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Thanks for your input Gianluca,

The ecommerce ( http://www.fiberscope.net/ ) doesn't seem big compare to bigger fishes. What do you think, are we on the right path with the current structure?

Thanks guys,

Here is thing - we are going to add /ca/ and /us/ versions for clients' convenience only. Native currency, shipping options, and direct contact of our US office. We don't want them ranked separately. Client is coming to our general website and base on his IP we ask if he want to shop at the specific country store.  He has an option to choose, or not to choose the country site.

From other side, when other version will be added later (Spanish one, for Central and South America customers), we would like to see it ranked independently from our main website.

So, it looks like the hreflang should work for /ca/ and /us/ without closing them from indexation.

BTW, if we have a blog at example.com/blog should we have it available at e.g. example.com/us/blog as well (with added tags), or just keep it as is?

Hello,

We have a .com magento store with the US geo targeting

We're going to launch a different versions soon, one for the US, and another one for Canada (we're going to add a Spanish and French versions later as well)

The stores content will be same, except currency and contact us page.

What would be a better strategy to introduce it to Google?

1. What is better URL structure? example.com/ca/ , example.com/en-ca/ , or ca.example.com/ ?

2. Should we stay with the original www.example.com/ (example.com) and just close an access to /ca/ and /us/ / or use rel=canonical / or use "alternate" hreflang to avoid duplicate content issues?

Thanks in advance

sure!

Thanks for ideas, Jesse

Thanks Dennis,

And you got it right - we received a message from Google with a warning about "silly" links

We have enough links from very trusted, industry related sources but paid junk damage it

We've stopped buying links, but what can we do with existing ones we bought? I think we have to wait 2-3 months and resubmit to Google?

Hello guys,

We are in doubts about changing URLs on our http://www.fiberscope.net/ store

The site was hit by Google in January and has dropped from top 3 to top 20 for most of its keywords.

Now we're working on some redesign, including removing of over optimized content from it.

It looks like our categories and content pages URLs are overstuffed with keywords. Here is a dilemma. Should we rewrite them and set up 301 redirect or just leave as is?

I look trough the seomoz Q&A and find out that a lot of guys got in troubles after redirecting

PLEASE, Suggest!

Thanks Mike, but when you request a direct keyword, e.g. "borescope" we're nowhere (but still good in google search)

Our website http://www.fiberscope.net has a good positions in search for the most of important keywords, but for some reason store's images are not visible in search results.

All images have ALT attributes but represented in Google Images very poor.

Any ideas and suggestions regarding this issue?