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For a site that does NOT want a separate subdomain, or directory, or TLD for a country/language would the directly translated page (static) content/meta be duplicate? (NOT considering a translation of the term/acronym which could exist in another language)

i.e. /SEO-city-state in English vs. /SEO-city-state Spanish -In this example a term/acronym that is the same in any language.

Outside of duplicate content, are their other conflict potentials in rankings you can think of?

Yes, I would like to see some study data on CTR success/failure of Capital First Letter Of Every Word vs. not. Or legibility study for fast reading comprehension. I see this as more important for ad copy than meta data, since ad copy is much more limited in characters and visual real estate.

Within Google Analytics does anyone have suggestions for how to determine the exact reverse path for a product purchased? The goal funnel does not provide in a detailed way, especially if a step is taken out of the exact funnel provided. If this information cannot be obtained through Analytics is there another tool we can use to get the exact path?

For an eCommerce site we have 301'd legacy product pages to new product pages. Is all that traffic going to show up as referral traffic from our own domain in Google Analytics?

If so, is there any way to preserve original source/medium info or will all the source/medium info be our own domain since there is a 301 redirect?

Wondering what the best day of the week is for emailing surveys. Also if there are different best days for B2C & B2B.

We have used SEObook’s Rank Checker Firefox Plug-in when running one off rank reports.

Do you have any suggestions for a replacement (either free or paid) that would not run on our own IP? Some hosted type solution. Again this is for one off rank reports for sets of key phrases. NOT ongoing week to week or day to day rank tracking.

.pro Domains have ben out there for a while but seem to as late started to be adopted. Thoughts and opinions welcome.

Craig,  thanks.  Not really a fan of reporting either, just a little frustrated.

Egol, yes the links are in source code.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/postpoliticstv.html

Thanks for response Craig,  It is just links under the category Featured Advertiser Links.  So it is a bit different than a traditional advertisement with a link.  There are a number of links to different pages/products on their website.

Could/should they be reported?

I have a competitor who is buying links in the Featured Advertiser Links section of Washington Post online.

His backlink profile is a very low # of referring domains. (38ish) with a good bit being repeats of Wahington Post.

My question, is their strategy within Google guidelines, and what can I do to combat it?

Thanks.

Working on client issue. Need tool that will verify of the 10k links which are still live or not. Tried http://www.webconfs.com/reciprocal-link-checker.php but its not functional for the volume I dont believe.

I basically have a 10k list of links and need to pull out any dead ones.

Tips fast please?

Ideally caching. I can see how many pages get crawled each day in webmaster tools but that doesn't mean that page gets cached and reflected in the algo?

What is the frequency at which your homepage (for example) would have to update and what percentage of the page's content would need to be updated to get cached every day?

What are your opinions on other factors.

Lately I am noticing multiple listings for results seem to be fading away. Example is one domain being listed twice for a search phrase The Home page for example and an Internal Page.

Is anyone else seeing this?

Safe to say Google wants to see 10+ individual domains per results page?

Local business, Name, Address

What part of my page should I put Schema data? Header? Footer?

Also All pages? or just home page?

Looking for the best, easiest, way or tool for time tracking for client work. What has worked for you?

Found the easiest way was to do a map search for the addy and just hit the link button to copy.

How do I make the address text on the site a clickable link for mobile devices?

Any user guides / videos on sh404sef plugin that you know of besides random youtube videos?

Anyone know the best / easiest Joomla SEO extension?

What is the best Joomla SEO plugin? Hopefully easy to use as well?

I use the google shortener all the time because it does pass value. I would say yes.

I would suggest multiple pages with specific focus each. Is this for a home page or a one page site?

I have also had the same issue of ose not exporting all the ones it said it found.

Wondering if any one is having success with getting their content and pictures into Thoora.

It will be labor intense. I suggest starting by claiming all listings in one place under one new login. Try to claim by postcard to be more legit. Otherwise you may just have to get reconsidered by going to the google places forum. Also another strategy is try a suite # if you can't get or register the main addy.

I would say if all their prospects are in NY host it there. Otherwise host anywhere in the us and use a cdn.

With limited specific info at this point I would say no. Again Google ranks web pages not web sites. So just because the home page ranks really well in their actual HQ city doesnt mean that a page for a city a few miles down the road wolnt rank well too. And it wouldnt hurt either. It makes comon sense that a Company providing a specific service a town over could also serve this town. Just build links to the right city pages and you should be good.

I would just suggest individual pages per city per service (or product).

Have also had tons of problems with google places over they years. Did this get resolved? Looks like your description is up there, and only google reviews at this point.

I have had tons of google places issues over the years. Might be worth posting in the google places forum. Maybe an employee will find your post. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Places

Probably not. I would create additional pages just for Toronto.

This might be worth watching. If my memory serves me correctly there was talk about that in here http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/getting-value-from-xml-sitemaps

just tweeting and ping services are my best bet. what about updating site maps?

I would definitely mix it up at least slightly. Either the audio or video. Maybe even 10 seconds of non identical data would be enough to be considered unique. Let us know how it works out!

Would be awesome if you could.

You could script in that all organic traffic is displayed one number and all ppc another. Theory is that organically it's a consistent number across the board. Only ppc, or other sources would see a different number.

I try to keep it below 20%.

I would say it probably depends on competitiveness of vertical. If very competitive your going to have to find larger seo company with cash flow to work on side project till it's "in the money".

My load time went down by 50%. Non eCommerce though. I would say yes. However I would definitely look into all the variables with eCommerce. Should be great though.

Cloud Flare is the easiest I have found. MaxCDN is another I have heard of. And other hosting companies that may be in geographic regions you want your site to be close to can provide services as well.

I say Test it. Buy a 2 and 4/5 word domain for the same vertical and see which one ranks better faster.

I am a huge fan of Cloudflare!

I havent had any negative experiences posting the same video in more than one. I may however have not had the best results if I hadn't. I would suggest different titles and descriptions. I do know an HD video with less views will out rank a non HD video with thousands of views. Tested that on youtube not too long ago.

Found a PR4 domain that had expired and not been renewed. Best way to get all the link juice from it? just 301 the whole thing to MY main domain?

That one is over my head

the issue is the page generated for the image has all the exact same title info etc. and what were seeing is the attachment page in the SERP ranking right under or above the actual post with content. The user experience for the page with just the attachment/image with no content is not what we want.

I think it really depends on the content. Does the user need to know what category or not? Or does the content need to be organized some way. ie. if you have a car site you can have a page /ferrari/ with all models on it with each model having its own url /ferrari/360-modena but for a toppic on that site "best ferrari service in NY" then you dont necessarily need /advice/best-ferrari-service-in-ny I think it just depends on the content and user friendliness.