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Hi Stu, How are you setting up these 301 redirects? In the code itself? Or, nginx/apache config? Could you please share the redirection rules you've mentioned for this? It seems an issue with redirection rules itself.

Hi. I say the content and "worthiness" of review is much-much more important than the date. Unless your products are freshness/time dependent. If you've been selling the same shoes for years, then reviews from 4 years ago will be as relevant as from yesterday. Now, if your shoes had some major issues and you've improved since then, which would affect the reviews, then sure, remove the old ones, as long as they are irrelevant. Also, it depends on how many reviews you're getting. If you have 5 reviews and 4 of them are from four years ago, then, I think you should pay more attention to actually getting reviews, rather than filtering them. Another thing I'd like to point out is that it's better to have old reviews than no reviews whatsoever. In terms of SEO effect - as far as I know, the ratings is more important than the freshness. Which does make sense - if you have 1/5 stars with 10k review from last month - it won't be better than 100 5/5 star reviews from couple years ago. Hope this make sense. Cheers.

Hi there. Well, as far as I understand, it will bee possible only if you can get to those pages without use of any password. And, quite honestly, if that's happening, you have some issues with protection So, you probably can link, but I don't see any way it would be helpful for SEO or any other purposes.

As you said, Miriam, the geography factor seems to be the big issue. Thanks for chiming in.

Okay, great.  Thanks for your responses.  It sounds like I should be okay using the same content and since I will be changing to metric units and will be using localized terms and different folders/paths.

Hi Joe, thanks. I had the same thoughts and already talked to them. It is only offered to enterprise clients of cloudflare and requires an ICP number which in turn requires a company located in China.

Hello Paul , Many thanks for your assistance and comprehensive answer to solve this. You raise some very valid points and something I hadn't picked up on - the fact that currently my internal structure is referencing urls which are not the same as what the canonical tag is set for. Asyou say, this is not a good thing.. Once again, thanks for your help to solve this. My developer is on the case now. thanks Pete

I think WordPress Multi-site is your answer - here's a few resources: http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/ultimate-guide-multisite/ http://mashable.com/2012/07/26/beginner-guide-wordpress-multisite/#Z2BAvs7t.Eq1 https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/resources/the-complete-guide-to-creating-a-wordpress-multisite-installation I believe this should allow you to maintain consistent plugins / settings etc across multiple sites.

Yea.  If you cannot do it dynamically, it gets to be a real PIA, and also, depending on how you setup the 301s, you may get an overstuffed .htaccess file that could cause problems. If these pages were so young and did not have any link equity or rank to start with, they are probably not worth 301ing. One tool you may want to consider is URLprofiler http://urlprofiler.com/  You could take all the old URLs and have URL profiler pull in GA data (from when they were live on your site) and then also pull in OSE data from Moz.  You can then filter them and see what pages got traffic and links.  Take those select "top pages" and make sure they 301 to the correct page on the new URL structure and then go from there.  URL profiler has a free 15 day trial that you could use for this project and get done at no charge.  But after using the product, you will see it is pretty handy and may buy anyway. Ideally, if you could have dynamically 301ed the old pages to the new, that would have been the simplest method, but with your situation, I think you are ok.    Google is just trying to help to make sure you did not "mess up" and 404 those old pages on accident.  It wants to give you the benefit of the doubt.  It is crazy sometimes how they keep things in the index. I am monitoring a site that scraped one of my sites.  They shut the entire site down after we threatened legal action.  The site has been down for weeks and showing 404s, but I can still do a site: search and see them in the index.  Meh.

At first I assumed that by manually setting the crawl rate to the maximum, Google would crawl my website faster and more frequently. Our website has tens of thousands of pages so I didn't want Google missing any of it or taking a long time to index new content. We have new products added to the website daily and others that come off or change. I'll let Google decide

It's hard to say. Panda is rarely because of just one thing. I usually have to dig in for several days to find potential reasons for a site to decline because of Panda. Having your own content indexed on another website usually shouldn't affect your site unless Google sees the other site as the primary owner. But again, it's hard to say with certainty if this is the issue without digging in further.

I think BOTW is a good citation source, but if you can't get it for free the best thing to do is test. If you're thinking that site will be a valuable piece to your marketing (and deserve a piece of the budget), then test with the first location to see how much traffic it drives. Set up a special segment or filter in Google Analytics to track referrals from BOTW. If you're seeing some decent traffic for what you're paying (and possible conversions), then it's definitely worth expanding to. If you're just paying for the citation source then you might be better off sinking that monthly fee into paid search or somewhere else. I agree BOTW is a good local citation to have, but that's what I would do to try and justify spending money on it.

Hey There! Happy to have you aboard Moz Local. Here's how to accomplish this. You'll need to contact Localeze directly to request that they release the listing. Sometimes, customers may need to make this request more than once of Localeze. Once you've been notified by Localeze that the listing has been released, please contact our Helpsters (https://moz.com/help/contact), share the complete name, address, phone number and website of the listing with us and ask us to test to see if the listing has become available. If it is not yet available, please come back to us once a week to ask us to test again. It can take a couple of weeks for the listing to become available for Moz Local to manage. Within a few weeks of the listing being released, we can normally make this happen, no problem

Could you possibly add a line or two by each client? It could serve the dual purpose of getting some content in and enticing the user to click on the case studies. I'm not a fan of content just to have it, but that recent Whiteboard on "cruft" comes to mind and I wonder whether it applies here. Would be interested to see what others think. https://moz.com/blog/clean-site-cruft-before-it-causes-ranking-problems-whiteboard-friday

There are a couple of spots, such as the link title attribute ( <a title...="">where your tags are being translated into <em>. For example:</a> <a title...=""></a> _<a title...=""></a><a <="" span="">href="</a>/store/stanley/en_US/pd/productID.325299600" title="Classic One Hand Vacuum Mug <em>20oz</em>"> Not sure what's going on, but might be an oddity in the CMS. I suspect Google is processing one of these instead of the actual text, but not sure why._

This is exactly what I was looking for.  Thank you

Hi Nate, Dirk's recommendation for the Ranking History CSV is correct; that report will provide you with the history of your rankings for the life of the campaign. For the other sections of the campaign, we don't really provide historical data, but you can download the most current CSVs or PDFs for your reference. Once you cancel the account, your campaigns are automatically archived so we will stop collecting data going forward. We only display twelve cycles (days or weeks) in the campaign, so if you decide to reactivate your account after about three months, you will no longer see past data in your campaign but all of the settings will be saved and we will begin updating data in the campaign again within about a week. I hope this helps! Please let me know if I can help you with anything else.