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Sorry the title was indeed misleading. I assumed that by making my website faster in India, it would help its ranking.
That said, what about using a country-based TLD domain instead of a subdomain? I do own webhostinghero.in
Would that help my rankings even though 95% of the content would be the same on the .com and .in with the appropriate href lang tags set?
Thank you but I'm not looking for help on how to make my current website faster. Like I've said, the website is really well optimized in terms of speed. Cloudflare is not an option. I tried it and it causes lots of issues with the site and it actually made it way slower than it actually is. I use Amazon Cloudfront as my CDN.
I want to make my website faster in India AND improve its ranking in this specific country. Using a CDN or Cloudflare won't do that.
I've got a blog with some tools and business directories (https://www.webhostinghero.com). Actually my website is in English and is hosted in the US since its biggest source of traffic is from there. My second biggest traffic source is India. The issue is that while my website is really well optimized (in terms of speed), it is still slow for visitors from India.
So my question is: Would it be possible to have a copy of my website on a web server located in India and use a sub-domain (ie.: in.webhostinghero.com) to access it without being penalized by Google? Would that be considered duplicate content? What would be the HREF LANG tag set to for India (EN-US, EN-GB... EN-IN??)
I thought that having a sub-domain for a specific country could also help its rankings.
Thanks in advance for your inputs.
P.S. Sorry my english sucks.
I recently bought an SSL certificate and moved my site over to HTTPS. Now how do I make the change in Google Webmaster Tools?
Every cafepress domains have the exact same content for the most part.
Part of my website is a blog and I don't see the use of using a country-based TLD except if I'm going to host it in another country to increase performance.
That said, there's also a directory of companies accompanied by user reviews and various data. I would like to target other countries with this directory by listing only companies from these countries.
How would you suggest to handle this?
I would like to know if it is possible (and beneficial) to target other countries using country-based TLDs?
When visiting a company website for instance, you often get redirected to your country's site. For instance, when you visit cafepress.com from Canada, you get redirected to cafepress.ca.
Since both websites (cafepress.com and cafepress.ca) have the same content, how they get away with it with no duplicate content issues?
I've got some pages that appear somewhere around #25 in Google. Every now and then, it just goes away from the top 100 results for a few days (even up to a week) and then it comes back. I've got other pages that rank around #8 which falls down to about #75 for a while and then it comes back.
But while a page may be gone from the top 100 results in the US, it still ranks at about the same place everywhere else in the world (+/- 10 positions).
I've seen this happen in the past but never it happened so often.
What gives?!?
I just saw this link appear for my website (www.webhostinghero.com) in ahrefs.com this morning: http://freedatingsiteregistry.com/tag/website-template/
(search for text anchor "hosting reseller")
Obviously it's a scraper site. Other than that, my link profile is clean.
Should I disavow this?
I know there's no such thing as a perfect profile but when you're building links, do you try to maintain certain ratios such as:
Thanks!
My website is fairly new, it was launched about 3.5 months ago. I've been publishing new content daily (except on weekends) since then.
Is there any reason why new posts don't get indexed faster? All of my posts gets +1's and they're shared on G+, FB and Twitter.
My website's at www.webhostinghero.com
What is the best way?
What's your take?
I'm thinking about implementing Disqus on my blog.
I'd like to know if the Disqus comments are indexed by search engines? It looks like they are displayed using Ajax or jQuery.
Yes they are spammy, they have keyword-rich anchors.
I tried to contact the website owners but these websites seem to have been abandoned a few years ago.
I guess I'll leave it at that. If I get a problem related to unnatural linking, I'll know which ones are the cause.
There are speculations about a Google update being rolled out today (Sept. 12).
That said, it is difficult to say without knowing what your website is.
I bought an existing domain name on Sedo sometime ago and launched a new website on it in early June this year.
I noticed there are about 5 or 6 spammy links from directories that were obviously bought by the previous domain owner but they're pointing to pages that never existed on the new website.
Other than that, the link profile is 100% clean and it's quite good actually, lots of links from my content being shared on social networks.
So should I be worried about these links? Like a lot of webmasters, I'd like to avoid using the disavow tool, I really don't trust that thing.
The higher the weather, the more changes there are in SERPS, that's all.
Some are saying there was an update earlier today so we should see this reflected on mozcast tomorrow morning.
I don't think they buy google ads for most of them (the spammers)
I also happen to see new websites coming in and out of the top 10 on a weekly basis for some competitive keywords. Lots of them are about 6 months old.
There's a guy I see he just buys a sh*tload of spammy links and ranks high for about 1 or 2 months. When his website gets hits, he just buy another domain, puts back the exact same content (doesn't even care to change the website name in the image), spams the hell out of it and now he's back at the top with a domain he bought on August 25!!!
That's right! He ranked a brand new domain only 3 days after buying it! The website already got over 15k backlinks.
I see lots of competitors and crappy sites ranking well for highly competitive keywords in the web hosting niche.
