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Thank you very much.  This is very helpful.  I am going to write up some requirements now around dismissible rules.  No promises on when, but I will add it to the backlog. Are you interested in helping out with future product feedback or research? If so please email me at jon@moz.com and I will add you.  Thanks!

Thanks Everett! Makes sense and the examples from your site were very helpful.  We realized that we needed to add G+ and Linked in to our "sameAs" list as well.

How long has the site been up? What about IP? Good content and links are how you build a good strong site, but there are many other factors at play here. It seems from SEM Rush that IP has been around a bit longer and might be ahead of you in terms of business development on the web (marketing, link building, outreach, etc.). Are you focusing on one area of printing in particular? What do your goals look like?

Ruben, In my experience posting to directories does not have any negative influence on a site. Keep in mind the quality of the directory does matter. It is beneficial to have a site listed on particular directories. However, if you're going to spend the time building visibility of a site, there's better ways to spend your time. Another idea would be to create business profiles for the site. These are opportunities to create a profile with a phone number, URL, and a description of the site or business where keywords can be used. Again certain sites are better than others, so choose wisely. If you would like more information on this please let me know. Nick

Hi Dinesh, Thanks for the question, unfortunately there is not much you can do aside from notifying Google. If a product feed is inaccurate you will just have to wait for Google to take action and disapprove those products from their feed. I am curious as to the response you received from Google. Please do let us know if anything comes up on this or if you notice the product ads have been removed from results!

Cyrus Shepard went into some of the value of nofollows on a Whiteboard Friday in the past year or two. There was a fair amount of discussion about it in the comments. Scroll through those and you should get a decent idea of how everybody thinks about them. Think about it this way: Google isn't giving you any value from the link, but they still use it for crawling, and they also value all kinds of on-page signals beyond just links. So there can be value to the signals around a link even if the link itself passes no value. And there can be value to a link even if there is no ranking value to it—though I think the whole "referral traffic" thing is wildly overblown, never seen anybody get more than like 4 visits from a comment. But they can help you build communities/relationships online. Plus there's all kinds of things like co-occurrence that Google uses that I suppose, hypothetically, could possibly be a benefit from nofollow links in the right context, even non-editorial links. Check Bill Slawski's blog for more on that!

Thanks for your thoughts! That surely is some stuff worth thinking about - and reminding me that many people are a lot less familiar with online vocabulary than us her. In the current case it does not really solve the problem due to it being a bit of a mixture of things like /motifs/ /themes/ /objects/ /characters/ /topoi/ etc. as they appear in a certain kind of literature.... but I really do not want to use multiple URLs for that. I might end up settling for /info/ as catch-all - and give it a more meaningful breadcrumb probably. Regards Nico

It's best to either do redirects to pages that are essentially the same - did the blue candle have it's color renamed to robin's egg and thus got a new SKU/page? - or to build a creative 404 page that helps customers find the most common thing they look for on your site and putting a search box to help them. Here's an article about creative 404s for inspiration.

That's a great place to dig in. @Mark - One of our staffers will get to your question soon! It's his birthday today, so we told him to answer when he's recovered from celebrating.

Thanks Michael!  I thought i do something wrong but now i am sure what to do

Yes, the Yoast plug-in's settings will alter your robots.txt and fix the problem across your site.

You can use any shred housed for your small content-based website. I'm using shared hosting, and you can see the website page working well.

I didn't realize you could port your number over to an existing call tracking provider. That's interesting. Will see if that's an option that fits into our strategy. Was thinking more along the lines of having a few different numbers to try out and also to use test using local numbers in the various service areas. But like I said, this offers another interesting option. I'm not overly worried about NAP consistency as we used the noidex directives on the landing pages and don't have them linked off the main site or sitemap.. Thanks! Great food for thought.

Location of your server isn't really important - check https://www.seroundtable.com/seo-geo-location-server-google-17468.html: "For search, specifically for geotargeting, the server's location plays a very small role, in many cases it's irrelevant. If you use a ccTLD or a gTLD together with Webmaster Tools, then we'll mainly use the geotargeting from there, regardless of where your server is located. You definitely don't need to host your website in any specific geographic location -- use what works best for you, and give us that information via a ccTLD or Webmaster Tools." Similar message here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en: Server location (through the IP address of the server). The server location is often physically near your users and can be a signal about your site’s intended audience. Some websites use distributed content delivery networks (CDNs) or are hosted in a country with better webserver infrastructure, so it is not a definitive signal. Specifically on CDN's - John Mu indicated "At any rate, while moving to a CDN may result in small temporary fluctuations, making your site faster will frequently help your site much more. Some studies have shown that the faster your site is, the longer visitors will stay, and that's generally a good thing :-). As I mentioned above, if you're seeing significant changes in ranking, then I'd look for the issues elsewhere" (https://www.seroundtable.com/google-cdn-13117.html) Dirk

Good answers all. Thanks! Can you guys come to this meeting with me? He thinks if you buy a domain with some links pointing to it already, that solves problem one of a site passing some authority. Problem two, pulling it off, he thinks would be relatively easy. Gah! Here's how I feel about this: https://youtu.be/AwY4pzb0Pjs

Many thanks! I was looking for examples of issues with this setup. Some stakeholders find the dynamic solution appealing (as it is much easier to set up for us), thereby forgoing the opportunity to set up the site correctly for international indexing and ranking. I would like to be able to illustrate the potential shortcomings. Many thanks again!

Hi Matt, Thank you for checking back.  I did change the robot.txt in the dashboard as people suggested but when I go here: http://brownieairservice.com/robots.txt It is still showing the disallow.  I need to load this: User-agent: * Disallow: to the root folder and I'm not sure how to do that if I need to FTP it or how I do that so that's where I'm at now. Anybody have any thoughts?  I have googled this question on how to do it and I keep getting put into this loop of information that does not address this questions directly. Thank you