Define "best"

Are you looking for 1) the most cost-efficient way to get your numbers artificially up and make your site look more attractive to advertisers?

Or  2) A company that sells qualified, useful visitors who may be in some way interested in what you have to sell?

(2 doesn't actually exist)

Also, apart from a couple of experiments posted on SEOmoz, I don't know of anybody that has managed to raise their SERP rankings through traffic spikes for more than a day or two.

Hey

1. Go to your analytics dashboard
2. Add new profile, name it "exclude indian traffic" or something you will remember
3. Then go into Filter Manager and create a new, custom filter
4. In filter type select 'exclude'
5. Now select the Visitor Country option in the Filter Field.
6. Type in India (make sure it's not case sensitive)
7. Now activate that filter on the profile named "exclude indian traffic", and wait for your new traffic to roll in.

The filters don't work retrospectively, so they will only apply to traffic from the moment you activate them.

Nope.

Google won't penalise a site because of links pointing to it. A webmaster has little to no control over inbound links and so your competitor can't be held responsible for random german sites linking to it.

In general I believe local links > foreign links, but all things equal there's nothing wrong with links from other countries.

Worst case scenario Google can devalue spammy links, but they won't remove a site from their index simply because a lot of spammy websites are pointing to it.

Hi Peter,

Bots/crawlers etc can read your page no matter what order the headers appear in the HTML. The hierarchical order is there for convenience more than anything else.

You should have no problem doing what you suggest in your example. Just try not to have more than one H1 on each page.

Dev

• Agree with Albin. You don't stand to gain anything from putting a nofollow on the links.

Hi,

If your page is ranked 450th in Google that could mean a variety of different things; Google considers the page to be low quality content, duplicate content, it has an algorithmic penalty, it's not authoritative enough, or else it's simply irrelevant to the search phrase you're attempting to rank for.

It would be hard to say exactly what the problem is without seeing the page, but from what you say it sounds like a duplicate content issue. If this is one of a large number of duplicate pages then that could also contribute to Google's perception of your site as being low quality.

There are a few things you can do to try and correct the issue:

If you have 3 different pages each selling the same boots to three different places..  eg "Leather boots London".. "Leather Boots Los Angeles"  and "Leather Boots NY" - then, like you suggested, you will need more than a change of place names to distinguish between the pages.

Try changing more on the page. Meta Titles, Meta Descriptions, Alt Tags & titles on images & unique copy - the longer the copy the greater the opportunity you will have to make it unique.

Linking between pages on your own site with descriptive anchor text is very important for helping Google to identify what the pages are about. Have a look at your site as a whole and have a think about your deep linking strategy.

Finally, Rel=canonicle or 301 redirect any similar or duplicate pages which you do not intend to correct and do not intend to rank with.

Alternatively, to try and determine if it's a separate, low quality issue, ask some of these questions:

How many ads are on the page? How many hyperlinks are on the page? Does the page look spammy - spelling mistakes, weird grammar? How long is the copy - substantial and factual or brief and lacking any specific detail?

However, the page being of low quality does not rule out the possibility of a duplicate content problem.

EDIT: If it's a Dup Content issue then what Alan said would be a far simpler solution!