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Makes much sense. Thanks !!

Hi - I have a country specific domain (www.updater.in), used it for writing blog articles

Now when i go to site settings in Webmaster - the Geo target by default is coming for India, and no option of changing geographic target.

Is there any way to let Search Engines know (despite .in domain) that site Geo Location is not country specific, but is meant for users from all across !!

Hi - If you have too many thin pages developed on site - the best way as suggested by Chris too - is 'noindex, follow'

There is no negative Impact, rather helps Search Engines to understand site hierarchy better - by been allowed to crawl and index on rather pages with full of content. The follow tag will pass on all link authority to internal links. Only the page will be deindexed from search engines

Its in a way good - as no user will land on to pages, with very little or no content - thus avoiding single page bounces too

It will scan and list you all results, like 301 redirect, 200, 404 errors, 403 errors. However, screaming frog can spider upto 500 urls in there free product

If you have more, suggest to go with Xenu Link Sleuth. Download it, get your site crawled and get all pages including server error 404 to unlimited pages.

See, if you going to change domain name and aptly make correct 301 redirect to corresponding pages (following the same url pattern) of new site with same **content, title and description - **then you are home.

Adding to what Mr. Robert said - you can also check on url hierarchy through Xenu Link Sleuth or Screaming frog seo spider of your old domain and new site (post migration). Compare the link structure. If everything goes on well - you may experience 301 redirect working upto 99% and can almost see your similar rankings with new domain

I have a different view:- Why you looking to nofollow your forum. Forum pages are Internal links of website. Its actually should be avoidable to make internal pages as nofollow

Refer this Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4SAPUx4Beh8

You need to determine first, what is causing duplicate

• is it Tags - which are causing duplicates

• Is it like index.php file where site is getting crawled with www.moxicopy.com/blog/index.php

• is it that a blog is accessed by 2 or more urls like with or without category :- www.moxicopy.com/blog/category/topic and www.maxicopy.com/blog/topic

You need to identify the cause, will suggest

• Noindex to Tags

• Apply canonical from index.php pages and category pages

Point is :- A page should be accessed by 1 url only and all other duplicate should be canonical to original url. This will lead Search Engines to not only index your site better, but even the page authority will also be highest with the main page.

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Hi Nick,

My compliments for the excellent video - quality and stuff out there from Mr. Rand

a) Is it possible to download videos and store it so as to view it as per convenience.

b) Some of the topics to my view will add value, if covered are:-

1. Reputation Management,

2. Brand Building for Small to Medium Sites,

3. Competition Management through Search Engines,

4. Tips for Level 2 Sites who are through with Beginner SEO - Onpage & Offpage to double up traffic -

5. A live case study for sites on how they doubled up visitors from 1 Lakh to 2 Lakh or say 5 Lakh to 10 Lakh in a year

To update, have deleted those pages, through the help of developer by doing major code changes

Now pages when opened shows 404 server error without any redirects

Can i now be assured that, that these poison links are doing no bad to site going forward as they are now linked to 404 server error page

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Have checked, your canonical page is marked correctly, You should install Moz Toolbar Extension for Chrome & Firefox so as to check details by your side only for future reference

This is the details

Hi -

Is it the Initial Crawl or Full Crawl ?

If its initial crawl, may be you should wait for the final crawl report. However, just a query - have you checked like - Are your pages not getting blocked by meta noindex or through robots tag... What are the sort of errors you getting

For further info should read this article that why the pages do not get crawled https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-Why-Isn-t-My-Site-Being-Crawled-You-re-Not-Crawling-All-My-Pages-

If you still feel an issue - may be can write directly to Moz staff on - help@moz.com

Do not play with Robots as it may block out series of pages and folders out of index

Correct command as stated by Lesley is /cats/ . Refer official documentation

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index/docs/robots_txt

Does Google has any such penalty to sites for not showing rich snippets too

I have checked with 2 developers - the schema tags (ratings and offers) too are put up correctly - however they still do not show up in search engine - Google

If there is any such penalty - how to recover from it - when entire coding is correct.

• As Authorship Photo not showing. Also, the schema offer tag is not showing, however it shows in rich snippet - http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mycarhelpline.com%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_newcar%26view%3Dproduct%26Itemid%3D2%26id%3D14%26vid%3D193

• Also, the schema rating tag too is not showing in search results

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mycarhelpline.com%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_easyblog%26view%3Dentry%26id%3D38%26Itemid%3D91

Any suggestions pls

Thanks Jesse, am finding a way to delete them by checking with another developer

If still - it does not work out - as recommended atleast 302 seems a better bet than 301 redirect for these pages. May advise !!

Though, lot of algorithmic changes, updates have happened. However, backlinks from quality source or trusted sites has hardly lost its importance and thats why Open SIte Explorer or Majestic seo is still there to find quality of backlinks, trust factor and authority factor of the backlinks.

I need to know does having backlink (dofollow) from Profile Page - still matters and if yes - will a do follow backlink from Moz Profile Page or any authority site or forum page, having dofollow link from user profile page - does it still count as a mark to authority of your site.

This depends on the site crawl - how big the site is, how often are the pages been crawled

However, what you can do is

• Go to Webmaster, fetch as Google and submit Url and all linked pages

• For temporary faster crawl - you can also increase the crawl rate

As per Webmaster - "Our goal is to crawl as many pages from your site as we can without overwhelming your server's bandwidth. You can change the crawl rate (the speed of Google's requests during the crawl) for sites at the root or subdomain level - for example,__**www.example.com **and **http://subdomain.example.com. **The new custom crawl rate will be valid for 90 days"

• Submit your main pages to Pinterest, Reddit for getting picked by search Engines

• Are you only targeting to your Site to US. Even if answer is yes, its better to do it through Webmaster by adding up country.

The tag is not much of use, unless a strict parameter to Search Engines are provided for same. Bing might be using same - Google ignores it

Refer - http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020870.html

• Title & Description tag - as a good snippet practice to tell search engines and user - what the page all about.

• Meta Robots not required, unless you specifically like to noindex or nofollow the page. By default, all pages without meta robots are considered index, follow

• Meta Charset - though generally this automatically gets generated by templates