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not so quick as you might think. I would run it through the following firefox plugins and follow their advice:

• ySlow
• Google Page Speed
• avoid links width anchor texts like view "more", "read more" or "view all" and so on.
• several links (that are images) are missing title tags
• several images are missing alt text since you made them using css sprites witch is good, but doesn't help google allot.
• Several of your image buttons could easily be swapped for text with a background image, this would help google crawl your site as well.

Regarding design:

• the top menu disappears in the gradient background
• the lower part of the page is a bit messy (text wise.)
• Too many font sizes used
• Too many font colours used

Hope that you don't take my critics personal, but the above where my immediate thoughts when I saw it

I do believe that the common consensus is that the panda affects the entire domain if it penalizes pages then some of that penalty will rub off on the rest of the domain.

My advice take the penalised pages down while you rework them. That should solve your problem.

I see no need to use robots.txt for that. use Google and Bings webmaster tools. Here you have each domain registered  and can submit sitemaps to them for each domain.

If you want to make sure that your sitemaps are not crawled by a bot for a wrong language. I would set it up in the .htaccess to test for the entrance domain and make sure to redirect to the right file. Any bot will enter a site just like a browser so it needs to obey the server. so if the server tells it to go somewhere it will.

the robots.txt can't by it self, do what you want. The server can however. But in my opinion using bing and google webmaster tools should do the trick.

Google have written allot about this subject and cuffs debated it one of his vids, here is a few links:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/working-with-multi-regional-websites.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPiALaxDr6E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ets7nHOV1Yo

You might a bit. But more links are (almost) always better. You should try to get both high quality links and some low quality (easy) links. The easy links (yes link catalogues) can work quite well if done in conjunction with the heigh quality links. Sure they won't be as effective as the high quality ones but allot easier to get. But try to keep a reasonable spread, for each heigh quality link try to get 5 or so low. Keep a natural link acquisition rate.

be careful when optimizing for both, you might end up in a situation where it will look like keyword spamming. I personally wouldn't optimize for both in the page title, just the primary. And then optimize for the secondary and the primary one in the H1,H2 to Hwhatever..

You don't want to look like a spammer.

you can't submit a sitemap in GA so I'm guessing you mean GWT

Whether or not you put it in the robots.txt shouldn't be a problem. since in each sitemap, the urls would look something like this:

Sitemap 1:<url><loc>http:/yoursite.coim/somepage.html</loc></url>

Sitemap 2:<url><loc>http:/yoursite.dk/somepage.html</loc></url>

I see no need to filter what sitemap is shown to the crawler. If your .htaccess is set-up to redirect traffic from the TLD (top level domain eg .dk .com ex.) to the correct pages. Then the sitemaps shouldn't be a problem.

The best solution would be: to have a web in web. (a folder for each site on the server) and then have the htaccess redirect to the right folder. in this folder you have a robots.txt and a sitemap for that specific site. that way all your problems will be gone in a jiffy. It will be just like managing different 3 sites. even though it isn't.

I am no ninja with .htaccess files but I understand the technology behind it and know what you can do in them. for a how to do it guide, ask google thats what I allways do when I need to goof around in the htaccess. I hope it made sense.

actually it will affect SEO in a positive way, since google will notice that the hosting server is located in the region it targets. BUT and there are several:

• You will have unhappy visitors, what if I visited your site while I was travelling in Spain, since I don't understand a word Spanish I wouldn't be a very happy camper.
• Google will only see one of your languages since it has a fixed IP.

The right way to do it:

• have a separate domain name for each country. Eg: Danish target group .dk English UK .co.uk English US .com German .de and so on
• Have a well written (translated by a translator not google translate) version for each language
• Give the visitor the opportunity to select the language he/she want to read, don't force them, guide them.
• have your different languages hosted in the target areas.

Have you considered loading the landing page in a div when they click on it (as a pop-up)?

The pros of opening things in a new window is that when you link off site,the user won't leave your page and can return later. The cons well.. to many pop ups can be annoying for the user. If the page is something they might use as a reference then opening it in a new window can be a good thing, think size guides for a shoe-store. You can browse the products but still have the size guide as a reference.

The example you mention is a perfect example where it might serve you better to think "what is best for our users". And since you don't link off site (at least it doesn't sound like it) I see no problem with linking to it in the same window.