After analysing their backlinks, I noticed that most of them had only 1 or 2 backlinks to the page they wanted to rank. The anchor text is usually a slight variation of the targeted keyword.
Now suppose you are able to rank well for a handful of highly lucrative keywords using very few spammy links. That would mean that even if you got a Penguin penalty, cleaning up your link profile would take an hour at most.
I really have no intentions of using this strategy but it's frustrating to see spammy competitors outranking you with crappy sites and a handful of backlinks.
Your thoughts?
Probably not but you may avoid a penalty though.
It seems now the page is sitting comfortably in position 113 
Ok I de-personalized the results and found the same rankings.
Using Google.ca and a connexion from Canada (no VPN, I'm actually in Canada), my website is ranked in position 21. Using a VPN connexion from Los Angeles, the website is ranking in position 154 for the same keyword on Google.com
Here's an example of a keyword for which my website is going up and down Google's search results:
Keyword: bluehost review
Page: http://www.webhostinghero.com/reviews/bluehost/
I'm always disconnected from my Google account, the cache is cleared and I'm using a VPN to test from different countries. I know Google still has ways to identify me but that's the best I can do I think.
Generating the page seems to take very long. What shopping cart software are you using? Can it cache pages?
I've got a relatively new website (launched at the beginning of June 2013). For some keywords I'm targeting, it first ranked around page 15. It made huge jumps to finally rank on page 2 or 3. Since then, it goes back to page 15 and then back to page 3. It does this every now and then.
Any ideas?
Your website isn't that slow from London but there lots of things you can do to improve speed:
1. Use a CDN like NetDNA to host CSS, Javascript and images. By using a CDN, you will also increase the number of simultaneous (parallel) downloads since these files will be hosted on another (sub)domain.
2. You have lots of Javascript files. Try combining them into one file.
AddType image/x-icon .ico
<ifmodule mod_headers.c=""># YEAR
<filesmatch ".(ico|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|flv|pdf)$"="">Header set Cache-Control "max-age=29030400"</filesmatch>
<filesmatch ".(js|css|swf)$"="">Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800"</filesmatch>
<filesmatch ".(html|htm|txt|php)$"="">Header set Cache-Control "max-age=86400"</filesmatch></ifmodule>
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... and sorry for my english.
Hope that helps!
I see this often for my website: Google displays my pages' H1 title instead of the document title in its search results.
Is there any particular reason for this? Do we have any kind of control on this?
In OpenSiteExplorer.org, it says:
"Last Mozscape index update: July 11, 2013. Next Mozscape index update: August 26, 2013"
There was supposed to be an update yesterday (Aug. 8).
Do I need to do something about my GA account?
How often is the data supposed to be updated for our Moz campaigns? Mine have been updated on 07/15/2013 the last time. Isn't it supposed to be updated weekly?
I'd like to know if you have some ideas / advice on how to get people to share or link to user reviews pages? I mean unlike blog posts, it's more difficult to promote this kind of content.
Here's an example: http://www.webhostinghero.com/reviews/inmotion-hosting/
I mean I just can't post links to the review pages on social networks, forums, whatever, that would be just plain spammy.
Apart from keyword stuffing, what is considered by Google as over-optimization?
For instance, if I link from a subdomain to a page on my main domain with a keyword-rich anchor text, does it qualify as over-optimization?
I am looking for ways to gain links / visibility / traffic and so I did a little search on infographics and found this company: http://nowsourcing.com/services/infographics/
I contacted them about their services and here's a part of their reply:
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Here's a bit more information about our pricing options:
level 1 - infographic design (up to 3 major revisions, 30 minor revisions) - $3,000
level 2 - infographic design + research (up to 5 hours) - $4,000
level 3 - infographic design + research + promotion (social networks plus 30+ outlets) - $5,000
**Distribution is on a few different levels:**1 - we look for top name mainstream media / large traffic / high pr websites that will run the infographic
2 - we have a media network of sites where we feature the infographic
3 - we have the ability to publish on numerous sites that feature infographics and / or are niche vertical targeted
4 - we also promote via large audiences in social media networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, StumbleUpon and Pinterest
**Here are some good examples of our artwork and promotion abilities:**Facebook vs Google Display network, www.wordstream.com/articles/facebook-vs-google-display-network
Estimated 15-20 million reach, was profiles in Adweek here - www.adweek.com/sa-article/beyond-words-142494
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Now my concern is with the distribution part. Would that be considered as spamming by Google? They seem to push the same infographic on a ton of websites.
If you have better advices on infographics, please do share 
I don't want to link or redirect from the old website to avoid passing penalties.
Thank you for your answers!
Over the years, I've gathered thousands of user reviews on a website I am shutting down although I would like to keep them for another website.
I removed the reviews from the old website, set the reviews pages to "noindex" and removed the pages from Google's index using the Webmaster Tools.
