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OSE doesn't scrape the entire Web, only portion of it. It takes a lot of resources to scrape the entire Web for links, however, the main ones, those that aren't that "hidden" are easily found by OSE.

Hey Daniel,

The canonical should point on every possible filtering to the main page without any filter.

Check the following Q&A from Yesterday: http://moz.com/community/q/canonicalization-w-search-and-filter-operators-parameters

Hope that helps.

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.).

Not necessarily, unless you already have something built and with enough authority on henryjewelers.com

apple computer - apple.com
abercrombie & fitch - abercrombie.com

Tiffany & Company - tiffany.com

etc.

Reports are exported as PDF, so you can't edit the text directly. However, there are some tools that allow you to edit PDF files as if they were DOC files, for example NitroPDF (it's not free, but is worth it. And they offer a free trial I think).

Some pagerank is diluted over a 301 redirect. The same as if you had one link to HenryJewelers.com from Henry.com.

It will certainly be better to use the actual domain. But not going the other way around? Is HenryJewelers.com an established website with lots of value? are all the links pointing to Henry.com? why not going with Henry.com as the main address, it clearly makes more sense user-wise.

Why would you create an image tag if there's no image to put? If the reason is just to put some words, then yes, that's stuffing, and you could be penalized.

As Jesse said, I also tried everything, with 3 browsers, firefox, chrome and IE.

To add up, don't know if you noticed, it also affects OSE, before if I was logged in in Moz, I was automatically logged in in OSE. Not that part seems broken too, I need to login every time I access (even during the same day, browser session, etc).

If it is marketing material, then you are fine with any of them. I will stay with /chicago/birthday-parties as it will save me on future redirects once the new design is up.

Staying with /chicago/birthday-parties will only change 1 redirect once the new design is deployed, the /chicago one. Anyhow, make the /chicago to /chicago/birthday-parties a 302 instead of a 301.

I'd go with /chicago/birthday-parties then, and have a page at /chicago that lists all the events/parties.

Do you offer anything else aside from birthday-parties?

I guess you already did a 301 from the www. to the root, right?

If that's the case, some link juice get lost on the 301 just as much as if it was an extra link you needed to click.

Make sure all the pages are 301'd to their new versions!

I think that now a days, with many sites using reverse proxies (such as CloudFlare) Google has stopped looking at the IPs as it is no longer a factor to rank sites.

Jeff's point on the e-mail problem is right, however, you can simply host your email on a third party IP, like Google Apps, and never get blocked. Something that even dedicated IPs get the punch.

I have a few dedicated servers, some of them with multiple IP addresses and I found myself trying to clean new IP addresses that just were to new or "abused" by previous owners.

Switching hosting provider, however, while changing the IP address may increase/decrease rankings not because of the IP but most likely because of the site speed, which IS something that Google considers to rank sites.

I think you did the right thing. Engines will take a while until they re-crawl your robots.txt and actually following what you commanded.

Extra steps I would take:

• 302 the redirect, probably is just a line of code doing the redirect after setting some cookies or session variables.
• Try to edit the affiliate codes to work with Javascript instead of naked URLs ( could be something like <ins class="affiliate">that is later switched to a text link or banner using JS). This will not only allow you to set a nofollow for those links, but you could be able to remove/block specific affiliates or pages where you don't want your links/banners.</ins>
  

PS: have you tried fetching your robots.txt from Google WT (Crawl -> Blocked URLs) to see when was it downloaded and id the contents are ok?

I think there are not tools that allows you to do it by City. However, you could use HMA (hidemyass) proxy + an incognito window once connected, access Google and do the search. However, like the tools, they probably don't have a proxy in all cities. Try researching the tools or the VPN provider like HMA to see if they include the cities that you need.

No, authorship is intended for people, not pages.

I think Google was already working on the possibility to add multiple authors to a single post, which can solve your problem by mentioning each author that contributed to that specific article, but I can't find the article I read about 3 - 5 month ago.

It isn't what Google likes or dislikes, Google will index the site both ways, the problem is, with any redesign and site restructure comes a ranking drop, almost every time, no matter how well you plan it, it always happen. It takes some time to "recover", which is actually not recovering but Google adjusting to the new design.

If you redirect pages, try to do it once. You are now redirecting /chicago with a 301, which is actually saying that the content of /chicago was permanently moved to the other location, then you will do it backwards, which can bring some troubles if you are always using 301s.

If you are planning to use /chicago later, then I would probably use a 302 to redirect /chicago to the old location while the new design is ready. Then you can remove the 302 and put a 301 from the old location to the new one.

But did you get any MANUAL penalty on A or B?

Same problem here. I am responding questions in the Q&A, navigate to the the Profile page and suddenly I'm logged out.

There's been at least two more threads about this issue in the last couple of weeks. Some suggested logging our, clearing the cache and logging back in. Others to log out and in; neither worked out for me...

I would go for the second one. However, if you can choose one specifically I would probably go for:

.com/chicago/birthday-parties

or

.com/birthday-parties/chicago

Depending on what else you offer. If there are more "locations" than "services" then I would put the "service" first, and so for the other way around.

In the meantime, while you can't do the 301, make sure to set the appropriate canonical tags.