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I have written some code to do this if anyone has the same problems:

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Awesome, thanks Max.

As I understand it they are treated differently. I think the disavow takes a month or two to actually get processed. But do not take my word as gospel, just something i had heard.

Hi

So I was asked a good question by our localisation team regarding titles/descriptions and their cut off points on the google listing. I am unable to find any reference anywhere in terms of non-latin characters and the number of characters/bytes they would be before they are cut off in Google's Listing.

So for latin characters it is generally around 70 for the title and 170 for the description. Now the same does not apply for Japanese, Chinese and other non-latin character languages. These generally work in the number of bytes. Does anyone have a standard rule for ensuring the title/description are not too long/short when the listing displays in the search results?

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I tried the sample code, worked, tried mine, broke, changed back to sample code, broke. I also generated a new key (ill try that in 30 minutes) in case it was just not updating in the DB, in terms of waiting 30 minutes, I waited for 48 hours and still did not work.

Did not know that was there. there seems to be others with the same problem so definitely a bug: https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/21886401-Another-401-Unauthorized

I have the credentials in the URL correctly but it will continue to fail authentication. I will not post them obviously but is there a problem with the API currently? I tried creating new credentials  Also I have used this before so I am sure it is not a problem with the credentials.

I somehow managed to get Chrome to show the data. Firefox will not and the code i have written also return authentication failed. This is a bug on your end. Please fix it ASAP.

You should not have said that. I am not going to be getting 100s of people to request this feature not really, but I must say I am disappointed, I have no real way of reporting for foreign languages now. Also when are you going to be adding Yandex and other non US search engines into the mix?

OK, then use the subdomain, you can then set up with dreamweaver a check in/out system for your staff which stops people editing the same files etc. On save/put you can set it to upload it to your testing server (subdomain). you would then be able to view this from any machine in your office (i would also still block all IPs on that subdomain except for your office). Once happy you can then either upload the specific files then to the main server, or do a release every evening/other evening after testing etc.

Why not create a subdomain that only your office IP can view? You can then test as much as you like without worrying about other people viewing it or Google.

How can i export a historical ranking report which contains keywords with special characters? Previously it only turned the keywords into jumbled format (forgot the tech term) in excel i.e. Ð¾Ð½Ð»Ð°Ð¹Ð½ чат which are in this case russian characters.

The way i got around this was to import it into google docs but that also is now converting it into this format. Due to this i 1 do not know what the keywords are and 2 all my formulas do not work.

Honestly I am seeing ranking fluctuations in all language markets but am not doing anything about it.

For now I would suggest to just continue doing what you are doing until things have settled down then analyse what has happened thereafter. Doing a change during a change like this could hurt more than it could benefit.

Perhaps a canonical would fix your problem. if the first one is ranking higher but has thinner content but it would still be beneficial to actual users canonicaling that url to the other page would 1. increase the position for that page (combining the two) and 2. increase conversions once it does in fact rank.

IMO, if you had 100+ links into deeper pages the only time that i feel it would be appropriate is if you have 100+ main categories. If I were google and noticed that there were 100+ link on the homepage pointing to obvious pages which would be in a main category I would think that was a bit inappropriate. So yes I would go for <100 always unless I had 100+ categories. i.e. ebay, amazon, craiglists, gumtree would get away with this.

Thanks Carin! Appreciate it

I am still getting problems downloading reports. They have been going for 5 hours now. Has the log increased again? Could you not use some of that $18m to buy a few more servers?