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Hey there Po! We'd need the full call to the API to check on this, not the code from your app that assembles it. I would recommend sending that full call to use at help@moz.com to keep your data private. Thanks!

I agree, you should avoid them at all.

Hello, https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2604777?hl=en That would be your main guidelines. Now, here are my questions/suggestions. How did you translate that website? Is it automatically generated through google translate? Have you done any other spammy stuff? Is your backlink profile clean? According to Matt explainations in video above, it would have to be very good reason to mark your website as pure spam. So, if you just translated (properly) english website, then it shouldn't be the reason for taking manual action on your website. So, check everything else. Now, as to your questions. I think that would depend on is your "healthy" website really healthy. Because if it's actually as spammy (at least in the eyes of google), then you'll basically tell google "Hey, look at my another spammy website". But, I believe, if english website is all good and has no spam attached to it, then it shouldn't be a problem. According to Matt, it will be pretty difficult to unmark your website and you'll have to spend a lot of time and effort on proving it. So, roll up your sleeves and get ready to work. If you're translating it, you're pretty much rewriting it. I used to work as a translator and there is no way to translate word to word, the proper way of translation is when you translate the idea/thought/intent, not words itself. Hope this helps.

It would be better to indicate the "nofollow" on the level of the link rather than on page level (as it will only impact the paid rather than all the links) but if this is not possible, the tag you want to use is ok. rgds, Dirk

There's actually even more scenarios to it than just that, but thankfully there's a great Moz post on this from April 2014: http://moz.com/blog/hreflang-behaviour-insights that covers your questions, and more. To your specifics, yes a user can set a specific language and Google will try to serve results weighted to their language settings, regardless of location (the German user in the UK per your example). They can also serve German results to anyone in Germany by default (location based). Again, the blog post breaks it all down very well. Go take a look and you should be able to parse what you need for your exact situation.  Cheers!

Thank for your replay! Is it have to be a different subdomain or can i place it as a subfolder on au.example.com/ and place the hreflang tags? Thanks!

Alan if you are using rel="alternate" hreflang="x" correctly then there shouldn't be any problems with duplicate content for different locales using sub domains or folders. As per Google's guildelines: Some example scenarios where rel="alternate" hreflang="x" is recommended: You translate only the template of your page, such as the navigation and footer, and keep the main content in a single language. This is common on pages that feature user-generated content, like a forum post. Your pages have broadly similar content within a single language, but the content has small regional variations. For example, you might have English-language content targeted at readers in the US, GB, and Ireland

Hello there, First up let's deal with the international element. As John has mentioned Googlebot typically crawls from the US - as such if you're dynamically serving content based on IP (on the same URL) you're in danger of Google only being able to crawl and index your US content as it's unlikely Googlebot will ever see the content you've created for other countries. As such I'd recommend creating distinct URLs for each country and using rel=alternate hreflang as John Barth has suggested. Just to be clear - I wouldn't recommend serving UK vs US content dynamically on the same URL. However, from these distinct URLs it's totally fine to serve content appropriate to the device. Use the Vary-HTTP Header to indicate to Googlebot and Googlebot-Mobile that a mobile user-agent gets served a different version (in order to avoid looking like you’re cloaking). See https://developers.google.com/webmasters/smartphone-sites/details. I hope this helps, Hannah

Seems to me that they are engaging in some black hat tactics to get these high rankings. The keyword density on the home page is also quite high for that keyword. "online casino". I would also be interested in getting the group's thoughts on this.