Hi Felip,

Posting on ezine and other article directories are tactics from few years ago and shouldn't be using because Search Engines see that as duplicate content on the web and if the those directories have higher authority than your site, it doesn't benefit you at all in SEO stands.  I'm pretty sure most people recommend not to use it anymore.

However, talking about any good for these sort of directories.  Yes, i believe they are still a bit useful.  For example, if your website is not getting any traffic and you have no luck in building up the traffic via Social or Search, posting on article directories with thousands of visits, it helps your article get more impression.  That is the only good I can think of for using article directories now a days.

HI Alice,

Just want to confirm whether your US and UK site is under the same domain or different domain.  If it is different domain, the ccTLD domain (.com and .co.uk) should've solved the issue since Google will understand that each domain is targeting the different location.  However, both website are under same domain (using subdomain or directories) then the hreflang tag will solve the issue.  This tell Google that the site with hreflang="en-us is targeting US and the other to UK.

Hope this can help a bit

Hi Scott,

Glad you getting into SEO.

Yes, you are correct that submitting articles to other sites is a great way to build links back to your site.  HOWEVER, those are strategies and tactics people used probably 3 years ago.  Google see that people are doing that instead of building quality/natural links, they rolled out Penguin and Panda to prevent people from doing that.  By doing so, you are creating something called Duplicate content and that will either harm your website ranking or your website may not show up in the search results because the website where you submitted the article has better ranking than you.  Therefore, they are showing the other website instead.

It is best to write new articles and post it in the blog under your website's domain.  Such as blog.website.com or website.com/blog.  This will give your website more benefits of freshness and more content to crawl and possibly backlinks and social signal for your blog/website.  Thus increases your chance of appearing in SERP with more content and higher ranking due to backlinks to your website.

Hope this helps.

You are spot on on the question.

I was thinking along the same line as your answer.  So now you just confirmed it.

Thank you very much!

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for replying.  So you are saying I should create a new Page A and have it list under Category B and use the canonical tag on the one I want to be indexed.  So in the end I will have 1 Page A in Google's eye and 2 Page A in users' eye.

Hi SEOmozers,

I have another question.  =]  Thanks in  advance.

First question: How important is the breadcrumb for SEO? I know that breadcrumb makes better UX because it shows how the visitor landed on this page and the breadcrumb may show up in the search engine.  But other than that, how important is it?

Second Question:

If I have a page that can be found via 2 locations, how should I handle this in regards to breadcrumb?

For example, I have page A.  You can access page A via Category A and Category B.  Therefore, what I did was list Page A under Category A and when someone visit Category B and click on Page A, it will redirect to the page A that was found via Category A.

The problem is on page A, the breadcrumb is Home > Category A > Page A.  So if someone visit Category B and click on Page A, it redirects and the breadcrumb shows Home > Category A > Page A.

What should I do with the breadcrumb for Category B > Page A?

Should I create another page A and just use canonical on it?

Should I create another page A but do not index it?

or leave it as is? 1 Page A, can be access via 2 categories.

Please advise.

Thank you!

I just wanted to add to this, in SEO's presepective, if you have one big site then you will only need to build backlinks for one site.  On the other hand, if you have multiple sites, you will have to build separate links for each site which causes more work and more complicated to manage.

In addition, freshness plays a role in SEO; therefore, if you have a big website, you will have more topics you can create contents for which means you can frequenly update your website.

Of course, there is always some cons.  If the big site falls, all of them falls together.

Hi Flo,

I thought I replied to your comment but I guess it didn't go through.

Like Gianluca said, you can't target Asia/Europe.  Sorry for not making it more clear in my response above.  You can create different website targeting .hk .jp .kr.

The best way to go to either create different subfolders you mentioned in your question for each country or purchase the ccTLD for each country you want to target.