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Thanks for all the responses.  I can't use subfolders because that is the structure of the languages on the site

www.site/fr

www.site/es

etc....

We are launching subsites for legal reasons so need to have them.

Any other suggestions?

We are planning on opening localized versions of our website throughout the world and in the US.

For countries these websites will be:

www.site.co.uk

www.site.fr

etc....

For the US would it be better to add the states onto part of the domain name or use a sub-folder.  What is the advantage/disadvantages of each?

Meaning, should it be:

nj.site.com

or

site-nj.com

We have an affiliate that wants us to link to his site to help him get started.  His website looks okay and is in the same niche as us.  However, he has PR 0 and no Page Trust.

We could work in a natural looking link in a news article, but there is no way he could be considered any kind of "authority" link.  Can linking to his site harm us?

In the past week we have started having problems syncing Google + with Hootsuite.  Has anyone else had this problem and/or suggestions of how to resolve it?

Thanks!

Definitely not important.  I still add them in because I think it helps our content writers structure the page and some minor search engines use them.  I know some people think they can actually cause harm and don't use them at all.  Whatever you do, make sure not to spend too much time on them and not to keyword stuff.

The only time they have any relevance is if you are using them for Google news.

That is a cool tool that tells you about the quality of your website text, but I want to know if specific text on my page is readable by Google.

That is a cool tool that tells you about the quality of your website text, but I want to know if specific text on my page is readable by Google.

Hi,

Is there a way to test if my content is readable while it is still in testing mode (meaning there obviously wont be a cache)

Thanks!

Hi,

My menu has a image with links to some of the main pages on the site and text underneath it explaining what the banner is.

Will it be beneficial or harmful to have the text hyperlinked to the same pages the images go to?

Any stats about whether the number of long tail searches has been increasing or decreasing in the past year?

Thanks!

Your Belgian page is probably less strong than the other ones you own.  On the page itself try increasing fans + engagement.  Off page - increase the links going towards the Facebook page from your website and other external websites.

After the last Panda update on Jan. 22 my rankings dropped significantly in the AU and UK but not in the US.

We operate in UK and AU and not the US so if anything the rankings should be the opposite (which also obviously would be preferred)

Any ideas for why this would occur?

My site has many error URLs that Google webmaster has identified as pages without titles.

These are URLs such as: www.site.com/page???1234

For these URLs should I:

1. Add them as duplicate canonicals to the correct page (that is being displayed on the error URLs)

2. Add 301 redirect to the correct URL

3. Block the pages in robots.txt

Thanks!

Google seems to have discontinued their robots.txt checker.

Is there another tool that I can use to check my text instead?

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my website is translated into 10+ languages, but our news articles are often only published in 1-2 languages.  Currently, URLs are created in the unpublished news languages that then 301 redirect the user to main news page since the content doesnt exist in that language.

Is this implementation okay or is there a preferred method we should be using so that we don't have a large number of pages on the site with redirects?

Thanks!

It has to be noindex because our development team does not have the capacity to make these websites unique structure/template from our main site.

For example - the main site is www.red.com and the new site will be www.blue.com and the only way to launch www.blue.com is to have it basically be the same site as www.red.com (and it needs to be launched now for legal reasons).

We are also launching localized versions of our website such as www.red.co.uk and are planning on using the canonical tag for these sites.  However, I thought that for the sites with a different URL we could risk having Google see us as a Network since the content will be so similar and traffic flowing in both directions - and this is something important to avoid so in order to use the completely new sites they need to be separate in terms of content, ip, hosting, etc... (and have traffic only flow in one direction).

Do you disagree?

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This is the 4th message since December 23....that seems too much, correct?

For legal reasons my website is going to launch non-branded websites.  We do not have the capacity to make these site sufficiently unique from the main site so we are planning on having them be NoIndex NoFollow.

Are there any potential SEO problems here?

What will the implication be if in ~1-2 years from launching the NoIndex NoFollow we make the site unique, take away the tag and want to start promoting these sites organically.

Thanks!

Thesis is a good theme with built in SEO advantages.  Headway is great if you are looking for one with the most flexibility.

As Matt said, using Yoast and ensuring everything is set up important is just as important as picking a good theme (if not more)

In the past few weeks I have started getting messages from Google webmasters about an increase in server errors.

According to our r&d team these messages come at times our site has been down and Google is not an accurate measure of the site health.

1 - are they correct and is there a better tool to be using?

2 - could be harmed that Google is occasionally running into this problem..that is then fixed within a few hours?

Thanks!