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As long as you use cross-domain rules, you will be absolutely fine - you are far from the only person who has a need or desire to do this -Andy

As the other guys have mentioned, implementing 301 redirects correctly is the key when moving over to https. Adding to Google Webmaster Tools is a bonus and something you should do if possible. However this recent article on Marketing Land highlights a few issues that have been encountered by websites moving to https, so it's worth reading through this too so that you can avoid the issues mentioned: http://marketingland.com/snags-googles-ssl-vision-sites-can-get-tripped-quest-secure-web-97266

Hi Stephane, For just one or two pages, targeting different countries, on-page content might prove to be sufficient. That is, a page about companies in X field in the UK, listing UK companies with their addresses and telephone numbers, will give Google a range of signals to indicate that that content is most relevant to people from the UK. That said, the page itself should not contain href lang information to indicate that it is for a Canadian market. If href lang information is included, it should specify the UK. If the content is sitting on a .ca domain, it will be harder to show that the UK review page is for the UK - it would be better to place this sort of information on a generic TLD website. The question of duplicate content between .com, .ca, .co.uk etc. sites is answered by geo-targeting, both using the ccTLDs and href lang tags. Google "ignores" duplicate content when the websites' tags tell it that although the content is the same, this version is for Canadians, this version is or Americans and this one over here is for Brits. Hope this helps. Cheers, Jane

I'm using https://serps.com/tools/rank_checker

Definitely third-ing what everyone else has said.  Disavow that sucker! Keep your link network clean!

On the dofollow vs. nofollow thing, I've written about it before: http://www.quora.com/Search-Engine-Optimization-SEO/Since-Quora-renders-all-outbound-links-with-nofollow-attribute-what-is-the-SEO-value-of-such-Quora-links-then Don't worry too much about that. I don't think it's suspicious to have 0 nofollow links, and I don't think Google could draw any valid conclusions based on that alone. Anchor text is a little trickier. Penguin initially set a pretty low bar - even at 50% high-value anchor text you were pretty much safe. They've since honed in, and will continue to do so. More importantly, they're looking at non-achor-text ways to target manipulative links. Generally speaking, if you can control the anchor text, it has a high potential to be a manipulative link. This is what happens when you "build" or "earn" links rather than trying to build an audience. Look one step down the funnel, instead: rather than looking about the perfect links individually, look at how you're going to get the perfect links. For example, rather than trying to build anchor text, build a good piece of content that will also get you relevant anchor text. Want to rank for insurance terms? Build a bunch of useful content pieces around insurance.

2-3 days isn't that bad IMHO. I'm sure you already created/submitted a sitemmap in webmaster tools, ping/RSS and you already shared the url to social media. As your site ages and you accrue more and more backlinks, these new pages will get indexed faster. Sounds like you are doing fine though!

The right question should be: what solution is the best one for my business when it comes to International SEO. For instance, if you are already present in the country, or if you analytics is saying to you that there is a consistent and persistent traffic from a country, then it could be a great idea creating a localized site using a ccTld. If now, a subfolder can be enough... but, then, I would try testing the real response of those markets with specific landing pages. Subdomain would be my third option, but - in the case of site with very complex architectures, they can be a great option, because replicating the IA of a news site (for instance) in a subfolder can be a sort of suicide.

Disqus doesn't use iframes. The content is displayed on page as HTML within a div tag. We use Disqus for comments on the TranslateMedia blog. http://www.translatemedia.com/400-million-chinese-cant-speak-mandarin.html/ If you view the source code you can see the comments in there.

I know quite a few SEOs who would use 410s rather than 404s when cutting and running from bad links pointing at internal pages...

I don't think they buy google ads for most of them (the spammers)

It seems now the page is sitting comfortably in position 113

Hey Stephane, The reason: Google thinks your H1 content is more likely to interest the user than your title. Control: None. However, you should do some tests analyzing why Google thinks your H1 is more attractive than your title and change it to better target your audience. Hope that helps.

I'm not sure offhand, but I'll ask and see what I can find out.

and ours please!

Here's a quick couple of ideas to help jog your thinking: An off-site article/blog post for a web design community that discusses examples of various looks for "review pages" An off-site article/blog post on a humor or other hosting review site that points out some of "The funniest hosting reviews ever written" An off-site article/blog post on a career site about how a faceless systems admin decided to step up into the limelight and interact publicly with his customers online by becoming a web host.

Hi,I would suggest not to forget the Google Webmaster Guidelines, as they are updated frequently: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769?hl=en And youtube Google Webmasters help channel, for video guidelines, this will keep you updated. Recently there was a question to Matt, about linking multiple domains. As you can guess the answer was something like, if it's really worth to link it from a user point of view do it, anything else might be considered as spam. Here are some videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0-jw_PfwtY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzaimchdNpM To my opinion, from now on, anything that links or repeats too much, will be over optimization. I believe the task for google is to get people to act exactly the same online, as they would do offline. So to answer you question about linking, I would say, if you believe this link would be clickable and would  help your user to find the content - it should be ok.

It could be spammy, but I like to think that Google doesn't punish infographics as severely as say trash-written articles by English-as-a-second-language "SEOs." Reason being is it makes sense for infographics to sit in many places as some people want to share infographics that may not be entirely relevant to their niche/site/whatever. That said I'd still be skeptical and if it were me I'd skip the distribution part and handle that on my own. If you want them to create your infographic, that's one thing.. but there are also tons of great ways you can create your own if you have your own facts/data to present. infogr.am, visua.ly, infoactive.co, easel.ly - - check all these out first. Good luck!

I don't want to link or redirect from the old website to avoid passing penalties. Thank you for your answers!

Thank you Jesse. It is a great advise. You are right, i should start a company blog soon as possible.