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I am currently trailing a tool www.mention.com 

A 2013 MOZ post here Google Alerts VS Mention VS Talkwalker

Personally I wouldn’t put barriers in the way of a download, however I'm sure you will get a lot of debate about that one and at the end of the day it's what you consider to be of more value, the fact that the pdf is being downloaded or you have the information from the people who then know your going to contact them after a download.

Either way I would use a combo of QR code / printed shortlink and include analytic tracking data. Then if you do chose to collect email data first you can measure the conversion from who went to the data entry page from your exhibition any how many email addresses you collected ie:

In htaccess:

#Product 1 QR code (have your QR code point to http://www.domain.com/qr-p1)

Redirect 302 /qr-p1 http://www.domain.com/shop/product_one/doc.pdf?utm_campaign=Exhibition&utm_medium=QR Code&utm_source=Banner Stand&utm_content=ProductOnePDF

#Product 1 Short code (print your short code as to www.domain.com/widgets)

Redirect 302 /widgets http://www.domain.com/shop/product_one/doc.pdf?utm_campaign=Exhibition&utm_medium=Short Code&utm_source=Banner Stand&utm_content=ProductOnePDF

Hi, This should help (announced 5th September): An improved search box within the search results

Hi Mohammed,

You just did Seriously though If you are a Moz Analytics subscriber then yes you can post and respond to Q&A questions.

Another way is to earn over 500 MozPoints (pending staff approval) then you can also post and respond to Q&A questions.

You can add the following to the robots.txt file to ask the crawler to ignore the parameter currently being included such as:

Disallow: /*?=

'you better answer my question' sounds like a interrogation technique

Personally if they have landed on your mobile site by choice then redirecting mobile to desktop should then be a choice the user select. The user may want to view mobile version via a desktop for low-bandwidth such as a laptop with mobile broadband.

Continuing from EGOL's comment #3 if you do need the parameters for on-site search or categories then another option (admittedly it relies on Google obeying it) is to use the robots.txt and disallow the parameters for example:

Disallow: /*categoryFilter=*

Disallow: /*?utm_

As with any change to that could affect the visibility of your site to the search engines always test first.

Responsive design isn't just a shrunk down version of your site, you can control what is displayed via css etc. Google has a good resource here regarding how to serve content in optimized formats for both desktop and smartphone users https://developers.google.com/webmasters/smartphone-sites/

Had you thought about responsive design or is there a particular reason you require a mobile site?

A good article to help convince your client along with the information from Daniele here: 404 Page Best Practices

Not sure about the & (That doesn't mean it's not true) however if you are interested in search operators have a look here on Moz : http://moz.com/blog/25-killer-combos-for-googles-site-operator

If you want to know how many pages are indexed by Google then use the WMT here http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Are you asking rather than having two site brandA.com & brandB.com is there a way to create brand.com and on that site display the content relevant to the visitors location? If not then I agree with EGOL

Hi, domain.com & domain.com/index.php are regarded as separate pages so I would assume from your question that you want the index.php to be your root page? This can be achieved via Directory Index using .htaccess

You should see something like this in the htaccess file: DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

The xml-sitemaps.com standalone generator will work on Windows/IIS servers. More information here http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/documentation-xml-sitemap-generator.html

Their Requirements page states:

'The PHP XML generator will work with PHP 4.3.x or higher in default configuration in Apache web-server environment and on Windows/IIS servers.'

Hope that helps

What sort of problems are you getting with the sitemap generators that you are using?

Hi,

It's not a big job to implement, best practice is to use a child theme however you could hook it in the theme functions file.

From Yoast KB:

If you're getting an error that looks like this:

Cannot redeclare yoast_breadcrumb() (previously declared in /hom/require/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/inc/wpseo-functions.php:96) in <path></path> 

Your theme or another plugin is including our  breadcrumbs class, and not properly wrapping it in class_exists or function_exists wrappers. The <path>part of the error above should normally point you at either a themes or plugins directory, telling you which plugin is the culprit.</path>

The breadcrumbs class in our plugin is maintained, whereas the breadcrumbs class shipping with your theme is probably out of date. So check with the creator of your theme and send them to this page.

You should wrap the class and functions in  class_exists or function_exists wrappers. Or, even better, you shouldn't include it at all and just tell people to install our WordPress SEO plugin and use the breadcrumbs provided by our plugin as those are far more up to date and actually work with custom post types, custom post type archives, etc.

Source: http://kb.yoast.com/article/97-cannot-redeclare-yoast_breadcrumb-error

An interesting article on moz relating to your question here: The First Link Counts Rule and the Hash Sign - Does it Change PR Sculpting?

I'm sure wayback I had an issue with apple devices not being happy with the # not having a slash.

index.html#saving-water didn't work but this index.html/#saving-water did. You might want to check it out or I may have just dreamt it!

You would need to check the web.config file rather than htaccess as you mentioned your hosted on Microsoft Servers (IIS). Although the following answer is referring to WWW v non WWW the principal is the same:

http://moz.com/community/q/how-do-i-redirect-non-www-pages-to-www-on-a-windows-server#reply_36077