I also would recommand putting it in /blog but you could also want to build it on another domain if you want to get a plan B if you 1st domain lower is rankings.It's a longer work to build linking and authority but when done you also get longer benefits.

I think that it's harder, you will need a lot of US links so it's a lot of work. The best would be to use a .com and to create a US version of your site.

USA users won't really be attracted to .co.uk and also the vocabulary you use on the site could be a real turn off for US users.

But if you absolutely want to do it, I would host a sub-domain of .co.uk on a server located in USA. But as I said, it's a lot of work that users may not appreciate to much.

No, the only reason Adwords can have somekind of an impact on Organic is when people become aware of your site and search it later using it's name. Beside that, there is no link whatsoever between Adwords and Organic.

Maybe .. Maybe if your landing page or site has a problem the Adwords Bots will report it to some team at google, but if it's the case, Googlebot would spot it some time around ... So which one did it doesn't have this much of importance.

Hi Adrian,

Since your site is an established and indexed for 7 years property, I would not move it since

1- The links are actually pointing at your .co.uk domain and that won't change even with proper redirection.

2- People must probably knows this URL in some proportion

3- Your domain has build a trust from search engines that I would not play with to start from a new one.

Maybe someone would think different, but I prefer building a new site with new content or new content to my site then to risk it's futur.

Hi Jason,

In a pure SEO perspective, I would say that Text Links are absolutely your best choice. If you choose to use the Image links don't forget to fill the alt tag. If you can go with the text links, they work just better. Image link may be better for user visual experience, but in my SEO perspective, design come second in term of performances.

What I call a RollBack is when Google goes back in the Past in terms of ranking. It happens sometimes when they run a new Algorithm or changes. They show older results in some datacenters while updated in others.

Hi,

There is several possible reasons for that to happen, I'm actually thinking of 4 possibilities :

1- Maybe Google did a rollback in the past due to Algo updates or the SOPA protest. In which case, it should be back within a few days to 1-2 weeks.

2- A Penalty on domain level. Did you see a huge drop in traffic in Analytics ?

3- Google decided it wasn't creating any value so he remove all the link at once, which would be weird all at once.

4- Change in the URL structures on the site which you probably would be aware.

Did you have those sitelinks for a long time ?

Sometimes these types of changes are from Google testing and implementing of new stuff. Google seems to be doing a lot this month with the Google Plus your World they put in place on January 10th, they did also played with Crawler Bots speed for the SOPA Blackout this week, I would on first tought without seeing anything, tell they probably Roll Back a bit, so this should fix itself alone.

By the way SOPA is evil !

In my Opinion your Brand Name should not be in your Titles. At least not on all pages. It should be in Contact pages, in pages and articles texts but it titles not that much. The reason I'm saying this is that there is 2 possible options :

1- Your Brand is not so well known so why trying to rank for your Brand when you could target a more efficient Target in term of relevant traffic generation.

2-Your Brand is well known, so that it is probably already in your Domain name and the texts everywhere everywhere on your sites, in anchor text of incoming links. You probably had a website running for this brand for a while so that Search Engine knows that your web property is the one of your brand. You probably also have a lot of links pointing to your homepage with your Brand for Anchor Text. Search Engine will then know.

So instead of focusing on your Brand, I think it's more clever to focused on bringing visitors and customer by using Keyword related to your products and services and have a larger base of customers to get awareness of the brand and then promote and recommend your Brand !

Hi Adrian,

Since your site is an established and indexed for 7 years property, I would not move it since

1- The links are actually pointing at your .co.uk domain and that won't change even with proper redirection.

2- People must probably knows this URL in some proportion

3- Your domain has build a trust from search engines that I would not play with to start from a new one.

Maybe someone would think different, but I prefer building a new site with new content or new content to my site then to risk it's futur.

What I call a RollBack is when Google goes back in the Past in terms of ranking. It happens sometimes when they run a new Algorithm or changes. They show older results in some datacenters while updated in others.

Hi Jason,

In a pure SEO perspective, I would say that Text Links are absolutely your best choice. If you choose to use the Image links don't forget to fill the alt tag. If you can go with the text links, they work just better. Image link may be better for user visual experience, but in my SEO perspective, design come second in term of performances.