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Matt is right on this.

Some years you may have tried to look for satellite websites or more. Now it's definitely not recommended.

In our case we reviewed all our competitors backlinks to see if there is any good website to do guest blogging with.

But the main guideline is now is: write content, make it good and useful, promote it on social media.

It is the best methods (at least the 7/30/13)

I think the same

Hello !

David and Karl are right on it. I would personally work on a unique website. You can get specific pages per cites (as long as it's not the same with just different names) or you can make some blog post focus on each city problematic

Good luck !

Hello !

I've just implemented new images on my website and I would like to know what is the best tool to track them on social media (how many are tweeted, shared on facebook, etc.).

The best would be a tool telling me that this photo was shared X times on faebook, Y times on twitter, etc;

What is the best tools for you ?

Tks a lot !

Hello

I'm a total fan of sh404 it's giving amazing options to deal with 301, meta, url rewriting, canonical and alias

anything-digital.com/forum/extension/sh404sef/

Hello !

Tks a lot for your help Nathan and Cyrius. Now it's working fine (liking the page is adding a like in the fanpage and vice versa)

I did not change anything. Maybe Google just needed time.

Tks a lot

So the answer to my question would be: to use the google plugin linked to your website url and then setup properly your google page.

Hello

I got the same situation with customers recently. The best I've found was to tell them:

"You're definitely right we cannot loose the .eu. So we gonna redirect it to the BESTDOMAINE.com as main website. So people will still find you and you'll get more customers and will keep the .eu."

Then you can provide some technical arguments explaining that if he sticks to this position he will loose business.

In my case it worked out

From 50° in Dubai

Actually not as long as I know. But for the markup better to edit it straight into html (minor code is very good in Joomla Back office) so you're sure that your code remains clean.

If you have any good component doing so, please let me know !

Hello Seomoz people !

I've been struggling for some time now with an international website project.

It's gonna be an:international website with joomla.

To sum up:

• We have an international company
• The company has 13 subsidiaries worldwide (same products, different names)
• The company doesn't have enough resources to get 13 independent websites
• Some subsidiaries work in one country / one language, some others on a region (several countries, several languages)

Thanks to your community we decided to:

• Get a main website company.com

• Get subsidiaries folders (middle east, oceania and south america will be easier to link to their subsidiary)

  • .com/asia
  • .com/middle-east
  • .com/oceania
  • .com/south-america
• • .com/uk
  • .com/usa
  • .com/fr
  • .com/es
  • .com/de
  • .com/ma
  • .com/dz
  • .com/it

We also need to:

• Get some websites in different languages
  • .com/asia-cn
  • .com/asia-en
  • etc.

Now how do we do to manage:

• Regional websites (the first 4th on the upper list)

  • Google allows to affect a website to a country not region
  • Will they compete with the .com ?
  • How do we set up them for google ?

• How do we avoid duplicate content and keep local ranking

  • .com/asia-en/services1.html will have the exact same content that_.com/services1.html_
  • If we use canonical from _.com/asia-en/services1.htm_l to _.com/services1.html , d_oes that mean /asia will not rank in asia ?

Hope you can help us to figure us the best solution for this good project !

Thanks a lot.

Florian

Hello

If I understood it properly, you're wondering if you should use follow vs nofollow.

Actually it depends of your page and strategy.

Nofollow will give indication to Google on the page -it looks like they crawl also the nofollow- but will not transfer link juice.

I usually do it in page where I want to reduce the number of outgoing links. So less important information are linked to no-follow.

Do you have any specific example ?

Rafi is right. It's recommended to be closer in the url domain. But as the difference will not be huge it's really up to you.

If you have too many changes (coding, indexing, 301, etc.) it may not be justified. Otherwise give it a try it should not be bad !