Thanks Dan. I use Yoast's Wordpress SEO. It's a great plugin. I have the author archive disabled.

We don't actually link the author's name to an author page, so I think we're ok there. Thanks for the clarification.

Thanks Willny. Can you clarify what you mean by "Unless the links are going to the author's list of posts"?

Hi,

I've a number of wordpress posts that were written by different authors, and I want to merge them into a single author. If Google sees that originally the post was rel authored to person A and later we change the author reference to person B, will Google see this as suspicious in any way?

Or does it not matter, as long as it's only attributed to a single author at any one time?

Thanks,

Leigh

I've a follow on question to this: I have a client that's setting up a section of his site in a different language, and we're planning to geo-target those pages to that country. I have suggested a sub-folder solution as it's the most cost effective solution, and it will allow domain authority to flow into those pages.

His developer is indicating that they can only set this up as a sub-domain, for technical reasons, but they're suggesting they can rewrite the url's to appear as sub folder pages.

I'm wondering how this will work in terms of geo-targeting in Google Webmaster Tools. Do I geo-target the sub domain or the sub folder i.e. does Google only see urls or does it physically see those pages on the sub-domain?

It seems like it might be a messy solution. Would it be a better idea just to forget about the rewrites and live with the site being a sub domain?

Thanks,

In my crawl diagnostics, I notice some 4xx client errors. They are appearing for pages that no longer exist, so I'm not sure what the problem is. Shouldn't they just be dealt as 404's?

Anyway, on closer inspection I noticed that my 404 error page contains a canonical tag which points to the missing page. Could this be the issue? Is it a good idea to remove the canonical tag from this error page?

Thanks.