Is this available now, 4 years later. I need at least 1-2 years data going back in order to create certain reports. We do not have all reports going back on file tbh, but we need that capability. Do any of your plans offer this at this point?

I want to be able to compare 6-12 months of performance to the previous 6-12 months.

Have a look at this

https://www.incapsula.com/load-balancing/global-server-load-balancing-gslb.html

Also look into cloudflare

I believe what you are really looking for is a GLOBAL CDN (Content Delivery Network) provider. This is separate from hosting. Some hosts might offer it inclusive or as add-ons, it will often be resold by another major global CDN player such as cloudflare.

Hope this helps!

np, you don't want to assume things.

this is what Matt Cutts said in 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MswMYk05tk

It is still advisable that most websites out there rather rely on pages and subdirectories for regular pages and content than subdomains, but nowadays it is a highly subjective thing, basically suit yourself on it.

But keep in mind the simple formula for decision making: Pros v Cons... which outweighs which and why.

subdomains can certainly cause you, the owner and web dev, more work and impose a higher "moving parts" risk under most typical circumstances where /page is a viable alternative.

also look at these

https://moz.com/community/q/link-juice-from-subdomain

https://moz.com/community/q/getting-mixed-signals-regarding-how-google-treats-subdomains

direct traffic can be from bookmarks and such, as well as it could depend on proper implementation of ads and retargetting too.

That does seem a bit odd of a coincidence though, I have never dealt with such a switch scenario like that and to that degree, I have only seen more negligible or at least less worrisome amount of such changes in the past which we ended up not spending time to find out what was the underlying sitch with it as it corrected itself as a trend after a short period of time.

You really need to understand these terms correctly

sub.domain.com < this is a subdomain

domain.com/page < this is a page and it could also be a folder of your site depending on your config

The answer to your question depends on the need here. Why are you needing subdomains? for multi-lingual site? e.g. us.xyz.com or FR.xyz.com? or just for something like a shop or blog and you are having a debate between making them into a page or a subdomain?

I recommend you spend more time studying what you are attempting to accomplish here. Subdomains should be avoided unless absolutely necessary, each subdomain is treated separately for ranking purposes than pages on the top domain

so domain.com will be treated as one site by google and sub.domain.com will be a whole nother page receiving next to no authority or juice or anything from the main domain short of your internal links. I would roll with a page wherever applicable and possible instead of a subdomain.

Also who is the guy lol name them if you suspect wrongdoing or unethical behaviors! I know of at least one page 1 ranking site around my locality that ended up converting a student organization domain with a lot of .edu backlinks and then just ran with it for seo and represented itself in multiple irrelevant and across the country large cities.

They even blatantly dared to SELL backlinks on their site... in broad daylight! in 2016! Needless to say I reported them to Google and saw them get kicked down a notch to page 2 for my test keywords from earlier searches.

directory links are still a very much required part of the deal for major directories to say the least. Sure, a lot of them do not pass any link juice or Google may discount a lot of those links in its ranking factors, but you just want to be present where people actually check and where data aggregators grab their source data from.There has to be a reason why Moz local still is as service that charges people for exactly these "directory" listings...

So interestingly enough, and without trying to identify the people involved, I have found a local SEO company that has somehow acquired a fully unrelated domain which supposedly used to have something to do with students and kids lives and was a resource of sorts back in the day.

This site has FOLLOWED backlinks (with the student resource context) from the United Nations, from cbs.com, and from a wide range of websites mostly referencing it as a student and kids life resource.

Given the looks and feels of their site, they seem like a shabby SEO company with rather grey or dark themed SEO tactics.

This company ranks on page 1 for City+ SEO combination of keywords for three to four MAJOR cities in the US.

I want to find out what you all think of this...

Is this ok?

How is this ok?

Is this going to cause them to be flagged eventually automatically for a penalty or purge?

Does Google have anything against this sort of thing at all?

Danke