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The link is a 302 redirection, which means that probably doesn't pass any value to your client's.

They are probably using that to track clicks on the outbound links.

Implementing the redirect at the server level will be much better as you can redirect all pages to their correspondent page in the .com version.

You will need the URL-rewrite extension: http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite

Then create a "Canonical Hostnames" rule to redirect the other domains.

Hope that helps!

I'd say a couple of weeks. You could "force" Google to recrawl the pages by using "crawl -> fetch as googlebot" then type the address and once the fetch is completed, click the "submit to index", that should do it quicker, however, the HTML reports will take a couple of weeks to update.

Hey Nick,

You can review the recommended SEO companies list Moz created here: http://moz.com/article/recommended

Hope that helps!

If you did the canonical and redirection recently, it will take some time for Google to update the report on HTML improvements. Just sit tight and hold for a couple of weeks.

Probably an API rate limiting? I don't know that tool, don't know if it uses Moz's API or their own, but Moz's has a rate limit, and most likely that other one too, which could be causing that "0" response code (as that response does not exist aside of an ajax call return when the request fails).

I faced the same issue. If the YouTube channel was created prior to the G+ you can't link them together. We ended up creating a new YouTube channel linked to the G+ profile and uploading the videos there. Yeah, you lose your views, comments, etc, but in the long term it should be worth it.

You can consider removing the videos from the old channel, we didn't, but we are thinking about going that way.

Everything that Alex said PLUS fill a reconsideration request. Wait a couple of weeks for Google's response. Your request MUST explain all the steps you made to clean up your site and be in compliance with Google's TOS (with proof and all)!

Yup, just wait. However, I would consider switching to a better server, a 5 day downtime is a long downtime! Look for more reliable solution.

Hi Joey,

I would definitely keep that as the homepage. It looks much more appealing and interesting than the guides page!

You should think on other ways to keep the visitors in your site, perhaps some little design changes that could help. I would start with the header, it is FAR too large. The main content is moved far away to the bottom. Although it is a responsive design, the header remains always too large.

I have a 1920x1080 and I can barely see the main content, but look what happens with a smaller screen, you can't see anything but the header.

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Are you buying links? Or are you using an SEO company for link building, in the AHREFS report I saw this domain: http://www.goldiefish.ie/ which has a sitewide link to your site in the footer that says "check out mutantspace arts skills exchange providing you with free creative and production skills for your arts events and projects" that looked suspicious to me.

If you are not doing it then someone is. You should consider doing a backlink audit and possibly creating a disavow file.

Have you checked WMT for any manual action on your site?

As Michael said, a 301 will carry the penalty to the new domain, if it didn't everyone would do it without actually fixing the issues.

Instead, take another approach, try to fix the issue. If it is an algorithmic penalty, once you fix everything you think could be causing the "penalty" (as you are not 100% sure), noindex the entire store or the pages using a meta tag or the robots.txt.

Are those pages within the same subdomain? domain.com/penalized-pages or is it a subdomain? penalized-pages.domain.com

Hmmm.. seems to be a very common issue.

How about creating script that fires the map load on a div that loads a static map image instead of the iframe by default? Then using a simple function switch that image to the iframe of the map. That should do it for the "sorry we have no imagery here" problem.

If it doesn't, you could try using some kind of internal catching to get the static image and save it in your server to serve that as the "1st" image, you can then load the iframe.

Hope that makes sense

Hmmm I already see the guides page as the default page. I personally don't like the way it works... When I access a Website I like to see the domain homepage.

To answer your question, if you did a 301 redirect to the guides page then link juice flows to guides, however, some small percentage is diluted in the process.

I'd advice (if you wish to have the guides as the homepage) to remove the "/guides/" in the URL, basically making the guides page your homepage.

Hope that helps.

Google's Matt Cutts posted a video about this exact issue you might want to check: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eYJuT0yGrI

Hope that helps!

Hey Tina,

I'm afraid your colleagues saying that the best way to go is to have it under a subfolder are right. Basically, all search engines consider subdomains as separate domains, meaning that if you put the learning center on learning.website.com will have the same effect as having it on somenewdomain.com, neither will help website.com unless you link from one to the other, and that could be seen as doorway pages which will ultimately hurt more than they could help.

Using a subfolder, any advantage you get from website.com/learn/ will influence website.com without putting website.com at risk (unless you post completely unrelated stuff in that new folder). But as you trying to write about the same niche, it is like basically having a blog. Take this Moz section for example. The community folder in a subfolder under their "money site" and I assure you it is working far better than if it was a subdomain.

I'm with your colleagues on this one

Hope that helps!

Is the site still getting customers accessing the site directly? As if you established a brand name, that people is used to, I should consider cleaning up the domain instead.

I've done it myself, 95% of the links were toxic according to Link Dtox, we tried disavowing just the worse ones, reconsideration declined, then we disavowed over 1500 domains and left around 50 that were healthy links, reconsideration approved and penalty revoked. The very next day we started seeing 100% increase in search traffic, and although we are not ranking as high as we expected, Google's Matt Cutts told a few days ago that even after a penalty is removed, it may take some time until Google trust the site again.

All the work was done KNOWING that we couldn't just "dump" the domain as we had over 100,000 customers accessing our site directly. And if you change to a new domain and redirect the penalized one, chances are the new domain gets the hit too.

So as a first step, I would ask myself if it is worth the clean, depending on how many direct traffic you have, brand, etc.

Hope that helps!

Are you under some kind of reverse proxy that could be blocking Rogerbot's IP address? I tested using several user agents, even googlebot and all returned a 200.

It is either you are blocking Rogerbot's (moz bot) IP addresses or an issue on Moz end, in that case, you can contact them here: help@moz.com

Hope that helps!

I think you are completely correct. Making a responsive design does not mean "hiding the content that doesn't fit" rather "displaying it differently" so any user under any device is able to see the entire content without having to zoom in/out.

The example you posted about Wikipedia is the exact live example.

You could, however, remove areas of the page that have no actual value to a user browsing from a mobile device, that is acceptable, as even if you showed it they wouldn't be even able to see it (ex: flash content). This can be seen on sites that have floating social media buttons, than when on a mobile site, they usually accommodate those buttons elsewhere or completely hide them

There shouldn't be any SEO downside as all the "micro" hosting accounts will have, is the same IP, and that's is no longer considered when ranking a Website.

You can also have more than 1 IP address on the server and assign a different IP to each site, that can help you prevent possible spam generated by one of your customers that if they share the same IP all of them will be affected.