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As Matt Cutts says in the video Prestashop links to, a short period of downtime should not hurt at all. Google understands that short outages happen fairly regularly. If you know that the site is going to be down for longer, try to serve a 503 server status, indicating that the site is "unavailable" rather than "not found" (404) or "gone" (410). Some URL were lost during the drop of server, what should i do? Create again? Delete on GWT? What exactly do you mean by this? That the rankings were lost or the files were deleted? If the files were deleted but you want those pages back, re-create the files and upload them again to the same location they lived in before, i.e. re-creating the same URLs. If you mean that some URLs lost their rankings but that the files / URLs still exist, you will need to wait a little while to see if their rankings come back. I expect that they will: a 12 hour downtime should not hurt you permanently.

Thank you, Sean! The workaround gets me in with no problem! I tried it on my Mac, and a Windows machine with no luck (the only computer it worked on was my Linux system running Ubuntu) so this definitely helps. Thanks again, Robert

Brand new pages can fluctuate in rankings for a while before they seem to "settle", yes, but for some queries, results are different day in, day out. There is no set time period for a new page to "find its place". Google seems to sometimes test whether new resources "deserve" good rankings: the page may seem high-quality - if Google ranks it well for a short period, does the page attract traffic? Does that traffic stay on the site? Do people bounce back to the SERP and choose another resource? Does the page attract links? Social media attention? A page may drop down in rankings for a time, rising again as its attracts more links. There is really no good rule to go by, besides understanding that a brand new page with good rankings may not have great rankings forever, and that SEO work is still required to keep its rankings high.

Don't forget too that most of us who reply to questions also enable the ability to be notified by email anytime another reply is added. So even months later, if you update the question with a new response, most of the original participants will get a heads-up about your addition. Paul

I have a customer that is using GoDaddy website hosting (at least according to BuiltWith) and I'm experiencing this same issue. Any updates on this experiment from user rsigg? I'd love to know if I can remove this from my customer's robots file... FWIW, Netrepid is a hosting provider for colocation, infrastructure and applications (website hosting being considered an application) and we would never force a crawl delay on a Wordpress install! Not hating on the other hosting service providers... #justsayin

Hi Again VicMark, There are several reasons for building out a strong landing page for each physical office that you own. In short order, these are: A local landing page tells the residents of that city that you are here to serve them and care enough about them to have devoted a page on your website to them. It can speak to their direct needs and show that you are local to them. A local landing page can improve your search engine results visibility, as opposed to expecting the bots to rank all of your cities by glancing at your homepage. Just like the old SEO concept of building out a page per topic/keyword set, building a page for each of your physical cities creates a body of data that makes it very clear to bots that you've got something important going on, surrounding that city keyword. For multi-location businesses, having a unique page for each physical office can help keep your data separate and clear, reducing the risk of ending up with duplicate or merged local business listings. To my mind, these are all really good reasons for local businesses to invest in create an incredibly good and unique page for each of their physical locations. I've found it to be well worth the investment! You might like to read more about this concept of local landing pages at: http://moz.com/blog/local-landing-pages-guide Hope this helps!

Did Irving's link help?

Thanks Robert, appreciate your input.

Thanks, Joel. So it looks like the solution is I need to use the same email address in Moz that is associated with our new GA accounts....in order to deliver the correct GA accounts through GA's API. Can I just change my email associated with my Moz account in the Login Settings to allow the correct GA accounts to feed into Moz? Or do I have to shut down this account and reinstate my Moz account with the universal email address that has our new GA accounts? What's the best next step here? Thanks for your guidance.

better to work other domains which i have escort-munich.net ?

LELOinc This is why I love Moz. We are all learning. Trust me with the recent whatever rollout about Local by Google I spent the last two days trying to wrap my hands around that impact and asking others in this community what they thought. Multiple brains is often better than mine. When Miriam used the term Map out that brought me to something I find helpful when dealing with a complex project: draw it out. We have marker glass (4) in our conference room and two walls that are all glass. You can do some serious drawing and writing there. With something complex, I find it easier if I begin with a visual. Take the components and break them down, then look for relationships that may bring synergy or at least assistance or load leveling. See if that helps you get a good picture before you move forward. This is one of those issues where it will not hurt you to spend some time aiming before shooting. All the best, thanks for your kind words, Robert

Thanx for the help, The changes were made prior to the 20th but i'll try to get some links to the new domain before the 24th of July. Thanx again.

Thank you!

Kristina, Thank you! We ended up implementing trough header. Hopefully we have done it right. Very interesting material by Kate. But I have to admit that her tool made me wonder if we really need the hreflang. I asked her directly in one of her blogs. Best, Andrea

We recommend to such clients that they apply the robots noindex,follow meta tag on the duplicated pages until they get rewritten. We aim for 20% of all products on the site to be completely unique in content, and indexable. The other 80% can be rewritten gradually over time and released back into the index as they are rewritten. So to answer you question: Yes, I think your plan is perfectly acceptable, and is what I would do myself if I were in the same situation.

Hi 1080HDWallpapers, try to get listed at some top sites on your niche to start with.

I'm taking our web pages and trying to figure out if they're targeted poorly or written using terms that the average searcher would not think to ask. This is good.  Nice work.

Thank you, great answer.