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Hey Victor,

You summed up with your last phrase: "I guess we just want to know if it is okay for these paid ads to not have nofollow."

Paid ads, then a nofollow is a must. ALL paid links should be nofollowed. Any link that you get by giving something in return as a "compensation" are paid links, and should be nofollowed (affiliate links, paid links, paid releases, etc).

Hope that helps!

Hmm... are those 302 because you need to login to view that content? or you just removed the page?

If you completely removed the page, then a 301 would be the best option, even if you don't want the final destination to rank, as Simon said, they still accumulate pagerank and pass it to the other linked pages (which some could be of the ones to WANT to rank).

302 are temporary redirects, meaning that it's temporal, at that specific moment the page isn't available (because you need to login to view it, it is being updates, or whatever is the reason), but with a 302 you are basically telling search engines to index that page, but just come back later as specifically now it isn't available.

Hi Ron,

You will need to use URL rewrite and the following code:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !=www.example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

That will redirect any page/file on example.com/file to www.example.com/file with a 301 redirect.

Hope that helps!

Your site is being indexed. I don't know how many pages your site actually has, but at least 80 something are indexed by Google. Your homepage http://www.michaelharwinlaw.com/ even has a rich snippet with "Michael Harwin" picture. (see screenshot)

If you did a redesign lately (less that a month ago) you can probably expect some ranking fluctuations until Google starts picking up your site again, this could take a while.

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Maximilian is right. Apparently that's the issue. Moz also respects the noindex, nofollow (I believe) and that's the reason they aren't crawling those pages either.

If you just do a 301 of the entire domain then you are completely safe.

However, if you decide to go another route and build a landing page, specifically designed to target those keywords then the page will be penalized as a backdoor page + it could take a hit on EMD too.

For example, take a big brand: Apple.

www.itunes.com -> http://www.apple.com/itunes/

www.iphone.com -> http://www.apple.com/iphone/

All redirect to their main domain: apple.com

*It must be a 301 redirect of the entire domain. Which then gives me the following question: keyword reach domains aren't worth it, branded domains are. You don't see www.cellphone.com redirecting to apple or any other cell phone brand page, instead, they get their branded domains, in this example: iphone.com, itunes.com, mac.com, ipad.com, etc. People isn't going to look for a keyword reach domain, instead if they enter in their address bar "green apple" their browser will perform a search for those keywords on Google, Bing or whatever browser they have, which will NOT return your keyword reach domain as it is actually nor indexed by Google as it is just a redirection.

To sum up, branded domains = Perfect. Keyword rich domains = spending money.

Exactly. If they are redirects because you need to login then a 302 is the way to go. If you use a 301 for those redirects, some browsers may cache that redirect and then when the user is actually logged in, he will still be redirected to the login page as the browser "thought" that page was no longer available (and that can potentially create an infinite loop)...

Over the years, I found 2 options to go about that:

1. You want the pages indexed (those accessible after login in): Use 302, and give Google a way to crawl those pages.
2. You don't want those pages to be indexed (personal info inside): Then you can (while the user is logged out) point the destination to those pages to the login page with a return path, example: http://www.domain.com/login?return=page-to-return, that way you avoid any 3XX redirect without loosing any pagerank in the process (going over any 3XX redirect looses some pagerank as if it was a regular link).

Hope that helped

"Responsive" sites use CSS to accommodate the content on the user's device. Usually the HTML doesn't change. The best way to know if that is the type of responsive template you have, is trying resizing the browser window to different sizes. Content should accommodate without reloading, if it does there's nothing you need to worry about.

What do you mean by "inbound links on your homepage"? The links in your homepage link yo pages in your site. Inbound links are those who come from external sources.

I don't know what keywords are you using, but just the name michael harwinlaw returns an EXCELLENT result page (see screenshot).

Now, if we are talking about specific keywords, then it will need an inbound link assessment, review for any possible penalty, etc.

But to your main question: your index page being indexed, it is, and perfectly linked to G+ places, etc.

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Organic penalties do not affect paid placements. They are completely different products.

My 2 cents:

Nothing to worry about. You won't repeat the word on EVERY page on your site. You are just doing it in the homepage. Plus, using the brand in all the other pages, will give Google (and others) a clue about the brand name:

Index: NLP Training and Certification Center | NLP and Coaching Institute

2nd Page: 2nd page | NLP and Coaching Institute

etc.Hope that helps.

No to my knowledge. You will have to wait. Anyway, Google could have already download the new robots but while the reports are showing the older file. Those reports always take a while until refreshing completely.

Your site's URL would help...

That's also possible.

Check this post: http://uxmag.com/articles/a-url-in-any-language

In any language they will work fine due to Internationalized Resource Identifiers, when you copy paste them they might look weird because of that, but they will still work in a browser.

Edit: offering the URL also translated will be helpful for SEO too. Imagine a user searching for your site in their language, they will probably click on the one that it's written in their language that on the the one that has an English URL.

The "idea" is still valid. You need a "Thank You" page that actually sends the transaction details to Analytics. Users must be redirected to that page after completing the payment, and I guess the return URL is just a variable you set while sending the order details to Worldpay (look into their docs for that: return url).

Then, in the "thank you" page you trace the order and create the analytics ecommerce call (with any programing language) depending on the version of Analytics you are using, it could be the ga (ga('require','ecommerce','ecommerce.js'); and then the rest of the transaction details) or the older _TrackTrans() (after the rest of the transaction details).

Hope that helps!

Report the results to Google, not that they will actually care, but if you open a thread in the Webmaster Help Forums, someone from Google may see the thread and tell you what's going on.

Anyway, that's completely normal and I see that in every possible niche. Bad sites being ranked above good ones, they are just "awaiting" a drop, it will come, the question is when...

Try to get in touch with someone at google, tweet Cutts, open a thread in WHF, write about it, get the word out. If you really deserve a better spot then all that may get Google's attention.

Hey Bastiaan,

You really can't control what Google shows, however, you are missing some basic on multilingual sites, and the most important is: rel="alternate" hreflang="x"

Try implementing all the correct meta tags to all your pages and then hold for a while to see what Google does.

Here's more info on rel="alternate" hreflang="x": https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en

Hope that helps!

I can't find any link to default.aspx, but the fact that the page actually loads (even blank), shows that for some reason traffic is going there.

What I find weird, is that default.aspx doesn't have the Analytics tracking code in it, therefore GA shouldn't know that traffic is even flowing there.

Check if default.aspx has some code in it, if it actually does something, and if it doesn't, just delete the file.

Not at all, if the URL language matches the content of the page then it should be even better that using a full English URL.

However, I would suggest using domain.com/ar/blog/عنوان بلوق عربية طويلة حقا على شيء مثير جدا للاهتمام for the arabic blog and if there's an english or french version of that page, you can also implement hrelang on them and point them to domain.com/blog/English-blog-title-really-long-on-something-very-interesting

Hope that helps!