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Is there away to get the history of the Avg cost per click for a keyword?

We have built a lot of sites and there a few sites we no longer manage or want any association with.  When I have looked at webmasters I can see 20 to 200+ odd links back to our site. The page however at source has no reference to our website. I have searched the code but there isn't anything.  Is it safe to disavow these or just leave them?

Hi Guys

I am going to be putting some powerpoint presentations up over time.  I have a couple of questions regarding slideshare.

1. If I add links to the slideshare are these crawl able by Google etc...?

2. If I places the powepoint presentation on our website and slideshare would this be counter productive i.e duplicate content?

Love to here your suggestions.

Hi Guys

Just seeking some advise.  We know Google is very keen about site speed and the one of the best ways to manage this is to cache images use CDNs etc.. However what I am finding is that we have rapid site speed but any new updates take a few refreshes or we have to wait for the ISP to clear their DNS for the updates to show.

I have put the meta tag for non-caching and on cPanel I have developer mode active on the caching sessions which in theory will not store anything in the cache for 6 hours.

Does anyone know of anything else which can force a wordpress site on an update or image/post/page or datasbase for the browser to be flushed? I think possibly this will only be good as other users browsers may have similar issues.

It does take time. We have had similar battles with websites which breaks everything Google says about what you shouldn't do. One site dominated position 1 for 18 months. Its only just start to drop down the ranks. I don't think google actually practices what it preaches. May be wrong.

For your case agree with HTTPS, make the site mobile responsive I am noticing almost instant improvements on desktop searches. I also check your site with woorank as there could be site speed issue or trust elements not being detected. Content could be a key thing. If you have lots of poor content this can drag you down.

Hi Guys

Just wanting to get some feedback on best practices for international website.

The main website is a .co.uk there looking to target France & Belgium. The web hosting is UK based.

Do we replicate the UK site and translate to local language but use a .fr domain and have 3 versions of the websites on 3 separate domains? or do just use the co.uk with french & Belgium translation have pages related to those countries?

Any assistance will be appreciated

Hi

Wondering if we need to worry about IP Canonicalization via htaccess and if this is really required? and does would it have a big impact?

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^p=([0-9_])$
RewriteRule ^(.)$ /p/%1? [R=301,L]

the above works on our test area but not on clients so it hosting issue

Thanks Chris

Seems there is an issue with the web host.

It's from an old website so the pages no longer exist. I will have a look at the link you sent over thank you.

Wordpress is just a tool, google only effects sites which has spammy content, links etc... I have had sites increase page rank instantly when swapping from a static html site.

My site is HTML but my Blog/news section is in Wordpress I set the sub directory as Blog. As soon as I can spare some time my site will be migrated to Wordpress.

Spammers only use wordpress as its simple and easy to use.

use Wordpress it's ace!

I have taken a slight hit position 1 to position 2 or 5 on keywords I was strong on... It seems that  some of my competitors sites which are crap seem to have gained. It seems the active SEO ers have had a hit... However I think I will bounce back...

That's a sound solution , I ve been adding to the footer. Possible get them to write review on google places reviews. Think need to change my approach. Cheers Takeshi

I don't think Google really has sorted the algo's out, there seems to be absolutely no correlation.  There are sites on my targeted keyword list which no way should be on the 1st page of Google however they're up at the top.  Even with higher domain authority, page authority better link profile and sites speed.  Sites which are keyword stuffed also rank in the top 3 positions.

It would be great to see what other moz'ers are experiencing

Agreed the end user doesn't care about SEO.  But if the user experience is even horrendous difficult to navigate it must have a high bounce rate.

One site I am not going to mention but the server he is running is blacklisted for email spam, I know one SEO company report them for Spam to Google, they're keywords stuff, poor user experience looks like its from 1999 and has spammy links. Still sites above sites which if we took Google advise. High quality content, good user experience, not too many links on page,nice and quick to load it is absolutely everything opposite to Google is recommending.

I personally would swap to Wordpress, you will have better scope and development and SEO is easier. It would be easier to buy your own domain and find a host with Wordpress instant installer .

Hi

I added a Canonical tag into the header of the of my index page, which seem to do the trick for me.

href="yourdomain.co.uk" rel="canonical">

I also placed a redirect on http://yourdomain.co.uk to http://www.yourdomain.co.uk by changing my htaccess

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www. [NC]

RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

^^^ be careful with this as it could bring your site down. This works on my server so please double check before implementing.

Thanks for all the comments. Its made it a lot clearer.  Strategic seems to be the best fit. I have been letting one or two random posts on my site. This will now stop.

We've just swapped our site to SSL and we've noticed a big difference on some poorly performing pages.  We jumped several positions and slight traffic increase.

I think SSL would definitely benefit any site.

I would always expect a drop in traffic for about 2-3 weeks while things settle on google and with existing users and then it should ramp up after that.