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Thats a good point actually, being UK based, i tend to forget States in the US is how you're likely to do location redirects (that and i read Colorado as Canada... my bad).

The short answer i think is not directly. You could use the users IP address and something called mode_geoip in order to handle the redirects, it takes a bit more configuration and setup though.

Im seeing lots about redirecting on country, not all that much on redirecting on state, but a good starting point is perhaps this Stackoverflow thread. It's probably something you'll need to ask a developer to do.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9838344/how-to-redirect-domain-according-to-country-ip-address

There are a number of solutions, perhaps the easiest and best solution is to add Cloudflare to your site, and take a look at this blog:

http://netjunky.net/redirect-web-traffic-based-on-country-origin/

(this assumes your website runs on PHP)

No worries Did you make a decision in the end?

Just to add to this, if your subdomain has more than /blog on it, and you only want to block /blog, change Dirk's robots.txt to:

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /blog

or to block more than just google:

User-agent:*
Disallow: /blog

Redirect 301 /green/red.cgi/blue/ http://www.newsite.com/summary-page/

is the old Redirect format, assuming your server is up to date (ish) you should be using something like:

RewriteRule ^/green/red.cgi/blue(.*)$ http://www.newsite.com/summary-page/ [L,R=301]

Looks like you've been hacked then,

You'll need to clean out your code and content and make sure wordpress and all of its plugins are the latest version. Unfortunatly there is no 'Safe' way to recover from this without reverting to a backup from before the hack.

https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked

EDIT::
I deleted my other response because i fail at reading :P, sorry about that

What Patrick Delehanty has said is completely correct. You need to edit your pages, menu's etc in order to remove or fix the links that have 404's if they are part of your website.

If the links are external websites linking to you, you need to setup redirects in your .htaccess file for them. The later is considerably more technical so if your not confident with it, ask your developer to do it for you.

If your not sure which it is, could you provide is with an example of a link that shows as a 404?

You can also use Xenu to check the links on your site (not the ones linking to it), i find it works better than the Broken Link Checker plugin.

Actually a good question. I havent stopped to look at this one before, following OSE for me the links are similar but definitly not the same.

I cant help with this one, but i'd love to know the answer!

Got to love that referal spam!

I've not seen this one yet in my reports, kind of disappointing really :(.

So far as i can see, you should have no problem with this.

It looks like they want to hide the subdomain from indexes so as long as robots.txt. is properly configured, you should have no issue at all.

to be honest i havent had any good experiances of them. I agree though, that was a load of rubbish.

If you do revert to a backup, make SURE you update everything bnefore making the site live.

With wordpress, you must keep it up to date, that thing is a security minefield.

Are you getting errors?

If you just dont see any difference, that will be because filters dont apply retrospectivly to data. They will only work for new data after the filter is added. So it might take some time before you see the changes.

My Take on this:

-my client's site has a .com domain where most others have .co.uk

Google does rank regionally, .com is great, .co.uk would probably be better for UK specific listings. (301 from .com .co.uk would be your best bet)

-most sites on the first page have either jewellery, wholesale or both in their domain names

This is less of a thing than it used to be. Google seems to be starting to favour brand identity over direct keyword rich domains (EMD) - http://moz.com/blog/are-exact-match-domains-in-decline

-relevance of linking istes could be playing a part here. My client has links from wholesale sites but few from jewellery-related sites

Probably not going to be a penalty from this, but relevance might make a difference to just how much extra juice those links provide.

-within my client's link profile there are very few, if any exact anchor text links for the term 'wholesale jewellery'

Probably some effect from this, how much though im not sure (Exact anchor text isnt something i've had to look into before)

-legacy of a penalty could be making ranking progress that much more difficult?

Depends how long ago this was. So long as whatever caused the penalty is fixed, this is probably not an issue now.

Hi shr109,

I've sent an email over so you have my address. Please let me know if it doesnt come through, we're recovering from a couple of email issues this end (infected web server in the same IP Subnet as our email server got us blacklisted), it might have ended up in spam!

Thanks,

As with any backlinks you dont want, if you cant request removal you should disavow them in GWMT

Hmm i cant see anything funny going on, this is essentually what googlebot should see when viewing the page. If you'd been hacked i would expect to see the wrong description here.

http://www.evolvedwebsites.com.au/googlebot/view.php?url=protectachild.com&keywords=evolved+websites%2C+website&submit=VIEW+AS+GOOGLEBOT

If the site has been live a week, you might just be in a bit of a blip. Best thing i can suggest is request a reindex / new crawl in GWMT and wait it out. Google can take 3 ~ 4 weeks to update listings properly when meta information changes (in my experiance atleast)

Ah, completely missed the attachement.

I'll poke about and see if i can spot anything

Can you provide exactly what your seeing? (as in the full meta description that you think is incorrect and what it should be?)

This is what i see when viewing markup on your homepage, but with the above info i have no idea if thats correct or not