Have you seen any signs of algorithmic penalties or SERP fluctuation? If not... forget it. Yes I would ask to have it removed if it's a garbage link from an irrelevant site. But I would avoid the disavow tool and use it as a last result. I don't trust that tool as much as others seem to... You can usually do well without it too. If you start getting manual penalty warnings and your SERPs are dropping without any response from the webmasters... then it might be time to break out the disavow.

Whatever you do, DOCUMENT it! All emails, contacts, discoveries.. keep these documented in a separate folder in case you ever have to submit a re-inclusion request to Google.

That's all I can really say.

Can we expect to hear of any sort of timeline on these new tools at MozCon next week?

I use Google Plus far less but am interested in changing that so I joined. Good idea!

oh you are SO right.

This forum is as good a resource as any for a pre-con meetup.

I'll be there. Let's get a drink and form a kickass SEO posse! WHO'S IN!

We could call it "The Posseo?"

Just spit-balling here

Follow me @SEOjesseO and maybe we can start a #posseo

I'm confused by what exactly you're looking for here, but to make my answer totally general I'll say this:

I think that a "long-tail keyword" is one that reads more like a sentence than a phrase. For example, if I'm searching for how to change a tire on my ford focus I could type in

"changing tire ford focus"

or

"how to fix a flat tire on a ford focus"

...The first might be short-tail in this scenario whereas the second would be longer. The second won't get as many searches, sure. But I might find that this drives in an extra click or two and all I had to do was sneak this sentence into my article. E.G. "A lot of people ask me how to fix a flat tire on a Ford Focus." or something...

Each article's view pages are unique? Or are they all one page with uniquely propagated iframes? If it's one page, then add it to your robots.txt file as a disallowed page.

Otherwise yes you can no-index

OR you can add a rel="nofollow" to the links which might be a good idea anyway. Of course if the page is linked from anywhere else it could be indexed.

Or you could send them all to a unique directory and have that particular directory removed in the robots file. This would pertain if each article was given a unique page. Just have them go to url.com/article/view/thisarticle.html and disallow the view/ directory.

Hope this helps.

Not that I know of.. The company I work for deals with clients in Canada and the U.S. and I find that our Canadian leads all come through the same Google SERPs that the US ones do. Of course the terms they are searching for are a bit different and I have to optimize with that in mind but otherwise it's all the same to me.

I'll be interested to see anyone else offer any other Canadian SEO tips though as I can feel myself often neglecting the potential from our cousins up North.

I sincerely doubt it. Especially in regards to file names. Think of how many "about.html" and "index.html" pages exist... So what if the filename is the same? And meta content? I don't think Google factors that into their ranking.

Assuming this is even something they're ranking.. I'm pretty confident that none of this matters.