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In my experience, on average Google will only index about 80% of your sitemap.  Do you already have links to those pages or is this a new site?   Generally, I give it two full weeks to see where it is at and see if any errors come back.

Are you using WMT to verify submission or site:operator?

As far as time goes.  Make sure that your site's crawl rate is optimized too.  GoogleBot works on a kind of time "budget" and can't crawl everything all the time.

Check for Dup Content.  Google doesn't "hit" your site but will choose one version or another to index if the content is similar or nearly similar.

These are some starting points but 4 days isn't very long for that many pages.  Give it some time and keep us posted on how it's going.

I'm not a pro at foreign language SEO but I just used Google's keyword tool to find out that ropa premamá gets 260 exact matches and ropa premama gets 9900 exact matches.  I personally would change the keyword to the non accent version simply on a keyword basis.

On a side-note, there was a great MOZinar last week on Foreign Language SEO.  Might be something worth taking the time to look at. http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/foreign-language-seo

This is an area where I'm not too familiar.  I would post a new question and give describe in length what is going on.  Do my steps first and if you don't get all of them cleared up then post new question and have a server guy help you.  Good Luck!

Looks like it is a hosting server error.  Where do you host and what platform are you on? (html, wordpress, joomla, etc)

My pleasure.  Hope it helps.  Keep us updated either way.

A Soft 404 generally means that someone has requested a page that wasn't found by Google.  You might want to "Fetch as Google" to find any pages that are being linked to that do not exist.  (Go into WMT and under that specific URL, under "Health", select "Fetch as Google")  This should give you a list of all the URLs that are returning a 404 or other errors.  If you have already done this, make sure that the pages that are showing up in your errors are not still included in your sitemap. (remove them if they are and then remove the URLs from Google by going to Optimization and Remove URLs)  You should also make sure that the "preferred URL" has been selected for your site.  If you use the www version of your site and the non www has the errors (or vise versa) then this could be the problem too.  (You'll have to confirm both versions of your site and then go into configuration, settings then preferred domain).  I gave you a lot of work here but these should solve the problem.  If not, post any feedback and any solutions you worked on.

Since the Penguin update this year, the anchor text portion of a link will matter less going forward.  Without getting too technical they basically turned off part of their algorithm to see if the results were better when they didn't account for anchor text.  It got better, "more robust" results so they changed the algorithm to interpret and use anchor text to better determine how relevant a given anchor might be for a given query and website.  (Sorry, I got a little technical there.)

Bottom line is link structure, quality of the link and relevancy of the link matter more than the actual anchor text.  Keep to relevant sites with good page and domain authority (use SEOMoz Toolbar to determine this) and you'll be fine.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/link-building-101-the-almost-complete-link-guide-updated-for-post-penguin

After you read that info on the beginners guide I would read through this post by scott mclay as he talks about setting up campaigns.

Not sure if you saw this but we have "A Beginners Guide" here on seomoz.org

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links

Read this first and let us know if you have any questions about it.

Darin.

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Option 5, Option 3

But they'll direct you to google.com/support or google.com/webmasters

What's the issue?

We can't see your link because we are don't have access to your profile.  But if you are not seeing rankings in your report it is because SEOmoz is having some technical issues with real time ranking reports from Google.  I'm not sure what your page is showing but that is a known issue.  https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/22457872-keyword-difficulty-and-rank-tracker-issues

If this is not the issue you are having, please explain further.

Darin.

As far as your original question, your nofolllow and noindex settings are fine.

I guess I don't understand the point of building out the pages with content that isn't unique.  I come from the camp that starting it out right is always the best practice.  People follow you because they want your point of view.  I don't think that takes much time.  On most CMS platforms you can schedule your posts and you can spend one day on post and spread them out over the week.  I would see if someone in your company likes to write and see if they want to champion it.

But, like I said before.  If you want to go the route you are currently taking then your nofollow noindex of those pages is fine.

