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Hi,
I would certainly not be wanting to see duplicate answers to the same questions, so depending on how your Q&A will work, I would be looking to give one answer, unless there is a significant difference.
It's a little difficult to understand how your Q&A is presented and how answers are given, so would be happy to take a quick look if you post a link here or PM it to me?
-Andy
Do you mean the spam flag? If so, then it's worth remembering that MOZ doesn't update as often as Google so the next time it gets round to crawling, it should update.
-Andy
It is indeed. One the one hand, err on the side of caution - on the other, links are required, but with that many affiliate links, I would have though Google was ignoring them.
-Andy
As a matter of course, I would tend to nofollow affiliate links, but I can't say I have ever seen a site penalised for having inbound affiliate links.
Unless there was a manual penalty or some other reason, I still wouldn't rush to nofollow them if all is working well.
-Andy
Hi Luke,
Google is smarter than ever when it comes to links, so if something is freely given and isn't advertising, I wouldn't necessarily be no-following all of these.
Have a read through Google's guidelines on what they suggest for no-following here.
How is the site actually performing? Are they ranking badly in Google? Is visibility low? Are there any manual penalties? Have the site recently undergone any big changes?
Lots of other questions to look at before rushing at links.
-Andy
Worth having a look at Siteground Gill. This is who I use and they specialise in Wordpress and Magenta hosting. Find them here.
I personally find them very fast, amazing support, great value and dedicated hosting. I also find that the integration is very easy to manage with CloudFlare and it all just works.
Certainly worth looking at.
-Andy
Ah really? That's not good!
Personally I use Schema so can only really comment on that - someone else might have more of a view.
-Andy
The Worlds best hosting? That's a loaded question 
Probably lots of other questions too. Some people love AWS but personally I don't like it that much.
-Andy
I would defiantly be adding schema because there are many benefits to showing Google exactly what is what.
I have seen sites where there has been no change in search positions, and others where there have, but this could as well be about a page being more visible in Google and as such, getting more traffic and eventually a boost from Google as they realise it is a popular result.
Done right, there is no negative to adding Schema
-Andy
Hi Laura,
As long as you have HREFLANG in place, this will prevent duplication issues in Google's eyes. This is more about explaining to Google that there is a page here that is the same as one intended for another country, but might be some information specific to that country.
What I can't tell you (because I haven't come across it before) is if a mix of English and another language this cause any SEO issues. My gut feeling is that it shouldn't because you are serving up a regional URL, which doesn't rely just on the language - you could just have a different cost or something else that is different.
-Andy
Hi,
Do you have an example you can share of your problem? You can PM me this if you wish?
Is what you are saying that the canonical element is actually being seen on the live pages and therefore not working?
-Andy
Hi,
I wouldn't be using sub domains in this manner to try and influence the main site.
I would be concentrating heavily on the primary site - write amazing content on there, share it, try some link acquisition, optimise the pages for keywords carefully and look at how useful what you are creating is going to be for your visitors.
Don't ignore usability either - make the site easy to navigate and create a pleasing experience for your visitors.
-Andy
Hi Becky,
I have never seen a case where this actually makes a difference. However, I have found code issues because of it, but again, nothing that impacted SEO.
I guess that if a page is really large, then this can slow things down - that can impact SEO, but outside of this, I wouldn't be worrying about it.
Just keep an eye on any 'thin' pages that might pop up as a result of seeing these.
-Andy
It is up to Google Zack and there is never a guarantee that they will show, but you would like to think that they would be adopted at some point.
What I would also suggest, is having a look on the Google forums for help as well.
-Andy
Hi Zack,
Have you checked search console for any errors or warnings? It would also be worth trying the Structured Data Testing Tool here.
When were they added to the site?
-Andy
Hi,
Yes, Google can see the links within a slide, but I wouldn't use this as a source for link building.
As for placing it on your website, you can embed this, which means that it isn't actually hosted on your site, so there is no problem with any duplication
-Andy
Hi Raymond,
As EGOL said, random posts like this are highly unlikely to hurt any efforts, but it does help if you have a hook in articles that allows you to make use of internal linking.
What you need to be thinking about it how can you show Google that you have the necessary EAT (Expertise, Authority & Trust) in your field? Are you producing articles, papers, research or any other thought-leading content on what you do? Are you active socially and are you being mentioned and corresponding with other thought leaders?
There is so much that can be done to help and it just takes a little planning and effort to get the ball rolling
-Andy
Redirects are a funny old thing, and a source of much frustration for many.
I asked John Mueller about this last year and his response was basically, "be patient". There are occasions where a reversed redirect can see an almost immediate change, then other times it seemingly never happens - in the long run, it probably will though.
Just don't go changing back and forth too quickly because this is likely to cause you extra headaches.
-Andy
EGOL has already covered this off nicely.
I also have clients with lots of links from Pinterest and never seen a single issue. I would just continue doing as you are - I have also found Pinterest to be a great source of traffic for the right sites.
-Andy
Dan from Screaming Frog has just had a look at this, and although he is on the move at the moment, he said this...
On the road to a meeting, but they can switch user-agent & change to JavaScript rendering mode to test for cloaking. Depends how it's cloaked, though. Some may do via referrer which you can't test for within the Spider (yet!). Will reply a bit later
-Andy