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Our main website is at  http://www.traxnyc.com and we just launched a Japanese version of the site at http://www.traxnyc.jp domain. However all the images used on the .jp site are linked from the .com site. Would this hurt me in Google at all for hotlinking images?

Also there is quite a bit of duplicate content on the .jp site at the moment: only a few things have been translated to Japanese and for the most part the layouts and words are exactly the same (in English). Would this hurt my Google rankings in the US at all?

Thanks for all your help.

Actually there is something you can do about it. This may help:

http://www.dbswebsite.com/blog/2012/08/01/find-bad-links-with-webmaster-tools/

For many years I've been working on seo/backlinks for my website. When doing analysis in opensiteexplorer I notice that the highest listed backlinks for my site are sites with high page authority and domain authority, rather than pagerank. For example one of the highest backlinks for my website has page authority/domain authority of 72/96 but the site itself is only a PR2, while my other backlinks have PR4, 5, or 6 with lower page authority.

For a while I've been trying to partner with websites for backlinks from high pagerank sites, as I've always believed this is the #1 metric in relaying link juice. But OSE's metrics seem to not follow that train of thought -- it believes page authority/domain authority is a more important measure. Is it? Should I change my strategy to try to partner with websites that have high page authority rather than focusing so much on pagerank?

How Google Analytics determine that some particular web site referred traffic if there is no back link on that site?

Thanks for the "YSlow" very good tool.

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Hello, SEOmoz

What would you chose for your keywords for on page optimization:

1. sterling silver necklaces

2. sterling silver necklaces, silver necklaces

I am thinking that choice #1 would full fill it's duty, because all key words are there already, am I right?

So I have similar items that is being recognized as duplicated meta description. What should I do? Here is couple of items.

Try using proper anchor text for your home page.

What changes have you made to see highest results? such us rank increase etc

try 301 redirect for most important links. http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

Welcome to the board, have you tried rank tracker? http://www.seomoz.org/rank-tracker

I checked your rank and here is the results that I got for your keyword on UK Google. I would recommend to begin going after smaller words, and slowly move on to the big ones. It's almost half a million searches word... and it will take very long time for you to move on this keyword term.

Also keep in mind that local results mean a lot, and depending on your location the results may wary.

Office Supplies N#41

Office Products - Not in top 50

How Google Analytics determine that some particular web site referred traffic if there is no back link on that site?

Give it sometime and meanwhile build couple of links.

Try to look through consumer points of view. Try to offer something like "1st free maintenance", "Free 5 car washes" ... from my personal experience its really annoying when representatives start calling you, harassing you to make an anointment and so on.

Consumer getting smarter and they like to shop around and it takes some time to do so, so make them feel comfortable and they will return.

Never came across this kind of tool that can tell you when link went up or down. Your best shot would track them manually.

Take a look at this thread: http://www.seomoz.org/q/disadvantages-advantages-for-this-e-commerce-url-structure

Here is a couple of link building strategies for you.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/5-rare-valuable-link-building-tactics

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/link-building-101-the-almost-complete-link-guide

Regarding same IP, are those domain registered under one person?

I just ran https://www.majesticseo.com report for back links and showed me that I have one link at porn site ... not sure if it will be appropriate to post it here. The link was discovered on 03.05.11 and when I visited today link is not there... I dont know who put that link there.

Can I get penalty for that from google?

Can it be a mistake?