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Depending on how your site is designed, you could just upload images and use them for place holders with pinterest. What you would have to do is upload the images, then add open graph tags to the site. With them you can make the pages show up what ever image you want in both facebook and pinterest. Here is the spec on them, https://developers.pinterest.com/rich_pins/

If it's just a few pages then I don't think it should be something to worry about. I've 301'ed thousands and it never affected me before. The problem with this though is you might have some trouble ranking for some (different) location based searches, or at least, to consistently improve after the 301's initial benefits stop. I always stay away from 404s as much as I can. Although it doesnt really affect your SEO if the dead link is nowhere on your pages but I still dislike it, personal preference. I won't be much help as this is all still trivial without seeing the actual pages and their functions. Treat it as a test though, you'll learn a lot from it.

What we run into often is that on larger sites there 1) still are internal links to those pages from old blog posts etc.  You have to really scrub your site to find those and manually update.  I am only mentioning this as unless you used a tool to crawl the site and looked at it with a fine toothed comb, you might be surprised to find the links you missed  2) there are still external links to those pages.    That said, even if 1 and 2 are not met, Google will still recrawl (although not as often).  Google assumes that any initial 404 or even 301 may be a temporary error and so checks back.  I have seen urls that we removed over a year ago, Google will still ping them.  They really hang onto stuff.  I have not gone as far as the 301 to a directory that I deindex, but generally just watch to see them show up and then fall out of Webmaster Tools and then I move on.

You should login to Google Webmaster Tools and do a fetch as Google, if the page returns a status 200 then you know that your pages are working as intended and what your experiencing is just the Google cache service not working, which should resolve itself in time. Google Cache is not Realtime It's worth mentioning that the Google cache system runs independently and does not effect the real time rankings of Google and the index. So even if there is no cache, cache errors doesn't mean there is problems with your site or rankings. Simply do as suggested with the fetch as Google, once you ruled out that your pages are not at fault which I suspect they are not (Google's caching service often has problems), then its just a simple matter of putting your feet up and waiting for the Cache system to resolve this issue on its own. Also should check that the robots for that page is not set to be "no-archive" " NOINDEX tag tells Google not to index a specific page NOFOLLOW tag tells Google not to follow the links on a specific page NOARCHIVE tag tells Google not to store a cached copy of your page NOSNIPPET tag tells Google not to show a snippet (description) under your Google listing, it will also not show a cached link in the search results "

will you be able to get the same URL structures? If so then that's already a big plus to minimize your rank changes. It will definitely happen, one way or another but once it gets fixed, things usually go back to where they were, at least for me. I've never tried Volusion before but I have moved ecom sites over to WP, Magento etc,

Turned out to be under functions.php under entry-date. Thanks everyone! Ruben

"Bing had indicated that disavowing was not as relevant as getting the links removed" If you think the links are causing your issues and request them to to disavowed, they will be. It's very hard to give any advice without viewing the URL. There could be any number of factors affecting the site such as thin content, poor backend SEO keyword choices, poorly written descriptions, etc etc. Could you please provide the URL? If it's a privacy issue with the company or client, please send me a PM with the URL for additional advice.

Hi, Just saw this article and recalled your question.  Using exact match for internal linking is still ok; however, it's true only if you use it occasionally. If it's over used, it's still bad for SEO as you can get over optimized penalty.  I guess the best is to mix and match and do some co citation/co occurrence with long tail keywords. https://blog.kissmetrics.com/avoid-over-optimizing/ Thank you!

Thanks FCBM! I hadn't considered the reformatting Google tends to do anyway.At this point, I haven't seen any where this is the case 'in the wild' for our brand (maybe they've recognized that it doesn't affect the clickthrough on our stuff?). They simply just let it cut off since they're mostly over the 55 or so limit. I think a test is in order as well. Thanks!

We have a partial victory! The Moz Bar works on the blog, but it appears we have a problem with a noscript script on other pages of the site, such as the homepage. The Moz On Page grader works for blog pages now as well. Before this fix, it was showing all F's, no matter how well optimized the page was. Thanks!

I'm not certain duplicate means exactly the same when it comes to titles. I've seen instances on particularly on large ecommerce sites where titles are blatantly auto-generated and are not displayed by Google in SERPs: e.g. "buy <parent category="">and <subcategory products="">from xyz shop at great prices"</subcategory></parent> In view it's likely that Google is aware of this from a quality guidelines standpoint. Where possible, titles should be individually crafted.

I think the answer your looking for is in the very link you provided http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2012/08/website-testing-google-search.html Do not redirect only bots.... This is seen as deceptive and will get you a nice penalty. 302 is a good solution.  Just make sure you do it with the same frequency you do for a real person... no special handling for google bot. If you prefer one version remain indexed over another version, use the rel=“canonical” link attribute

You're very transparent and I appreciate that, but I believe this takes a deeper analysis of the page. I seriously question what your Referral Traffic, Direct Navigation, and Search Traffic numbers looks like in detail - This may give us a better clue, as would a number of other deeper analytics as opposed to these surface numbers. If you would like to be a bit more candid about these numbers via message, I think I could help you uncover the issue. I look forward to hearing from you! @Neighborhood SEO

Use the .com. People know what it is, and once you have a solid strategy in place, it will do better. When you try and complicate things for the end user, it just goes downhill. One thing that was always preached to me by my mentors: Optimize and build around the lowest common denominator, without insulting your intelligent users. .land will confuse both.

Who cares to admit complete defeat? Practically no one, of course. Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness. I have come to terms with the fact that I am going to need help on this one. I am trying to make a case to my boss for a "second opinion". UPDATE As this window was open my boss called me in for our meeting. I explained the circumstance and basically his answer was: "Give me a timeline of everything that needs to happen. We can't cut anything until we build anything (unfortunately I fear he may have stolen my sentence from my interview when I said "don't burn a bridge before you build a bridge")." So we will go from there. I do think he is beginning to understand the severity. He made an analogy to the Corleone's going 'legit' in the Godfather but wasn't comfortable doing so until we had a plan to go 'legit.' Thanks again everybody! You have all been a tremendous help!

Yep, those are all good points! Intergise - sounds like you are on the right track, so best of luck and keep us posted.

Here's a MOZ staff reply to that exact question

Then send a DMCA to the server company. The server company doesn't care that he's a lawyer, and I bet your client and send a very well written one. Besides that, you're strategy moving forward seems pretty sound.