Mum ... I never really looked this as a problem until the last Google updates.

So if I got it properly:

1. Keeping one link on the home may not hurt my website (now)
2. Keeping the footer link on all website would be the last thing to do
3. Keeping the link in nofollow can bring me some new customers (now) and penalize my site soon

I think I'm going for the nofollow option now.

What do you think ?

Hello !

I was wondering if it's still a good idea to let a do-follow link on the bottom of agency released websites.

Because they obvisouly come from different websites with no link with a web marketing agency.

• Do we have to keep them in the footer in no-follow ?
• If we do so, how to get some link juice from the different websites ?

It sounds a bit stupid but one of my partners went from PR7 to PR5 recently. I guess Penguin 2.0 did not like all its links from its customers' website.

Tks a lot !

Hello

Thanks for your help.

I think the best in my case gonna be to keep the strucutre /middle-east and /asia but to use a robot.txt for those subfolders (apart the who are we page).

As explained I have to work also on the brand names which are different in those cases.

So the main SEO effort will be on the .com.

The other sub-folders will be more for users.

Tks for your valuable help !

So what can we do for those ones ?

Helo Tommy Tks for your reply. However I have a couple of more questions regarding your answers " Geo Target Tool in Webmaster to tell Google that .com/asia-en/services1.html is targeting only people in Asia " -> But in Google webmaster tools I canno't specify asia as country, right ? http://awesomescreenshot.com/050wdlae8 " the href=language tag " -> This is fine, but it will not with region, right ? -> And if asia can be considered as TLD , is there any way to do the same with africa and middle east ? TKs a lot !

Hello Seomoz people !

I've been struggling for some time now with an international website project.

It's gonna be an:international website with joomla.

To sum up:

• We have an international company
• The company has 13 subsidiaries worldwide (same products, different names)
• The company doesn't have enough resources to get 13 independent websites
• Some subsidiaries work in one country / one language, some others on a region (several countries, several languages)

Thanks to your community we decided to:

• Get a main website company.com

• Get subsidiaries folders (middle east, oceania and south america will be easier to link to their subsidiary)

  • .com/asia
  • .com/middle-east
  • .com/oceania
  • .com/south-america
• • .com/uk
  • .com/usa
  • .com/fr
  • .com/es
  • .com/de
  • .com/ma
  • .com/dz
  • .com/it

We also need to:

• Get some websites in different languages
  • .com/asia-cn
  • .com/asia-en
  • etc.

Now how do we do to manage:

• Regional websites (the first 4th on the upper list)

  • Google allows to affect a website to a country not region
  • Will they compete with the .com ?
  • How do we set up them for google ?

• How do we avoid duplicate content and keep local ranking

  • .com/asia-en/services1.html will have the exact same content that_.com/services1.html_
  • If we use canonical from _.com/asia-en/services1.htm_l to _.com/services1.html , d_oes that mean /asia will not rank in asia ?

Hope you can help us to figure us the best solution for this good project !

Thanks a lot.

Florian