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Thanks for the hint. The number of crawled pages looks quite ok.
Additionally our rankings of our contents for Spain are as good as before the relaunch. And the Latin-American pages are based on the Spanish ones (linked with canonical tags). So I don't think that we have any crawling issues.

Hi guys,

We relaunched our website www.troteclaser.com on Sept. 6th. Traffic on the new website has been stable or slightly increased except for one area: In Central and South America organic traffic dropped by 50%.

We properly set up all 301 redirects and solved all 404s within a week. We changed approx. 30% of the website structure. But I don't think that internal link juice could be the problem.

Any idea what might be the cause for a local drop in traffic like this? Did anyone have similar cases in the past?

Thomas

Hi all,

Over the last month we've included all images, videos, etc. into our sitemap and now its loading time is rather high. (http://www.troteclaser.com/sitemap.xml)

Is there any maximum sitemap size that is recommended from Google?

Thanks for the hint. Basically I'd always use the local language for the Urls, but I wonder if the japanese symbols are in any kind problematic to read for the search engines.

Hi,

Anyone got experience with Japanese Urls? I'm currently working on the relaunch of the Japanese site of the troteclaser.com and I wonder if we should use English or Japanese characters for the Urls.

I found some topics on the forums about this, but they only tell you that Google can crawl both without problems. The question is if there is a benefit if Japanese characters are used.

Just in case anyone stumbles across this topic:

We started using honeypot captchas in 2011 and it really paid off. Not only because we got rid of the old captchas, but also because they are keeping out 99,99% of all bot inquiries or spam.

Hi Christy,

That's great news! Thanks for your help with this.

I'll set up the authorship link and bylines for the original authors then.

Thomas

Hi Christy,

Thanks for the tipps. We wanted to make it easy for ourselves, but it didn't quite work out that way

The thing is that our authers do not have personal G+ accounts and I'm afraid just setting one up for them for the purpose of linking to it for authorship won't work either. I read that the accounts need a minimum of activity to be considered valid by Google.

I thought about claiming authorship with my personal G+ account as the author for all pages of the troteclaser.com, but I'm unsure if there will be issues as my account is in German while the troteclaser.com pages are available in all languages. What's your thought about this?

Thomas

Hi Christy,

Sorry for my late reply. Having the entire site link back to the G+ account didn't work at all. It seems that we need to add the author tags and information to each single page to make it work.

Thomas

Thanks for the advice. Our goal definitely is to boost the click through rate.

We do not have any high profile writers among our staff, but I thought that a nice portrait of a colleague next to the search results would boost CTR more than our company logo.

So the bottom line seems to be that without a high profile author it won't matter if we set up individual accounts or corporate accounts. I'll guess we'll do some tests in different countries and see what'll work best.

Hi guys,

We are currently setting up Google+ accounts for our website www.troteclaser.com. We'd like to use them to indicate authorship of our content. As we provide content in 10 different countries, we have to set up a Google+ account for every office location.

Here my questions: Do we have to set up two separate accounts - one for the authorship (for the person who wrote the texts) and another one for our office location (to link with Google places)? Or would a single (unpersonal) corporate account do the job, too?

What's your experience with this?

Thomas

Hey Casey,

Thanks for the reply. Will have this tested soon. Really looking forward to getting rid of that captcha.

Regards,

Thomas

Hi Keri,

Those are users without Java-Support. 
Does that mean that Java Script is no issue then?

Good point, thanks.

As 15% of our visitors don't have Java, this won't work out

Actually we're trying to get rid of the captcha to increase our CR, that's why the "honeypot" version is very appealing.

Hi guys,

in order to get rid of our very old-school captcha on our contact form at troteclaser.com, we would like to use a honeypot captcha.

The idea is to add a field that is hidden to human visitors but likely to be filled in by spam-bots. In this way we can sort our all those spam contact requests.
More details on "honeypot captchas":
http://haacked.com/archive/2007/09/11/honeypot-captcha.aspx

Any idea if this single cloaked field will have negative SEO-impacts? Or is there another alternative to keep out those spam-bots?

Greets from Austria,
Thomas