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Thanks Takeshi. Why does Google send out a warning if it isn't a huge deal?

An example URL can be found here: http://symptom.healthline.com/symptomsearch?addterm=Neck%20pain&addterm=Face&addterm=Fatigue&addterm=Shortness%20Of%20Breath

A couple of questions:

1. Why is Google reporting an issue with these URLs if they are marked as noindex?

2. What is the best way to fix the issue?

Thanks in advance.

no, I don't mean just show up in yahoo news, I mean get into the Yahoo News index. We've already been accepted into Google News and Bing News, but no luck with Yahoo News

I've tried applying a couple times through their form over the last six months with no response.

Has anyone here been accepted as a news source, and if so, what did you do?

To clarify, I mean accepted into the Yahoo News index (submission form here: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/news_global/submitsource.html?from_url=http%3A%2F%2Fhelp.yahoo.com%2Fkb%2Findex%3B_ylt%3DAm2jThOClBnKBsnrNsRjE6a5OSV4%3Fpage%3Dproduct%26amp%3By%3DPROD_NEWS%26amp%3Blocale%3Den_US&last_url=http%3A%2F%2Fhelp.yahoo.com%2Fkb%2Findex%3B_ylt%3DAm2jThOClBnKBsnrNsRjE6a5OSV4%3Fpage%3Dproduct%26amp%3By%3DPROD_NEWS%26amp%3Blocale%3Den_US)

We've already been accepted into Google News and Bing News, but not Yahoo News

I know there isn't any official documentation from Google about exact number of seconds a user should spend on a site, but does anyone have any case studies that looks at what might be a good "dwell time" to shoot for?

We're looking on integrating an exact time on site into or Google Analytics metrics to count as a 'non-bounce'--so, for example, if a user spends 45 seconds on an article, then, we wouldn't count it as a bounce, since the reader likely read through all the content.

We have about 20 testing environments blocked by robots.txt, and these environments contain duplicates of our indexed content. These environments are all blocked by robots.txt, and appearing in google's index as blocked by robots.txt--can they still count against us or hurt us?

I know the best practice to permanently remove these would be to use the noindex tag, but I'm wondering if we leave them they way they are if they can still hurt us.

We have several subdomains we use for testing applications. Even if we block with robots.txt, these subdomains still appear to get indexed (though they show as blocked by robots.txt.

I've claimed these subdomains and requested permanent removal, but it appears that after a certain time period (6 months)? Google will re-index (and mark them as blocked by robots.txt).

What is the best way to permanently remove these from the index? We can't use login to block because our clients want to be able to view these applications without needing to login.

What is the next best solution?

Analyzing our traffic, looks like we were hit site wide, with some article pages that don't have great engagement seeing more damage than others. We've been talking to other sites, and sites that have never seen any penalties and do everything right have also seen about 15-20% drop in traffic.

The sites we know that weren't affected are brands (sites you would recognize by name).

The only conclusion I can draw from everything (looking at mozcast metrics 'big 10' is that branded websites saw a boost.

Does anyone else have any theories about what this most recent update was about?

but, even when i search from my mobile device, I get the same results (that m. is blocked)

I can't submit because I haven't claimed m. in GWT

If you perform this search, you'll see all m. results are blocked by robots.txt: http://goo.gl/PRrlI, but when I reviewed the robots.txt file: http://goo.gl/Hly28, I didn't see anything specifying to block crawlers from these pages.

Any ideas why these are showing as blocked?

Does anyone have any insight into how Google determines 'top references' from medical websites?
For example, if you search 'skin disorders,' you'll see 'Sources include <cite>nih.gov</cite>, <cite>medicinenet.com</cite> and <cite>dmoz.org</cite>'--how is that determined?

I know domain age plays a role in SEO--but, I am wondering if a domain is set up to 301 re-direct to another domain if it builds the same amount of authority over time as the static domain--just looking at age as a ranking factor, not links accumulated over time.

Our really old blog content still sees traffic, but engagement metrics aren't the best (little time on site), and as a result, traffic has gradually started to decrease.

Should we de-index it?

We have a news sitemap, and follow all best practices as outlined by Google for news. We are covering breaking stories at the same time as other publications, but have only made it to the front page of Google News once in the last few weeks.

Does anyone have any tips, recommended reading, etc for how to get to the front page of Google News?

Thanks!

I understand the benefits of implementing Open Graph as a local business, but am unclear of the benefits for a website, for example, a health website.

Does Bing use OG in their search algorithm?

We are translating our site into 17 different languages, including local variants of the same language (i.e. Mexican Spanish and Spain Spanish, Canadian English and British English, etc). Should we add all of these local variants to our site?

We don't have the marketing / link building budget (or business need) to put these all on separate ccTLDs, so we are using country-specific subfolders instead (example.com/es/).

The translations will be of exceptional quality. Our main goal is to pull in some additional traffic from these translations. If we add these local variants, do you think we can expect to see traffic from these different countries (additional traffic from Canada, England, etc)?

Any advice / input would be appreciated.

We recently launched a news product on our site, and it has been accepted into Google News. We're also applying to Bing & Yahoo. We promote our news on all social networks (FB, Twitter, Reddit, etc). Apart from this, we're wondering if anyone has any additional tips for spreading the word about our news product?

Especially sites, like Alltop or Technorati that we should be submitting our site / feed to. Any additional tips appreciated!