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From an SEO point of view what are the current recommendations for linking and using the same template for the same brand on a .com and .co.uk website, so both named the same, using the same template and products but one for Europe and one for the states and Australia.

Google has not Stopped there robot.text checker you can find it in webmaster tools under blocked url's.

Agreed but Create a back up prior to updating to be sure that whatever theme and plugins you are using work.

Have same issue but it is Google doing it's dance at the moment will take some time to settle :-).

could you post a link so we can look at the site info?. also you could do a site search in Google type in site:blabla.com leaving out www. this will show you how many pages are indexed.

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The domain is not first for wooden signs, in fact i cannot find it  however Google will rank a site higher if the domain has a connection to the keyword or phrase, but there are factors to consider, most sites will rank first place for there domain name although when it comes to more competitive keywords or phrases then other ranking factors come in to play, also if a site is new Google will often rank the site higher for a short time.

Hi Yes a lot of us in the same boat from this recent update which i hope will sort itself out soon, one day i am getting a message from Google in webmaster tools that the site experiencing high volumes of traffic from quality content & it recommends placing more next thing it drops about 10 pages in Google for several keywords, Like thanks Google we love you to.

Yes lets hope they put this latest dance right quickly, at the moment they are firing arrows and completely missing the target.

When you say exposure combined with paid seo tools & exposure quicker, you are almost certainly talking link building tools, rather than tools provided by seomoz which mainly give you access to data & site improvement recommendations, I will tell you this regardless of what a lot of users on seomoz may tell you there are only 2 link building tools i know of that work 100% & do will not affect a sites Google status when used correctly, I say correctly as if they are not used correctly then they also will most likely sandbox a site, these tools are expensive as they combine not only the main software but many other paid software tools combined which makes the main software  even more expensive to use, but here lies the key to your question about exposure quicker, NO USING LINK BUILDING TOOLS AND PRODUCING LINKS FOR YOUR SITE QUICKLY WILL DAMAGE IT.

Yes your quite right, I would look for other factors for this, have you been losing links, have you picked up any bad links, you could start here by checking : http://www.linkdetox.com/ .

I have used several writers on elance, Ordering just a few to begin with & getting a sample is a good idea, I would love to say that i have been 100% happy with the quality of the articles, but as yet that is not the case so always looking for someone better.

Getting links is one thing, having them followed and indexed is another, personally i use a few indexing services like : linklliciouse just to make sure they get crawled and indexed.

Yes lets hope they put this latest dance right quickly, at the moment they are firing arrows and completely missing the target.

Have to agree big change looming seeing sites doing the dance big time.

My personal point of view is if the content is 80%+ unique and has had a manual review to make sure that it is not Spam in any way so it makes sense  then it is fine for link building. How ever others will tell you this not the way to build a brand.

Yes you can change them any time, when the page gets crawled again the description will be updated  in search results, try to avoid duplicates & I also recommend  putting your keywords in the page meta but at the same time maintaining good quality description for the end user.

They are the same url with different addresses, I can tell you on my sites i add code to the htaccess file to redirect the /index to the actual home page url, this removes the fact that you have duplicate content as both pages are the same & stops both types being indexed, recommend you Google this problem to get the right code for your host server as they do differ. Hope this helps but might not be what you where looking for.

Hi Yes a lot of us in the same boat from this recent update which i hope will sort itself out soon, one day i am getting a message from Google in webmaster tools that the site experiencing high volumes of traffic from quality content & it recommends placing more next thing it drops about 10 pages in Google for several keywords, Like thanks Google we love you to.

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The domain is not first for wooden signs, in fact i cannot find it  however Google will rank a site higher if the domain has a connection to the keyword or phrase, but there are factors to consider, most sites will rank first place for there domain name although when it comes to more competitive keywords or phrases then other ranking factors come in to play, also if a site is new Google will often rank the site higher for a short time.

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Please look at this : http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/duplicate-content