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Thanks a lot Jane

I jane

Thank you for your answer. I will put the hreflang tag for each post created.

I am saying that for the german language (for which I won't have a blog in german) I will link it to the english, so to: domain/en/blog. And the same for each of the language for which I won't have a blog. For example:

domain/it/ will have a link to domain/en/blog

domain/ja/ will have a link to domain/en/blog

domain/nl/ will have a link to domain/en/blog

etc..

I am a bit afraid to do that because as I said before, among my 20 languages, only 3 languages will have their own blog while the rest of languages will link to the english blog.

I have other 17 languages on the same domain with about 190 pages / language, so if I put on the main navigation menu (header) a link to the english blog this means that I will create 3230 internal links the home page of the english blog. I don't know maybe it is too much and I should leave the rest of 17 languages without blog.

What do you think?

Hi andy

I already have a drop down menu to change to any of the 20 languages. What I plan to to for the rest of 17 languages which won't have a specific blog (because I don't have 20 native speakers) is to add to the main navigation menu a direct link to the english blog home page like this:

Home | Products | About | Media | Blog | Store

Of course, as the link to the english blog will be on the main menu of each language, it will create the same amount of internal links than the number of pages per language.

is it ok?

Hi

I have a domain in 20 languages. I want to integrate a wordpress blog (in subfolders) in the 3 most important languages like EN-ES-FR (actually they will be 3 independent blogs) and I want to know which structure is the best one.

OPTION 1

domain/en/blog/post1

domain/es/blog/post1

domain/fr/blog/post1

OPTION 2

domain/blog_en/post1

domain/blog_es/post1

domain/blog_fr/post1

Last question. For the rest of the 17 languages of my domain, can I put a link the english blog or is not recommended because maybe too many pages will be linking to the blog?

Thank you

Hello I hope you can help me to clarify my doubts

I have a multilingual domain www.domain.com structured like this:

www.domain.com

www.domain.com/es/

www.domain.com/fr/

www.domain.com/it/

www.domain.com/de

It contains a language selector list on the header where people can change the language of the website like this

English

Spanish

French

Italian

German

I want to move the German language to a separate domain. I have recently bought the LDT www.domain.de especially for that.

QUESTION 1: Can I still mention the german language on the language selector of www.domain.com in order to drive german people (that lands to the English version) to the external domain www.domain.de (maybe with no follow)?

Like this:

English

Spanish

French

Italian

German linked to the external domain www.domain.de

QUESTION 2: Can I also mention on www.domain.de the same language selector like this:

English linked to www.domain.com

Spanish linked to www.domain.com/es/

French linked to www.domain.com/fr/

Italian linked to www.domain.com/it/

I am bit worried because I don’t want to create be interpreted like a reciprocal circle linsk or a kind of link scheme

Thank you

Hi again

We have never bougth links and never done link exhange.

Yes we also seel our own products. That's why i have told you that we have always been ranked better than our own distributors.

During 2010, 2011 and until nov 2012 we have been working with the biggest SEO companies in the US. They were "supposed" to do all white hat seo but I figured out that they did for examples blog posts but on their own blogs. I thought that they were searching blogs related to our niche but they had created blogs and put posts in the same blog for all their customers including me. So the same blog could talked about cars, penis extenders or insurrance etc... It was like 1 or 2 posts per month.

I have cheched the links with a link detox and they can be suspicious someones but none of the toxic ones have been made by them. All the toxic ones are pages that i don't even know, I have never asked them to add a link to my site. I have found as toxic links few forums introduced in discussions between the member but they don't come from us.

They did also article submissions but like 1 article every month and with no more than 1 anchor text and posted 1 one press release website only to not generate duplicate content on the net. So I don't think this can be the problem.

I am not an expert but I have started to become one trying to figure out all what they did. I also think that many bad links have been made by the compentence. Our sector is also hard.

If it is panda I should try to put refresh the content?

thank you

Hi

I have never received a message from Google on WMT neither for the reconsideration request sent at the end of january nor for the disavow file sent at the begining of january after 3 months of work . The file indicated all our huge effort trying to ask for the bad links to be removed. For each link I have sent them the emails sent to the webmasters, their reponse or no reponse.

We have never received a message of unatural backlinks.

(I have received one but it was that another page of another domain was not accessible).

Can it be an issue about similar sites? i tell you that because we have worked a lot asking to our affiliates and distributors to delete the duplicate content that they had copied from our site but despite of this job that we did las autumn maybe google thinks that they are too much sites and he doens't know which is the original one. I am really not sure about this issue because we are the manufaturer so our site is the oldest one (8 or 9 years).

For example there is this site that belongs to one of our distributors: http://tinyurl.com/bu6m769

He started to be well ranked when we have started to go down in SERPs.

Can google confuses our sites?

bye

Thank you for your answer james.

I agree that we can continue to build a good link building strategy and maybe add fresh content to the site but the problem is that If I am not able to find what I am doing wrong I may stay penalized like this forever.

As i said before, we have taken and read one by one all the google guidelines paragraphs to see if we were violating something but I am sure that we are doing things exactly as Google wants so I suppose that the problem is outside the site but can't find where.

My URL is: http://tinyurl.com/nslu78

Hi, I really hope someone can help because my site seems to be penalized since last year now.

Because we were not SEO experts but doctors and wanted to do things in a white hat way so we have given our SEO strategy (on-site and off-site) to the best US SEO agencies and now we are penalized.

We was ranking on the 1st page with 15 keywords and now we don't even are in the first 10 pages.

I know that our sector is suspicious but we are a real laboratory and our site is 100% transparent. I understand that a lot of people can think that we are all the same but this is not true, we are not a virtual company that don't even show their name or  address, we show name, address, phone number, fax, email, chat service, VAT number everything so please help us.

We have spent 3 months analysing every paragraph of google guidelines to see if we were violating some rule such as hidden text, link schemes, redirections, keyword stuffing, maleware, duplicate content etc.. and found nothing except little things but maybe we are not good enough to find the problem.

In 3 months we have passed from 85 toxic links to 24 and from 750 suspicious links to 300. we have emailed, and call all the webmasters of each site several times to try to delete as many links as possible.We have sent to google a big excel with all our results and attempts to delete those badlinks.

We have then sent a reconsideration request explaining all the things that we have verified on-site and off-site but it seems that it didn't worked because we are still penalized.

I really hope someone can see where the problem is.
thank you

thanks a lot robert for your answer