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I'm assuming your noindex tags looks something like

name="robots" content="noindex,follow"/> or name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/>

and you have them on every single page that you don't want google to index?

How long ago did you do this because this a process that could take awhile, especially with 196,000 pages?

If it's been awhile and it's still doing this, you can also restrict these pages in your robots.txt so that Google doesn't crawl the pages at all.

Here's a blog related to this from google's webmaster central: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/03/using-robots-meta-tag.html

I would start by looking them up in opensiteexplorer which is a Moz tool. This will give you a majority of your competitors links. If you want a more in depth breakdown then I would look at https://ahrefs.com/ and https://www.majesticseo.com/ but you're only going to get a snapshot without a paid subscription for those.

Just a friendly reminder. Please don't delete your question after it's been answered. It's very likely that someone in the future could have the same question and they would have been able to find the answer if you hadn't deleted the question.

This may not really be related to your question but I just noticed that your site automatically redirects to the German version even though their is an English version. Also not everything is translated in the English version. It looks like around half of the navigation changes but their are random sections still in German. Just thought I'd give the heads up in case you didn't know already.

I've never used it but I've seen http://www.usertesting.com/ mentioned a few times around the SEO world and it looks like it should let you target the types of users you're looking for.

You definitely can. Also, here's a whiteboard Friday on the topic of cross domain rel="canonical" tags: http://moz.com/blog/cross-domain-canonical-the-new-301-whiteboard-friday

Well technically a nofollow is just asking the search engine not to follow the link, which makes sense in this situation. I mean, I don't think it's really going to have much of a benefit, especially if you're already noindexing the pages as per step 3.1 but I think that it still technically makes sense.

Hopefully someone with a little bit more experience with cars specifically can chime in but as far as I know or have ever heard, none of these are currently possible with schema.

The placeholder text on the ballpark estimate tool is using an html5 attribute which isn't supported in ie 9 or earlier. You can circumvent this with placeholders.js which will allow the attribute to work properly in browsers that don't normally support it.

A major part of the problem is that you're trying to setup authorship for your company's google+ page and not for an individual. That's not how it works. You have to tie authorship to an individual and authorship is meant to be setup for aritcles and blogs, rather than sitewide.

To tie a brand page to your site you should use rel=publisher.

You can use screaming frog for this but you need to have the paid version which is £99 per year. It can also do tons of other things and I highly recommend it.

This article explains how to use this to see if links have been removed which will also tell you if they still exist.

If for some reason you don't want to redirect www.michelangelohotel.com then you can just add a meta robots tag in the header of every page that looks like this:

Although you said that they would point www.michelangelohotel.com to www.starhotel.com/en/michelangelo-hotel-new-york which would generally means that it is being redirected so anyone that types in www.michelangelohotel.com will end up at www.starhotel.com/en/michelangelo-hotel-new-york

To remove the / at the end you'll want to go to settings and then to permalinks in wordpress and you need to change the url structure to look like the attached image. This is assuming that you are using post types as your urls.

I would still highly advise that you just use 301 redirects and remove the html because it sounds sounds a$$ backwards to add it back in intentionally, but that's more of a personal preference then anything that is actually seo beneficial.

As Dean asked, you should explain what you mean by it being hosted as a subdomain of another site. Either way it's setup you should be able to configure dns settings to set it as it's own domain even if it is technically sitting in a folder on another website.

P.S. Always remember to back everything up when making changes. In this case remember what setting the permalinks were on before or copy down what is currently in the custom structure area just in case for some reason it doesn't work out how you would like it to.

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Assuming that each site is optimized similarly I would assume that either the m. version has a better linking profile or more likely that the desktop version has spammy links and is suffering from an algorithmic penalty due to penguin. I would look into that first. Check webmaster tools under search traffic > manual actions to see if there's anything there as well.

Like the majority of questions in these forums its difficult to give a more specific answer without being able to look at the actual sites in question.

This shouldn't cause any issues whatsoever as long as you aren't doing anything manipulative or blackhat. This is fairly common.

Wow, that's ridiculous. I just looked at https://www.97thfloor.com/ and their site is sort of cool, but it also really hurts my eyes.

I never understood SEO company's that preach one thing and then either do something else or just don't do exactly what they're telling their customers.

97th floor also has the same title tag for every page. I guess they just don't want to be found organically, which I guess might make sense when you work with big brands like they do.

The content seems to be working fine for me on desktop and mobile.

Did you change domains when you changed themes or were you always http://www.securityjobsuk.co.uk/ but with better rankings? I ask because your domain authority is pretty low (18) and generally sites with that low of a domain authority don't rank at all.

The only other issue I can see is that your logo/sitename is sitting in a sitewide h1 and every page I looked at had at least 4 h1 tags, which is definitely not advised. Any page should only ever have one h1 and the logo shouldn't be a sitewide h1, at least in my opinion. That may be at least part of your issue.

As far as I can tell Webmaster tools doesn't take into account http vs https it only looks at domains/subdomains so you shouldn't need to do anything on that front. Whenever you make a large change like that it usually takes a little bit of time for everything to get settled with Google and get back to normal.

So I would say that you shouldn't need to do anything else. You just need to wait and everything should get reindexed.

It's http://www.archcitygranite.com/ he linked it as an attachment.

Assuming that you plan on posting them on your site as pdf files then they are spiderable to some extent. Google does spider and index some pdf's. I wouldn't advise this as a plan because pdf's do not generally rank well in most areas. The only category I can think of offhand where they do are irs forms.

They would be much more likely to be thoroughly crawled, indexed and ranked if they are posted as actual webpages in html.