I use a slightly different approach.  I like to write an article about the topic of the news that you have an provide a link about it.  For example, if you are a dentist and a new cleaning practice came out, I would write an article referencing the article that came out.  I would provide quality content about how the change will effect the industry and and provide a link to that post.  That way you can use the rel=author element and possibly have those pages show up in the SERPs.  I'm not a real big fan of putting other peoples content on my site unless they have created it for me or I have something to add to it.

Darin.

I used these guys before.  I have no connection with them now, fyi.

http://www.locallighthouse.com

If all of your future pages will be sub folders then you'll only need to track at the sub domain level.  I generally do the same thing you do but I ALWAYS track at the Root domain level.  Generally if you have different sub domains and want to track them separately then the sub domain radial is the best answer.  An example would be when you have different identities on your root domain at the sub domain level.  For instance, you want to track your blog at blog.example.com and you have an investor relations section at investors.example.com and you track them as separate campaigns.  Sub folder can be same scenario but at the sub folder level.  You want to track your blog at example.com/blog and the /blog is a platform or another installation of a CMS.  (hope that makes sense)  If you want to track everything that is on your root domain (both sub domains and sub folders) then choose the root domain radial.    Like I said before, I always use the root domain.  I think the other options are for specific scenarios only.

Let me know if you have any questions

Darin.

Canonicals are in fact a preference indicator (suggestion).  Rel=canonical is only one of the indicators to calculate the most relevant content to display.  Google will probably ignore it in your situation because all the canonicals point to the same page.  I agree with Irivng Weiss, fix it ASAP anyway.

Take a look at this video from Matt Cutts (http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394).  He explains everything very well regarding it's uses and best practices.

Darin.

To me, content and branding is so important, I don't care where it comes from (as long as it's good).  The fact that it happens to be on a "competitors" site doesn't make a difference.  I would put the content on their site and also a link to it on your site (not from the same page that the links on their site point to).  As a reader, I will see the your content on the other persons site and, if its good, go to your site and read up on you and what you're all about.  If you have a good UX on your site then I will subscribe and follow you just as much.  When co-citations really start to matter, as well as branding and reputation management, I think you'll start to see how much you can dominate the SERPs.  Google, and everyone else, wants you to share good quality content.  Besides, how cool would it be to brag that you're so awesome, that your competition even links to you.

Darin..

Just a side note.  I worked with a coupon company a few years back that ranked on the third page of Google and they tightly held their content.  We recommended that they start sharing their content with one of their competitors that was a coupon blog and within two months they were on page one in the #6 spot for "coupons".  I'm not saying this is a direct correlation here, but it sure seemed to help.  Get the word out about your company and people will follow you as long as you have a great UX and great content.

I agree with Matt here.  I would just add using SEOmoz's Report Card tool to check all of the on-page factors that Matt mentioned.  I would also take a look at a whiteboard Friday done by John Doherty back in July for internal linking best practices http://www.seomoz.org/blog/smarter-internal-linking-whiteboard-friday

It's really going to depend on the relevancy of that link to the pages it shows up on.   There was a really good Whiteboard Friday a few months back about this from John Doherty.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/smarter-internal-linking-whiteboard-friday

Local SEO like this is tough.  In general, I like to add local information about the city when building out the content for local sites with multiple cities.  I work with a carpet cleaning company who wants to rank for each city in three counties.  We had to create roughly 20 unique content pages and one of the ways we added new, relevant content is to add local city data to the page.  We used wikipedia to search for the county and got the city data for all the cities in that county.  It gives 2010 census data and what year the city was founded.  We then found the cities homepage and set up google alerts for information regarding each particular city (make sure you set it up for once a day or your inbox will be crazy).  We then created blog posts with the city being the category and linked back to the page with the carpet cleaning targeted for that particular city.  It seems to have worked well but I'm sure there are other ways to do it too.

Hope this helps!