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SIMPLE: NO

A permanent redirect (301) is a common and absolutely normal thing... I can`t see any negative effect in such a case

you won´t be charged until that date... moz will also send you a reminder that they will charge you on xx ... so you can decide to close your account or to keep it...  very comfortable...

you have to name your site if you want an appropriate answer... is it smartloan.co.uk you are referring to?

there is no "good" reason why you should not keep that url private - it won`t do your site any harm according to SEO aspects...

I would recommend you to set that url to "noindex" and "nofollow" BUT this might not work if Google already crawled and indexed your site / this specific URL.... as long as you dont overdo "noindex" & "nofollow" this wont get you into serious trouble...

I had a discussion about that question with our programmers and they all told me that they would gladly use httpd.conf if they could... so when your refer to a case study this ist just a plain opinion of our IT

httpd.conf is better according to page speed...

I can tell you from my experiences within Google Germany: a friend of mine is SEO for the domain vlh.de

They are targeting every interested user who has questions and/or needs help with their taxes... although they are operating nationwide, this is a local business because they are seeking for help or assistance within an acceptable range of their residence. (You do not need to understand german to see waht they`ve built within their site structure)

The local pages they`ve created look similar but they have several variations and they are all listed in the local search. They also focused on local keywords and the development of the site looks brilliant... so just go ahead with your idea, it can help you to be found within the local search BUT keep in mind the avoid duplicate content...

Sure - I can confirm this behaviour because we`ve experienced it already.

Google is very anxious to show content which is closely related to the country of origin where a user starts the search query... but what you describe there will take some time to show up...

but by the way: I am not sure if your efforts will be honored that much by Google... it`s a little step and the impact on SEO might by questionable according to the time you need to make these changes?!

Hi nightwing,

in such a case I would always recommend a 301 redirect to avoid any loss of linkjuice, DA or whatever you prefer to name it. We`ve have made good experiences with that in the past...

they do a very good job for us within whole Europe:

http://www.intelliad.com/home.html

Thank you soo much Peter!

Hi!

I want to change the URL for my Google+ profile here in my moz community profile but the new (confirmed) vanity URL is not accepted by the system. It says that this vanity url is invalid... any ideas how to solve that problem?

Greets Marc

I have made the same experiences... Ashley is right: that`s the standard

What I can tell your from the point of a big webshop is that we had to remove all our watermarks (it was just our logo for protection against copyright infringements through our competititors) within 3 business days to avoid to be banned from Google Shopping.

So this issue shows the direction Google moves on regarding the image search...

If, what you describe, is just the first step, then this will or even is the next one.

I would avoid this kind of watermarks as well...

A very interesting aspect!!!

Although I think this would be classified as a black OR "grey" hat technique. This might not be so obvious as classical black hat techniques but you only need to make yourself suspicious to risk a penalty. Its your business to prove then that you didnt do anything against the rules...

What I was thinking about, that could be similar and less black or grey, is offering a coupon code only within special circles at Google+ or for your fan community. I mean, they have to like/connect your Google+ or facebook page first to see the code. I know this is not perfect but to avoid any scam you can check if the name of your client can also be found within your social media community... for example... this could be promoted in your shop then...

So your goal is:

to rank on high competitive short-term keywords in a stable position and over a longer periode, right?

There are 3 possibilities (which you won`t like):

1. your client has a fortune to spend for SEO and SEA

2. you can use black hat techniques

3. your client has patience (a lot of)

The last one is the most realistic and MAYBE (there is no guarantee!) the most effective way. You have to do a lot of on-page and off-page work to establish the authority of a new domain for a few of keywords. You have to prove that your site has the relevance to be an authority for e.g. "heart attack" - this process takes some time.

We needed several years to make clear that our website is the authority for the keyword "guitar" (the german word for it) within Google Germany - the result is a stable and constant high position for years as well (no.1)... but the list to (maybe) be successful with that is long...

I would always recommend to optimize a long-term keyword which is not so competitive. If you are successful to establish to be an authority for such keywords will help you for your next step: to become an authority fpr high competitive keywords ... try to make your customer clear that you can bring them on top very fast but that they will also fall down much more faster then!

It`s just like buidling up a good reputation or to establish a good credit history - but I believe you already know that!

well, I don`t think that there is just one clear answer for that but I do not really understand why you have suspicious outgoing links on a site?

First of all nobody would link to a site which might be suspicious and if there is a development, that a site becomes suspicious for whatever I would just remove the link.

There are good reasons to use nofollow but imagine the following scenario:

if you have links on your site and the most or even all of them are "nofollow" Google will ask itself the question "why does this site link to other sites with "nofollow"? Does this site don`t trust these links? So why should we do?

This is a strange and suspicious behaviour and might lead to a penalty - manually or automatically along within an update...

Damn... this is always a horrible thing and the most frustrating aspect about this is that there is no effective solution that can help to protect anybody in advance from such black hat techniques... sorry to say that but this is a development which becomes more and more common... wish you the all the best!

Thats right - you already mentioned to use the disavow tool for those links. I dont think that there is any other useful possibility to get rid of them.

Theoretically you can write to the webmasters of these sites but this is not very practicable or helpful.

dont misunderstand me (dont want to be unpolite by just quoting this link below) but look here:

http://moz.com/community/q/how-google-adwords-can-impact-seo-ranking

maybe this will answer your question...