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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.

No, you won't get penalized for redirecting the PDFs to HTML versions of them. In fact, Google will like it.

Here's a video that may help you out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDzq-94lcWQ

As @jessconfitti said, you are 100% correct. If a user browses more than 1 page in your site, it would not be a bounce. Even if after the second page the users clicks back to whatever Website they came from.

Any kind of paid directory resulting in a paid link isn't helpful from an SEO perspective. Now, if the link has an unfollow tag, that could help from a user's perspective.

I would go for it only if it really helps getting customers from the directory.

Thanks so much for listening my tweet and coming in here to drop a few lines Marie

I think i'll do a mix of both techniques. First, an extensive link cleanup. Then follow my first post's steps (adding the noindex meta tags in all pages as you suggested below) and then do the 301 redirect.

Will also add to the mix a redesign, just so the site looks renewed for both users and SE.

Will share insights once we complete the migration.

Thanks again!

PS: will keep an eye for the article on SEW

Thanks Matt. Do you mind if I PM you with some insight questions, just to make sure I get the idea, don't wanna end up burning the other domain.

Thanks!

"Virality"...

http://www.firstpost.com/living/mufflerman-aap-turns-twitter-bashing-on-its-head-makes-kejriwal-a-superhero-1824847.html

To which internal links are you referring to? Those in the article text? Or within the entire page?

You are doing guest blogging for the links? Then just 1 will do it to get you penalized. Forget about guest blogging for links, instead, create great content and promote it trying to get a natural link.

If you are doing guest blogging, don't do it for the links. If in one article you write it happens you have an excellent article to link to in one of your properties then link to it. But do NOT write so you can insert a link.

I'm sure this is a Penguin hit, 100%.

Very bad link profile, some cool links, but 90% junk. The traffic drop happened the day Penguin 3.0 was released and the site is not being outranked, it is just not ranking for those money keywords. Content is still working great, lots of hits to the blog and ranking places of the best pieces are steady and haven't change at all. Branding still doing strong too.

Thanks Matt,

So you say no robots disallow and no disavow file on new domain and just a 301 after a FULL link cleanup?