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No. Social media links are not considered inbound links in Moz (or other link tools for that matter).

As long as all of the URLs stay the same and you aren't building a blog network (a bunch of sites that interlink), I don't think you'd see much of an SEO difference.

I haven't seen anyone complain about that particular issue which is a good sign. If/when you follow through, please comment back and let everyone know your experience!

I would dig into the analytics some more and look for patterns... did you lose traffic to product pages or category pages or homepage? traffic from image search or web search? are there a lot more indexed urls? did robots.txt change to allow more pages to be crawled? did filter config change? canonicals?

I'd recommend putting all of the urls to deindex into a sitemap, set LASTMOD date to something recent and submit for google to recrawl.

If possible, set the status codes on those pages to 410 as well.

I think this is more important for hosts and people with multiple websites (for interlinking)... Tom talks about c-blocks in ipv4 addresses which deals with seo hosting and how that changes in ipv6 (gets more vague). As usual, don't be hosted on the same server as a bunch of spam sites.

If you have just the one site, there shouldn't be anything to worry about.

It will not be considered duplicate content. However, you should use hreflang markup so that google knows that 2 versions of a page are actually the same (just translated) and show the correct language to searchers.

ehh. unless reposting to the other website naturally creates more backlinks (e.g. each site has its own separate audience that would increase the total number of backlinks) keeping the articles on separate sites and interlinking with keyword anchor text is probably the better strategy.

content syndication works best when republishing to a new audience, on domains you don't already own.

Maybe check your apache httpd.conf file?

Not seeing anything there.

Have you checked your WP site URL settings? https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

I'd also try to remove all rules except default wordpress (from # BEGIN Wordpress to # END Wordpress) to test.

logo should be within "publisher", not "article".

Overall, I'd recommend using a schema generator tool to assist like: http://tools.seochat.com/tools/schema-article-generator/#sthash.iWTjQpvO.dpbs

False. If Google crawled the website and found the link, it is "activated". Google cannot track link clicks for the majority of websites. It would be unfair and erroneous to only support links that they can analyze to be clicked.

In addition, Matt Cutt's claims that the webspam team does not use Analytics for SERPs - see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZoesvNUPDQ

You have an incorrect relative link (probably link to 'img/photo-competition-winners' folder instead of '/img/photo-competition-winners') coupled with a faulty mod_rewrite/redirects (which loads the same page again, but this time you are 1 img folder deeper).

The href target stays the same so now it links another img folder deeper and you have your infinite loop.

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Its a very generic term that actually has a dictionary definition. On top of that, there are dozens of other brands that use the same name. Google is getting a lot of feedback coming in for the term "Zing" so it will be difficult to rank #1. If you play your cards right, you will probably get it in NZ first. You should track brand association by genericizing your keywords and looking for improvement. e.g. "zing short term loans" -> "zing loans" -> "zing company nz" ->  "zing nz" -> "zing company" -> "zing"

How to establish your brand:

• Social media presence. go to www.knowem.com and create profiles for your brand on as many of these sites as possible, linking back to your company website. Be sure to load up a bunch of company info to each social media property and do some interlinking.
• Create a wikipedia page. This is one of the sources that Google uses in it's knowledge graph and to judge entity relationship signals.
• Create entities + relationships on freebase.com
• Create a google+ brand page and link up with publisher markup

Ultimately, you are going to have to convince google that when a visitor seaches for "zing", they are actually looking for your company.

p.s. are these payday loans?

Option 2 all the way.

If you want to rank a local page, check out all the ranking factors compiled by David Mihm. Here is a post by Mike Blumenthal on your exact question. Basically, its a waste of time to build links to your G+ places page.

Pageviews is on the same page.

Not sure what number you are trying to get? A session = visit from one user where they don't go idle for a certain length of time (default = 30min). So if a person visited your website, didn't do anything for 1 hour, then refreshed the page, that would be 2 sessions. But aside from that instance, a session usually is a visit.

You can further distinguish new vs returning visitors under Audience > Behavior > New vs Returning

I would say this is black hat (totally illegitimate backlink) and might even confuse Google as to your actual business location.

If you want to rank better in the US, I would create a en-us hreflang version of the page & get backlinks from US based websites

General consensus is that it is still usually indexed/ranked but the value is diminished (and they may be going in the direction of completely ignoring it). See this post: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-hidden-tab-content-seo-19489.html

If it is a trusted website that is relevant to your industry and would be helpful to your visitors, yes. There is still a benefit to reciprocal linking - as long as you don't go wild with it.

Analytics can be inaccurate but not by that much (unless tracking is somehow messed up).

I would tell the company that according to your analytics, you only received 2 visitors (and show them). Set up another tracker and ask for 1 month more for free to see if their stats are valid. If you get no visitors or they don't agree to a free month, they are probably bullshiting you.