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Nope! You can request removal of the entire site (meaning dev subdomain). For future reference, you could also request removal of a certain directory on a site, too.

You'll want to keep the robots.txt on the dev subdomain, then verify the subdomain in Google Webmaster Tools. Once you do this, you can request removal of the dev subdomain from Google's index (same goes for Bing).

Those URLs will be seen as different, but the real question is will the content on those URLs be viewed as different, or do you need a canonical tag.

I use Wordpress for my site (strikemodels . com), yet only post a blog once in a blue moon. It's mainly pages that are fairly static. We've been getting enough orders and traffic to keep my husband busy and off the streets.

Today's search engines are fairly smart, and use a variety of signals to determine what a website is about. Just the other day, I was searching on Bing for Angry Birds Space JPL, as I was curious to see if Pasadena's Jet Propulsion laboratory had anything to say about the accuracy of the orbits in Angry Birds. Bing returned results that had JPL, but also highlighted (in the snippets in the SERPs) results with NASA.

Write naturally, and write for your reader. Would it sound really weird if you said out loud what you want to write on your page? The search engines can figure out related things fairly well and don't need it in quite such an exact order.

The sections of the Beginner's Guide http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo on How Search Engines Operate and Keyword Research should also be helpful to you.

As I mentioned in my Inside YouMoz post, there are even some posts that I would have turned down if they didn't have links. I try to treat links as scholarly citations rather than votes. There's a post right now in the queue that I need to respond to and tell the author that they need to back up some of their statements with links to the source of what they are claiming.

I've actually approved a YouMoz that did link out to a gambling site. The post was about how to do white hat marketing for shadier industries, and linked out to a legitimate example of what the author was doing. It was a relevant link in the context of the post.

I've only made a couple of guest posts myself, but I do have a lot of links from Moz, Search Engine Roundtable, and other SEO-related sites to our business about model battleships. These have usually been attribution for liveblogging (on Search Engine Roundtable), or just mentions of my name in some other form, with a link to the site. If you look at my link profile for that site, it is not solely from sites about model warships or electronics, but I have yet to have any type of notice from Google, and some of those links have been there for years. That said, I didn't get any of them through blog comments, and most of them are just my name or business name for anchor text. This is my personal experience, and yours might vary.

To the best of my knowledge, no one at Google has replied to our questions.

We're certainly not afraid to decline posts. In the past several weeks, we've been averaging about 50 spam posts a week (pure spam, such as horoscope predictions), declining 20-30 posts a week, returning 5-10 back to the user for edits, and publishing 1-4 posts a week.

I've been doing this for about two and a half years now. We've never let pure spam through, but we were more lenient on anchor text in the past than we are now -- today, you're not going to get away with Springfield SEO company as the anchor text for a link back to your company in a post.

Last year, I wrote more details about the YouMoz process at http://moz.com/blog/inside-youmoz-how-to-guest-blog-for-moz. This is still what we do, though a couple of the people have changed.

I will! Had a few other things come up, but I do plan on responding, should be later today.

Was the warning that you had unnatural external links pointing to your site? In that case, adding a nofollow to the links going from your site to other sites won't do any good. Instead, you need to look at the links pointing to your site.

Hello Kashif,

That's actually a fairly large request, and one that people usually pay a a consultant for.

I've tried to communicate with you several times in several formats, and have not heard back from you. Please let me know if you have received my messages regarding your account.

This may be a situation where it is worth your money to hire a consultant and use an NDA and get some professional advice. We have a list of recommended companies in the footer that can be a place to start looking.

I edited the post so the URLs didn't run together. Still not perfect, but a little easier to read.

I'm not exactly sure where those links are coming from. You might run a tool like Xenu Link Sleuth or Screaming Frog on your site to see if there is an internal linking widget gone awry. The other thought I have is to look at Open Site Explorer to see what sites are linking to you and if they're linking to any of those pages.

Kashif, it may be time for you to go out and hire a firm to do an audit of your site. We have a list of recommended companies at http://moz.com/article/recommended.

Also, please check your email associated with your account. I've sent you an important email regarding your account, and want to make sure that you see it.

We're just about to go into a quarterly all-hands meeting, so I can't write a long reply to this. I'll add my comments tomorrow morning. Looking forward to the discussion!

Also, be sure to read Craigslist's terms and conditions for frequency of posting, and where you can post pets. If people think you are a puppy mill, you're likely to have your ads quickly flagged.

Keep in mind that Moz tools use their own resources. We don't have access to Google's index or tools, and we don't have their resources, so we're not going to be able to show you data that's based on every link in existence for every site out there. So, when you look at your competitors and see they don't have strong metrics, it could be just because our tools haven't picked them up.

As far as companies go, if you want someone to take an in-depth look at your site and competitors and figure out a plan of action, we have a list of recommended companies in the footer that could be a good place to start.

I'd focus all of your efforts on one site, and make that site be the authority for your particular field. You'll have only one site to maintain, one site that gets authority from people linking to your content, one business name to maintain, etc.

The robots.txt would allow the OP to go back into GWT and request removal of the dev site from the index. Password protecting a dev site is usually a pretty good idea, too.