Hi, thanks for the idea. Something like that might be worth trying.

Regards

Scott

Hi, thanks for this. I think it's a bit more complicated than that... unless I'm missing something.

Thanks
Scott

Hi all

Re: www.explanar.com and www.explanar.co.uk

We have developed a website for the US and UK, with a shop on each. Each site has a network of countries they can export to.

US sells and ships to US, South America, Caribbean and so on

UK sells and ships to UK, Europe, and Africa, etc

Currently, visitors from Germany (.de) searching for phrases "Explanar", or "golf swing trainer" get the .com (US) site. They cannot buy from this site, so we have added a message to tell them to go to the UK site (.co.uk, but what I really want is for the European visitors to find the UK site only.

.com is the original URL, but with new content
.co.uk has just been set up

In the long run, we will set up .de URLs with German language, and other countries will follow, but not all.

Any thoughts would be great.

Thanks
Scott

Thanks, I appreciate your response.

Scott

Hi, thanks for you reply. One of my clients, build garden offices and I have explored a lot of garden related directories. There are loads. Defining which is worthy isn't always straight forward. Some sites look good at first glance, but when you dig deeper, they seem pretty spammy. I got caught out with one website which when I added my listing it appeared on thousands of pages in a number of sites under an umbrella called Durokon. All horribly similar. I still can't work out if that site is real or not. I tried to contact them, but no luck, so I'm now assuming it's a link farm of sorts.

I suppose we need to be more critical when doing work like this.

Thanks
Scott

We have been reviewing our off-page SEO strategy for clients and as part of that process, we are looking at a number of superb info-graphics on the subject. I see that some of current ones still list "Directories" as being part of their off-page strategy.

Aren't these directories mainly there for link-building purposes and provide Users no real benefit? I don't think I've ever seen a directory that I would use, apart for SEO research.

Surely Google's  Penguin algorithm would see directories in the same way and give them less value, or even penalise websites that use them to try to boost page rank?

If I were to list my websites on directories it wouldn't be to share my lovely content with people that use directories to find great sites, it would be to sneakily build page rank.

Am I missing the point?

Thanks
Scott

Thank you for spending some of your time to answer my question Mat.

I've been thinking similarly to you but am still searching to find some definitive research that will validate this for reporting purposes.

If image maps/shapes are showing as keyword density in SEO tools, could they skewing the SEO effectiveness of a page?

Thanks Aran, I appreciate your response and suggestion. Listening to all the talk about good content, I think I need to revisit all the H1's in my site.

Best
Scott

I would like to create a web design with 12px H1 and for sub headings on the page to be more like 24px. Will search engines see this and dislike it?

The reason for doing it is that I want to put a generic page title in the banner, and more poetic headings above the main body.

Example:

Small H1:

Wholesale coffee, online coffee shop and London roastery

Large h2:

Respect the bean...

Thanks
Scott