2: completely up to you and what you think serves you users best

to make a test I guess you would have to make two pages, with different gibberish on them and then place the keyphrase 2 times on the same char positions (on in the beginning of the document and one at the end.) on each page, but otherwise exactly the same (title exc..). that way we can rule duplicate content out.

I mean something like this:

page 1:

<title>key-phrase bla bla</title>
asd fgh key-phrace jhjd hjd lkd skl ælkjh ghsd sdf fsd key-phrase asd

page 2:

<title>key-phrase poi ert</title>
dsa qwe key-phrace kjhg tyu poi ert mnbvc asdf qwe tyu key-phrase qwe

hope I made sence

actually google has the answer, right here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=75712

I always try to do what google recommends even though something might work just as well.. just to be on the safe side

1stly Google might notice some hacked pages and flag them as potentially harmful. But your main problem is these:

• potental client will most likely not come back if they tried once and failed
• google might have tried to access a page and had looong loading times or a server error when trying to load a page
• when a client loads a page and the server is under a DoS or simular attack the server will slow down and the page load speed will do the same resulting in bad loading speeds.

All of the above and more that I probably forgot will harm your SEO efforts and end user experience, harming trust.

some of the above you should be able to see in GWT and GA. in particular the loadtimes and HTTP error codes, bounce rates ex.

Have you made a competitive analysis and checked where the strongest competitors get links from? That's usually the way I go

Google / Bing will understand that your plural keyword is probably the same. But it will rank you better if you optimize for the exact match key-phrase. So my advise would be to keep focus on the one with the most searches and mention the other a few times. That way you get both, but make sure that the language is something that makes sense and reads well.

yup

I've been using your on-page optimization tool allot lately, I must say it simply is a great checklist to run a page through and it forces you to think about it a bit more and you notice stuff that you might otherwise have overlooked (read forgot) . But! ('cause there's always a but..) I have noticed a few issues:

• it could be optimized to recognize plural endings, given this is a hard one since there's allot of languages.. but It would be awesome if it did.. right? (just like the SE's do) I would be more then willing to help with the Danish. Since you already specify what version of google you wanna target eg: ".DK" it might not be all that hard to implement plural?

• now that we are mentioning other languages.. It would be equally sweet if it would see the correlation between Ø and OE, Å and ÅÅ and so on.. (scandinavian chars for those of you who don't know) again the SE's do

For German letters I expect (not sure though, I'm not German, I speak it a bit though, so if your German feel free to correct me that the SE's would see the letter Ö as an OE.. Ü as UE, Ä as an AE and so on.

Why is the above important? well because that many still use those versions of the letters in URL's. Even though all browsers/mail clients now a'days are able to understand punycode.

usually they don't have links from the same places so if you get all the links they have and more you have beaten them hands down, and then after that well I guess google is your friend

Hi there

a quick reply from me

1: if I were you I would make my links in text and not in images. If you do have to add images avoid names such as read more. There are Java Script tricks you could use if you must have images. Such as replacing text with an image on "dom ready" there is no reason to show google an image if it's only a "read more" button anyhow.

2: If I make a list of links, make it a list, don't do divs if a list makes more sence eg:

• link 1

• link 2

• link 3

3: Since speed matters: If you can avoid images do it. If not; Use CSS sprites and the background property. If You must use img tags, always add a height and a width, that way the browser won't have to read the image size and the page will render quicker.

crowsnest they did ours

the site should work even though you google translate it. and you can see the portfolio here:

Sry I didn't have the time to answer before I went home for the weekend, and I have a strict politic to try not to work during the weekend. I usually fail but try to keep it to really important stuff

Anyhow now that I'm back. What Dan said could help but I also notice that the PR of at least 2 of the above is higher. Apart from that there might be a very important unseen factor that you can't really do competitive research on. I am thinking about bounce rate, if your bounce rate is heigh, the other sites might outrank you even though your site has a better PR and so on. Plus the links the other sites have might have better A tags, have you tried doing some competitive link research?

To be frank your site could use some design work and give the visitors a reason to click on to a new page (to lower your bounce rate).

I haven't read your previus questions but here's my two cents: Whatever you do, DO NOT do that!

it will make it very difficult for the robots to crawl your site and some won't even do it.

I would advice you to find a new host. and move all of your material to the new blog.

A iframe solution is one of the worst solutions you can make.

definitely number 2.. if you leave the links, then your have conflicting information for Google. 1 saying it's been moved over here and 1 saying everything has is still where it use to be.

I would suggest both, since someone might be searching for it while on a trip or visiting the family during the weekend and hence might not be geographically in the town at the time of his/her search.

