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as your website has more pages, manual taggin becomes more difficult and problematic. Especialy if you have multiple people doing it.
And on most websites the queries visitors enter are not very similar. (google has new queries constantly)
Thus find a search provider (Google can do that for you) to help site search!
You did not realy ask a question... so no resonses.
But we are 6 months ahead. so you must have tested it!? What did you find? Did it work?
Google does not like what you are doing!
Google wants to have the same content on a page (that rules out option a)
Option B sounds better. but make sure the copy is still on the page. Just vary the content you are presenting based on the user. (this is called the liquid internet)
Did you assign the geography in webmastertools? This is advised and should already prevent some of the problems might they arise ( i think it should be OK)
Using a canonical is always a good way of harnessing the link value to one specific version.
You could test if a problem is there by running your englisch keywords against the local version of Google.
Google likes speed! But users like speed as well!
But google only punishes those who are among the slowest in their category. So you should focus on the experience of your users. Using different tools to optimize your code. Although it is google's speed tool, it is certainly not the holy grail of testing or a ranking full blown ranking factor at this time.
The article you refer to is inspiring.. but written within a context.
Companies that spend time and money on SEO optimization will eventualy spend time and money on speed metrics. thus the best companies com up high in google
Yes! Google would punish you (or do not give you credit for the links) if you would overdo it.
Matt Cutts explained that using pr articles, press releases and blog spinning in order to get more (or to much) links was not allowed and a nofollow should be added to the links.
Also excessive use of linking from widgets can be a reason for penalty. The question is: what is excessive?!
Google is all about unique content. So no excessive content spinning.
I think you will need to clarify your question! it is not very clear.
I you are asking how to make code in order to call a number if someone clicks on it you can use:
[Call me!.](tel: 020-716541333)
The franchise name is a brand name i presume. In that case is does not make any SEO difference. You will rank for your brandname anyway. Choose the most correct version and just run with it. The authority is going to be there!
If the franchise name is something like carinsurance.nl.. THEN you have an interresting case.
In the dutch language the word:
"jaloezieën" is the correct way of writing. In google everyone uses "jaloezieen". The results on the google page are different. Based on my research the main difference is due to the incomming links beeing spelled in the correct and the incorrect way.
Google is always gratefull for all information you give it. Based on that information they may or may not make descicions of their own.
I think that google is very aware of what pages have changed and they will check for themselves anyway. If you have a very big website it might be an advantage to include the time. this to optimize on your (limited) crawl budget.
Google does not require it : https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183668?hl=en
but.. if you can, why would you not put it in?
Please consider the user first. A user is confused if he found a page for a wedding magician and on the same page a coporate story.
And keyword wise it is much easier to have 2 different pages for google. If you want to know all in's and out's i would have to write a blog artikel, but just 1 page, 1 message and 1 specific keyword is optimal (do not overdo it)
Dear Tom,Please use SENSEO firefox plugin to improve the h1 and h2's on your pages. use only one h1 on a page. Reconsider your title tag.
don't try to rank for wedding and corporate on the same page. (title tag)
If you are trying to find active and influential people on twitter and other social media. You could try to follow those that have a high ranking and have certain keywords in their BIO. This way you can follow people more easy.
Socialbro has this feature. and some of the other follow people on twitter services
Google Can and will index pages, even after nofollow links are added. It might me that a different domain is linking to that page thus the nofollow is rendered useless.
The yoast plugin adds a noindex. The noindex is only applied after recrawling plus some day's. you can check this in google by looking "in cache" and see the date.
Even so, google still can and sometimes will index it. (eg if you do noindex on you whole domain, google will still hold you homepage in google for a long time) Google makes a decision based on their parameters.
I would try to give the customers looking for the old brand names and their services as much as possible the ultimate landing page. This is for SEO and customer value.
So having a customer land on a page -this is old find the new- is not optimal. Make sure that from this "brand" page you direct them to the specific vacation they were looking for based on the old brand.
I would not direct the value to the homepage. The homepage generally does not rank for all keywords. You need the content. You will prevent the dampening factor to kick in if you make the pages anchor text /brand correct.
of course, it depends how much other content you have and are creating.
There is also the question of WHAT are you trying to rank on. The keyword stuffing penalty generally hits when the keyword stuffing is excessive and uncalled for.
You will probably not rank for "dining room" in the top 10 if the rest of your content is automatically generated. As a very general rule: do not use the keyword on a page more that 25 times and do not exceed 10% keyword density. BUT it may vary from case to case, from keyword to keyword, from market to market.
if customers start looking for the .com domainname (direct traffic) you will loose some customers.
Especially if the .com does exist and offers similar products/services.
Your Google+ profile (about section) does give you the option of adding links to your bio. As far as i can see them, they are dofollow.
example:
it seems to me that pinterest has changed since last year.
some links seem dofollow to me.
http://pinterest.com/wouterblom/ top of the profile
The links on the source page are NOfollow!
Very recently linkedin changed the way they link. The links in the profile are no longer "nofollow" the new links are like this:
<a href="[/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Estramark%2Enl%2F&urlhash=dWm-](view-source:http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Estramark%2Enl%2F&urlhash=dWm-)" target="_blank" title="New window will open" name="overviewsite">
(http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http://www.stramark.nl/&urlhash=dWm-)
Question:
What impact does this redirect have for the linkvalue of a link from linkedin. ( it is better than nofollow but what is the impact of this redirect? what actually happens and is the value?
URL for the profile i mentioned it on.