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Hi Wagada, I've seen this come up before at Google's forum: https://www.en.advertisercommunity.com/t5/Basics-for-Business-Owners/quot-Owner-quot-Q-amp-A-Responses-not-being-displayed/td-p/1675268 Read that one, and then I suggest you post a thread there on this topic and see if there is currently a known bug surrounding this.

I agree with Robin, I don't think there's a solid way to do what you want - or one that is infinitely superior to GA (which also doesn't damage conversion rates). IP addresses by and large, are sometimes inaccurate at the city / town level but they are 'usually' accurate at the national level. The only other option you have in GA is looking at browser language settings and that's incredibly misleading due to most PCs being shipped on US English by default

You've asked a great question, Wagada. The fact that the version of the content on Constant Contact's page has already been indexed does mean that you'll have a duplicate content challenge, but there are ways to address it. The whole problem with duplicate content is not that it generates some kind of penalty, (it doesn't) it's just that search engines then have to decide which of the dupe pages they should point to in the search results. The version you publish on your own site already has several things going for it, and you need to add additional signals to help the search engines prioritise your site's version. First, at least part of the rest of your site is probably already talking about the same topics, so there will be more relevance there than from the random topics on Constant Contact. Plus, if your newsletter is like most, it will be linking back to your site, giving the SEs another signal. The biggest thing you can do to get your site's page considered as the canonical (primary) version is to get at least a few links pointing to it. Social media links can be very useful for this, especially from Google Plus, but a solid link or two from other sites will go a long way as well. Also, make sure your page does NOT link to the CC page - that way there's a clear authority signal that only travels one way. For future reference, if you're going to publish newsletter content on your own site, there are a couple of steps to take in preparation. Publish the content on your own site a day or a couple of days in advance Use the Fetch and Render tool in GSC to help it get crawled and indexed before sending the newsletter (SEs take "first published" date into account when trying to ascertain which page to return in results.) Make sure it's strongly-linked internally - maybe even put a link to the newsletter content page on your homepage before sending the newsletter Get a few incoming links to the newly-published page before the newsletter goes out. Use the newly published page's address in the newsletter's preheader text link where it says "If not showing up well in your email, you can read this in your browser" so the dupe page actually links back to the page you want to be considered primary. Or best yet, do the above and also turn off the newsletter archive on Constant Contact altogether and make the prepublished page on your site the only version. This is the best, but obviously takes a bit more work and preparation to pre-publish. It also offers the massive benefit of delivering those newsletter viewers who do want to read in a browser to your own pages where you can induce further activity/conversions. Though it should be said that in the newsletters I've managed, very few people click the "view in browser" links anymore anyway. Hope all that makes sense? Paul

Hi Wagada I ran an online shoe shop for many years and we occasionally got sales from Australia - it was appealing of course as the seasons are opposite to ours, so selling boots in our summer would have been a massive boon. The other advantage, of course, is that there is no VAT for a UK company selling into Australia - (I'm not 100% certain that there wouldn't be if you breached a certain threshold but it was the case for us). The problem for us was that our pages just did not rank at all in Google.com.au. When we tried marketing through Google AdWords, sales were terrible and we had to switch the ads off even though we were offering free shipping. When they saw the .co.uk floods of doubts about shipping time and reliability were clearly as an issue. My view is this. If we had bought an Australian domain  - .co.au then we would have started to rank for many of the products that we were attempting to sell over there. We couldn't have got around the shipping issue as it would still have taken 7-10 days to get the items there, but I'm certain our sales would have been substantially higher. You can try a subdirectory that might work after a fashion. You could even try a subdomain like au.sitename.co.uk. (But frankly, if you are going to go that far I would set up a simple Australian website). I think you know though that the only true way to appeal to the Australian market is to set up an Australian version of the site. Maybe you can get someone to build a simple Wordpress version, highly optimised for SEO? So 1. Best way - set up an Australian version  (you should own the domain name anyway as later the decision may be easier) 2. Compromise - sub-domain 3. Weakest way - sub-directory Your biggest challenge is, of course, marketing the product - who am I to say that if the media picked up on it in Oz and you got a 'heap' of backlinks from Australian news agencies that your page wouldn't rank, it might... but then again... Playing devil's advocate - if you lack the money to set up the Au site then that may suggest that you need to maximise sales in the UK first before thinking about tackling a country 10,000 miles away. Regards Nigel Carousel Projects

Not very helpful message from them. If I had to guess the issue, it would be one of the following: https://www.facebook.com/policies/ads/prohibited_content/personal_attributes https://www.facebook.com/policies/ads/lead_ads/health_information Aside from that, the appeal is the way to go.

As per Dirk and Logan, personally I would try and not have two sets of content to be delivered, the point of responsive is really to have one page that is simply delivered visually consistent on all device types. With regards to it being considered as duplicate content this is a little harder to determine and I would imagine Google may not penalise you for it really unless it is really spammy and used for keyword stuffing/cloaking etc. Here is an old video from M. Cutts, although it may not be totally relevant in today's SEO landscape and is probably more geared towards duplicate pages.

Generally speaking, what you're describing is the fact that the sites just don't have enough Domain Authority and links in order to rank well for the keywords you're targeting. If the sites are new, it might take some more time, as they may be "sandboxed". They need to become trusted more.

Good plan, thanks for this and all your help.

Hi, In my opinion, Google definitely does take certain reviews into account when ranking sites. What I mean by that, is reviews that can actually be measured numerically. These are the two types of reviews that I believe affect rankings: Google + reviews Reviews using schema to markup the rating Both the above can be easily measured by using the number of stars, points etc (which all represent a percentage out of 100%). By using a very simple algorithm, you could collect this information from across the internet and calculate how well on average a particular website (this can also be done for products, recipes etc.) ranks with the public. We have also had our fair share of negative reviews (it has to be expected) and have actively sought to increase our positive ones (honestly and naturally) to combat this. For us, it seems to have worked successfully. What's your opinion on this?

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