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After reading Jane & William's discussion--do you both agree that canonicals is the way to go? The site will be similar (trying to create a non-penalized site). The sites will have different ip's and servers but a lot of the same content. None of the same backlinks... I just don't want to do the work if it's going to end up hurting me worse. I don't see how I can get all those bad backlinks removed.

So you suggest leaving the old site up and add the content to the new site with the canonical tag pointing to old site? Any other options you can think of?

Many bad links were built on the old website by a questionable SEO firm, so I do believe the URL has been hit, but not with a formal penalty.

In order to redirect the old web pages I would need to keep the website live which really does not serve my purpose--which is to use great content that was written in-house on a clean website with no backlinks (starting from scratch).

How would one go about "de-indexing" content?

Thank you for prompt responses.

I want to take down a current website and create a new site or two (with new url, ip, server). Can I use the content from the deleted site on the new sites since I own it? How will Google see that?

Thanks for double checking for me. I appreciate it!

This page has the schema on the phone numbers in the top right and in the footer: http://m.mexpro.com/

I am positive I check with html4. I put the code in here so.... not sure what is up...Could the code put in for mobile look like it's in there twice and not validate?

It does not validate for html5, but thanks for your input.

My code looks like this:

• 888.723.4617

The HTML validation errors are these:

Attribute contacttype not allowed on element span at this point.
Attribute areaserved not allowed on element span at this point.
Attribute contactoption not allowed on element span at this point.
Attribute availablelanguage not allowed on element span at this point.

Have I misread how to implement this schema or is html validation not up to speed and I should ignore for now?

Link to blog Post...http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/04/surfacing-your-businesss-contact-and.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FamDG+%28Official+Google+Webmaster+Central+Blog%29

Thanks!

Thanks much!

I currently have the Spanish version of my site under myurl.com/es/

When I was at Pubcon in Vegas last year a panel reviewed my site and said the Spanish version should be in /mx/ rather than /es/ since es is for Spain only and my site is for Mexico only.

Today while trying to find information on the web I found /es-mx/ as a possibility.

I am changing my site and was planning to change to /mx/ but want confirmation on the correct way to do this.

Does anyone have a link to Google documentation that will tell me for sure what to use here? The documentation I read led me to the /es/ but I cannot find that now.

This page on google says to do it like this:

https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1713826?hl=en

but when I do it like that and when I do it like Stack Overflow says using the Rich Snippets tool I get this error:

"This is not a verified publisher markup."

I get the HTML Validation error when I do it as Google suggests, but not when I write it as Stack suggests.

I found this on Stack Overflow and it works but I just want confirmation

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13710689/html-5-google-publisher-link-validation-error/22384444#22384444

that is why i have ?rel=publisher at the end of my google+ url.

What you are doing is the same as what I am doing. You aren't using html5 (ie. the />). This is not structured data that I know of. Can you explain why I'd want to test it that way.

Using HTML5 I am getting a validation error on in my

HTML Validation error: Bad value publisher for attribute rel on element link: Not an absolute IRI. The string publisher is not a registered keyword or absolute URL.

This just started showing up on Tuesday in validation errors. Never showed up in the past. Has something changed?

I have removed several blog pages that copied or linked to article marketing sites. I redirected them to other pages, but this is causing me to get soft 404 errors.

I started using the Remove URL tool in Google Webmasters (under Google Index). Is this the correct way to handle them? Should I additionally redirect them?

Any information would be much appreciated.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=mexpro.com&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0

see attachment for screen shot. Thanks.

schema.jpg

When I tried to validate my html after added some schema, I am getting html validation errors.

I have some examples below. Any ideas on what I've done incorrectly? www.mexpro.com

Line 9, Column 80: there is no attribute "itemprop"

`…ontent="http://www.mexpro.com/mexico/images/mexpro-logo.jpg" itemprop=**"**logo" />`_L

Line 130, Column 23_: "itemscope" is not a member of a group specified for any attribute `itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">`

I have some redirects that were done with at "?" at the end of the URL to include google coding (i.e. you click on an adwords link and the google coding follows the redirected link). When there is not coding to follow the link just appears as "filename.html?". Will that affect us negatively SEO-wise?

Thank you.

I have a website, that I rewrote great content for, but I recently found that there are many, many links going to the subdomain that may be pulling it down.

Has anyone had experience taking down a site and then moving the content to a new site? Will it be considered duplicate content if you completely take the old site down and use rel="canonical" on new site pages?

I don't want to lose the good content, but I cannot have it on the current URL with all the bad backlinking (it's a complicated situation, as I need to keep those backlinks which are affiliates).

Thank you.