Yes I´m afraid of that to..

Lets say you copy all the default content to an UK-section:

uk.site.com or site.com/uk/.

Will the HREFLANG solve the duplicate content problem, or does it need to be unique?

Hi Andy!

Thanks for your answer, I´ve been thinking about this tag as well. Do you know if you can have two tags on the same page saying this is for both "en-gb" and "en-us" ?

Do you guys have any tips to increase the visibility in both Google.com and Google.co.uk?

The site today, have good visibility in USA, but its poor in the UK...

Information:

• The server is based in US.
• No region is set in the Google Webmaster Tools.
• Incoming links are from global regions, mostly US.

Do we need to add a specific section for the UK (uk.site.com or site.com/uk/) and specify region in GWT to make sure Google handle this the right way? Its a lot of work, rewrite all the content for another section, which also is in english...

To make use of people who "borrow" your content, add a link back to your site inside of the content. When they publish the content on their site, you got yourself a backlink.

If you use Wordpress, Yoast SEO-plugin has a feature for this, very easy to use.

Good luck!

Some thoughts:

• why is the

font-size:10 and hidden at the top?

- worse user experience because of the amount of text? high bounce rate?

• remove those spammy meta keywords

• make a more user friendly meta description

• lifestylemonthly is very active on Facebook, shares and likes

• check your exact anchor texts and remove links from spammy sites. Its better to have few links then many bad links.

• You are ahead on all OSE factors except the registered social shares Summary:

• remove all those details that makes the website look over optimized

• improve the usability

• check for bad links

Hope this will help you!

Example of keywords that you used for the comparison between those sites?

Hi!

Got a solution for this issue,

It's gzip compression that makes the 302 redirection! Enabling compression causes the redirects Google boot to cookies_usage.php and therefore Google believe they visit cookies_usage.php while they came thru another URL. Disabling it fixes the problem.

Need to investigate the gzip-plugin for OsCommerce and see what I find.

Thanks for your help!

Hi!

I´ve a problem with a webshop that run OsCOmmerce. Google report thousands of urls "Not followed" in Webmaster Tools, and it´s increasing for every day.

When you fetch as Google you get a 302 to ../cookie_usage.php. But if you fetch the page in your browser you get 200 OK.

Why does Google get 302 but users 200? We´ve checked for malware and restored old backups, nothing helps.

Thoughts about this?

Hi Paul!

First time I see someone that uses this technique.

It is not a problem for the search engines, they se all the content for that page. The URL-changes in html5 will just help the users to define specific sections on the site, just like #news (html anchors).

My recommendation, do not create a super-huge-one-single-page-with-all-content. Create separete subpages to define a clear hierarchy, good for both users and crawlers.

Hope this will help you!

I see, have you read these?

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=34445

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2064573/Search-Engines-and-Frames

Hi Andre!

This is a common problem and I know several people that have met it.

Tips for fixing this problem:

1. Make sure that your prefered landing page are relevant for the keyword, title, H1 and content.

2. Use the power of internal links, if you mention the keyword on other pages, make a link to the prefered page with that keyword (naturally sometimes, not always). It will give Google a signal on what page you want to rank for the targeted keyword.

3. Check incoming links in OSE, if you find "good" links that are pointing to the wrong url, make contact and ask them to update the URL.

4. Make more signals by using social media-links (G+, Facebook and Twitter) to preferred URL.

Hope this will help you!

Hi!

My recommendation is absolutely Wordpress. You get access to hundreds of great SEO plugins and it´s very easy to work with.

Reading and plugins for Wordpress - http://yoast.com/wordpress/.

Simple platform = more time for blogging.

Good Luck!

Hi Roel!

I´ve spoken to people in many different countries about this and they all confirm that the Penguin update is spread everywhere.

Google said this:
_The change will go live for all languages at the same time. For context, the initial Panda change affected about 12% of queries to a significant degree; this algorithm affects about 3.1% of queries in English to a degree that a regular user might notice. The change affects roughly 3% of queries in languages such as German, Chinese, and Arabic, but the impact is higher in more heavily-spammed languages. For example, 5% of Polish queries change to a degree that a regular user might notice. _

More reading: http://insidesearch.blogspot.se/2012/04/another-step-to-reward-high-quality.html

Hope this will help you!

Add a canonical URL that points to the URL that you want to use.

or

Some reading:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

Done some google:ing and found this:

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&gs_nf=1&tok=U7C9oJQT1ItWxGK9Kf4Jag&cp=17&gs_id=3&xhr=t&q=monkeyball.osa.pl&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&site=&source=hp&oq=monkeyball.osa.pl&aq=0&aqi=g4&aql=&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=91742057bf8938dc&biw=1680&bih=925

Maybe this will help you!

Hi!

What black hat stuff did you do?

My recommendations are:

• Continue to create awesome content (text, videos and photos)
• Increase your social activity (G+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc)
• Try and get some high quality links
• Remove old crap-links (give signals that you are cleaning up)

Unfortunately, when you´ve broke the Google guidelines, they wont fix everything over one night, you have to keep up with the good work to persuade Google that you are good guys, and that you deserve to rank again.

Good luck!

Hi Nancy!

One reason Google is saying that is because you have a large amount of links compared to the amount of regular text. That will make them suspicious.

You have ~100 links on the three subpages you´ve listed which is no problem, but, when it is compared to the amount of plain text this might happen.

See Matt Cutts blog post about this: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-many-links-per-page/

Hi Suren!

Here is Googles SEO guide:

http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.google.com/en//webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf

Hi Jason!

Alex has a good point there, spanish anchor text inside english text will just look spammy.

One thing to remember is that Google recognize synonyms and other languages as well. If you want to build links for the spanish word "perder peso" and find it very tough to make it effective, links from english sites with the english anchor text "weight loss" will help you as well (the effect might not be as good as with spanish, but it will help).

Google will understand that "perder peso" equals "weight loss". But the recommendation is to work with links for the goal language, it´s most relevant for the users and in the eyes of Google.

I would also recommend you to be active in social media like Facebook and Twitter.

The social activity is positive in many ways,

1. Creates a buzz around your business, gives Google positive signals about popularity.

2. You will spread your information to friends, customers and others in your industry, it will help you build the brand.