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Whichever country gets you more sales. In terms of SEO, I don't think it will make much of a difference.

huh? hreflang shouldn't be part of the equation here.

If you can't setup redirects, see if you can put canonicals on old pages to the new site. That way you'll transfer ranking benefits to the new site.

If you want your category pages to rank, then that is a fine strategy. I recommend adding some unique content to the actual category pages so that they rank better.

Set up the redirects to site 1. It won't cause any flags - this only happens when the content is completely unrelated to the sites.

Make sure you redirect each page to its equivalent on site 1 (don't just redirect all to the homepage).

In general, you want to minimize chain redirects but two 301s shouldn't cause any issues for Google.

It used to be that you lost some rankings from 301 redirects but the latest Google rules say that is no longer the case. I prefer to err on the side of caution and remove as many redirects as possible.

I don't think it would be triggered but only testing would give you a definitive answer.

Does it load on page load? If not, doesn't count. Otherwise, it could trigger the penalty.

30% vs 50% does make a difference. Smaller is better.

I recommend you read Google's official guide to the subject: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/08/helping-users-easily-access-content-on.html

You can template out "generated" text based on the ad details (e.g. category, location, poster bio). e.g. for all ads in "furniture" category, you have a paragraph of text that explains what the category is about. Depending on the location of the ad, you can publish a paragraph about the city/state. You can have the poster have the ability to submit a bio along with the ad. etc. The key is to add more topic relevant text to the page that would compliment the duplicate ad text.

You should target 1 keyword per page. You should keep the repeating "keyword" in the title if it is part of the keyphrase that you want all of your pages to rank for. It really depends on the keywords and content of the page(s).

DA/PA = Moz. This has no effect on rankings.

I am surprised that moz isn't picking up on the redirect (usually says "this domain redirects to ______") but I wouldn't worry about it.

You don't need to ask old backlinks to update links... unless the site is the same, there is a chance they will simply remove the backlinks since they aren't as relevant. Best you can do is ping google to recrawl the backlinks of itsgr82bme.com

In theory... 302 = temporary redirect so Google will continue to revisit the original URL. The pages may lose their rankings (they would likely be replaced by the URLs you will be redirecting to) while the redirect is up. Once you revert the redirect, so should the rankings after the changes are picked up by crawlers.

In practice, your new urls may not show up in serps and your old redirects may not return to their original rankings.

nope, totally okay. its like having brand.com vs brand.co.uk vs brand.es etc

Per Google's guidelines, the links to your site from that page should be nofollowed since you paid for those links (not earned them). However, I would be surprised if their algorithm somehow picked up on that and penalized you for it.

How long have you lost those rankings for? Have you done any other promotion? If its been a while, you can try to ask the website to add rel="nofollow" to all links pointing to your website from that article and see if that helps you bounce back in serps.

If you do that, please please let us know if adding the nofollow tag helped you bounce back.

edit the HTML in the child theme files. Likely the header and footer files specifically.

If toptwincitiesrealtors.com has a good authority/backlink profile, it will help mnpropertygroup.com rank.

If toptwincitiesrealtors.com is penalized, it may pass along that penalty.

Looks like you are redirecting toptwincitiesrealtors.com to your main site. This would pass along all backlinks to the main site. (Either that, or majestic is counting each redirected page on the old toptwincitiesrealtors.com site as a backlink).

In either case, where does toptwincitiesrealtors.com get its backlinks from? If its from other quality, niche relevant sites, having it redirect is fine.

That robots.txt should be fine.. its not blocking anything.

The reason the crawl is stopping on the homepage is this code:

<meta name="<a class="attribute-value">robots</a>" content="<a class="attribute-value">nofollow</a>">

Which tells bots to not follow any links on the page. Remove that and you should be good.

Can't go wrong with building links to the page.. try and find a way to get some exact anchor links back to that page (either externally or internally). That should help bump your rankings.

I'd recommend doing some backlink analysis on your site as well as your competitors and try to find some marketing opportunities.

we'd need some specific examples.

in general, any new page will have a lower PA than an established page.

So....

1. If the dev site has not been indexed yet, you can block crawlers via robots.txt
2. If the dev site is already indexed and you want it removed, add meta NOINDEX tag to all pages allow the site to be crawled via robots.txt (reason: you want google to crawl and noticed the noindex tag on the pages so that they remove it from search results. if the site is indexed and you block crawler via robots.txt, google will keep the pages indexed but won't crawl them again). Once deindexed, you can block via robots.txt again

As long as its blocked (and you build that into your process), having the dev site on the same domain shouldn't be an issue. We have our own dev domain + server that autoblocks all pages from being indexed.

hire a php developer? this seems like basic programming