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Hi, As Alex mentioned, as long as you use 301 redirect from old content to new content, that will pass on most of the link juice and Google will know to crawl your new site. However, keep in mind that while doing 301 redirect, you should redirect to content on the new site that is similar or same as content on the old site.  For example: www.example.de's Content A to www.example.com/de's Content A

Hi Dan,Bitly is a great URL shortener, but probably is not the best to customise your links.here are some of the limitations you may find in the free version:1) Changing the destination URL2) Connect more than one custom domain3) Keep your data for more than 30 days4) Make your links private5) Easily and automatically add UTM parametersRead more here: https://support.rebrandly.com/hc/en-us/articles/227131707-Alternatives-to-BitlyFull disclosure: I'm the founder of Rebrandly (https://www.rebrandly.com)

Glad to hear it, Chris, and welcome to the community!

Generally agree with everyone (well, everyone so far ) - there's no need to remove authorship in general. Google isn't penalizing sites with authorship - they're just showing authorship thumbnails less often, as they found they were overdoing it (at least in the eyes of users). The only exception I'd give is to be careful about applying authorship tags to every page on a site - home page, search results, product pages, etc. Some CMSs go crazy, unfortunately. This is technically against Google authorship guidelines. Again, most likely, they'll just ignore your authorship mark-up (it's not a penalty situation), but if you want that mark-up to appear in SERPs, then use it appropriately.

Jumping into an older thread here to let you know we now track local results! Please check out our blog post at http://moz.com/blog/local-rankings-in-moz-analytics

Hi there, Paul and Kevin asked a great question. Did you see their responses? If you can give us some more details, we would love to help. Christy

Taking a hit for manipulative tactics is usually something of a percentage game, one you don't want to play. The competitor may have an older domain and a stronger backlink profile. Sooner or later, even the larger brands get hit. It was was a few years ago, almost to the day, that JC Penney was outed by the New York Times. This prompted a manual action. Your competitor may well fall to the next Penguin filter. I've seen manipulation in a number of industries, sometimes it just takes time. Other times it takes someone with a little more clout. Though we can likely count on Penguin becoming a part of the algorithm, and we will most likely see another Penguin filter.

No problem. Keep checking on SEMRush in a few days to see if those numbers are changing. But for now, you can report to your customer that Nest wasn't doing any noticeable advertising before the acquisition. They are now, apparently, but those stats from SEMRush are just estimates based on open metrics, no one outside Google or Nest can actually give you an exact sum.

Hi RCF, Here is what I see: Searching for 'doctor of business administration' with my location set to Redmond Oregon, http://www.georgefox.edu/business/dba/ is coming up #8 organically. Doing this same search, but with my location set to Newberg, Oregon, I see http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/sfs/grad/tuition/business/dba/ coming up #2 organically. It looks like my exact rankings may not be identical to yours, but at least my searches appear to confirm that the 2 different pages are surfacing with the 2 different locations being set. Unfortunately, I agree with Moosa that it's very hard to hit on a precise reason for why Google would be favoring your tuition page over your home page when a user's location is set to the town the in which the institution is located. I do have a suggestion, though. Why not try putting Newberg, OR in the title tag of the page you'd like to be ranking highest for Newberg-located searchers, mention it in the H1 tag, and mention it more than once in the copy. I'd also recommend that you put the complete NAP (name, address, phone) in the body copy of the page, though I see it's already in the footer. Perhaps by increasing the optimization for Newberg on this page, you might strengthen the pages chances of ranking the way you want it to? Just a suggestions.

If you have a page that lists all the villas outside the search results, then you don't lose anything by blocking that folder on the robots.txt But still, somebody, the guy that wrote the custom theme knows how to do the changes needed. If you want I can help you with it, for free Just PM me (I'll need FTP access).

@Architechs - You'll need to follow up with help@moz.com as I'm no longer a staff member.

I think I misunderstood - I thought you were reporting an issue with the MozBar, but it sounds like you are asking for advice on an issue that surfaced through the MozBar.  I will let you guys figure it out from here!

As a new website I think safe bet is to include all content on 1 page. Keyword variation means content stays seperated. Better combine and make 1 powerful page.....thx for the insight

Hi Nakul No, we have not generated those links. We had a 300 links in wmt, but only 3 or 4 were generated by us. I mean, that were the ones that were linking our 2 main sitews (company sites) with that blog. That's all. What we did is just change that links to no-follow. All the other links were just atomatically generated. What do you think? thanks

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Hi Filip, Check this article out - http://blog.kissmetrics.com/100-conversion-optimization-case-studies/ - 100 case studies broken down in simple format. By having 100 case studies one can really see there is no right / wrong and one approach for all websites, but at the same time some outstanding tips and observations. 1 thing I have learned: keep it simple, ideally focus on 1-2 main messages on your homepage, even though you burn to highlight 10 different things you feel is so great about your business.