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I am not 100% sure about this, but this is the normal way of consideration. Normally, Google also looks at which data center the user has been querying and based on that it decided the location. It tries its best to give you the location accurately, but sometimes, the mechanism fails, therefore the not set comes in.

Domain name change is a very tough decision and changing domain name to accommodate keywords wouldnt work to bump up rankings.

I would do a deep analysis of the website and do some better interlinking coupled with great inbound marketing. Maybe a viral video or something as well...

Changing domain solve your problem. Remember what happened to meta keywords?

There are some instances when Google is unable to decipher the country/tld for a visitor. Eg. Opening Google.com in Australia. Thats why the Google (not set)

Mass comments on blogs is a spam technique- big time. Although, blog commenting should not be a SEO exercise- SEO is an added benefit of it. It should be more of an engagement activity than anything else.

I found matt cutts video which says that keyword rich domains are being devalued.

I would recommend doing more brand awareness exercises rather than switching domain names for a more keyword rich domain.

watch?v=rAWFv43qubI&feature=relmfu

Great Insight Alan. Awesome observation! Ecommerce websites are faced with faceted navigation, duplicate content and canonical URL issues. Thats why ecommerce websites are more prone to relegation on Google updates.

Something has to change drastically on the way ecommerce websites exist. Otherwise, Google may end up delisting or relegating a huge number of such websites.

I am also looking for something on those lines...I am 100% sure about the SERP ranking algorithms, but I am not that sure whether users like the top of the screen more or not.

a heatmap would be helpful indeed

My question maybe too broad, but I think this is the right forum to ask the question:

What is the user behavior in terms of search engine results when browsing on a tablet (ipad and others).

Is it the same as for desktops and laptops or its different? Any infographics would be helpful as well.

Subdomains do not work very well. I would go in with a folder within the domain itself. I would further name the folder something intuitive which would lead more people finding information about your client's niche to the website. The architecture is very important for the KB as it can be very effective in terms of cross selling as well.

Go to your GA account. Then, click on traffic sources>search engines.

This will give you a report containing Google, Bing and other search engines. If you have visitors from multiple countries, you would be seeing Google mentioned multiple times in your report.

If you see carefully, you will the table header (just above the listing and this would normally say:

Source (a dropdown), None (another dropdown) followed by visits, page/visits, time on site, bounce rates etc etc.

click on the none dropdown and select country/territory from the menu that appears. You should be able to see different country visits from Google.

Hope that helps.

I found matt cutts video which says that keyword rich domains are being devalued.

I would recommend doing more brand awareness exercises rather than switching domain names for a more keyword rich domain.

watch?v=rAWFv43qubI&feature=relmfu

1st of all, make an image sitemap and submit to Google. Here are the guidelines to do so.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=178636

Then, do some default tag and category definition. As Barry pointed out, it makes a lot of sense to categorize. That would add relevance to your website in searches.

Then, at the backend, assign default tags for the categories. Like for cars, the default tag could be automobiles, for scenery it could be nature so on and so forth. That would help in your optimization.

You can try a mod_rewrite on apache or if its not a big website URL based redierction on .htaccess.

Therefore, you can actually layer the architecture in such a way to actually write something like a vanity URL.

That would solve your URL problem.

I would say that golf clubs would serve you better than just clubs. Clubs can also mean a gathering place for folks with similar interests where you get clear results for the keyword golf clubc if you mention it in the URL itself.

For Google:

http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=136861

and

http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=30275&topic=1051770

For Bing, there is no official source, but bloggers have put together one.

http://www.searchbrat.com/bing-search-advanaced-command/

Hope that helps.

Hi Laurent,

If its wordpress, I can think of a few plugins to help you there. SEO Smart links is a great plugin to help you in that respect. URL: http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/seo-smart-links

Then there is a popular post plugin which will showcase your popular posts in the sidebar. This is a great way to leverage you old/archived content.

You can extract the initial set of keywords from Google keyword external. That should give you a reasonable starting matrix of the set you should targeting.

Also check out from real internet users ( maybe aspirants, students who would be likely to search something similar to your website's offering) to see what they would use to search for a website product like your's.

That would give you an idea of what keywods people are looking for.

Think as a user, not a internet marketer.

You can also try the SEOMOZ pro keyword difficulty tool. Thats pretty good as well

The best way is to enable the creation of unique content daily. UGC and user participation if added to the unique content would add to the crawl ability. If you want to go a bit high tech, you can put the fresh content on a webcache to enable Google bots to visit you more frequently. ALso, make sure that your older/archived pages get some content cycled ( new comments, new tweets etc etc)

I am not 100% sure about this, but this is the normal way of consideration. Normally, Google also looks at which data center the user has been querying and based on that it decided the location. It tries its best to give you the location accurately, but sometimes, the mechanism fails, therefore the not set comes in.

Well, A strict No No there on that practice. Your competitor would have issues in the long run. It seems quite easy to get folks to comment and it is aimed at "gaming" the google ranking algorithms. That practice would surely fall prey to Google webspam team one day. Its best not to tread that path at all. (by the way, Mattcutts- head of Google webspam, is one of seomoz's users...hope he gets to read this post and suggest algorithmic changes)