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Hi I have a couple of topics I would like to clarify.

My existing website is on .ie & we are now expanding into France & UK

We have decided to take the route of

example.com with subfolders for example.com/ie example.com/uk & example.com/fr

just like thishttp://app.wistia.com/stats/278112 provided by SEOmoz

1. Should we 301 redirect our existing .ie site to the .com or the .com/ie?

2. When building links should links be built to .com or each .com .com/fr etc

Also are there any good resources out there about International SEO?

Thank you

Hi,

I am currently getting a web designer to upgrade my website.

I have built lost of links to my internal pages, should I get him to 301 redirect

example.com/about.html (old) to example.com/about (new)

OR

Is there any need for this once the page doesn't change to example.com/about-us?

Thank you in advance

cheers thanks for your input. Makes sense

I have onpage optimised 4 pages on my website

example.com/services/chosenkeyword-1

example.com/services/chosenkeyword-2

example.com/services/chosenkeyword-3

example.com/services/chosenkeyword-4

Should I built links with various anchor text to my home page or the exact internal page as above?

Cheers.

cheers thanks I just needed some clarity on this topic

Hi,

Does buying new keyword related domains and 301 redirect them to my site have any seo benefit?

Cheers thanks - it's a nice list alight. I'm currently working it

will do cheers, & ye pretty new to directories submission anyway. I don't want to just submit to 100's of directories.

Hah good idea think I'll have a beer & not worry too much about it, cheers good reply!

hummm interesting, I just wanted to be double safe my work gets rewarded seems as I went to the effort of submitting my site.

So basically if Google don't index the links they were no good to me in the first place? OR on the opposite side if I make sure google index them they are potentially crappy links?

Hi I currently submitted to 30 seo directories & I just want to make sure my links get indexed by google so the link value passes onto my site.

Any suggestions about getting my links indexed?

I was thinking of either pinging or social book marketing the links!

What's your view, thanks.

Does anyone have/use any really good link analysis tools?

I have been using SEOmoz open site explorer but don't find it that indepth or find that many links.

I don't mind paying once the link analysis tool is good and I can export links to excell.

I was thinking of buying this software http://www.link-assistant.com/features-and-editions.html

Cheers,

from the image you will see I googled - Kyocera Black and White Printers but the sitemap.xml is coming up in the SERP and not my actual page. It's pointless having the sitemap.xml appear in the SERP.

My sitemap.xml was appearing in the google serp for certain keywords (&  not my actual page onsite). Please see image.

I recently blocked my sitemap.xml with a robots.txt exclusion but now the sitemap.xml is not getting crawled in google webmaster. Is this the correct method of excluding the sitemap.xml for the serp?

User-agent: *
Disallow: /assets/cache/
Disallow: /assets/docs/
Disallow: /assets/export/
Disallow: /assets/import/
Disallow: /assets/modules/
Disallow: /assets/plugins/
Disallow: /assets/snippets/
Disallow: /manager/
Disallow: /sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://bryansryan.ie/sitemap.xml

Any suggestions what should be done here? thanks.

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Hi Guys,

Does anyone know / use any good all in one CRM for Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin.

This is for business purposes therefore I will need to able to post on facebook as my business page (not personal profile).

Thank you.

Thanks for your help but are you sure that is the case? The page(s) in question already get a grade A in SEOmoz, there is room for SEO improvement but please see page grade attached.

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please see image attached, thanks.

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Hello when I do a Google search my sitemap.xml shows up for lots of queries.

Does anyone have any advise on this? Should I remove url in Google Webmaster?

Thanks,

Cheers for your reply, as far as I know the site was built by an experienced developer but I couldn't really comment as I'm not sure. I must say the site is pretty old and it's not html validated.

We are currently looking to get the site build on a CMS either worpdress or modx.

Based on what you mentioned above I will just wait and see what the hosting company have to say with regards to this issue.

I'm not to sure to be honest I'm not a web designer / developer and don't have experience with databases.

I found this in the source code and it's placed on all pages and looks like the below there are about 10 paragraphs on each page: I just hope the hosting provider can help us out.

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Hi I've been asked to help a colleague with his website. It seems to be hacked. He recently received an e-mail from Google saying his adwords account was suspended 'due to high probability  his site may be hosting or distributing malicious software' I just checked his source and there seems to loads of weird on code on his pages, this would not have been but on by any members of the website owners.

Please image attached when we try to access his website via google search

I just contacted the hosting provider - does anyone have experience with this and how to prevent such hacking in the future. The site is build using HTML with no CMS.

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Hi, how accurate is SEOmoz keyword ranking v's Google Webmaster?

Some Keywords in SEOmoz say I'm in position 3 in Ireland for some Keywords and in Google Webmaster they are figures like 16.

I understand in Google Webmaster that the keyword position is an Average

What should I be going by and what is the credibility of both ranking estimators?

cool I will look into it, thanks for the link.

great thanks for the input - just a quick question what you mean by hcard format? As in use the correct html tag for address

<address>my company address </address>

Hi,

My website has no footer area and I would like some advise on creating/optimising it for seo.

Would it advise to keyword link to 10 of my key pages

&

Have my full company address and this will help with localising my website

• Company name

• address,

• Dublin, Ireland

sure will thanks for your input it's really appreciated.

They are hosted in Ireland with www.register365.com I will get in contact with them. I just hope the site returns back to it's original way once these issue are addressed. I will also see if wordpress needs to be updated.

cool i will need to address all these issue with him so.

