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Sorry for the confused!

@andy-halliday is correct and I thought the accidental Dec 2013 update had been more recent

thanks! very helpful!

We are changing our homepage (and gradually the rest of the site) to Angular JS.
In order not to lose anything in terms of SEO we are implementing Hashbangs + escaped fragment snapshots.

Are there any other SEO considerations you think we should have and/or additional elements that we could add to the page to improve it in terms of SEO?

As Andy wrote, Page Rank is going to be outdated very soon since it will no longer be updated.

However, for the next months at least, I still think it's useful to compare PR vs DA and if there is a discrepancy you can probably assume the site was penalized (at the very least it is a warning sign to look into more closely)

I get Matt Cutts saying this isnt really a priority, but still want to get it right

Our menu links have anchor text and the links within the page are images (next to each other with dif pics)
It seems like I should keep menu links both as Follow, but NoFollow one set of the image links on the page, right?

My company is redoing our homepage and there will be 4 links to our main play pages (5 games).  2 in the menu and 2 within the content.

I was thinking I should no follow one of the links on the homepage + 1 in the menu so that we don't have link dilution from having multiple internal links to the same destination within 1 page.

Does this make sense? Any downside of this or suggestions of a solution that may be more effective?

Thanks!

Thanks! That is exactly what I wanted

Now that Universal Search has disappeared is it preferable to host videos on YouTube?

What would be the benefits of self hosting and using a service such as wistia?

Thanks for the response!

Do you have a link explaining your solution to someone a tad less technically advanced than you

Pages for my companies play process load slowly because the process is heavy.

Below the play process there is a block of text, put mostly there for SEO purposes.

R&D are proposing to load the SEO Area only after the play process is loading.
This seems like a very bad solution, because loading the SEO Area asynchronously will make the content unreadable to Google.

Am I missing something?

Thanks for the video and porn search

Based on my experience, links are still very much part of the ranking algorithim for gaming. I understand the importance of white hat methods, but my question was more of a logistical one.... if all websites in RU have a section where they write about advertorials they will never publish an article for free no matter how amazing the outreach, content, relationship building etc....

So, given that seems to be the reality of the RU Market (according to my RU SEO/Content person) I was asking if someone has advice for white hat link building in RU and/or if they have different experiences than we have found.

Only in certain verticals, it seems to still be a ranking factor for gaming sites.

According to my RU content/SEO person all the major websites/blogs in RU asked for payment to post an article... and there is no advice in RU/Yandex for implementing white hat methods.

I work for a gaming company, so trying white hat is difficult in any country.... but still seems worth trying.

Does anyone have experience or advice about RU link building?

It seems like you probably don't want 4 different TLD, but instead would want to use ahref lang to indicate to Google that you are showing different regions different content. See here for more of an explanation - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en

Alternatively, if you do want the unique TLDs you could put a canonical to whatever content is duplicate back to the main site (.com probably).

yes, that is the super simple explanation my mind was blanking on.

thanks!

Thanks.... We have a translated site where we follow these guidelines.

However, this is more about increasing conversions and showing one banner to new visitors and another banner on the same URL to returning visits, with some additional small variations on the page as well....

We want to show new and returning visitors different versions of our homepage (same URL)

What, if anything, should we use as the markup to tell Google what we are doing?
Any danger that Google will think we are cloaking?

Thanks!

Thanks! I had a RU content person on my team ask on a Yandex specific forum and that is the answer she got.

I have 2 RU websites.

One is my main site www.xxx.com saw big increases in rankings + visits last week. My geo-specific subsite, www.xxx.ru generally ranks better but did not change last week.

Any insights about why this occurred?

I have all that set up, but it's not major enough to tell me anything because my industry is so affected by the market and fluctuates according to external factors.