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The uk version of the site was first. It was beyond my control. I would obviously have set them up as completely separate subdomains. I'm just wondering if the key terms the UK site was ranking for if Google looks at that and only ranks one site associated with the root domain for a term like "iphone insurance".

US Google still ranks the other site (UK version) for several terms.

One of my clients has one root domain http://www.website.com and there are two versions, the US and the UK. So there are two subdomains uk.website.com and us.website.com. Both subdomains contain similar content/landing pages and are going after the same keywords. One site is supposedly crawled by UK crawlers but still shows up in US-based SERPS. Will Google take into account that both subdomains are going for the same keyword terms and only rank one of them? How is this kind of thing handled?

I've employed a similar strategy for a client who has several lead generation websites. The have the ability to sell their "service" in many cities. I created several hundred landing pages specific to each city, I.E.- "credit counselor in san antonio texas". Believe it or not it worked very well. The nice thing about this strategy is that you don't have to do any heavy link building because in reality how many people are optimizing/creating content for these terms. This is the very definition of long-tail.

Although the search volume is much lower the conversion rates are through the roof.

Some things that I believed helped us:

1. Hand written, 100% unique articles.

2. Low-mid level keyword saturation. (7 instances per 500 words)

3. Avoiding keyword stuffing in titles.

4. Including a unique image with keyword in alt tag.

5. Including rich media (videos tagged as taking place within the geographic location)

6. Rolling out 2-3 pages per day.

I wouldn't pay much attention to the on-page stuff anymore. I built these pages last summer and perhaps focused too much on keyword usage. If you provide links to relevant external websites tag them with the "nofollow" attribute. They'll still be recognized as being relevant and you aren't spreading your link juice everywhere.

I'm currently unable to use OSE as well.

Also, the MozBar isn't working.

I'm in the midst of converting a fairly large website (500+ pages) into WordPress as a content management system. I know that there are two schools of thought regarding site architecture:

1. Those who believe that everything should be categorized, I.E.- website.com/shoes/reebok/running

2. People who believe that the less clicks it takes from the homepage the better.

As it stands, our current site has a completely flat architecture, with landing pages being added randomly to the root, I.E.- website.com/affordable-shoes-in-louisville-ky

I'm beginning to think that there is a gray area with this. I spoke to someone who says that you should never have a page more than 2 categories/subfolders deep. But if we plan on adding a lot of content doesn't it make sense to set the site up into many categories so we can set a good foundation for adding massive amounts of content.

Also, will 301 redirecting to the new structure cause us to lose rankings for certain terms?

Any help here is appreciated.

I have two websites that generate hundreds of organic hits each day. I want to switch both of them to WordPress. What is the best way to go about developing these sites then making them live while still keeping the current ones up?

Thanks for the input. For the company I'm working for we're doing a new blog and I plan on linking back to certain pages of the main site that are relevant to the blogpost.

Internal linking to match off page keyword optimization.

I'm building a steady link profile to one of my websites and the new links still haven't shown up in open site explorer even after 2 months. How long does it take OSE to recognize new backlinks?

Post Farmer update.........where is the best place to syndicate articles now? I'm in the insurance industry so it helps if it's an insurance-related site. Any help would be appreciated.

I'm building a steady link profile to one of my websites and the new links still haven't shown up in open site explorer even after 2 months. How long does it take OSE to recognize new backlinks?

I'm currently unable to use OSE as well.

Also, the MozBar isn't working.