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Hi!

Pick one of them. Probably the non-www version as that's the indexed one in Google

Next, 301 the www to non-www.

Wordpress handles that flawlessly so Im not sure why its not redirecting you correctly. Maybe check your Settings->General or check your htaccess if something changed.

It should always redirect.

That should fix your issue so you can continue with the other important stuff that you are doing.

There's really no recommended number but yes, they are pretty important.

You can check out the Zappos site and look at how they interlink. It's not excessive but still adds to what the user needs or wants to see during their stay on the site.

Hi!

As long as they arent live anymore on your site, just mark them as fixed in search console.

Just double check/crawl your site to make sure non of them really exist anywhere

I push for it as much a possible. I always prefer it but if it's just too much trouble (if it affects other things, causes down time etc) then I skip it.

In terms of improvements, I have personally seen some good improvements because of that and cleaner code.

Hi Cesar!

I dont think it's a problem unless you were blatantly over optimizing the site or maybe just stopped working on it if it's dropping in the rankings.

I love my EMD's. It's not as favoured as before from my POV but its still pretty effective.

I dont see any problem with internal linking.

Just keep it natural and dont go crazy with it.

I dont look at it with ratios. It's impossible to have too much phrases to have the possibility to link to other relevant content on your site unless you force the keyword phrases in.

Just link to what can help your readers. Not just to force it.

Is their Google+ My Business page verified? Just to clarify it.

IT does help to have the keywords in the domain but if it's too long, it's going to be harder to recall.

Stick with a domain name that people can recall and if possible, easy to spell as that helps a lot for local businesses.

My gut instinct tells me to stay away from 3 letter domains but I'd do a survey just to test it out with your target audience.

Hi Gavo,

There are others out there but I like Latergram.me for scheduling posts.

For research, Iconosquare. You can also follow and unfollow there.

For actually using the profiles, we do it the old school way, buy cheap smart phones for each one. LOL. I haven't heard of any app that can handle all the functions of instagrams.

I've seen and tried everything. From bots to custom software. Haven't seen a good one yet

Currently working on one http://schemaplugin.com

That functionality will come later but currently, it's great for local businesses and personal branding business sites

Hi!

It probably shows up because other links are still pointing to those urls. If they are now properly redirected then you can just mark them as fixed.

Honestly, I have never seen it work.

For me, it's just like any other badge, just for show, just to add to the credibility of the site which could indirectly affect bounce rates/sharing/etc.

The usual, compile the links, disavow them

If you got a manual penalty, submit a reconsideration ASAP.

Find some other traffic sources for the mean time while building better links. You can also start with some other domains as backup.

There's really no way to protect your site from something like that unless you have a really good brand plus a lot of great links.

Hi!

1. As long as the redirect is properly set, then it's fine. It's out of your hands on what Google will ultimately decide on. From my experience, it just indexes the new url, on the same spot. I drop normally a few spots but bounce back

2. It does transfer pagerank. Some say it doesn't transfer fully which is backed up by studies but for me, I just keep it simple. It does pass PR, how much, is irrelevant because it's usually good enough. Tradeoffs

3. For those that you can change, yes. But since there's a 301, the urgency should be put to your internal structure first. Fix the whole site, make sure there are no holes

4. I'm not sure what you mean, but Google will index the new url if your 301 is there. If you mean rankings, they yeah, it will pretty much appear on the same spot. You might drop a bit though

There's really no way for them to enforce that policy unless a lot of people squeal about it.

I know here at Moz, it's really something like a Taboo, but it's really not. Big companies do this daily and they do it in bunches.

I would suggest though (since you mentioned that it's just a bitly link) that you just go for it IF the price is right and if it's targeted enough.

Look at it at the standpoint of getting traffic. You mentioned that it's a good site then it probably has a good spot for your link so it can bring in leads. If you can optimize to capture these leads or just get them to your sales funnel, then it'll be worth it. You'll get more links down the line.

It's pretty much like guest posting or paying for a best of the web spot.

I would totally recreate the exact same url and put an update about how the company has changed and stuff like that

Id make it super professional and a bit long to make people believe it (if ever, somehow, someone finds that old link)

A link is a link and Ill take it, especially a great link that is "easy"

I actually use rel=publisher for the main brand account most of the time since it's a publisher tag.

Ive seen such things bite our ecommerce clients in the arse for not following our advice. Some blog owners as well. I would suggest to just clean them up, add a canonical, disable the page or whatever that is possible just to quickly get it over with if time is lacking. If you have time, then you can change the content and turn them to good ones. Good pages that actually help your other pages rank.

Hi Courtney,

Such a tricky problem! You'll probably get a lot of subjective replies.

I would only use subdomains if I wanted to treat it like a different "main" product or a company under the main brand

For SEO purposes, it's better to not make it a sub domain to get the full benefits of the main domain (I'm assuming the domain is already strong) so it's only a last resort for me.

Hi Ruben

For one, he built a lot of links to it

http://www.reflectivepractice.ca/program.htm

http://www.mymakhzenandme.com/the-director.html

http://www.sourceabc.com/alpha/T/

http://theislandpartypei.ca/news.html

http://www.besthotpick.com/alpha/T/

all from sites he probably controls.

If you are going to ask why it's not penalised, that's another long story which is probably already answered here in the QA area somewhere.