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Hi, did the solution work?

Seems like an issue with the Moz crawler, as the robots.txt has no issues and the site loads just fine.

If you already tested your robots.txt using the Google Webmaster Tools "robots.txt Tester" just to be sure, then you should contact Moz here: https://moz.com/help/contact/pro

Hope it helps.

Any domain can be targeted to any country you want. Take for example the popular io TLD, which is assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory, however it has been adopted by tons of technology apps. Same happens with many other TLDs.

Do you mind sharing the domains that you thought was cookie-less?

Google Analytics does not set cookies when you are serving images or resources like js, css, etc. It only sets cookies when you serve a page that calls the analytics code.

Are you using some king of CDN, like cloudflare?

Google usually pushes new sites to the top spots not because they will rank there, but because they are new. Maybe now that your site isn't new anymore Google removed it from the top spots... I'm just guessing here...

Have you done some link building in the last 3 month? Anything blackhat?

I believe you can't.

That said Moz crawler shouldn't take down your site, and if it does then you should really consider improving your hosting or checking out why is the site crashing, could be tons of reasons, such as:

• not enough computing resources (change your hosting);
• not optimized database queries;
• etc;

Have you checked your Google Webmaster tools to see if there's a new message about a penalty or some other issue?

According to Moz's OSE, your domain has no authority and there are no signals to even rank on Google (https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/links?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pvr88.com&filter=&source=external&target=page&group=0&page=1&sort=page_authority&anchor_id=&anchor_type=&anchor_text=&from_site=)

That said, Google does have your site indexed (https://www.google.com/search?q=site:pvr88.com).

How old is your site?

If you delete the page, and it had links pointing to it, the server will return a 404 not found page, which makes you lose any authority they had to pass to the main domain or subdomain.

Using the 301 redirects at least you take a portion of the authority back to your Website. If your CMS is somehow advanced, it should be easy to hide those "expired pages" from the page list avoiding any confusion.

But again, if you redirect the page, lets say about am  inbound marketing conference in Boston to the main domain that does not "serve" any kind of useful content to the user that was actually expecting the page of the Boston conference, that won't help at all. Instead, try to 301 them to something that the user may be interested in, even tho the event he was looking for is no longer available; in this case, it could be a page listing all the upcoming inbound marketing conferences (in/near Boston). By going that route you favor your site by making the pagerank flow to the other page and you also help the user, which is the primary target.

I got a little confused. Are those links you are trying to get rid off on your site? Or are those backlinks coming to your site from Spam sites?

If the event has already passed, and as you say there's no longer any value on those pages, you can just delete them. Or a good option would be to 301 them to a page that explains why the page is no longer available and offer the user other related pages that he could might be interested in.

Hope that helps.

An easy one here

Moz Analytics:

Go to your campaigns, then click on "Manage Campaigns to the top right of your campaigns table. In the next page you can see a "Delete Campaign" under the column named "Permanently Remove".

Moz Pro:

Go to your campaigns, click on the campaign settings and at the bottom you can find a DELETE button in red.

Hope that helps!

I would recommend you go by the MOZ's Beginner's Guide to SEO here: http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo

Hey Chris,

Did site A or B receive a manual penalty?

As any penalty on A, which is 301'd to B, will ultimately pass the penalty to B. I would suggest removing the 301 ASAP. Then cleanup the A domain until it's clean (if a manual action, until it's revoked) and then you can think of putting the 301 back.

Removing a manual penalty could be a long process, it took 1 year for us and 4 reconsideration requests to get the penalty revoked. We had to use the disavow as a machete as disavowed almost our entire link profile leaving aside the domains that we knew were good links, all others were disavowed using the "Domain:" to avoid any missed link.

I was just wondering, for all of us that weren't able to be there, how soon can we expect the MozCon 2013 videos?

Because your G+ page now is just https://plus.google.com/+Halfwaytoconcord

Hmmm.. not necessarily. You can use that domain and not being penalized by the EMD algo. You could be in a problem if you did all the link building with the same keyword, exposing the targeted keyword, but as long as you keep it clean, I guess you are safe.

The EMD update I think targets more to those using every possible EMD domain and redirecting it to their site (brandname-key1.com / brandname-key2.com / etc.).

The stats in the page are from 2013, if you are going to present stats for 2014, then create a new page. You only need to update when the content becomes irrelevant, but for those stats, they will still be relevant in 10 years, they are "stats from 2013".

Hope that helps.

That coming from you is just enough for the day

I don't know who you are or what you do, but reading your responses I never, and I mean NEVER have something to add. It's like reading from wikipedia... lol

Since you switched from SEOMoz to Moz, every time I access the site (no matter if I close the browser or not) I am asked to login again, even though I am selecting the "Remember Me" option.

Can you please fix that?

PS: Same thing happens with OSE.

And just minutes ago, Cutts changed the post title and clarified he was referring to "guest blogging for the sole purpose of SEO"...