At this point the reviews are not showing up in Google's search results anymore. Would there be any concerns about posting these reviews on a new website? Can it get penalized for duplicate content?
I know webmasters shouldn't focus on link building but unfortunately there are some types of content that doesn't get shared as much as other. And for content to go viral, it ain't that easy and it's almost impossible in some smaller niches where you don't have the volume to go "viral".
That said I know about the common link building techniques. I know I can submit guest posts but when you're competing with websites that have over 10,000 backlinks, there is no way I'm going to get close to this with guest posting and commenting on other blogs.
One way I found for getting backlinks is to publish interviews. Most of the time, people/businesses you interview like to link to this type of content. Publishing value-added content about other businesses' products or services may get some backlinks in return but not that often.
So other than that, can some of you share some "out-of-the-box" link building strategies?
Thank you in advance!
I use two subdomains on my website (news.webhostinghero.com and www.webhostinghero.com) - I know www.webhostinghero.com is not really a subdomain...
That said, both subdomains are linking to each other through menus and sometimes articles.
Can this cause any problem? Does Google perceive this as links from different domains / websites?
Ok great then, maybe I got concerned too soon.
Thanks for your input!
The traffic is actually climbing on the new website but I have a hard time having Google crawl some of the pages.
Out of 63 pages submitted (and I mean pages, not posts), only 5 pages have been indexed.
It also seems like Google doesn't get the latest sitemap often. To this day, I always had to resubmit it manually.
Yes I did notice the PR thing too and I don't get it either.
At some point, webhostinghero.com was redirecting to thewebhostinghero.com (at the domain registrar level).
Could it be that the PR for webhostinghero.com is the one from thewebhostinghero.com?
I think the best thing would be to completely shut down thewebhostinghero.com but webhostinghero.com isn't profitable yet. Thewebhostinghero.com still brings me a little income.
Jeez I'm stuck on this one...
What do you mean by "questionably original content"? Apart from 2 of these 3 tools (http://www.webhostinghero.com/tools/). The rest is 100% original content. No spun content at all. Of course it's going to be similar in a way because both website are about the same topic but other than that, I didn't rewrite anything, it's all new.
(Sorry for my english!)
A quick background: I had a website at thewebhostinghero.com which had been slapped left and right by Google (both Panda & Penguin). It also had a manual penalty for unnatural links which had been lifted in late april / early may this year.
I also had another domain, webhostinghero.com, which was redirecting to thewebhostinghero.com.
When I realized I would be better off starting a new website than trying to salvage thewebhostinghero.com, I removed the redirection from webhostinghero.com and started building a new website. I waited about 5 or 6 weeks before putting any content on webhostinghero.com so Google had time to notice that the domain wasn't redirecting anymore.
So about a month ago, I launched http://www.webhostinghero.com with 100% new content but I left thewebhostinghero.com online because it still brings a little (necessary) income. There are no links between the websites except on one page (www.thewebhostinghero.com/speed/) which is set to "noindex,nofollow" and is disallowed to search engines in robots.txt. I made sure the web page was deindexed before adding a "nofollow" link from thewebhostinghero.com/speed => webhostinghero.com/speed
Since the new website launch, I've been publishing new content (from 2 to 5 posts) daily. It's getting some traction from social networks but it gets barely any clicks from Google search.
It seems to take at least a week before Google indexes new posts and not all posts are indexed. The cached copy of the homepage is 12 days old.
In Google Webmaster Tools, it looks like Google isn't getting the latest sitemap version unless I resubmit it manually. It's always 4 or 5 days old.
So is my website just too young or could it have some kind of penalty related to the old website?
The domain has 4 or 5 really old spammy links from the previous domain owner which I couldn't get rid of but otherwise I don't think there's anything tragic.
(Sorry for my english)
I have lots of user reviews on my website and in some cases, there are more than a thousand reviews for a single product/service. I am looking for the best way to break down these reviews in several sub-pages.
Here are the options I thought of:
http://www.mysite.com/blue-widget-review-page1
http://www.mysite.com/blue-widget-review-page2
etc...
In this case, each page would be indexed by search engines.
http://www.mysite.com/blue-widget-review-page1
http://www.mysite.com/blue-widget-review-page2
etc...
In this case, each page would be set to noindex and the canonical tag would point to the first review page.
reviews, reviews, reviews
more reviews, more reviews, more reviews
etc...
Each page would be loaded in a different
which would be shown or hidden using Javascript when browsing through the pages. Could that be considered as cloaking?!?
Display only the first review page on initial load. I would use AJAX to load additional reviews into the
. It would be similar to some blog commenting systems where you have to click on "Load more comments" to see all the comments.
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My main competitor who's achieving great rankings (no black hat of course) is using technique #3.
What's your opinion?
I left the old site there because it still brings in a little income which is essential but I don't maintain it anymore.
I didn't want to move everything over to the new domain as the old site has been penalized left and right.
My idea was to remove the old site completely once the new one starts getting traction and generating income.