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Hi Andy, Thanks a lot for a quick response. With some development we could edit our country URLs (the site is on wordpress, with WPML multilingual). We do own palmatin.co.uk but it's not being used right now. Would you suggest keeping the UK site on co.uk and rephrasing .com for the states & international traffic? thanks, jaan

You did not realy ask a question... so no resonses. But we are 6 months ahead. so you must have tested it!? What did you find? Did it work?

You are correct, this has been discussed quite a bit—the answer is subfolder. Here is an excellent, recent, thread on the subject: http://moz.com/community/q/i-have-a-blog-on-a-sub-domain-would-you-move-it-to-the-rood-domain-in-a-directory Here is what Rand Fishkin has to say, with an example from moz.com: http://moz.com/community/q/moz-s-official-stance-on-subdomain-vs-subfolder-does-it-need-updating  An excerpt from his response: "We recently were able to test this using a subdomain on Moz itself (when moving our beginner's guide to SEO from guides.moz.com to the current URL http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo). The results were astounding - rankings rose dramatically across the board for every keyword we tracked to the pages."

Thanks Andy, Appreciate your feedback.

Thanks for that MoosaHemani appreciate the input. We are not concerned about the updates as the two platforms will be "very different" with regards to overall widgets and portals. My main concern is that the two WordPress installs can run without issue on the same domain. Appreciate it!

I would suggest using the Padauk font from SIL instead. This uses the Unicode standard and you should be able to use CSS font embedding to maximise the support for other browsers. Google should be able to understand the content as long as it is encoded in a standard character set (UTF-8, for example). Even though Zawgyi is not compliant with the Unicode standard your pages should be being served with the UTF-8 character encoding so Google should be able to index the content. I don't think Google pays any attention to the font in use by the design but it is an interesting point which I haven't particularly considered before and which I had to think about carefully before posting this response.

Awesome - thank you Sheena!

I agree reaching out is something we do all the time, however we did have a very good link as the DA was high and relevant and all we asked was that they used our named incorrectly, we also pointed out a typo on the article (we put it nicely). As well as correcting the typo, not responding to our email, they deleted the whole section about us, and in the process removing the link. So contacting them is something we always do, however sometimes there can be consequences, on this one I wish we had just left the our branding wrong and kept the relevant link.

There are two options in my opinion. Use the same Meta description if they are helpful for your audience. I know this will create problem as far as the Google and SEO is concern but the importance of Meta description as a ranking factor is questionable so if it is helpful for user, you can take that risk. Do not use Meta description at all. This way Google will pick any random Meta description from the content and I think as Google is someone who did that so there can be no legal restriction to it. Hope this helps!

Hi, Content scraping is a very common thing and fortunately, with the rel=canonical tag still pointing to your domain, there is nothing to worry from content duplication point of view and with this tag intact, their content will not make it  to Google's index. You don't need to worry about the other website out-ranking you and you don't have to use disavow here as it is for spammy backlinks and not for rel=canonical tags. However, you can approach those guys and ask them to take it down immediately and you can file a DRM or DMCA case against them if they don't agree to take the content down. You can also report the matter to Google here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?hl=en Hope it helps. Best regards, Devanur Rafi

I think one thing you should keep in mind is that 301 is meant for content being moved. In other words moving one page from one site to another, or from one path to another, without changing the content of the page. If you move a page you use 301, google see the change and discount a small portion of the page juice (1%? 5%? no one knows exactly) but pass the vast majority to the same page on the new location. But... Once upon a time a popular black hat technique was to get control of a page (actually many pages, as many as they could) with a good juice and do a 301 redirect to another page, a target page, to just pass juice. So... Google, wearing its shining armor, decided to fight back, and changed their algorithm to penalize that, in other words if you do a 301 redirect from one page with a certain content to another page with a totally different content, google notes that, doesn't like it, and penalize the ranking of the target page. Exactly how much of the two page content should stay the same to pass google antispam rules nobody knows, you can find out running some tests, my guess is probably it's also very specific to the page, domain, authority, etc... I heard, but I never tested myself, than if you do a 301 redirect from one page on a domain or path, to the same page on a different domain or path, and slowly in the following months you change the content of the target page till it's completely different from the original, Google won't penalize you.

Lillie_Charlotte, Thanks for the feedback. That's a good source we'll add to the repertoire! Thanks!

That looks to be a good solution. Behind the scenes the plugin will be adding "Options -Indexes" to your .htaccess file, which you could do directly and skip the need for a plugin if you so wish. I am glad I was able to help you.

I would definitely look into the Panda 4.1 update that happened 9/25. Double check the content on the pages and make sure that it is all relevant.

David, that link seems to be inactive---any other avenues to get that article? John

as your website has more pages, manual taggin becomes more difficult and problematic. Especialy if you have multiple people doing it. And on most websites the queries visitors enter are not very similar. (google has new queries constantly) Thus find a search provider (Google can do that for you) to help site search!

I like your idea, and I think the fact that you are proactively looking at potential situations speaks volumes.  Having said that, my best advice would be the following: 1.  Make sure that you create unique content on your new site that does not overlap or duplicate anything on the current site.  The user experience should be entirely different between the two sites. 2.  Do not create links or banners all over the new site linking back to the other site.  Something thoughtful is fine, but tread lightly.  Powered by www.ClassicMuscle.com in the footer might be ok, but no guarantees. If you create something of merit, there will be loads of value created in the lead gen department without relying on people clicking on links or ads.  The community will tell you what they want, and if you actively moderate it, I suspect you will find a lot of business.

Sorry! It may be that your IP address is not allowed to access our site. We had an issue with spam a while back that made us have to turn up security a bit. If you PM me your email address, I will send a PDF directly there.

Haa! I love that infographic Greg! We have a printed version on our war room wall

Hi Tom, Thanks a lot for your response, this has really helped! I've just set up about 10 recipes on IFTTT after discovering what it does, amazing tool, can't believe I didn't know about it before! I haven't successfully set up the Moz side of it as it stands because Moz keeps telling me there is a redirect loop, but I look forward to trialling that out. Thanks again for the tips. Sam