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Hello, all SEOers.

Today, I would like to get some ideas about handling multiple domains.

I have a client who bought numerous domains under purpose of prevent abuse of their brand name and at the same time for future uses.

This client bought more than 100 domains.

Some domains are paused, parked, lived and redirected to other site.

I don't worry too much of parked domains and paused domains.

However, what I am worrying is that there are about 40 different domains are now redirected to single domain and meta refresh was used for redirections.

As far as I know, this can raise red flag for Google.

I asked clients to clean up unnecessary domains, yet they want to keep them all.

So now I have to figure out how to handle all domains which are redirect to single domain.

So far, I came up with following ideas.

1. Build gateway page which shows lists of my client sites  and redirect all domains to gateway page.

2. Implement robots.txt file to all different domains

3. Delete the redirects and leave it as parked domains.

Could anyone can share other ideas in order to handling current status?

Please people, share your ideas for me.

Hello, all SEOers~

Today, I would like to hear your opinion regarding on Mobile site and duplicate contents issue.

I have a mobile version of our website that is hosted on a subdomain (m instead www). Site is targeting UK and Its essentially the same content, formatted differently.  So every URL on www exists also at the "m" subdomain and is identical content. (there are some different contents, yet I could say about 90% or more contents are same)

Recently I've noticed that search results are showing links to our mobile site instead of the desktop site. (Google UK)

I have a sitemap.xml for both sites, the mobile sitemap defined as follows:

I didn't block googlebot from mobile site and also didn't block googlebot-mobile from desktop site.

I read and watched Google webmaster tool forum and related video from Matt Cutts. I found many opinion that there is possibility which cause duplicate contents issue and I should do one of followings.

1. Block googlebot from mobile site.

2. Use canonical Tag on mobile site which points to desktop site.

3. Create and develop different contents (needless to say...)

Do you think duplicate contents issue caused my mobile site rank on S.E. instead of my desktop site? also Do you think those method will help to show my desktop site on S.E.?

I was wondering that I have multi-country sites which is same site format as I mentioned above. However, my other country sites are totally doing fine on Google. Only difference that I found is my other country sites have different Title & Meta Tag comparing to desktop site, but my UK mobile site has same Title & Meta Tag comparing to desktop. Do you think this also has something to do with current problem?

Please people~! Feel free to make some comments and share your opinion.

Thanks for reading my long long explanation.

Hello, people~

I want to discuss about Bing indexation.

I have a new web site which opened about 3 months ago.

Google has no problem to index my site and all pages within the site indexed by Google.

However, Bing and Yahoo is different story.

I used manual submission, Bing webmaster tool to let Bing know about the site.

However, Bing is not indexing my site yet.

I researched about it and found that my site should have some external links before I get index by Bing.

I check external links of my site with Google webmaster tool, SEOmoz tool and "link:" on Google.

All tools show different number as below.

• Google webmaster Tool : more than 50

• SEMoz site explorer : 5

• link: on Google: none

Why all method of checking links are different and which on should most depend on?

Also how many links should I have in order to get index by Bing?

Could you people please share your opinion?

Hello, SEOers~

Today I have a question about URL extensions.

Which one is more search engine friendly between URL with extensions and without extensions?

e.g.

• URL with extension : www.example.com/tv/lcd.jsp

• URL without extension : www.example.com/tv/lcd

I heard that URL without extensions is in trend considering user experience.

User experience is also important but I would like to know from SEO perspective.

Please people~ Help me out with this~! Thanks.

Hello, people.

I have a questions regarding on Video Optimization using microformat.

As you all know, Google, Yahoo and Bing now support Schema.

I want to use microdata or micro format to add explanation for my video.

I am wondering now... that

Schema has "VideoObject" micro data.

Also Google support "facebook share" for video.

Which one should I use for my video?

Can anyone tell me difference between above two?

HELP PEOPLE~! PLEASE!

Hello, people!

I have some questions regarding on Google spider.

Many people are saying that "Google spiders only have US IP address."

Is this really true?

But I also saw video from Google's offical blog and it said "Google spider come from all around the world."

At this point I am really confused.

Q1) I researched and it seems like Google spiders have only US IP address. THen  what does exactly mean by "Google spider come from all around the world."?

Q2) If Google spider have only US IP address, what happen to site which use IP delivery?

Is this means that Google spider always redirect to us site since they only have US IP?

Can anyone help me to understand??

One more questions! When Google analyzing for cloaking issue, do you think Google analyze when spider crawls the site or after they crawled the site?

Hi Shane Thomas.

Thanks for your feedback.

Actually contents is not exactly same, but alot similar. Because I sell different products for different countries.

For example, I sell 30 products for US but only 10 products for UK. In this case, my UK site has only pages for 10 products. Of course, contents lay out and products are similar.

In this case, should I worry about cloaking?

Also, how search engine can see "intent is not deceptive or not"?

I always wondering about that. ^^

Hello, Lewis-SEO. Thanks for your reply, but I am not totally following your answer.

What do you mean by "Google only version of the site"?

You mentioned as follow.

"You will therefore need to decide which regional variation you want Google to end up at when it tries to visit/crawl the www.example.com URL"

Is this meaning that I should set "user agent redirection" for Google bot to send it to particular regional site? e.g. send Google bot to only www.example.com/us/ no matter which country IP address Google bot has?

Please correct me, if I am wrong. But this sounds more cloacking to me.

Google bot with DE IP address should redirect to www.example.com/de/ so google bot can crawl right contents. And when Google bot with UK IP addres should redirect to www.example.com/uk/.

I think if I send alll Google bot to www.example.com/us/ for example, it will confuse google bot more.

Could you please be more specific regarding your answer? PLEASE ~~~

HEllo~~~~ People.

I have a question regarding on cloaking.

I will be really greatful if you can help me with question.

I have a site www.example.com and it is targeting for multi countries.

So I use sub directories for targeting multi countries.

e.g. www.example.com/us/

www.example.com/de/

www.example.com/hk/ ....... so on and on.

Therefore, when people type www.example.com, I use IP delivery to send users to each coutries.

Here is my question.

I use 301 redirect for IP delivery, which means when user enter www.example.com,

my site read user's IP and send them to right country site by 301 redirect.

In this case, is there any possibility that Google considers it as cloaking?

Please people.... share me some ideas and thoughs.

Hello~ People!

I have a questions regarding eTag.

I know Google support If-Modified-HTTP-Header aka last modified header.

I used eTag instead of last modified header.

It seems like Google does support, yet here is my questions.

code.google suggest as following.

GData-Version: 2.0
ETag: "C0QBRXcycSp7ImA9WxRVFUk."

but I used etag as following .

ETag: "10cd712-eaae-b279a480"

I didnt include "GData-Version: 2.0". is this mean Google may not support my etag?