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Hi, I'm Maura Hubbell. I'm a software engineer and today I'm part of the Mozzer Alliance, helping out the Help Team. I've just clicked "Filter" on the "Just Discovered" tab, and I got several links back. It looks as if the deployment that Keri mentioned fixed this. Thanks for reaching out! Maura Hubbell

Hi Alice You may need to check with your hosting provider to see if they might be blocking us for the springcoin domain. Make sure the following IP range is not blocked: 208.184.81.0-24

Thanks everyone!

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hreflang and geo-targeting are in fact two different things. If you have exactly the same content, no changes for the regional variations in the language, hreflang is not intended for that. Why do you have two sets of pages that are the same? If you have the same content on .com with no geo-targeting, then Google is going to offer up the original content on .com rather than /lu because you never changed the content in any way to target Luxembourg. Had you changed the content to translate or really geo-targeted the content to that audience, I think the situation would be different. Check my tool here, answer the questions and see what is right for your situation. Then follow the instructions at the end. http://outspokenmedia.com/international-seo-strategy/

Alice, Most bloggers are not going to put a cross domain rel canonical tag on their page for you. I feel that would severely limit the effectiveness of the campaign by excluding those bloggers. However, putting the rel canonical tag on your page isn't going to hurt, and could be one more signal that you are the authoritative version of the content. Other signals would be that your page gets indexed first, and that the other pages are linking to you. There is a lot of duplicate content on the web, and Google isn't going to penalize every site with a little bit of content that can be found elsewhere. If they did that every news site from the New York Times to Boise Weekly would be penalized. Duplicate content is a real issue, especially when it comprises the bulk of your content strategy, but I don't think you have much to worry about in this particular case. The PDF or image version of the flyer is a great idea. I'd go with that and instruct the participants to explain the contest in their own words. You could even provide a share box below the flyer where they can copy the code to paste the flyer onto their site. You would want the href link to your page to be within that code so the flyer they paste links to your page. If you do this Google will have little doubt as to which page is the original source. Just don't get fancy with the anchor text.