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Hi Scott, you should ask yourself why you want to use the services? Is it to publicise a newsworthy story and increase brand awareness or to simply build backlinks to your site for SEO gain? If it's the latter I wouldn't recommend them!

It is fine using these services, and in my opinion, worth the cost but PR marketing should be done with PR in mind, not SEO. Only submit a release when you truly have something interesting to report, it's about encouraging coverage of your news/brand, and that goal wouldn't be achieved with cr@p content!

Hope that's helped!

Lee

Hi, our client has switched from a non-secure server to a secure (SSL) server.. but the non secure pages still exist, i.e.

http://www.stainlesshandrailsystems.co.uk/balustrade-systems.html (non-secure)
https://www.stainlesshandrailsystems.co.uk/balustrade-systems.html (secure)

We assumed that we should 301 redirect the http pages to the new https pages using the following htaccess rule;

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R,L]

HOWEVER! both of the above pages show the same Page Authority (PA) and Pagerank (PR).. does this mean that they are being seen as the same page, do we really need to employ 301 redirects?

Many thanks in advance, much appreciated.

Lee

Hi, I'm using the Moz Bar add-on in Firefox.. but it's suddenly truncated meaning that I can only see half of the toolbar, and I'm unable to use it's features.

Screenshot here; http://prntscr.com/bgm1z2

Does anyone know how to fix this? I've tried removing and re-adding Moz Bar, and installed a new version fo Firefox.

Thanks in advance, Lee.

Yes Christian, I would definitely request removal of the links.

The Google Penguin update on April 24th targeted sites that were using spammy backlink tactics, and site wide footer links came under that bracket, particularly those that didn't seem natural (i.e. non-relevant). Other backlinks that came under attack were site-wide blog roll links, and links from spammy networks.

No one knows for sure if the backlinks you mention will harm your site, but my guess is that they will.

Would love to hear other people’s opinions!

Lee

Hi,

We have been approached by a potential client. They are a UK company whose website is hosted on a .com domain (the .co.uk forwards to the .com).

They also have a German website hosted on a .de domain. Both the .com and the .de are hosted in the UK. We believe that the .de website should be hosted in Germany. You agree?

Anyway, they now need to target the US market.

They are planning on duplicating the UK (.com) website and creating a US version of the site on a .us domain. They would rewrite the content for the US site to avoid duplications, and add Href Lang attributes etc. They are also debating whether the new US site should be hosted in the US or the UK.

We don't think this is the best strategy. Would it not be better to host both the UK and US website on the .com domain. using reginal folders? i.e. example.com/uk, and example.com/us. Obviously we would setup Href Lang accordingly and change the Google Search Console geo targeting options for each of the sub-sites (/uk and /us).

Or we could suggest hosting the UK site on the .co.uk domain, and the US on the .com domain.

So, what is the best strategy to target the US audience, whilst maintaining UK rankings?

Many thanks for your time, hope to hear from you soon

Lee.

Nope, still not working! Quite a pain to be honest.

A response from Google Thomas, like your optimism!!