Recent content by lonhot2000

Hey Marty, I'm curious, what social signals worked for you? (twitter, g+...)

The CC TLD wont automatically give you a rankings boost, but a CC TLD will typically get you a higher CTR, as visitors prefer domains from their own country.

Keyword planner is good, you can also try ubersuggest dot org, uses Google type ahead data to come up with new ideas.

No problem to have duplicate sites on the same IP. Having CC TLDs will typically give you a better CTR in the SERPs. I highly recommending using hreflang to tell Google that you have sites for different locales.

There is no way to explicitly de-index a page from a particular Google CC TLD. You could try targeting your page to the "United States" in Google webmaster tools so that it is seen as less relevant to non-US visitors, however that is no guarantee it won't rank outside the US.

You have a few options: - Use a service like Authority Labs or SERP metrics to track rankings. - Look at the "Search Queries" report in Google webmaster tools. They will report keywords, CTR, avg position... - Inspect search results manually. To make life a little easier, add "num=100&pws=0"...

The correct markup for hreflang is something like: <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="..." /> Presumably, "en-US" is your default English site, if so use a value of "en", so that it targets other English speaking countries, or better yet, if it is the default for all countries and all...

Here you go (remove dashes in RewriteRule url): RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / # redirect non-www to www RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yoursite\.com RewriteRule (.*) h-t-t-p-:-/-/-w-w-w.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L] # redirect index.html page to the root domain RewriteRule ^index\.html$ / [R=301,L]

Doesn't sound like you're doing anything against the guidelines. Just because one site ranks well in one country, doesn't mean Google is going to rank all your sites well in all countries. You need to build links from sites in those countries to your subdomains. If you're not already doing so...

Make sure you give them time. Yahoo/Bing can take a lot longer to crawl and adjust rankings compared to Google. SearchMetrics recently did a study of Bing ranking factors vs Google. A few findings (summarized by Barry Schwartz): (1) Top brands rank higher on Bing, as they do in Google. (2)...

"Links from an Internet Search Engine" just means the number of visitors referred from search. Since Google went 100% SSL, they stopped sending the query in the referrer, which is why you're only seeing a few search queries.

Hi Tony, Are you including the protocol in the href (http)? I've heard a lot of people getting these warnings even though they had no bi-directional linking problems. Assuming your href values are correct I wouldn't worry about it. Perhaps Google hadn't crawled both version before sending the...

I just checked amazon and apple on rankchecker and it reported a "Link Popularity" of -1... so appears to be something broken on rankchecker and not necessarily a problem with your site.

When you changed to Vbulletin 5 connect, did your URLs change? If so, do they correctly 301 redirect to the new URLs?

Having URLs in robots.txt will not remove them from the index, it will just prevent them from being crawled. So if your goal is to remove them from the index, using robots.txt is not good enough. The URL remove in Google is automatic, you can remove individual pages, or entire directories. It...