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Thanks for the answer Andy. We already have them But Google just chooses wronlgy sometimes. When the user add the date to the query, i.e.: "arsenal liverpool 2012 tickets" then the result is the right one. But for generic searches like: "arsenal liverpool tickets" Google sometimes picks the next event and some other times the one in 2013.

Hi all!

I run a ticketing site and I am considering using rel=canonical temporary.

In Europe, when someone is looking for tickets for a soccer game, they look for them differently if the game is played in one city or in another city.

I.e.:

"liverpool arsenal tickets" - game played in the 1st leg in 2012

"arsenal liverpool tickets - game played in the 2nd leg in 2013

We have two different events, with two different unique texts but sometimes Google chooses the one in 2013 one before the closest one, especially for queries without dates or years.

I don't want to remove the second game from our site - exceptionally some people can broswer our website and buy tickets with months in advance.

So I am considering place a rel=canonical in the game played in 2013 poiting to the game played in a few weeks. After that, I would remove it.

Would that make any sense?

Thanks!

Man, and you're writing about US websites... Here in Europe (non-UK) is practically impossible to get quality links just because of the content.

Hi!

We are looking for a link builder freelance or an SEO agency specialized in link building for the Italian market.

Could you recommend any? Did anyone have any experience with a good Italian agency/freelance?

Thanks!

Can Google read and pass link juice in a link like this?

<a <span="">href</a><a <span="">="#Link123" onClick="window.open('http://www.mycompany.com/example','Link123')">src="../../img/example.gif"/></a>

Thanks!

Hi there!

We have similar websites in different countries (it's an ecommerce site). Some times, those websites share the same language and, for example, people from Mexico end up in a page from our website in Argentina. Therefore they see our products in their language buy in a foreign currency.

We would like to show them a pop-up (like a shadowbox) depending on their IP to allow them to go to their local website. There wouldn't be any redirect.

Would that affect our rankings in any way? Would Googlebots see that as well?

Thanks!

Wow! Thanks for this answer! But I still have one doubt: if an affiliate gives me a mix of affiliate links and clean links, would the clean links still count?

Hi, I have been reading about affiliate links - links with a tracking code in the URL (i.e.: www.xxx.com/?aff=123456) and I can't find a definitive answer. Does Google count them as natural links or maybe they do not even pass any link juice?

And if they don't, what if I get a natural link from a website (without tracking code) and later that website becomes my affiliate? Would the first link still count?

I guess that there can't be any certainty about all this, but I would love to know your expert opinions

Thanks!

Hi from Madrid!

I am managing the Marketing Department of a ticketing site in Europe similar to Stubhub.com. We have thousands of events and, until now, we used templates for their descriptions. A lot of events share the same description with minor changes. They also have a lot of tickets on sale, so that's unique content different on each event.

Now the last Google Panda update hit Europe and I was wondering if that will affect us a lot. It's hard to tell for now, because we are in the middle of the summer and the volume of searches in our industry depends decreases a lot during this time of the year.

I know that ideally we should have unique descriptions but that would need a lot of resources and they are not important for our users: they just want to know the venue, the time and the price of the tickets!

Have you experienced something about Google Panda update with a similar site or with another e-commerce industry?

Thanks!

Hi Bob!

When I'm trying to get a link from a website and there's no contact email or form - or even a name, I WHOIS the domain (with who.is for instance). If it's a small site, it's likely that the same person who is managing the page registered the domain, so you can see his/her personal data: name, email and hopefully even a phone number.

Hope this helps!

Jorge