.htaccess change - DONE! I am a little concern about the subdomains. Will having subdomains for each language will create "competition" between www.XYZ.com, es.XYZ.com and en.XYZ.com? If I create subdomains my main site (www.XYZ.com) will have only one page and the others will be at the subdomains. Again, thanks for your help...
Small update... fixed the canonical URL issue. created two sub-domains (es and en) and move all the files to those domains...created two .htaccess and placed them in the old folders to do 301 redirection to the new sub-domains. Since the blog is in spanish, I moved it to the spanish sub-domain. I updated the home page at www to link to the new sub-domains. Finally created new sitemaps and submitted them to google webmaster tools.. next I will duplicate the DB, install a copy of the blog in the english sub-domain and then rewrite all the posts in english. at the end I hope to finish with this: www.mydomain.com - main selector es.mydomain.com - spanish website es.mydomain.com/blog - spanish blog en.mydomain.com - english website en.mydomain.com/blog - english blog thanks all for the help!
So, I take it you're interested? (By the way, the code I gave is supposed to go in a file called .htaccess that sits in the same directory as your site's home page.)
No problem. (By the way, about my previous post in this thread regarding .htaccess, I didn't see your other more recent replies.) And no, there won't be any competition between the pages because they are in separate languages.
I've SEO's many sites for clients successfully. One of my sites is just a single page sales letter for trading stocks (see my sig) but it ranks on the first page of Google for over 10 different keywords so feel I'm qualifed to speak to this topic. I do think that there is more opportunity for both on-page and off-page optimization for your site. ON-PAGE 1. I would recommend inserting your best keyword FIRST in the Title tag..maybe "wedding photographer" followed by 1 or others you are targteting. Keywords are dilluted with each position in the Title tag and by each additional word so keep it as short as possible here. 2. Add more of your target keywords to your homepage content. 3. Add H1 tags with your keywords as well. THIS IS MAJOR 4. Add "nofollow" tags to any outbound links from your site. 5. Name your images with your target keywords. Careful not to over do it hear. Make the names natural. 6. Unless you like blogging, just get an autoblogger scirpt that adds keyword related content automatically to your blog. Then link to the blog in an inconspicuous way. OFFPAGE (Simply get more links with your keyword(s) in the link whenever possible) 1. Buy more directory links. Lots of services out there for this. 2. Buy blog links. See www.payperpost.com 3. Submit an SEO friendly press release. see www.prweb.com 4. Have keyword focused articles submitted to article directories 5. Have links submitted to social networks/forums/socialbook marks. (lots of services out there) Good luck and I hope this helps.