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George is right, I think it might be best to ask this question here: http://forums.iis.net/

Hmm, not sure about that, I've just tested it and it doesn't. Thinking about it for a second, Google would need access to your site to do that  Would be awesome though.

Hi Mike,

There's some good suggestions by the folks above, but I'm assuming you're still having issues. It sounds like you might need an extra set of eyes, so if you're still stuck with this issue, I'd be happy to take a look for you. Of course, it's all in complete confidence  - you can e-mail me at [email protected] if you want to take up the offer.

Hopefully it's just a quirk

Dave

Hi Rachel,

I guess this might be worth a blog post since you didn't find resources

I'm going to try and tackle your question in steps,..

1) What do people recommend to do with old, outdated videos on sites like YouTube and Vimeo

My personal opinion, but if these videos are getting views, try to direct them to the new videos using annotations and such. Unless that product video is harmful (example: it was flagged as toxic waste ;)), then why take it down if it's still getting traffic? Okay, a better example would be that they're so outdated and look embarrassing to your brand, but even then, you can cover up the entire video with an annotation to visit the new product video...

2) They show up in search, but some mention outdated products

Which search? Google regular search / video / youtube / vimeo? If it's regular Google search, you can change that by de-optimizing the listing on Youtube and get a new video ranking..

3) However, is it best practice to remove everything older and outdated from Youtube, etc. or is it better to have these in your library (quantity over quality)

There are no rules here, every case is different.

4) We also started Google Plus after Youtube, so we now have two YouTubes (one empty one attached to our new G+ and one that's been established with a lot of videos - new and old)

For simplicity, it might be better to have one account.

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Good suggestion / idea from Microdesign, but I don't think updating videos is possible on Youtube (https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/58101?hl=en)

One thing that stands out to me is that you asked your question on June 8th, and you were comparing 7th and 6th, so there might be a reporting delay that could cause conflicting numbers. I've seen this before, and yes, it's weird :S

Is this still happening? Can you compare other date ranges and see what you get?

Just in case, make sure you're comparing the same reports and ensure there aren't any segments applied, if you can compare the numbers in an unfiltered view, that would be even better.

Hey,

I'd love to help, but it seems like the screenshots have been taken down. Can you re-upload to http://imgur.com/ and send the link through?

Dave

Hi

As Dennis confirmed, the 2nd link is showing the rich snippets. Try not to rely on the site: operator, and instead (first choice), query Google specifically where your result should appear first naturally, in your target country. For example, https://www.google.com/search?site=&source=hp&q=IT+and+Management+Training+Alpharetta%2C+GA+&gl=us yields the desired result:http://screencast.com/t/szChNsHMjS42

Alternatively, you can always try the info: operator which is usually more reliable. Your first result is a bit more confusing to explain, http://screencast.com/t/nY3u6eCdeIfV. You have 2 results appearing for the exact page title query, and that might be the reason why you aren't seeing it (at least in this example): https://www.google.com/search?gl=us&q=Java%2C+Perl+and+Python+Programming+Training+&gl=us

Just as David-Kley said above, you've implemented the microdata correctly and it's really up to Google as to whether the query deserves rich snippets or not. On the up side, you are getting quite a few rich snippets, so just look around  https://www.google.com/search?gl=us&q=Perl++Programming+Training&gl=us

Thanks,

Dave

Hi there, your suggested setup is perfectly fine. You're able to, and allowed to target the root domain to a specific country, while targeting subfolders to others. The geotargeting on the main domain's URLs will be overridden if you specify a different target for subfolders, for example:

if you target www.domain.com -> UK, then

• www.domain.com/this -> UK
• www.domain.com/that -> UK

and if you target www.domain.com/us -> US, then

• www.domain.com/us/this -> US
• www.domain.com/us/that -> US

Does that make sense?

Just adding to what the others have said, but there could be a number of reasons:

1. WMT is slow
2. You actually lost the links
3. The links aren't being redirected properly, i.e. multiple hops, no redirect at all
4. 302's and other redirection CAN actually show up in WMT, you'll see it listed as "via this intermediary link....

The advice the others gave is solid, you'll need to double check with some kind of HTTP response code tool to check. Please supply a URL.

Cheers,

Dave

Hi Paul,

Okay, maybe we can take this one step at a time. Have you substituted your ga.js code for the new doubleclick.js?

There's one line in the Javascript that looks like this: ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://' : 'http://') + 'stats.g.doubleclick.net/dc.js';

Okay, so if that's all done, head to your GA account.

1. Select the profile you wish you enable demographics reports, and click on Admin (top right)
2. In the middle column, click profile settings
3. Enable demographics reports, and wait a day or two for data to flow in.

I see you might be using Tag manager, if so read this:

"Please note that if you use Google Tag Manager, you should select "Add Display Advertiser Support" in your Google Analytics tag template; and if you are using a 3rd party tag management tool Google Analytics might not be able to validate your code, but you should be able to skip validation and the reports will work." - Source http://online-behavior.com/analytics/demographics

Hi Matt,

International SEO is always a fun question, especially when dealing with English speaking countries. Here's what I would do to help Google determine that this is a separate site and hopefully avoid any duplicate content issues - this will be specific to your UK site but the practice is universal:

1. List the UK phone number and address + any other specific UK contact info on every page (header + footer). The great thing is that you're already using the phone number and your registered business number in England. If it's ok with how you conduct business, I would also include the address in the footer as well

2. Change the HTML lang code to GB. Currently in the .co.uk source code you have: xml:lang="en" - what you need to be doing is specifying UK English like so: html lang="en-GB"

http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/web/tips/langtag.html#why

3. Double check webmaster tools for the UK site is targeting the UK

4. Ideally, you would want to change some of the text content to reflect differentiation between the English sites. I would simply paraphrase or rewrite the content from the American version and place it on the UK site.

