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Hi Letty I don't think there is anything wrong with it, but if you are already committed to using Google+ and including authorship on your site's pages which is linked to your Google+ profile, then I don't think you need it. I would use Google+ instead. I hope that helps, Peter

Hey Letty, It's been about a month since you posted this - how are things going? Did the information Thomas give you help the process? Just to make sure I'm clear on your original question, the situation is: You have 5 desktop websites on 5 separate domains You have mobile versions of the site, but just on 1 domain (as an "m" subdomain) All of these sites currently share the same mobile platform The issues are: To search engines, it will look like 4 of your sites don't have mobile versions, and the one mobile site will have "duplicate" content with the other desktop domains Visitors may be skeptical if they try to visit one domain and it automatically redirects/recommends that they visit another URL for the mobile page The answer is, basically, you're right. Search engines are getting pretty good at recognizing when a separate mobile URL or subdomain is actually the mobile version of a desktop site, but this structure is really confusing. (If it confuses humans, it's probably going to confuse search engines.) You should really set up separate m.site#.com subdomains for each site you own and mimic the structure of your desktop site on each one. Did that answer your question? Is there anything else I can help with? Kristina

Hi Letty, I agree with the others here. There are exceptions, but for the most part you want Google to be able to follow most of the links on your site. The rule can be broken, but as a best practice there's usually no harm in following your links. That said, I'm a big, huge fan of link consolidation and faceted navigation. I've seen a lot of positive results from sites that have cleaned up and consolidated thier footer links, so I'm hopeful about what you're doing!

Hey Letty If I request the full link in webbug I get a 200 okay response. http://www.zylom.com/nl/help/contact/9/?sid=9&e=login If I request the link less the variables in webbug I get the 404 as reported by the moz crawler. http://www.zylom.com/nl/help/contact/9/ I would go into analytics, check to see which pages you have 404's for if it is just  '/nl/help/contact/9/' then I don't think you have a problem. I think nofollow would be a good solution and if we look at part of the nofollow page on google webmaster support: "Before nofollow was used on individual links, preventing robots from following individual links on a page required a great deal of effort (for example, redirecting the link to a URL blocked in robots.txt). That's why the nofollow attribute value of the rel attribute was created. This gives webmasters more granular control: instead of telling search engines and bots not to follow any links on the page, it lets you easily instruct robots not to crawl a specific link. For example:" Now, I am not 100% sure if the seomoz crawler respects nofollows (I would imagine it does) but certainly, if other robots are following this link and generating 404's (again, head into your analytics to get a handle on this) then it will certainly help there. After all, this link is not for robots, it is not to be indexed, it is just a log in form for users so nofollowing that link seems to make perfect sense. Hope that helps! Marcus References: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=96569

HI Matt, thank you for pointing me in the right direction, will keep an eye on this update about new features.