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We have a brand website under which we plan to develop various apps. We think that putting each website on its own sub-domain would be a good option. E.g. Main website – abc.com; app1 website – app1.abc.com; app2 website – app2.abc.com etc. Would it be the right way to do it or should we put the apps in a sub-directory. E.g. abc.com/app1; abc.com/app2 etc. These apps would either be totally unrelated or may be in future we may provide something so as to enable their integration.

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Awesome response! Thanks a ton Patrick. There is no room left for a follow-up question

Hi,

We have a contact and a registration form on our website to capture leads/enquiries. However, I have come across many websites who give away many resources for free i.e. without asking for any user details. In this case, how do they track or capture the data of people coming to their website and interacting with the content?

There are other methods we well like CTAs, pop-up on exit intent etc., but these are different to what I have asked above.

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Thanks linklater! Can you please guide me how to implement it?

Thanks for the reply Houses! Probably I framed the question incorrectly.

Please visit http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/facebook-testing-globalregional-fan-pages-that-share-a-single-like-count/279822 page. It dates backs to 2012 but i want to know if something similar is still possible.

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Hi,

Our business spans across many countries and in order to maintain brand consistency, we were contemplating to create regional fan pages on Facebook. The structure would be like parent-child relation i.e. one main page and other regional pages. Is it possible? We searched for it but could't find something concrete except that in 2012 Facebook was testing similar concept.

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Thanks a ton Donna for looking into the issue and helping at this level. I highly appreciate it

Their canonical tags confused me. As you have mentioned, the tags should have been one, I don't know why they are using two different ones. Probably, they have set the different geographic targets in Google Webmaster Tools and with the minor content variation and canonical tags, they want to signal Google to treat both the pages differently. I mean it's a big name in the world of ERP. They can't mess up with the canonical tags.

What do you think?

Thanks for the reply Donna but my question is bit different. Could you please take a look at the rel canonical tag of the urls I posted. The content on both the pages is 100% same. The only difference is that they are targeted at different geographic locations. The canonical tags point to the page itself and not any master page.

Thanks everyone for the response! But I am still confused. The two links that I have posted in my initial question have exactly the same content on both the pages (targeted at different geographic locations) and their canonical tags do not refer to any master page but to them itself, i.e. canonical tag on page A refers to A and canonical tag on page B refers to B. Please take a look at both the pages: http://bit.ly/1b48Lmp and http://bit.ly/1BuJkUR

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Hello,

http://bit.ly/1b48Lmp and http://bit.ly/1BuJkUR pages have same content and their canonical refers to the page itself. Yet, they rank in search engines. Is it because they have been targeted to different geographical locations? If so, still the content is same.

Please help me clear this confusion.

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Hi,

So the news is that Google has started giving more importance to sites with HTTPS i.e. it is now a new ranking signal. It says that as of now it affects fewer than 1% of  global queries, and carrying less weight than other signals such as high quality content but it may decide to strengthen it as they would like to encourage all website owners to switch from HTTP to HTTPS to keep everyone safe on the web.

In that case, what should we do? Switching from http:// to https:// means change in urls and low traffic. How to cope with it? Do we have to implement 'n' number of redirects?

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I suggest to go with the sub-folder option for simple reason - blog is the place for high quality content. It's better to have it within the sub-folder as it will attract links and will be delivered in the search results. It will help in building / promoting your website.

Having blog on a sub-domain or separate domain will require extra marketing efforts on your part.

If you are trying to build links via different IPs or proxies, it means you are doing something fishy.

Do it in an acceptable manner i.e. try writing original and quality content, don not submit the same piece of article at multiple sites and don't indulge in link schemes. If you can produce good content and attract natural links, it would be the best way to build long term profitable links.

I received this in my Private Messages section:

My name is Fatima,i saw your profile at/www.seomoz.org/today and became intrested in you,i will also like to know you the more,and i want you to send an email to my email address so i can give you my picture for you to know whom i am.Here is my email address (fatimababy06@yahoo.com) I believe we can move from here I am waiting for your mail to my email address above.Fatima(Remeber the distance or colour does not matter but love matters alot in life)

How can somebody spam like this on protected forum?

examlpe.html and example with the same content will be treated as duplicate pages. The best practice is to 301 redirect example.html to example.

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Hi Peter,

It's better to have separate pages for blue widgets, red widgets etc. As far as backlinks are concerned, ask yourself - if I click this link and land on a page that doesn't answer my question, would it be a good user experience? There is no need to maintain any sort of proportion/distribution of links between the Home page and inner pages. Often, you may not get a chance to link the inner page. In that case you may vary the anchor text.

-Shailendra

My experience tells me that using hyphens (-) in domain names doesn't go well with the users. Even a single hyphen in the domain name is quite frustrating. Think as a user - would you like to type a lengthy domain name with multiple hyphens? Users might perceive it as a spammy domain.

It is better to use short domain names that are easy to remember. If you have run out of options and a long name is the only choice then avoid hyphens (-). Moreover, having a domain name same as the business name or kind of work is just one of the factors.

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Hi,

Probably that page is having 100% bounce rate. This blog post may help you http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/standard-metrics-revisited-time-on-page-and-time-on-site/

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If your motive is to support the main site with backlinks, I suggest you take it off. Google even penalized this arrangement in 2009 I suppose.

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Hi Daniel,

These are known as Sitelinks. Please read this page: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334?hl=en

Point to note here is that you can demote up to 100 URLs, and demotions are effective for 90 days from your most recent visit to the Sitelinks page in Webmaster Tools.

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