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)

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

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.

Google removal requests take a while to get answered (considering the volumes they have to handle). Its best to wait out for sometime. In the meatime, you could add a 301 to your IP to your root domain name from your .htaccess file.

Read Rand's post on the blog about diversity in traffic source

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/traffic-source-diversity-is-essential-for-successful-seo.

I would be very interested to know from mozzers, how their experience has been with traffic share.

While you answer, please be kind enough to share the following:

1. The niche of the website you wish to quote in your answer.

2. The means of promotion you use (SEO, Social Media, PPC, Display, Affiliate)

3. The reason you think you cited this example and do you think it has been a success or a failure or somewhere in the middle?

Appreciate your time, thanks.

I got an interesting post from one of the bloggers: SEJ shared this on facebook.

http://explicitly.me/manipulating-google-suggest-results-–-an-alternative-theory. Worth a read

You may want to see how your website cache for your homepage looks like on Google. Maybe its reading the wrong header everytime. My suggestion would be to check that 1st. If it shows fine, I dont think it will hurt your rankings as such. If you have rel=caononical in place correctly, you would be fine. It would be worthy to identify your pages where you want rankings and based on that, you could diagnose.

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

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.

I would suggest that depending on the number of pages, you can either do a htaccess based redirection or an apache mod redirect.

Here is an article which could help you.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html

You may want to see how your website cache for your homepage looks like on Google. Maybe its reading the wrong header everytime. My suggestion would be to check that 1st. If it shows fine, I dont think it will hurt your rankings as such. If you have rel=caononical in place correctly, you would be fine. It would be worthy to identify your pages where you want rankings and based on that, you could diagnose.

Shwan,

I have noticed that when you have a long URL structure with multiple folders, Google tends to lose "interest" in your deep pages.

Let me give you an example: If you have a domain called www.website.com and you have a category called gemstones. In gemstones, you have diamond as a subcategory and a solitaire as a page.

If you consider your homepage to have an importance of 1, you would not have a category page which also has an importance of greater than or equal to 1. So, your category page gets a page weight value...lets say 0.9. Now, your subcategory page is treated that same way and you give it a page weight of say 0.8. Now, your solitaire page gets a value less than 0.8. Now, if you cut out one or more levels in your URL, you have a better chance of assigning of a higher value to your page.

Now, coming to your question. Breadcrumbs are essentially meant to help your users navigate better. So, your website hiearchy (the folders, sub folders or categories, sub categories) should reflect in your breadcrumb.

So, keep your URLs short, but keep your breadcrumbs like your website flow.

I dont think that there are legitimate ways to influence suggest for popular keywords. I have noticed one thing though: Popularity of a particular term leads to its inclusion in the suggest list. Example: I ran an awareness/social campaign to save our historical monuments from vandalism by making a website where people could scribble whatever they want.

That campaign went off really well with retweets and shares among good influencial folks. It got shared on bookmarking websites as well. Suddenly, I started seeing a keyword "responsible travel" coming up on suggestions. But as the momentum died, we lost that preference. Maybe the QDF algorithm kicked that keyword out?

Based on the version you have on your server, these documents would be helpful:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html

Please note: this is not something you would like to do unless you know Apache confuration yourself and you know the codes and its logic.

I got an interesting post from one of the bloggers: SEJ shared this on facebook.

http://explicitly.me/manipulating-google-suggest-results-–-an-alternative-theory. Worth a read

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?

David,

I do not see the benefit of paid directories for SEO. I would rather invest that amount towards testing out the efficacy of my target keywords through PPC.