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Another possible solution is that google does not display your discription tag but a link anchor of some directory if you gave the same text as anchor. It is easy to decide which situation accurs, just look at the cached version of the page to find out. If the cached version shows the new desc you can still wait up to a week to be sure. If google display an anchor besides your description use this in the header:

You're welcome Mike I'm glad to help. If you found it useful please mark it a good answer.

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That is the best answer, you are right. Maybe I would first contact the sites that link to mine.

Great question Kerry,

A great factor is how many subdomains do you exactly have. If not above 50 I think interlinking the content well should be enough. There are sites that use lots of subs and are succesful (look at cragslist.org for example). If you have a lot more subdomians I would further investigate the links: how many do exactly go to subdomians. Cause if you redirect only these links will no longer provide about 10-15% of the link juice they do provide now. You can estimate the ratio of the fallback.

Hope I could give you some points to consider, regretfully making a decision you are facing now is never easy. I hope you will be able to solve the problem.

Hello Mike,

Fist of all you made a mistake when you began working with the site you did not investigate if the content is duplicate or not. However it is pointless to talk about that as you need to solve the situation.

Does the second site you are not working with get any links at all? How much pagerank has it got? How much traffic does it have? If number of links, pagerank and traffic are both low I think I would completely redirect the site, or rather use a canonical tag to the one you have been working with so far and simply start a brand new for distributors.

If distributors site has significant traffic and pagerank I would investiate which site ranks higher in the engines. If you have been doing your job well than no question that the consumer site will so you should rewrite the other one. If you rewrite you can try to kéép the most important points: number of words/keywords ratio, number of headings containing the keywords etc so you can try not to rewrite, but rather modify the text:

We are a hugh company with 20 years experience in our marketfield dealing with furniture.  modfified to Our campany was founded 20 years ago and since than we have continuasly been selling furniture.

So the imformation, the most important words and the plot remains the same but the text gets a brand new format.

Thanks James.

What is webmaster tools imo?

When launching a site to google.com where can you submit it to get a few quick lnks to be enough for indexing and startup? As I saw directory pages are kinda slow you can wait months for your submission. How can you gain quick links? Can you name some sites?

Where can I read that post?

I am still waiting I got no ideas on speeding up so far or someone may suggest good plugins as well

awesome

I put up my last site on the web since a month. So far I have been optimizing mainly to Hungary and I got used to that my content was indexed in a day and if content was good it sometimes appeared in the first two pages in a couple of days.

Now with my new site I am targeting google.com. I put it up since a week, sent the sitemap to google, it was intresting for mee te see that even the pages to get into the web index needed two days.

Seomoz says my site is all right besides some duplicate content issue i will solve soon. So it is past a week and even if I copy a complete sentence from the beginning of my home page and paste it into google my site does not appear.

I also purchased couple of backlins but they have not appeared so far as well. Is that really this slow? Am I to impatient? Or should there be something else problem I should be looking for?

Thanks for any feedback

I never use user generated content on its own. I always try to put some description besides like if it is a product than I give a brief about the product, where I can use it's name in the title, in the headings and maybe with a picture. The length depends on how much research would you like to do. Than in the end II alwas encourage people to share their opinion. I do it this way. I think that simply user generated content should be enough if you are targeting something so new, that nobody or really few people know exact things, everybody is rather just guessing about what is might exactly be or how should it work. In this case nobody will have long content with much keywords te beat you with.

Actually you do not necessarily need to redirect. Hiring a new domain, hosting in the target country, giving the distribution meta is the most you can do. If you purchase a .fr or a .co.uk domain and you completely redirect it to the .com than it is pointless in my opinion as french content will never show up on the .fr domain and so with the .co.uk one. I am optimising for Hungary, when my keywords are not available with a .hu tld I often use .com or .info. I do not host my sites in Hungary. The language of the content and the links from Hungarian pages are enough but do note that we do not have a solid culture on internet, so reaching a position in the UK or France may be much harder. Maybe if you have a site with a lot of backlins simply having a separate folder for the french content is enough. I can not help you to decide whether to put a .fr to the end of the url, or to use a different sub like fr.site.com. Wikipedia uses the second so I prefer that maybe they are doing something right.

