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Never thought about serving the dutch content on .com and not .com/nl Just because I find it looks strange, and I am more a fan of multilingual SEO with .nl, .de and the .com for English. The reason why we have subdirectories is because of the links, rankings etcetera. Maybe in a existent situation Dutch language on .com isn't that strange (if I look at it in an other way).

Well thanks you've helped me sofar, I will ask on Dutch communities before I'll decide.

Cheers!

Well the case is that the main market is not English but Dutch. I had the Enlish content served on the main domain. And in practice the main domain ranks the strongest and I was faced with the head domain ranking stronger than the prefered domain .com/nl So I chose to put the English content on .com/en and my this ranking issue was solved.

It feels better to serve the English content on main domain, but with Dutch language as main language this situation occurs. But would you also choose in this Dutch situation to serve the English content on the main domain and suggest I have to build more and better links to outperform the main domain to prevent it from ranking above .com/nl?

Thanks,

Well you've mentioned "even though the way you want to do it is a bit strange"

So I am curious how did you apply this yourself on a multilingual domain with subdirectories? Did you? And what would be the "other way" the one you find less strange?

Thanks,

Hi Dimitri,

Well I am sorry, I was wrong. Indeed you wrote noindex follow.

Still I find that a bit strange way to solve this issue. How do you handle this issue in a multiligual subdirectories structure?

Hi Dimitri,

Thanks for your quick response!

Well that is strange! I would never try the noindex,nofollow on the top level domain. Not in my wildest dreams

Is there an other solution, one that makes sense? Do not want to kill the domain in Google

Thanks,

Hi,

I have to optimize a domain for Google for 3 languages (.com with subdirectories)(Dutch, German and English) content is only served on domain.com/nl, .com/de and .com/en NO CONTENT is served on domain.com. 
How do I exclude domain.com from getting in Google? Because there is no content on the top level only on subdirectories.

Is there a rule we have to add to htaccess? Or Robots.txt by disallow all and next lines allow /nl, allow /de and allow /en?

Thanks a lot!

Kind regards,

Alain Nijholt

Hello Mike,

Thanks for your quick response. Yes I assumed it was all links (int, ext, followed, non followed. But when I count approximately 5 k links and total links says 225 k?

Strange that these figures do not match... Developement? I though SEO MOZ was het best, I have been using it for 5 weeks now.

@Mike, sum up the links from a few analysis and I think these do not match the total links number...

Development? Please help me out...

Dear colleagues,

Who can explain the following to me?

Subdomain metrics - Total links

The total links is huge compared to the sum of internal and external links. I do not understand this metric. Can somebody help me to explain this the metrich "total links" I have to present these metrics to my customer and do not want to have "don't know" as an answer

Thanks,

Alain Nijholt

BMC Internet Marketing

"Also any reason you need such accurate information? I mean't WMT numbers should be good enough." I need this information to be sure of a good internal link structure and linkjuice purpose.

William,

Thanks for the url. I want to know the Internal Followed Links and not the Inbound. But to "clear the air" I have put a printscreen. Stange is is this analysis the number 5 for Ruijters compared to the competitors.

What do you think?

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