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No. Social media links are not considered inbound links in Moz (or other link tools for that matter).

As long as all of the URLs stay the same and you aren't building a blog network (a bunch of sites that interlink), I don't think you'd see much of an SEO difference.

I haven't seen anyone complain about that particular issue which is a good sign. If/when you follow through, please comment back and let everyone know your experience!

I would dig into the analytics some more and look for patterns... did you lose traffic to product pages or category pages or homepage? traffic from image search or web search? are there a lot more indexed urls? did robots.txt change to allow more pages to be crawled? did filter config change? canonicals?

I'd recommend putting all of the urls to deindex into a sitemap, set LASTMOD date to something recent and submit for google to recrawl.

If possible, set the status codes on those pages to 410 as well.

I think this is more important for hosts and people with multiple websites (for interlinking)... Tom talks about c-blocks in ipv4 addresses which deals with seo hosting and how that changes in ipv6 (gets more vague). As usual, don't be hosted on the same server as a bunch of spam sites.

If you have just the one site, there shouldn't be anything to worry about.

It will not be considered duplicate content. However, you should use hreflang markup so that google knows that 2 versions of a page are actually the same (just translated) and show the correct language to searchers.

ehh. unless reposting to the other website naturally creates more backlinks (e.g. each site has its own separate audience that would increase the total number of backlinks) keeping the articles on separate sites and interlinking with keyword anchor text is probably the better strategy.

content syndication works best when republishing to a new audience, on domains you don't already own.

Maybe check your apache httpd.conf file?

Not seeing anything there.

Have you checked your WP site URL settings? https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

I'd also try to remove all rules except default wordpress (from # BEGIN Wordpress to # END Wordpress) to test.

logo should be within "publisher", not "article".

Overall, I'd recommend using a schema generator tool to assist like: http://tools.seochat.com/tools/schema-article-generator/#sthash.iWTjQpvO.dpbs

So bigger site reposts smaller site's blog post with canonical to the original post? should be fine. try to make sure the title/heading is identical as i've seen more powerful sites outrank original sources even with a canonical url.

For most of the site content, you can improve the small site's rankings by linking to it from relevant pages on the larger website.

yea, wouldn't spend too much time recoding that then. i would still block the print pages via robots.txt so that they aren't crawled at all.

I recommend you keep the site as is and just create a shop in a /shop/ subfolder on the main domain.

authority comes from external backlinks, if you move the main site to a subdomain (without redirects), traffic will drop and you'll have a ton of links to 404 pages, creating a giant mess.

if you do redirect to subdomain, then all of the authority will follow with it (except for links to the main root domain). you'll also need to be careful to not have any urls that overlap with old urls that you are now redirecting (again, high chance of mistakes).

does the website rank well for the terms its targeting? if so, don't think google is confused.

<1% is not keyword stuffing and unlikely to trigger any flags.

best not to generate a new url to follow. ideally, css / js would replace the url change functionality.

if you must generate the print page with a ?print variable, block it via robots.txt (Disallow: /?print= ) so that those pages aren't even crawled (having a noindex tag allows them to be crawled, just not indexed in search results)

you need to be more specific as to where this image is showing up in serps (google shopping, featured snippet, mobile results, knowledge graph, shopping/news/amp results, image results in serp, schema cards such as recipes).

its best to update the links to the new domain if possible (although official google stance is 301 redirect lose 0 link value).

if you can't update the backlink, just make sure the old url to new url redirect is only one 301 redirect (no chain redirects, no temporary redirects)

definitely make sure all of your internal backlinks point directly to the new urls.

unless you are really going ham on creating anchor text internal backlinks, I would focus on user experience first and foremost.

If using the brand name in the link would make it easier for your visitors to navigate the website (and ultimately convert), do that. If links in paragraph form is more convenient than links in list form, do that.

Without knowing your website, its hard to make a call but above is applicable to most scenarios.

if the domain expired, then there wouldn't be a backlink to your website (Moz's index might just be out of date for that backlink). if thats the case, no need to worry about it.

especially since the pages aren't currently ranking, I would go with your strategy of merging them into 1 longer page & redirecting from previous pages to new location.

Be sure to properly format the page with H1 / H2 tags so that crawlers can understand the different sections of the page easier.