Thanks a lot.

Hello

I am new to wordpress I just have started using it. Can anyone suggest me some useful tools / plugins / setting for SEO? I am further intrested in sepeeding up Wp. Any good advive on wp an seo would be appriciated.

I seached for spring metrics and only found a blog that contains general info on seo and conversion optimization. What do you exactly mean by spring metrics?

What do you exactly mean by commercil intent?

If you want to remove that page quicker from the index you can do that through wem master tools. Although I am not sure you want to do that as if the page is blocked from google it will not be able to show up in the mobile search neither. Wehn optimizig for mobile it is good to put contet on a different sub (ex: mobile.sg) and also put mobile to the end of the title tags.Do you do all this stuff to indicate google what is that content for?

You're welcome

That was the answer I was looking for, thanks Marie. In return I'm giving you some extra points. If you lived nereby I would now invite you for a coffee;) Thank you very much.

You are right, I have a trial. So supposing I do not have a trial, If my seomoz account is not enough I can not participae in the forum?

Hello There,

There is a section about Mozpoints I can not understand. It says if you get 500+ points:

Free members who reach +500 mozPoints are eligible for access to the PRO Q&A section where you can respond to and view questions immediately after being posted.

I can now access to this section with my 30 or so points. I am surely getting something wrong. What is the actual benefit?

Just as I would have said

Maybe your competitor has a banner somewhere, as you can see it only has 42 linking root domains. So if you can manage to get 100 (not a great number) quality links from different domains you have beaten them.

It is definately a good starting point that you have a high mozrank to tell what you are doing well someone should see your page, it is hard to tell it without that. Just be satisfied that you are better and gaining 100 links is not that hard

Best way to rank in France is to write French content, hire a .fr domain and obtain freanch links. For the UK English content is good, If you have a multinational tld like .net .biz is good as well, if you have .us you can consider buying a .cu.uk. What is important to obtain links from English sites, you can find English directories on this site somewhere: http://www.seo-expert-services.co.uk/ (I have never used them so far). Another thing to add a meta distrubution content="global" to your page.

I don't know what you are dealing with exactly but you can also consider adding geographical data to your search querries ex: not simply business solutions but business solutions uk or london or so. Look for what is being searched.

Thanks for your answer

Thanks for your answer

We are rebuilding a website and try to get rid of errors. The content remains exactly the same but we correct the code and make it load faster. The site has quite many backlinks and I can't decide whether to remove .html endings from the urls and 301 redirect to the new ones or leave them with the older ending. If I remove the endings how much of the link juice will be passed?

Anyone any idea?

I see you are a Guru and with absolute respect to that:

Once I saw an approvement in original rankings. I established a site (one of my early ones) that was hosted on a free server and had not much to do with seo but i ran adwords. The term I was advertising for got only 200 searches a month and it was a Hungarian term, so did not run on Google.com but on .hu. Once I realized that my site appeared to be 6th in the serp. When I turned adwords off a month later it disappeared from the to 60. Maybe it had some other reason for that but I could not discover any reason besides adwords.

Hello,

Can anyone show me some authority info on wheher links are better with or without a .html ending?

Thanks is advance

I examined the above question and read various answers. Some say no. I once experienced effect however just with low traffic keywords. I say if it does not affect your ranking directly it surely does indirectly as it increases the traffic level of your site and as we knoe traffic is a ranking factor. I have also read a book on adwords and it stated that sometimes adwords links are read as original links from a site. That is another opinion but I do doubt that and have not come upon similar issue so far.

Hello Everyone,

I am from Hungary and i'd like to ask about a Hungarian site: www.viagra.info.hu. (do not need to speak Hungarian to be able to answer)

If you type viagra in google.hu this is the first page of 183 million (not bad) with a wonderful number of 6 backlinks, coming before wikipedia and 70000 backlink sites. Additional info: site is one year old:) I can not discover the black hat but surely there is. Any idea?

My other question is how they are doing that when looking from the serps below their description tag there are 3 links (their menus) that are not sitelinks? Someone please help me