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Hi Egol. I am migrating a site with 6k pages. About 2K pages are useless old syndication articles with no incoming links; about 50 are old CID version of forms. These pages won't exist in the new site. How do I delete them, by no doing 301 redirect and not including them in any sitemap? Would they become 404 for a while and then disappear from google index?

Thanks for this awesome recommendation!

Do you see any problem in shorting only the software  (money making) category, while leaving other categories long?

such as

mybrand.com/services/money-managers

mybrand.com/resources/education/how-to-trade

Hi

Is there a real value in having the keywords in the URL structure?

we could use the URL:

Mybrand.com/software/tablets/ipad/supertrader.html

Or instead have the CMS create the shorter version mybrand.com/supertrader.html

and just optimize this page for the keyword 'supertrader ipad software'

Financial company with 2 sites:

1- Mybrand.com for the US market.    
2- global.mybrand.com is the hub for international with selection for 10 languages: drop-down allows selecting between mybrand.jp, mybrand.fr, etc

Now we have the opportunity to redesign the site from zero and I am exploring to get rid of the subdomain for the global site

What would be your preference to use as the international hub?

a) mybrand.co.uk: I have to use lawyers to get the URL from squatter

b) mybrandGlobal.com  : URL easy to get, and can be geo targeted using google webmaster tools. Cons: It might not rank as well as .co.uk in the UK, which is our biggest market

c) global.mybrand.com-- pros: keep using it because it is aged and has some authority.  Google might now see subdomains as part of TLD, thus making it a valid way to separate international from US   .. Cons: SEO best practices advice to avoid subdomains because it might not pass full link value across domains. There is not really different content the subdomain, it is just the hub for international

Thanks in advance for the help

It makes tons of sense. Thank you

For link value-passing reasons, we want to stay away from subdomains.

The ccTLD .jp is not available.  What URL should I use instead?

MybrandJP.com  or MybrandJapan.com

*Mybrand is a four-letter acronym

I hear you. Do you think I could do it like this?

www.forexDotcom:  Left selection other countries, right selection only 4 languages in the US

We have large number of US visitors going to 4 language pages, we could offer limited content and call to action for these...and get rid of low traffic languages

Do you have a couple of samples of sites that do a good job targeting international and US?

Hello SEomozers

We have a site with this structure:

-www.xyz.com   US customers, limited content in12 languages,

-global.xyz.com  for International customers, full content in 12 languages.

The global site is the hub for the rest of the world.  We are creating a new site from scratch and want to consolidate the two domains in one by using subfolders, such as:

www.xyz.com  for USA,  www.wyz.com/jp   for US customers reading in japanese

and

www.xyz.com/int-jp  for  customers from Japan (international - will set geo location with webmastertool)

What do you think would be the best naming convention for the international?
www.xyz.com/int-jp  or
www.xyz.com/eu-jp or
www.xyz.com/eu/jp or
www.xyz.com/ ...any other suggestions?

Keith, I am having the same issue and I agree with you. The fact that Google has data centers in Europe does not necessarily mean the algos are indexing from there. I also want to set Europe and US GeoIP redirection. It would be great to get Mozers opinions on this.  Hopefully this post gets freshly reviewed