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302 = temporary redirect. When the crawler landed on your page, it was redirected to another URL. [NO STATUS] / [NO DATA] - try running it again? If it still shows up, you may be blocking crawlers, try fetching your site as G - also check your robots.txt, htaccess and meta tags to make sure you aren't blocking it from there.

No, it won't. I suggest doing as Google recommends, removing the old URL and adding the new URL to your sitemap. The sitemap only helps index your pages and optimize which pages get crawled more frequently.  It does not help with value transfer. When Google crawls the new URL through your sitemap, I believe it will also see the 301 redirect pointing towards it.

Sandip, I'm giving you a thumbs up just because of your glorious moustache. Well done, sir. (Your answer was pretty good too!) Matt

Thumbed up due to having a great sense of humour. Hold onto that, it'll serve you well in your SEO efforts

Ok, I guess I'll have to replace the existing pages and try to write something unique for each country. I just wanted to check that I wasnt missing something. Thanks for the replies.

Hi Iain, You are not going to penalised by doing 301 redirect. 301 redirect are permanent redirect which are consider as seo friendly.

Get your cup of Horlicks and get your sense of peace sorted. Regardless of action points, never knee jerk! The broken link just seems to be a non-functioning mailto: link rather than a page link, as such. I could be wrong but that's my impression. I would be tempted to put a 301 redirect onto your site redirecting that link to your contact page thus capturing the user and giving them helpful information and pointing the link to a fairly 'safe' location That gives you time to maybe do a bit of digging into TopicWorld.net, see if it's real community or spammy forum, so you can then decide whether a disavow is needed. If you decide you don't want the link then I suggest you try to get it removed manually first as disavow can take weeks/months to come into effect. Hope this helps.

Hope you can fix it rather sooner then later. Hope my information fixes your website up a bit. You're welcome. Kind regards Jarno

I have a site that the title tag is too long and the title is simply the name of the site (I think they get it from ODP, not sure) Now if you believe that it is the ODP that is causing the trouble, you can add this Meta tag in the section of the pages - However, if this has not been the case, it could be that the links that have been built are not in line with the existing title. And sometimes, Google changes the title itself if it feels that the title is not well optimized – http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2012/01/better-page-titles-in-search-results.html https://plus.google.com/u/0/+PierreFar/posts/62V16LPwzKv

Thanks for the reply. The WWW has the most links and the http has very few. I was mainly worried about the vulnerability of this structure and the risk the website faces from negative seo. It should be sorted in the coming weeks but for now I'm stuck with it on both. Thanks

Ripoff Report is itself a ripoff. People who write negative reports are usually unwitting dupes. (in a few cases they may be competitors.) In any event, Ripoff Report's real business is extracting fees for "mediation services"  and "customer satisfaction" programs to get negative stuff removed...even though it says it has a non-removal policy. It is a very bad company that has been the subject of many lawsuits -- but stays just within the law to do its dirty business. One court called its business practices "appalling" -- even as it upheld them. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripoff_Report Do not attempt to rebut negative reports on the site; this will just increase their prominence. Under no circumstances contact Ripoff Report or anyone claiming to have the ability to mitigate bad reports. It's like dealing with blackmailers. You just encourage ever higher fees. The only solution is to adopt a "publish and be damned" attitude and then do the hard SEO work to get the negative review pushed down in SERPs.

As long as you transfer the website correctly, the IP address's geo-location remains the same, and you use a reputable host, I would say you are fine. Site speed would be something to consider when shopping for a new host because search engines use this in their algorithm, and fast sites create a great user experience, which is good for everything including SEO. Also, changing a website from public to private has no affect on rankings.

Hi Jarno, Thanks so very much! I have to say I am really liking the A1 generator. How awesome of you to follow up. I really appreciate that. Yes, if you want to send me the complete sitemap via PM that would be awesome. I certainly hope I can return the favor Happy Holidays! Dana

Thx Matt

Hello! I took into consideration both of your suggestions. I cant really do much with the cake toppers part because the products are what they are. I did try to reduce the number of time it was stated in the content but other than the product titles are trying to be descriptive. In regards the noindex nofollow issue thank you for clarifying! Ben