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Redirected URLs are generally removed from the index pretty quickly. I just checked and the /solutions URL is not indexed in Google, so you don't need to take additional measures to have that removed. A good practice is to have no redirects in your sitemap. When I run new sitemaps, I use Screaming Frog and the first thing I do is remove everything that isn't a 200 status code. Keeping a clean XML sitemap helps your crawl budget and gets bots to focus on the more important parts of your site rather than having them step through unnecessary steps.

Hi poke1! If Gaston's replies helped, mind marking one or more as a "Good Answer?" It'll get him some bonus MozPoints, and it's helpful for us. Otherwise, how can we be of more help?

Over a year ago haha

Thanks - I always forget to check Mozcast - looks like it's been a rough August so far!

Hey there! You may have a few different options. It's hard to know exactly how this site is set up without more details - for example, does each location have its own subfolder or subdomain? - but depending on what the structure of the site looks like you may be able to make individual campaigns. If that is not an option, you may find more success making campaigns for the overall site and simply tracking keywords in localized geographies, and choose competitors based on those specific locales. If you have further questions feel free to email us at help@moz.com with the site details!

Hey Joey They would just need to be able to crawl and access it somehow. So you'd want to link to that content from public pages, or maybe try putting it in an XML or HTML sitemap, and as mentioned try "submitting to index" in Search Console. But yes, they'll index it as long as they can crawl it from somewhere else. Running the crawler on your site and seeing if it gets picked up is a good way to see.

Hey There! It sounds like a new GMB listing is in order to me. Like you, I'm a Local SEO, but without having complete knowledge of the situation, I'm making a general guess instead of giving informed advice. It's not unheard of for marketers to pay to consult with others marketers when in doubt. If, with the business' whole scenario before you, you're not 100% convinced you know the right course to set, it could be invaluable to to reach out to someone else in the industry and offer to pay for their time to consult with you while looking at the actual business and its history and goals. In your shoes, if I wasn't sure my advice was perfect, that's what I'd do

Personally, I find it easy enough - simple as a couple of quick clicks. The homepage of Moz.com is in my opinion more of a landing page aimed at attracting new clients and is about their products than existing users. Login and other elements are where I would expect them to be placed on the screen / menu. I would imagine most people are also advanced web users and have bookmarks and alike to make it a one click process as opposed to two/three. How would you improve on them? Surely that is more constructive

Hey there! If you've got questions about why a specific campaign is getting a 901 crawl error, I'd definitely recommend writing in to help@moz.com with all the details! We'll do our best to answer all your questions there!

Hi there, While I agree with Logan that hreflang may actually be your best bet, in response to those specific questions: Cross-domain canonicals are not inherently problematic. By my understanding, at least, you're free to use rel="canonical" whenever you deem appropriate.

Thank you! We found Ahrefs to have some great data as well

Thanks everyone for your helpful feedback - much appreciated.

Yes my thoughts were initially that the site was hacked. Interesting that the technique still works. I googled Cialis online and found that the top 5 results were all black hat. So I guess Google is still vulnerable.  Thanks for the answer.

Hi Daniel, Hoping your business is going well in China. My name is Roy Chen working in Co.Media as business consultant. We are  focusing on helping America business to do marketing in China. Here is our link: http://www.comediamarketing.com/. And also, there are a couple of free sources on our website. Hoping it will help you. Best, Roy Chen

I have done everything you listed with the exception of a firewall. Will the firewall actually prevent this from happening or just make it a bit more difficult? Can something like this also be installed on the server end?

None at all.

Yeah, moz know about it: http://health.moz.com/

John Mueller of Google Search recently shared quite a bit on the topic of links and website ranking factors in a Google Webmasters Hangout. Naturally gaining affirmative incoming links pointing to those blog posts will substantially help. Creating the post is only a first step, I find that marketing the post afterwards takes longer - but also is what really gets the content used. How I understood the conversation with John Mueller about on-page linking. When a link is no followed, Google doesn’t pass link juice. When a link is followed but is no indexed, in this case, Google does pass page rank because they are aware of the page. When a page is no indexed and the link is nofollow, Google essentially sees it similar to a 404 page and skips it will flag to the spiders that this page is now relevant and to re-crawl the page. CONCLUSION: When conducting a link audit, reviewing the link risk and considering factors currently ranking sites, the need for SEOs to understand NoFollow links is still necessary. This goes beyond the scope of the content distribution networks that we've tried. When something is this central to building your domain authority, I agree with Egol that a more hands-on approach has it benefits. Strong social signals also help a lot: each platform is unique from Google+, to Facebook and LinkedIn for lead generation.