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Thanks Paul I had a look at the page, but as I can see it uses headers to identify the response, but the actions are rewrite or redirect. There is a custom response you can use, for a definitive answer I would ask on iis.net http://forums.iis.net/ Or you could place each pdf in its own folder and place the header on the folder

Hi NetReach, Matt-Antonio has raised 2 very important points, the first being that if you see competitors' listings with a category that no longer exists in the new Google Places for Business categories, this is likely because it's left over from the custom category days. The link he's included in his reply goes to Mike Blumenthal's category tool that should let you see which categories are currently available. I agree with you that 'electrician' isn't there. You'll have to find the next-best options.

You are wasting a chance to get more text in your website, alt tags aren't worth much but all the same it a chance to get a keyword or relevant text in your site. It may also be a bad signal to a search engine and they may no longer trust your alt tags when deciding what the image is about

Yes it should follow through the link with exception of no-follow tags and robots.txt etc.

Hi, I can't comment on the Google+ part as that is something I know little about, however I can comment on your localization setup. I would definitely spend some time on this to make your contant local available and in the right languages. You could greatly benefit from this in the long term trying to rank for specific terms in specific countries you're working in.

Oh, that's what I thought. I'll contact them. Thanks for your answer!

You should definitely be able to ignore these as they're quite common (not specifically these websites, but these types of links). That said, if you are under penalty and can't work out which links are causing it, having cleaned up all the rest, I'd go for a disavowal. If you are 100% certain that the penalty is due to Penguin, approaching the manual webspam team isn't likely to help you at all. But getting that disavowal in before the next Penguin update (which, despite Google's updates of this week - Panda and "payday loans" - can't be far away) might help.

Totally makes sense about yoast. It seems sometimes the checkmark is there but othertimes it's not. strange.

Wordpress is absolutely one of the best blogging cms solutions today. We have a couple of websites too running Wordpress and everybody can maintain and update it.

After you fix it you can ask google to fetch the page in WMT if you need a sooner update but if you wait they will re craw it fast too.

Agree with the others here, two or three sites definitely are a lot harder to maintain, and a properly-structured website can cater to different types of audiences, even when they vary a lot. You'll want to be very careful with the UX and perhaps work with some conversion rate optimisation people as well to segregate the audiences and not confuse the sales process for either, but this should be possible, especially if you focus your marketing for each audience to drive traffic to pages where there is no initial cross-over (shared navigation, etc.). I am guessing since I have not seen either product or preliminary site (if there is one), but I believe that one site would be better given that there will be shared pages, such as company information. If you were to create two sites, I suggest canonicalising the duplicate content to one version of the site, most likely the one with the larger user base or higher potential return. E.g., www.site.com/company-information and www.b2bsite.com/company-information are canonicalised to www.site.com/company-information if www.site.com is the primary business interest.

As Silkstream says, the practice itself isn't spammy but it has been thoroughly abused by "SEOs" in the past to the extent that it should be done with care and for non-SEO purposes only. Firstly, it's not really likely to help your SEO anymore. Most of the links you will gain will be nofollowed, and while there is some reason to believe that a LOT of high quality nofollow activity (like you might get from a very successful viral campaign) is a good signal, it's not technically an important metric for SEO and shouldn't be treated as such. You should be bookmarking where it would make sense to share / save content for other marketing purposes, with SEO taking a very far back seat as a reason why.

gotcha, thanks!

Hi there! For our inbound links, here is how we compile our index: <code>- We grab the most recent index. - We take the top 10 billion URLs with the highest MozRank (with a fixed limit on some of the larger domains). - We start crawling from the top down until we've crawled 90,000,000,000 pages (which is about 35% the amount in Google's index).</code> Therefore, if the site is not linked to by one of these seed URLs (or one of the URLs linked to by them in the next update) then it won't show up in our index. Sorry! We update our Mozscape Index every 4 weeks. Crawling the entire Internet to look for links takes 2-3 weeks, but our crawlers are always collecting data. When we need to put the index together, we grab all the data they have collected and start processing which can take up to 3 weeks to determine which of those links are the most important. You can see our most recently updated schedule here: http://moz.com/products/api/updates Mozscape focuses on a breadth-first approach. Therefore we almost always have content from the homepage of websites, externally linked-to pages, and pages higher up in a site's information hierarchy. However, deep pages that are buried beneath many layers of navigation are sometimes missed and it may be several index updates before we catch all of these. If our crawlers or data sources are blocked from reaching those URLs, they may not be included in our index (though links that point to those pages will still be available). Finally, the URLs seen by Mozscape must be linked-to by other documents on the web or our index will not include them. For now, the best thing you can do to help your domain become indexed is to work on link building for links from sites with high mozrank. Hope this helps clear things up!

Hi Nils, If you aren't producing translated content, but are just going to put some posts out in English, I do not believe you will see a problem. You could consider putting the English content into a subfolder like /en/ and including a header such as http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en"> in the head. You could also target that subfolder to an English speaking country in Webmaster Tools, but you can't pick more than one country, so that doesn't seem the right option here (i.e. you'd have to choose the UK, US, or another place, and if you're trying to get visitors from all over the world, that could hinder your rankings in all locations bar the country you choose). If your entire website is geo-targeted to Sweden, either by a .se domain name or geo-targeting in WMT already, you might have a harder time ranking in foreign countries as Google has been told that the entirety of the site is for the Swedish market. However, on a generic TLD like .com, you should be able to pick up a good amount of search traffic from other markets with English content.

Thanks Mark, I have already (sort of) done that but have yet to establish any results - it might be worth looking into a bit more thoroughly! Andy