Hi there

The most natural way I can think to do this from a linking perspective - I would have a URL that is the "main" URL of the website. I would have on this page a way for users to select their country or language for the most optimal experience.

Otherwise, I would read the following:
International SEO (Moz)
The International SEO Checklist (Moz)

You should read these anyway. The resources above will tell you how to properly tag your websites for regional targeting, and also how to let Google know in WMT which regions should see what version of your site.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

Hi there

I think it can help indirectly. Especially as Google associates your brand and website to particular topics (if you are optimizing properly and writing great content). If you are killing it from a topic association level, I can see having "SameAs" markup possibly benefiting your brand on a non-branded level as those topics are associated with your site and Google (and other search engines) notice those SameAs connections to your other platforms or areas, and possibly return your site or other channels in non-branded search.

That's my take. Excited to see what everyone else says - great question! Good luck!

Hi there

Google has resources on this - check out Tracking Multiple Domains - Web Tracking (ga.js).

Also, Moz has a great resource called How to Quickly (and Correctly) Track Google Analytics Across Multiple Domains.

Hope these help! Good luck!

Hi there

Yes, I would consider this a priority as you want to have the most upto date and relevant markup on your site, so that crawlers can better understand your important information and attribute the right properties to your site/content.

I would also focus on Schema, as it's recognized by major search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex, so you are pleasing multiple crawlers at once. Pages that have this markup also tend to rank four positions higher than pages without. So it is definitely worth the investment of time.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

Hi there

According to Google:

We'll send a postcard with a verification code to the business address you provided. Make sure your address complies with our address entry guidelines.

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If you're returning to verify after creating your page, visit Google My Business, choose the business you'd like to verify, and click Verify now.

1. On the postcard request screen, make sure your address is displayed accurately. You can also add an Optional contact name to help your postcard reach you.
2. _Click Send postcard. _
3. _Check the mail for your postcard--it should arrive in one to two weeks. _
4. When you receive your postcard, enter your verification code into your dashboard.

This article can help with missing or lost verification codes.

Does the PIN happen to be out of date or expired? You can contact Google either via phone, chat, or email (upper right hand corner).

Hope this helps! Good luck!

Hi again

To be clear, I think this would populate http://www.domain.com//www.domain.com as the where the canonical should be attributed to.

Hope this makes a bite more sense. Good luck!

Hi there

According to Google...

Avoid errors**:** use absolute paths rather than relative paths with the rel="canonical" link element. However, they then say (under "Prefer HTTPS over HTTP for canonical URLs)...

Google prefers HTTPS pages over equivalent HTTP pages as canonical, except when there are conflicting signals such as the following:

• The HTTPS page has an invalid SSL certificate.
• The HTTPS page contains insecure dependencies.
• The HTTPS page is roboted (and the HTTP page is not).
• The HTTPS page redirects users to or through an HTTP page.
• The HTTPS page has a rel="canonical" link to the HTTP page.
• The HTTPS page contains a noindex robots meta tag

Although our systems prefer HTTPS pages over HTTP pages by default, you can ensure this behavior by taking any of the following actions:

• Add 301 or 302 redirects from the HTTP page to the HTTPS page.
• Add a rel="canonical" link from the HTTP page to the HTTPS page.
• Implement HSTS.

To prevent Google from incorrectly making the HTTP page canonical, you should avoid the following practices:

• Bad SSL certificates and HTTPS-to-HTTP redirects cause us to prefer HTTP very strongly. Implementing HSTS cannot override this strong preference.
• Including the HTTP page in your sitemap or hreflang entries rather than the HTTPS version.
• Implementing your SSL/TLS certificafe for the wrong host-variant: for example, example.com serving the certificate for www.example.com.  The certificate must match your complete site URL, or be a wildcard certificate that can be used for multiple subdomains on a domain.

Since I don't know how your SSL is configured, I can't tell you one way or another, but if you have a https version of your pages, then head that direction. Having a relative protocol won't seem to work here for what you're asking.

Read the above and let me know if that helps! Good luck!

Hi there

According to Google, they want you to either use relative URLs or use absolute URLs. You can read more here.

I recommend reading this so you can see the types of common mistakes they find and how to resolve those.

Good luck!

Hi there

I would check out Moz's post Local Landing Pages: A Guide To Great Implementation In Every Situation, particularly in the section National company desiring a local presence.

I would also take a look at Google's Service area maps resource.

Hope this all helps! Good luck!

Hi there

I would noindex your category pages and also canonicalize all tags or category post variation URLs to the proper post URL. From there, I would run through this resource from Moz on WP optimization.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

Hi there

I recently answered a question in a similar question in the Q+A that references resources that can help you help Google understand these parameters and categorize them. You can read that here.

That being said, blocking these parameters in your robots.txt will not affect your rankings, especially if those parameter or query strings are properly canonicalized to the proper product page.

That being said, I would make sure you understand the resources above and the options, as you understand your users and website better than anyone - test on a few pages to see what happens and go from there.

Hope this helps! Good luck!