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Robots.txt work only for subdomain where it placed.

You need to create separate robots.txt for each sub-domain, Drupal allow this.

it must be located in the root directory of your subdomain Ex: /public_html/subdomain/ and can be accessed at http://subdomain.root.nl/robots.txt.

Add the following lines in the robots.txt file:

User-agent: *

Disallow: /As alternative way you can use Robots <META> tag on each page, or use redirect to directory root.nl/subdomain and disallow it in main robots.txt. Personally i don't recommend it.

To answer this questions needed to understand why google have implement "canonical" tag.

Before, to determine is content  duplicated or not. Google bot downloaded page content and via complex algorithm compare it with other page in index. As i think there are special bot  running through indexed pages database and searching duplicates (that's why copy-paste sites take ban not right after indexation but in some time after).

Tag "Canonical" make this task more easier, Google bot  don't need to download page with duplicate content, just need to check section, and may be hash or something like "hashsumm" for . So there are no necessity to download and store same data few times(delete stored data is hard for high-load data centers).   It's more effective and fast way to crawl large data sets like web. Also link and url related data, i think, should be added to primary page data set.

I've made a test on this, Google download much less data if the page has rel="canonical" to other page, compare to primary page.

So according this answers for your questions are:

1. Link just flow as usual's, all link data for duplicated pages merge with data for primary page. So PR may slightly decrease in some cases,by the way if you have links from same pages to both  primary and duplicated pages. But impact is not critical, almost similar to 301.

2. No, because Google bot check not only canonical. About this i have one more point, Google is statistical SE, and rate pages on topics, so in you case  even if canonical will added to pages, it will not help you rank better for both terms.

I think this site violate Google Advertising Policies - http://bquot.com/997 , so you can send a message to Google support  here https://support.google.com/adwords/bin/request.py?hl=en&display=categories

Hope it helps.

There are both stop words, and most SE's ignore them. they apply in SERP only if you search exactly "and".

So (Holiday Inn and Suites)=(Holiday Inn & Suites) , but if they search ("Holiday Inn and Suites ")  he find only page with exactly phrase.

It's done to get long term keywords traffic. When competitions is very low internal links are enough to rank on 1st  page. Below i've try to describe how they reach this:

1. Create the list of  keywords from keyword tools or site content data mining.

2. Create custom URLs structure for these keywords pages: /job-search/keyword/ =

3. Automatically create related links from all relevant pages with exact anchor text.

4. Content on this aggregated page is highly relevant to query and have enough internal links from other pages with high relevance. All such page are unique. Also quantity of content is much more then for separate items, so page indexing is easier.

5. Profit!

PS: It works rather good for sites with large number of pages in google index and large close-related pages clusters like freelance.com.

An one more point - they use rss search because Google likes fresh content and in this case newest pages are on top.

Hi Dru,

Look at this from visitors point of few.  realthread.com/products/american-apparel-2001 is much easier to read, looks better in SERP and backlinks .

As we know Google goal is searcher satisfaction,  so what is good for visitors is good for Google.

I think you can try use   for space.

Or just create segment like this:

Keyword exactly match "logo design india"

Or

Keyword exactly match "logodesign"

Agree with Istvan, i didn't see any negative effect on ranking, only positive if new hosting is faster.

Just today have read good related article http://www.seobythesea.com/2012/01/sets-semantic-closeness-segmentation-and-webtables/ .

Personally i recommend start using HTML 5 semantic tags to help Google better understand structure of you content. Even if there are not ranking factors at this time, once HTML5 became a standard it will.

Also agree with Egol - stuff at the top of the page (in html code) a lot more important know.

I'm not sure the best link structure exist. But i usually use 2 different approach for internal cross-linking.

First one is ease to use and useful for database sites, like shops, directories etc. It's simple tree hierarchy with vertical links: home<>category<>object and horizontal links between related objects and categories.

Second one i use for sites with large amount of content. It's more algorithmic and lead to measurable results in my tests. Here is it:

1. Select keyword and target page for this keyword.

2. Search in google: "keyword"  site:mysite.com

3. Google highlight "keyword" in relevant pages text, or part of keyword.

4. what you need is link to target page via this highlighted keywords, or if there are part of keyword - update text to exactly match, or add additional sentence.

Usually i use no more than 10 links with each anchor, and it increase ranking on 1-3 positions. Be carefully - too many links is not good, per link efficiency drop down when target page link from more the 10 pages with same anchor..

Way you propose is good if you can ask to change most of external links. If no, some link weight will be lost after redirect.

I can propose alternative decision. You can create special subdomain or folder for country with such issues. And redirect visitors by IP. Of course in this case you should use canonical to avoid duplicate content. In result you will have primary page URL in SERP, but all people from specific country will be redirected to working pages.

Cheers,

Vladimir

Agree with Marcus. Using different CSS for different devices  and same content will help to avoid content duplication and many other issues with SEO.

Agree,

There are many possible  variations of same URLS, not under site owner control - different ?parametrs etc. So better add cannonical to each page.

Agree, also only unique peoples counts. So if same user share 2 posts only 1 will count, but if 2 other different peoples comment on these shares, it will be 3 "talk about"  peoples

Watch this video. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/cross-domain-canonical-the-new-301-whiteboard-friday

This topic covered pretty good.