I also noticed this hack on the site http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:UgQ4BqgxlEIJ:www.mycanvas.ie/%3Ftag%3Dphoto-canvas+how+does+viagra+work+mycanvas&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ie

I have also noticed in his google webmaster account his keywords are phrases like - tramdol, viagra, pharmacy, xanax etc etc - this is very weird..

I have to do that, I will look into this now...

Hi,

I have recently been asked to help www.mycanvas.ie I have a feeling they have a google penalty. All their Google Keywords have literally dropped out of the Google SERP but they are still shown on Yahoo SERP.

I recently did a site:www.mycanvas.ie and the pages are still in google index.

The only thing that comes to mind is that the site owner submitted to 380 web directories over a period of 2 months with http://www.directorymaximizer.com/ do you think this could be causing the problem with google?

Advise and suggestions are welcomed, thank you.

I am making a new website but need to figure out the best way to do this in terms of SEO.

I would like the website to have functionality of brochure website combined with an online store.

My issue is that I will be using software called prestashop for my online store and CMS called MODx to develop my brochure site. (These can not be combined into one CMS).

I can create brochure site with MOdx = www.example.com & then from that a subdomain using prestashop for my online store = store.example.com

Can I get Google to index these as one site or would I be better off trying to get everything under the TLD.

Ideally I would like just one site without subdomain

Bacially what I am asking is...

What are the effects of having subdomains in terms of SEO?

Am I better of having everyhitng under TLD?

Can I get Google to view TLD and Sub as one site?

Hope this makes sense, thank you.

cheers but I think the id is actually the digets before &type therefore mine is 1194488854 the numbers you suggest are the id of the photo's

please see this link i found https://www.facebook.com/marismith/posts/265052710207352?notif_t=share_comment

This is so confusing, why is it so hard to find a user id it's crazy!

can someone please help I have being trying to find my user id on facebook for days now & i keeo coming up with so many diff answer

I understnad my username is /glenbobquinn but because i have a user name my id is not easilty accessible

Then people say hover over your profile pic and it should be in the bottom left of the screen this is what comes up

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1416315126608.2054849.1194488854&type=1

So can anyone please tell me my **user id **

Thank you kindly

I'll have to check the redirects & make sure there not directing to the sitemap.

& yea I have the sitemap setup in Google webmaster, & to my knowledge there is no anchor text links on the site leading to the sitemap.xml

Hi I recently did some 301 redirects. But now when I type into the search results 'Kyocera black and white printers' my site map is coming up in the listings - does any have any advise as to why this may be happening and how to fix it?

Please see image attached, thanks.

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Cheers for the reply.

• Yes there would be a budget & we don't mind paying for the upgraded prlog of €30 per press release.

• I would like to distribute important imformation about civil society topics in the EU and ideally get some **PR's picked up my journalists **

• I only have experiences with other small local press rooms but they are not really great for full exposure.

I would love to get into Google news & get the most exposure as possible for our site through your news and articles. We have recently created Digg Account, RSS feed with Feedburner, Facebook, Social Media Share buttons will be put on the site, etc etc.

Your suggestions are welcomed.

Hi Guys,

I'm looking to for a good press room that would suits this website http://www.eap-csf.eu the information provided in the press releases will be mainly associated with Eastern Europe and getting important democratic information about civil society topics in the EU and it's member stats.

I am thinking of using http://www.prlog.org/ does anyone have any other suggestions that may suit?

Thanks in advance.

cheers thank dude, feedburner seems to work fine for me in all browsers.

& cool, i'll submit the feedburner feed to the rss sites.

thanks for your input.

Hi, I would like information on RSS Feed creation & submission

This RSS was created for me...

http://www.eap-csf.eu/en/feed.rss (when I try to subscribe using Google chrome a html page appears saying 'This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it.' seems to work in Firefox & IE

I then decided to create an RSS with Google Feed Burner using the link above and from that this is my new url

http://feeds.feedburner.com/EaPCivilSocietyForum

I'm just wondering am I going the right way about doing things here?

Also, I plan on submitting the RSS feed to to other rss feed sites. Should I submit the First RSS or the Feedburner RSS?

Thank you kindly.

cheers for your input, I have a suspicion there is a penalty because the site owner was participating in bad practices for quite some time & only when I did a bit of research work I relaised all this stuff was going.

Prob best to revamp the site, clear any improper seo and move forward, plus check to see if any penalties are in place with Google.

cheers...

cheers dude, this page here -> http://www.prostrategy-colman.ie/solutions/erp-business-management/microsoft-dynamics-nav-erp

looking to be found for Microsoft Dynamic Nav

Hi I'm helping a collegue with his website.

For what ever reason the pages in the Solutions Menu are not being found in the search result for keywords related to the pages. (Homepage mainly comes up in the search result).

Does anyone have any advise to why this may be happening?

*To give you a bit of a background understanding, previously all the menu content was copied (which I made him change), he also had hidden text on some pages (i made him remove, white text on white background) plus the url structure changed as well. Persoanlly I think he is over using , links, internal linking is not great & the general content is not great in the menu.

Your Thoughts are welcomed, thank you.

Hi Guys thank you to all for your help on this topic  It's very much appreciated, cheers...

hello,

I have a site with 100's of pdf's for download and I would like to track how many people are downloading these, does anyone have a simple solution for this?

Is there anyway I can do this in Google Analytics using one piece of code, thanks...

Here the real issue. My homepage is already ranking for my 5 keywords but they are more or less in position 8 on page 1 of google. I was thinking that when I create the 5 pages focusing on the keywords they would give me that extra bit of a push up the ranks.