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Hi, did the solution work?

Seems like an issue with the Moz crawler, as the robots.txt has no issues and the site loads just fine.

If you already tested your robots.txt using the Google Webmaster Tools "robots.txt Tester" just to be sure, then you should contact Moz here: https://moz.com/help/contact/pro

Hope it helps.

Any domain can be targeted to any country you want. Take for example the popular io TLD, which is assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory, however it has been adopted by tons of technology apps. Same happens with many other TLDs.

Android Browser is similar to Chrome, and it's the default browser on Android phones.

Web View is an in-app browser. It's not the installed-by-default browser, it's only ran inside of apps that load content.

If you delete the page, and it had links pointing to it, the server will return a 404 not found page, which makes you lose any authority they had to pass to the main domain or subdomain.

Using the 301 redirects at least you take a portion of the authority back to your Website. If your CMS is somehow advanced, it should be easy to hide those "expired pages" from the page list avoiding any confusion.

But again, if you redirect the page, lets say about am  inbound marketing conference in Boston to the main domain that does not "serve" any kind of useful content to the user that was actually expecting the page of the Boston conference, that won't help at all. Instead, try to 301 them to something that the user may be interested in, even tho the event he was looking for is no longer available; in this case, it could be a page listing all the upcoming inbound marketing conferences (in/near Boston). By going that route you favor your site by making the pagerank flow to the other page and you also help the user, which is the primary target.

I got a little confused. Are those links you are trying to get rid off on your site? Or are those backlinks coming to your site from Spam sites?

If the event has already passed, and as you say there's no longer any value on those pages, you can just delete them. Or a good option would be to 301 them to a page that explains why the page is no longer available and offer the user other related pages that he could might be interested in.

Hope that helps.

No, you won't get penalized for redirecting the PDFs to HTML versions of them. In fact, Google will like it.

Here's a video that may help you out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDzq-94lcWQ

As @jessconfitti said, you are 100% correct. If a user browses more than 1 page in your site, it would not be a bounce. Even if after the second page the users clicks back to whatever Website they came from.

Any kind of paid directory resulting in a paid link isn't helpful from an SEO perspective. Now, if the link has an unfollow tag, that could help from a user's perspective.

I would go for it only if it really helps getting customers from the directory.

An easy one here

Moz Analytics:

Go to your campaigns, then click on "Manage Campaigns to the top right of your campaigns table. In the next page you can see a "Delete Campaign" under the column named "Permanently Remove".

Moz Pro:

Go to your campaigns, click on the campaign settings and at the bottom you can find a DELETE button in red.

Hope that helps!

The tag rel="dofollow" doesn't exist...

Hey Chris,

Did site A or B receive a manual penalty?

As any penalty on A, which is 301'd to B, will ultimately pass the penalty to B. I would suggest removing the 301 ASAP. Then cleanup the A domain until it's clean (if a manual action, until it's revoked) and then you can think of putting the 301 back.

Removing a manual penalty could be a long process, it took 1 year for us and 4 reconsideration requests to get the penalty revoked. We had to use the disavow as a machete as disavowed almost our entire link profile leaving aside the domains that we knew were good links, all others were disavowed using the "Domain:" to avoid any missed link.

Hmmm.. not necessarily. You can use that domain and not being penalized by the EMD algo. You could be in a problem if you did all the link building with the same keyword, exposing the targeted keyword, but as long as you keep it clean, I guess you are safe.

The EMD update I think targets more to those using every possible EMD domain and redirecting it to their site (brandname-key1.com / brandname-key2.com / etc.).

I would recommend you go by the MOZ's Beginner's Guide to SEO here: http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo

The stats in the page are from 2013, if you are going to present stats for 2014, then create a new page. You only need to update when the content becomes irrelevant, but for those stats, they will still be relevant in 10 years, they are "stats from 2013".

Hope that helps.

That coming from you is just enough for the day

I don't know who you are or what you do, but reading your responses I never, and I mean NEVER have something to add. It's like reading from wikipedia... lol

You published an article in your blog and then in Ezine? the exact same post? Those tactics are long dead (duplicate content). You can now promote your content using several other methods:

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Stumbleupon
• G+
• inbound

just to name a few.

Since you switched from SEOMoz to Moz, every time I access the site (no matter if I close the browser or not) I am asked to login again, even though I am selecting the "Remember Me" option.

Can you please fix that?

PS: Same thing happens with OSE.

You can either create a script to go over the posts, recognize some pattern on the links and add the nofollow attribute, or edit post by post adding the nofollow.

As you mentioned Wordpress, a PHP script should do the work very fast and easily using an html DOM parser.

Here's an example: http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/

and run something like:

foreach ($html->find('a') as $a) {
        if(!checkUrl($a->href)) {
            $a->rel = 'nofollow';
        }
    }

checkUrl is a function you should write to recognize those affiliates links...

Hope that helps!