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Make your site easily accessible

"Build your site with a logical link structure. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link.

Use a text browser, such as Lynx, to examine your site. Most spiders see your site much as Lynx would. If features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Macromedia Flash keep you from seeing your entire site in a text browser, then spiders may have trouble crawling it. "

• Based on this, my initial thoughts are that Google will only crawl and index the default language version of the page. I would look to append something to the URL to differentiate the two language versions.

I've subscribed to this thread because this is something I'm interested in too, I hope someone else with a little more experience can clarify this for us both, but in the mean time have a read of the above! I hope it helps

• Aaron

How long have you had the Campaign set up on SEOmoz?

Hmm, I've taken a look at your site, and I now realise your concern. All of the links are followed and your site looks fully index-able by the Bots...

I assume from this that the only reason the pages were not crawled was due to the lack of inbound links to your deep pages.

Bots do not necessarily crawl all pages linked to from the home page - although this is usually the case. Perhaps try writing an article about each page and submitting it to an article directory with a link pointing to each deep page. That should help!

Always split test with Google Website Optimiser as said above! The integration with Analytics is the cherry on the top for me!

Crawled by what? The SEOmoz bot,or Google Bot? In both cases, it is probably down to the linking structure both internally and externally.

As I mentioned above, I'm keen for a user generated one! I'd be willing to contribute!

Maybe it could be a feature where Users could add and then vote up and down the directory to keep it fresh, relevant and up to date. Obviously you'd have to implement something to stop spammers...

That said, I've still got a couple of good niche links from the current list

It might also be an idea to check out the backlinks found in Yahoo Site Explorer (http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ ) - I've found some links in one and not the other.

A few thoughts on that Alex.

The first is, don't set up that redirect! In short it won't help you, for reasons such as potential duplicate content, confusing to visitors, and you'll have to choose where to link to...

If you own the original .com, then this is where your main efforts should lie. Directories, happy customers, and industry blogs will be more inclined to link to your companys site if it feels more legit.

Depending on the keyword difficulty, focus on making some linkbait content, be it a free online calculator or tool, or a free PDF download, or just some standard infographis and try distributing all of this content to relevant niche sites and social media.

In answers to your questions then;

1. Hyphens in this case will not have a negative effect on your URL. I believe Google will start clamping down on hyphenated keyword rich domains, as shown by the recent google branding serps update, but the timescale and effectiveness of this is unknown.

2. Don't go the extra mile and 301 the domain, unless you're keen on building links to both sites it's simply not worth it, focus on your main domain and optimise the landing pages for your keywords.

Solar Monster

I'd be interested in seeing this! I don't think there is currently a method of doing this, as I haven't yet found out how to access historical keyword data.

Maybe like you I'm missing something, but if not it's definitely something to add to the product roadmap.

Lets hope Rand comes to the rescue!

My rule of thumb is anything visible and on page should be optimised for the users experience.  If it's going to help them consolidate the knowledge that they've just got from your site then it is beneficial. It will not help you in climbing the SERPS, as link juice and other metrics does not pass backwards in a link.

Continue to push! Link building isn't easy! Vary your linking techniques, and keep monitoring your progress through software, be it a Spreadsheet or Pro SEOmoz!

Great suggestion, I do this, but then through Extension Manager enable toe SEOmoz Toolbar for the quick links to OSE and the metrics

What is a mechanical turk?

Good explanation - so this can in theory be used for deep linking in the short term?...

Yes please explain more! I'd love to learn what you mean? As in post URL's, or ask people to search for your terms?!