Hi Tory.

Your .com site is viewed as a competing site. Even though you are both Travelocity, and clearly the same company, Google is viewing the two sites differently. The .com site is clearly more established, has a much higher Domain Authority and is outranking the Canadian site.

If you wish your Canadian site to outrank your .com site, then one thing you can do is to have your .com site use anchor text for phrases like "Canadian Travel" pointing to your site.

I would think there is more that can be done but I am not experienced in this area so I will let others chime in.

A few additional comments I would like to share.

• Your .com site is very strong. You may want to consider using the one site and the canadian portion can be serviced with .com/ca

• I notice you are using the /ca folder on the .ca domain which seems odd. travelocity.ca/ca

• You are presently 302 directing traffic from travelocity.ca to travelocity.ca/ca. This should be fixed asap.

When I suggested combining the two articles, what I meant was to sit down with both articles and merge them into one article. This wouldn't be a simple copy and paste the two articles together. Instead you would logically merge the content, excluding any duplicate information.

When you are finished, review the article and then ask others to do so as well. Each article offers a lot of content. To help you better target key terms you can split the final article up into two articles.

I know this sounds confusing so I will clarify. Lets say you have Article A and Article B. Each article covers the same topic and contains about 1500 words. Upon reviewing both articles you realize about 1000 words are the same. The goal would then to merge the 500 unique words into the first article and make a single 2000 word article.

Once that process is complete, you can then set out on your original goal of targeting more key words. To do that, you can break your 2000 word article into two (or more) articles, each targeting a couple phrases.

Google recognizes there are two pages with the same content. You have two options:

1. Let Google know these pages have the same content but you are choosing to keep both to provide a better user experience. This can be achieved by adding the canonical tag to your head code. Since you specifically stated you wish both pages to be listed, I'll move on to option 2.

2. You need to offer a significant variation between the two pages. Google is looking for UNIQUE content. Your header, footer and both side bars offers identical content on both pages. That is a common practice, but it also works against you in this instance. These two articles clearly are discussing the exact same subjects and Google recognizes it as such.

It is very clear you are using these two pages in an attempt to rank for more key words. Google's system is designed to prevent your efforts. Even if you were to get through, it is only a matter of time until an adjustment is made and one of the pages gets filtered out.

Look at your site from a reader's point of view. If a visitor read one of those articles, would they gain anything more by looking at the second article? Try combining the two articles into one, and then possibly further segmenting them. Some ideas:

• pregnancy 12 weeks from a doctor's point of view

• pregnancy 12 weeks from a mother's point of view

• pregnancy 12 weeks from a father's point of view

You can also look at "pregnancy complications" or sub-topics such as "Signs my baby is healthy". The ultimate goal of this process for you will be to offer more opportunities to use this content to target more key word phrases.

You want to decide "What is in the best interests of my readers" then take those steps. Currently you give the clear impression you wish to get traffic on your site so you can sell the items listed.

I have read that article before. Keep in mind it is from 2008. Technology and Google have advanced substantially in the past 3 years.

100% of the text in all your lightbox is fully viewable by Google presently. William and I both looked and we see the text in your html source code. That means Google can see it as well.

Those are not issues on your site.

Your light box images are fully crawlable. Google sees all of the images and the text descriptions. You definitely want to add an ALT description. Otherwise you are in great shape.

Thank you William. Somehow I missed it during my review of the source code.

Hi William.

Thanks for the feedback. I did look at the HTML and the real text is NOT visible. I am pretty sure that Google can read it even in the javascript, but I am not certain so I did not wish to offer that conclusively. If I knew which version was in use, such as Highslide, I could check and offer a confirmation.

The first image shared is the Coco and Max logo. If you click on that image the Lightbox will appear with a description that says "The Jenn Lee Group developed photography, business cards, expo-banner plus an ecommerce website for Coco and Max using a logo they had already developed. The Jenn Lee Group can pick up the ball at whatever stage you are currently in towards your marketing and advertising initiatives. Call us today! 401-885-3200"

I do not see that text snippet anywhere in the page's source code. Also, there are a total of 7 pictures offered in a group with that first image, each which their own text.

If you have any additional information, I would love to learn as well.

The biggest gap I see on your site is your images are all missing ALT tags. Search engines don't see images the way people do. By providing an alt tag, you can offer a description of each image. For example your first image alt tag might be "logo Coco & Max Doggie Distinctions".

There are many packages of javascript code which use Lightbox so if you want a more definite answer you would need to take a look at your specific package. Highslide and Suckerfish are two examples of Lightbox javascript coding packages. For additional research you can check out this article.

Another note. I would recommend changing your Meta description to readable text, not a list of key words. Your meta description is what people will see as your listing in search engines. It will not affect your search result ranking.