No! 2 things speak against it. 1stly your in danger of creating duplicate content. 2ndly frames are hard to crawl for the bots, stay away from them, unless you really know what your doing there is a good chance you'll screw up your indexation.

I would use the domains for something constructive like landing pages or something that will generate traffic to your site.

Since you sound like, you know your nerd speach. I'll go tecno

A domains TTL has an impact on your SEO efforts. Low TTL's makes it possible to cheat Google's clients, hence Google doesn't like this. (since you can change where the client is sent every few seconds.) How much it effects your efforts, I must admit I have never tested.

Just in case you do not know what a TTL is (I suspect that you do though): TTL stands for Time To Live and tells the Name servers how often they should revisit the domain host and retrieve a zone file for the domain. In  other words TTL determins how often the name server checks to see if a DNS record has changed.

What was your question from last night? could you link me? I won't promise anything, but one never knows I might know the answer for that one

*edit: type'o corrected..

Ahh ok sry misunderstood the question (my bad):

If you have a page (the one linked to with an anchor text) and this page contains do-follow links then some of the "value" (for the search phrase in question) will flow to the other pages. But! (there's always a but since only a small percentage of the value will flow, the value of the other pages are most likely to little to show up in any search result, since other pages will probably out weigh it in the SERP's.

In other words: Yes anchor text flows just like link-juice

I just read your other question and I think the answer to all your problems are relatively simple: Since the server is going down for maintenance (usually a geeky way of saying we need to fix something, but without admitting that anything is broke) chance are that it won't be going down again any time soon. So the solution is straight forward.

1: Clone your site to another server.
2: Change the TTL to something like 3600 (an hour)
3: Setup your zone file on the new server to accept the domains and subdomains.
4: Change the IP of all the A-records relating to your site, to point to the new server

When the server guys are done fooling around.

1: Change the IP back to the old server
2: Change the TTL to something like 43200 (12 hours)

Problem solved and Google won't hate you

2 things you should keep in mind about with and without www:

• how many pages does google have indexed with and without
• how many links do you have that points towards www vs non-www.. this one is important since not all of your PR will get passed on after a 301. Most but bot all of it

hope it helped

There are other SE's out there then google and you don't want to loose that traffic, so as Ryan stated you can't fix it in GWT.

If you don't care what tweet the visitor comes from then you can just see it in GA. But if you want to know what specific tweet traffic was generated by, the yes, you need to do something like what the article stated.

You need to build a new url for each tweet or you won't be able to track the specific tweet.

I hope it made sense else ask me to clarify and I'll do so

it could be any one out of the following 3 scenarios.

1: The page in question was moved at some point and since the CMS still accepts the old URL, when google re-visits the old URL it still finds it. So in this scenario it will find both the old URL and the new URL and index both.

2: google hasn't revisited the page for a long while but it is still in it's index, even though it would get a 301 by the CMS when it visits the page. Can be easily fixed by going to webmaster tools and ask it to remove it from the index.

3: there are still links to the old URL either on site or off site and since the CMS doesn't 301 the oid page it will index it again with a new URL.

4:the page still exists in the CMS because of some strange setting or equivalent in the CMS.

as mentioned before the easy fix is to use a robots.txt and deny access to the page and ask google to remove it from it's index. the better fix is to find the problem in the CMS and solve it. a midway fix could be to 301 it in the .htaccess or equvilent on an ISS server.

hope it helped

Both the urls u posted seem identical to me

1. nope

2)since they are both just the original url, yes

3)both the parameters I wrote were examples. you could call the BigBearBunga or whatever you like. Call them whatever makes sence to you

I have come across this sort of issue a gazillion times + infinite.. almost all of our clients seem to have dub cont problems of one kind or another

but often it is different things that is the problem. But I'm afraid that I can't point you in the right direction, since I have no experience with your CMS. To be able to do that I would need to have access to the site itself. (since I don't know the CMS.) My advice would be to get a developer on the issue or to grab hold of the support for the CMS (if any.)

For SEO I would recommend HTML, with the option to download a PDF. That being said you should also consider how much time is wasted on doing it HTML. Can the company earn more money by spending their time on something else? I mean how often do people actually search for a certain dish when they are about to go out for dinner. My bet is that they are more likely to do a search like: "Italian restaurant in downtown Berlin" rather then "Broccoli slightly roasted in white-wine". Do you see what I mean?

In my experience no