part of being a content producer. There's no shortcuts.

Realistically there's not much you can do with $200 (per month?) in terms of pure link building. Unless you're happy to outsource to people from poor(er) countries to do this commenting etc for you (and as it's tied back to you I wouldn't overly recommend it). So, you need to think a bit differently to attract links.

You could run competitions on your site and use that as prize money, you could give away stickers to likers or commenters, you could become a app dev and publish a free (to make and dl) iphone app, you could do any number of things to pull people to the site but you're not really going to get somebody to run a link building campaign for you at that price (I wouldn't imagine)

I don't really know what kind of site you run so can't give specifics.

It's not worth spending money on anything that'll increase your toolbar PR unless you're planning on selling links, but I'm sure this is just semantics and you're meaning to help you rank

Big 'paid' directories like YDIR, JoeAnt, BOTW can help a new site gain a little authority quickly, however if you're some weird niche and on a page far down them the link juice power of them isn't going to be particularly strong.

Remember you're not actually paying to be in the directory for these sites but for somebody to review the site and see if it's worth including. Don't get links from directories who say they will sell you an entry!

For the price I'd recommend sinking it into some sharable content (good infographics, a few videos to populate a youtube channel etc) and/or invest it in something else that will add value to your brand. The directories aren't bad as such, just maybe not the best way to spend the money.

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But yeah, if it's a decent description (and you seem to be happy with it) I'd look elsewhere for problems first.

Hi Damien,

Not a double post just because I got there first

Would always encourage people to chime in with their own opinions even if it just confirms what was said.

It can help the asker know if an answer is good advice or not

The code I've suggested will only help if it's pulling the description from DMOZ or the Yahoo Directory. Do you have a listing in either? If so is it the same as what is showing?

Even if you do have a listing it doesn't necessarily mean that's where it's getting it from.

As I say, if you've just made the change, wait for a week or so and if your description is long then make it fit into a normal SERPs length snippet.

However it may be that you can't actually do anything to change Google's mind on what it shows for that search term (you may also find the snippet is different depending on what is searched for).

First give it at least a week or so to update, it doesn't happen immediately.

But, yeah, Google does that sometimes if it finds a chunk of text it thinks is more relevant to the users' search. I've seen this mostly happen on pages with very little text content (image or video heavy pages say) but sometimes it's just because it doesn't think your description is relevant to your page.

I assume that it's from the page and not your DMOZ or YDIR description (if it is either of those add  or to your pages). Very small possibility if you've added a different description to a lot of other directories it's being picked up there.

Not too much you can do about it if none of these. Make sure your description is accurate and if it's more than 150 characters try to bring it in under that.

Pretty sure both say they are interchangeable.