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Are you redirecting with a 301 redirect? What is the url of the page you are redirecting from?

You can only do so much on-page optimisation.

Get the value of your domain and pages up by building links. Make something your audience loves, and you can stop crossing your fingers and just see how people naturally link to your site.

That's way better than putting effort in css to avoid text being shown as bold. Might not be in your job description as technical SEO but why not think of a technical solution to a customers problem...

Ah yes, didnt see the meta langauge tag. Sorry about that. Try the links approach. Takes more time, but works.

Your meta description is very short. Try to get close to (but not more then) 160 - 165 chars and see what happens.

You are cloaking your bold font to show normal font.

I'd suggest not to do it. I don't think SE's actually go that deep by looking at the css and trying to determine if your text is bold to the users as well... But because making words bold is probably in the bottom 2% of what you can do to optimize your page.

So before you get there... You should've done every other thing you could think of

1. Their might be a mismatch between what is in your meta description and what content there is on your site. If you talk about french fries in your description, but it's not in the content of your site. Google will more often choose a snippoet from your site. Second thing that could happen is that if you are listed in DMOZ, Google sometimes takes the description given there, to be your desciption in the search engines.

2. Try <meta http-equiv="language" content="EN">

But number 2 is not so easy. If you get a lot of links to your homepage, google will just decide that the .com url is more relevant to users than the /en/ version when ppl search for vallnord. So getting more link with Vallnord as <a>to the /en/ version might help with that problem.</a>

What's high quality and what would you get for 6k a month? If you get 5 quality links for that, that would be good. Get my point? If you get 5 links in lets say the Guardian, the NY Times, etc. You'd be jumping up and down. If you get 300 links a month for those 6k, than chances are they aren't really of high quality.

It takes time and effort to make something linkable. Do real research, write a decent post, or make a decent linkable piece of video, etc.

I can get you a thousands links a month, good quality (mark my Chinese accent) for only 400 dollars a month!

Ask them for examples and call the companies they do link building for and ask them what their thoughts are on the link builders.

Link building is patching up something that is broken. Make everything on your site with one thing in mind: why and when would this page I'm making now deserve to rank number one? People will than link to it because they really like your content, not because they get paid to post a blog about your site.

Choose 1.

Pick the one they make the most money on, or where they have a lot of staff members sitting on the bench, or where the competition is harder, or where the search volume is higher, or where you know the conversion rate of the keyword is higher .... or...

a combination of all that

GL!

Google won't ban a site just because it got a new owner. Google kicks websites out of their index who violate their guidelines.

So my best guess is that the website already violated the guidelines. You should try to find out why google thinks the website violated the guidelines.

Other thing: filing for a reconsideration request is often done, but not often done with any effect.

The first thing you have to consider BEFORE doing the request: has this action by google been manual, or is this an action based on the algorithm. If you have a poor quality site, lots of low quality back links, 26 adsense blocks on the site (I know you can only have 3, but just to emphasize...) then you can almost be 100% sure that it wasn't a manual action, but an algorithm change that got you kicked out/devaluated.

Thanks And would you suggest removing the old sitelink to make room for the new domain? How could we speed up the process of getting the sitelink up for the new domain?

A client of mine is introducing a new and improved bookingsengine. They're launching it on a different url than the existing one. The existing one needs to stay online a little bit longer for affiliate purposes.

The old engine url has a sitelink in the SERPS and ranks well on a few terms.

I'm wondering what you would do in this case? They want the new url to rank as quickly as possible also as sitelink of course.

Any help greatly appreciated. I have some thoughts of my own of course... But to keep the discussion as wide as possible... I'll wait a bit to add m thoughts.

What I mean by real value:

Link wheels are just websites you create, put a bit of (spun) content on it and link to your main site or to another site in the link wheel. It is not really adding anything to the web. It is just getting you rankings.

Why not try to make genuine, real content people appreciate and link to, talk about on social media, etc. That way, in the long run, getting links and getting higher rankings is actually much much easier. Because you don't have to do any more work.

Make something great, that people will like and they will create a unique "link wheel" if you like, for you!

• Scrape Google?

• Make your own scraper and keep the requests per second really low ?

• Maybe the site has an automated sitemap somewhere ?

• Google webmaster tools -> download "internal links" table

This will be considered duplicate content. If you want to give full credit to the original post, you can also add a rel=canonical tag to the head of that page. That way, almost all value that the page receives on your corporate blog will go to the website of your employees.

The consequence of the rel=canonical is that your corporate page will not rank (for any and I believe all keywords) in the SERP's.

Keyword tool = crap.

1. Did you look at the traffic for phrase match keywords? Or broad match?

2. Second thing you have to consider: the data Google uses in the keyword tool is also from search partners. For instance, in the Netherlands (where I live) google also adds keyword volume from a craigslist type of site. So me searching on the site for daytona insurance will add "a tick" in the keyword tool as well, even though google's results page wasn't shown for that search.

3. Did I mention that the keyword tool is crap? (With instant search on) Start typing daytona i... and see what starts apearing. Than compare the keywords that appear before insurance to the data you got for daytona insurance. See if that makes any sense.

Good luck! And remember, especially these days, rankings aren't everything. Traffic is!

Link wheels are 2010.

Stop using them.

Start adding real value to the web.

Google isn't stupid. It will see what you are doing, especially if you are making such a basic link wheel. It will denote the link wheel links and your work will be worthless.

Sorry I can't give you more "solid" advice on your link wheel.

If you simply want rankings: make guest posts on other blogs. As diverse as possible. Don't link with too much exact match keywords.

But make sure you have content on the websites you link to. If you have a very thin site with a lot of backlinks won't help your rankings. You need a site of "substance" to guest post to.

The one with the 2 code snippets is the one you needl! You just have to realize: what is accessed more often: the www version of a page or the / version of your pages? This speeds up apache a bit if the one that is accessed most is on top of the other.

Cheers!

Yes!

And to add: look in your analytics how your pages are being found now. Are they being found more on part number than on anything else? And is your title composed of anything else besides the part number?

What would be the most user friendly way to compose your titles? Fly wheel black 6 inch or 113-24322-423? In car land, garages usually find parts on numbers, not on names The question is: are you marketing to consumers who don't know part numbers, or businesses who do?

No. Search engines look at the subdomains as two different sites. One letter difference, or one hundred won't make a difference.

Good luck!

Because 95% of the content is equal. 3 links and 20 words are different. The rest, all the links, menu, etc. is the same.

I'd try adding a bit more uniqe text to each page. Tell search engines and users a bit more what they can find on those pages.