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I don't think this matters under an SEO perspective because you have the best TLD for each market, however many users may try to make direct traffic to the .com site so it will make sense to avoid other people buying that site and create a tiny page trying to deliver that traffic to other sites than yours. Even if you don't want to create that site I'll better prevent other ones to make it. Anytime you want you may consider creating the english focused website on that TLD.
Hi Richard, having the vanue info in the /venue/ folder is definitely the options which makes more sense to both users and google. I think that having that content in the venue folder and then linking to all inner pages is the easiest way to both handle your page and analyse the traffic/conversions delivered by the venue related content.
Hi Bob, normally I would advice to remove clearly paid links or limit them to the homepage but your case seems quite different.
You said that those links are not only helping this site for their SEO purposes but that those links are driving him sales. In that case I imagine that those links are receiving clicks so they're actually highly related. I think that google will (or maybe it's actually) look at CTR of your backlinks. If they're trafficked they're high value also for the users so I will maintain them. However if you've generated them quicker than the normal you may consider use them as nofollowed links driving traffic to their site and ask those sites to write a post speaking about your company's services. In that sense you may push in a branded or url based link and still have the traffic from those links. I f you are able to get value and traffic from those links I woul dnot remove them, and for sure I won't ever disavow anything if you haven't received any warning from google.
Maybe you may consider to point them in a spreadsheet so if you receive a warning you'll always be able to disavow them and ask for a reconsideration.
That sounds good, let me know if you have further questions, I'm always glad to be of help!
I'm glad that helped you, see you on top of the rankings 
Sorry I've completely misunderstood the question, Kevin is completely right
as Bryan said, use canonical only if there are two identical pages with the same content live at the same time. If not (and this is the case) you should return a 404 to have it noindexed in a while or 301 it to the new one if you're still receiving traffic/links there, so the users/bot would understand the page has moved.
hey Ken, yes I've used an advanced search but couldn't find any category for that product, just because that was in fact a product as you specified now) you can still maintain your pdf linked, what I recommend you is to be sure that the pdf won't cannibalize the kw for your page to rank, this by:
yes, there are many options, always depending on how well are you able to maintain the page load time efficient. I think that having everything in one page without making it boring or overwhelming for the user is the best choice.
About images be sure that you're uploading he images in the size you're using without scaling them with css, because a 10001000 image even if shown as 100100 always weights as a 10001000, so rescale it and upload it as 100100.
Hi Hola (sorry for the redundancy ), if adding the hreflang in your headers is too tricky and slows your page you may use the tag in the xml sitemap as you correctly said. In this article you have examples on how your sitemap should look like to have google fully understand it. You have to set up a standard language (in the article the base is english) and then add tags to tell google which is each language focused on. If your spanish language is focused to any spanish version you can just add es if your spanish version is focused to Spain you'll have to specify es-ES or es-MX if it's focused on mexico. Hope this helps!
hey Tony you made it in the right way, you added the error code + the noindex. However google won't drop your page from the index until it crawls it several times.
You can do this: first of all be sure that you have no links pointing to that page then:
this stands in the huge cauldron of what google wants and what we think it would be better. Google will always put an alert to warn you but you can simply ignore it.
You can have exact + phrase + broad matches in the same adgroup, the narrowest keyword will compete with your competitors, whenever it's not exact you'll have your phrase match covering you. In that sense you can also adjust your biddings properly.
I really recommend you to use all the options google gives, exact + phrase + broad and add the main negatives you see in the adwords keywords tool.
Hi Rose, as far as I can remember Matt Cutts always says: "build your website for your users not for the search engines". In that sense you should have a look at your new content as an user of your site and imagine if he would benefit from it or not. If you think that the content is useful, than it's definitely better to publish it.
So SEO doesn't decides if this article is valuable or not, but structures it in the way you would benefit the best. I think that it would be useful to have it on one unique URL. Any link you may achieve will point to the same page, and with a wise usage of internal anchors you'll obtain a quite interesting user navigation. What it may create you problems is the page loadtime, 1000+ words is not detrimental to SEO but it could be if the page load time goes up a lot. So use wisely your images and optimize them in order to get a faster response.
Always point to add more flavour to the site, because you want users to return not to only buy something and leave.
Hi Ken, actually I still see the html page ranking over tghe pdf one however they're way down in the serps like position 51 and 52!
I think you should organize the categories pages vs the product ones and then try to use all the related content to boost your results. i don't know what zyflamend is but if it's a cateogry of products the ranking page should be a list page (like this one http://www.mynaturalmarket.com/Herbs-Botanicals.html) if it's a product then a product page. You should reflect that structure in your website, trying to avoid cannibalization through pages, for example avoid inserting category related keywords in your product page or they can cannibalize your list page. In that same way try to not optimize support material as pdfs are to cannibalize product page keywords. you both have zyflamend in the beginning of the title. You can try to cahnge the pdf titel as: additional information on zyflamend - research and bla bla bla... try to be descriptive since you don't want that page to rank.
Hope this may help youy!!
if you look for your page in google (botswana-legends site:luckygemstones.com) you'll find ranking #1 the page you've just sent.
Probably it was an old URL but using a 302 instead of a 404 it won't help you much on getting rid of it from google index.
If you're strategy is to send to the user a 404 send a real 404 header, if you've changed that url to a new one you'll want to set up a 301 to the new page just to not lose the old seo efforts made in the old page.
Hi Rasmus, maybe I'm missing something but it seems that you've set up a rule only for your www.domain.com/video page. The string ^video matches only that one and not domain.com/whateveryouwriteherewillbeignored/video
Try to add a (.*) before and associate that with a parameter since the only value you're passing is that the area is video I don't see anything specified in htaccess for that.
Hi Kartik,
About the number of pages crawled in a specified period of time you can rely on GWTools where you can see you crawl rate, number of pages crawled and Kb downloaded each page.
About retrieving the cache date for each page I don't know any tool which makes this on a large scale. There are many tools which gives you the cache date on 1 by 1 basis. I f you discover a bulk date cacher without creating issues with google for creating many pings to their server it would be a good discover!
for example one of your bullet points may be put all you images into a cdn. So you may search for [put all you images into a cdn] and you'll find many blogs which says the same, these are blogs focused on tips to webmasters which are just saying the same as you're advcing. So note those down and repeat with all bullet points.
Then you may perform general search like webmaster tips, how to build a website, and so on and you'll enlarge your list. After you've done write to all those blogs and publish there your articles or, at this point it could be better an infographic.
well if it is an article about how to build a great website you may create a huge checklist and a guide through and then as the guy in the article you sent recommends if you don't know how to manage some points of that checklist us profesional help like yours inthis case (I don' tknow if that was you rpurpose) if so just look at webmaster sites, webdesign tips. use keywords related with the checklist bullet points and ask to the major websites you see or hire a freelancer which may make this research for you.