5. If you see the .com version in the UK, don't panic. You'll need to build some links to the UK site ideally from .UK domains(co.uk, org.uk) and it should naturally sort itself out.

6. Something I've been wanting to try is the html link language tag. In this case it would work from the .com version link pointing to the .co.uk. W3 says it's not supported by browsers but doesn't mention crawlers - IMO it's worth a try if all else fails.

[http://www.webhostingbuzz.co.uk](<a href=)" hreflang="en-GB">Web Hosting Buzz

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_hreflang.asp

If you follow these instructions you should be fine, I mean apple.com and apple.com/uk are almost completely identical and they seem fine now. I haven't had any issues myself yet, and I've taken my own advice.

On a side note, I think I might become a customer - plans look pretty sweet

Good luck!

Dave

Hi Sally,

This isn't ideal for SEO, and the immediate answer is: It's not OK, and you have to reduce this to one.

Each time you use a 301 redirect, you lose some "link juice" - the less you redirect Googlebot, the more value your pages will retain.

Can I ask why you're having to redirect twice?

Cheers,

Dave

I had help from the UK seo community doing a Google +1 experiment recently - it's a bit silly but I think this is what you're looking for. http:// [www] davidsottimano [.com] /gareth-hoyle-sexiest-man-alive/ (purposely not a link!). I think it had around 40-50 +1's last time I checked.

Ranks #4-#5 https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=gareth+hoyle&gl=uk

Feel free to use it if it suits you.

Hi Danny!

I don't have much to add here, I think the guys have it right in that you'll need to figure out how to make the 301 work. I quickly read that documentation, then realized I wasn't a robot, so I found this: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/10/amazon-s3-support-for-website-redirects.html which was a bit more friendly.

I wish I could help you out more, but I'm not using AWS. I'm assuming you'll be able to use wildcard or regex matching somewhere, and that should solve your problem.

Great site by the way, anything you're using to help out with the static blog? (Jekyll, Octopress?)

Just to add to Alan's answer,  and this is from pure experience:

1. You'll likely see a "down" period. Expect organic traffic to drop for a few weeks and hopefully get back to previous level or better. If you rely on organic, up your spend on PPC during this period
2. Do not redirect internal pages to the root. domainA.com/page should redirect to another inner page. Don't start redirecting groups of pages to the new root.
3. Like Alan said, pages without external links are not worth redirecting. Make sure you get  all of your links from OSE, Majestic, Ahrefs and WMT to get a decent picture. Ensure you're redirecting to similar content too!
4. Change the site address in WMT, verify new site in WMT - watch this like a hawk, especially crawl errors.
5. Once the new site is up, submit your XML sitemaps to WMT.
6. Triple check your robots.txt, and other robots directives - I've see too many sites go up with NOINDEX and full robots.txt blocks.
7. Fetch pages in WMT to ensure you're getting 200 response codes on your most important / new pages
8. Recrawl all your old pages (that you've redirected) to ensure they return a 301 > 200. No chains, just 1 301.

There's probably more, but those are the essentials.

Hi!

I'm guessing that you're using a campaign in the Seomoz toolset? This is perfectly normal as Seomoz only crawls your site and doesn't check against Google's index.

So, this means that Roger (Seomoz robot) found duplicate content in your Feed URLs. Google is pretty good at determining dupe content from feeds but you should always double check to see if these URLs are indexed:

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1440&bih=796&gbv=2&q=site%3Asoobumimphotography.com+inurl%3Afeed

Phew! Looks like you're clear

If you want to be super sure on your Wordpress site, you can install this plugin http://yoast.com/noindex-for-rss-feeds/ which will add the NOINDEX tag to the feed.

Don't worry too much, it looks like you're clear - it wouldn't hurt to install that plugin though!

Cheers,

Dave

Just my opinion here, since you have some great answers already:

I might be completely alone on this, but I definitely would encourage testing. Mock up some SERPs and do some user testing with Mechanical Turk to judge if it looks spammy, enticing etc..

Here's an example from Australia - Look for Travel Insurance Direct (should be #1) http://dis.tl/vph36j

I think it might be the only way we can add our personal touch in SERPs and I love creativity. Good luck!

Hi there, your suggested setup is perfectly fine. You're able to, and allowed to target the root domain to a specific country, while targeting subfolders to others. The geotargeting on the main domain's URLs will be overridden if you specify a different target for subfolders, for example:

if you target www.domain.com -> UK, then

• www.domain.com/this -> UK
• www.domain.com/that -> UK

and if you target www.domain.com/us -> US, then

• www.domain.com/us/this -> US
• www.domain.com/us/that -> US

Does that make sense?

Completions: The total number of completions for the requested goal number

Total Completions: The total number of completions for all goals defined for your profile.

Conversion Rate: (ga:goal(n)Completions / ga:visits) * 100

Total Conversion Rate: (ga:goalCompletionsAll / ga:visits) * 100

Reference: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/dimsmets/goalconversions.html