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I'm starting a new SEO project whereby I'll be targeting UK search engines only such as Google.co.uk, (I'm from the states) and I'm gathering all the information I can get on this topic

Obviously, I got a CO.UK TLD, and hosting/IP is UK based, but can anyone shed light on other techniques that has worked for you,

Besides of the above here is some advice I picked up so far;

Regional directory listings,
Inbound and outbound inks from/to UK based websites,
Geographic targeting in Google webmaster tools,
British slang...

What else is there?
Much appreciated

I agree with Kevin here, as web users get more search savvy, long-tail keywords conversions are dramatically higher than of the shorter competitive keywords, and I experience that every day,

However, I don't see what value Hittail.com provides you more then good ole Google Webmaster Tools. Just as hittail, WT tracks your visitors and provides you with a huge list of long tail search queries that brought users to your site and I'd say its safe to say that 80% of it is from all sorts of long tail keyword combinations.

Alan,

On that note, do you recommend demoting the sitelinks via webmaster to get Google to replace it with the better optimized and relevant pages? or just let time do its thing

Thanks

Thanks, that sounds about right, do you recommend then demoting the sitelinks in WT?

Thank you so much for the reply, but there is none of that I've tried everything and can't get to the bottom of it

I've recently launched a well-optimized website with good-content category landing pages and then I've added a blog to the website (as supporting content to the landing pages, the only links pointing to the blog are from the category landing pages)

What happened is that Google is now using the Blog pages as the site - sitelinks and also as the landing pages for most keywords

I only have inbound links to the reg. landing pages and none to the blog, how do I get Google to change that?

I know I can demote sitelink URL's in webmaster tools, but would that help me with getting the right sitelinks, it sure wont help much with the landing pages

Thanks
-J

Hi Alex,

If I understand, you'd like to stick to a silo structure and group each category >> products ?!

I've tested and worked with this issue so many times and here is what I find to work best for me

The first thing you need to do is create the best user experience you possibly can and that means if you feel like your visitors would like to see all products up front, you should definitely do that

however if you are concerned about keeping your site in clean silos you can still add "rel=nofollow" tags to all product links on the category page, and only after user selects a category show all products w/ do follow links

or if you really know your way you can go with option 1 and also have all products on the category page but in an iFrame, the same idea both, the user gets to see all your products but the SE still follows a clean structure where all products are where they should be

Hope this helps

http://searchengineland.com/google-may-penalize-ad-heavy-pages-100601

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-page-layout-seo-14288.html

Above the fold in this case obviously was referring to sites that are cluttered with ads and banners before the actual page content, not necessarily content that can or can't be read without scrooling down.

The term above the fold in this case would not have the same meaning as with a newspaper It rather refers IMO to what the search engine is able to see first when crawling a web page, the question is what "above the fold" means in regards to SEO, in other words to the eyes of the search engine where screen resolutions doesn't really matter.

A good definition of what is above the fold:

• All the content that (and should) show above any banners or navigations on the page.
• The first 200 words of your content have more value to the Search Engines, make sure to have them as close to the tag as possible.

As a rule of thumb if you must have banners etc. place them AFTER all the valuable content on the page