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It would be good if the original poster could return and confirm (or otherwise) that the site runs on WordPress. I am not sure that you can easily edit the archives pages headers to show the NOINDEX tag other than to edit the WordPress header.php file. The latter could get replaced when WordPress is updated. Certain themes make it easy to add your own custom tags through a configuration menu.

I had a situation at a different site that required me to connect my GA account.

My business website's GA profile used to be linked from my personal Google Account. After incorporating as a company, I created a new Google Account and created a fresh GA profile. So I had two tags. When using that other tool, I accidentally connected my personal GA account whose tag was no longer on my business site and it didn't seem to do anything.

It was just something to consider if you were in such a situation.

Sounds like a WordPress site. If so, a plugin such as WordPress SEO by Yoast would have the setting to be unchecked (Taxonomies and XML Sitemaps).

Do you possibly have more than one GA account and the site has tags of the second account, i.e. other than the one you are trying to connect?

Directories are fine, if they are terribly relevant to the niche and real people use them. They should be added slowly, no more than one per week. This particular offer, therefore, is a waste of money and a possible risk.

I cannot replicate it, but I have used only two of my five available slots. Do you have spare slots?

URLs would help.

Your articles are a major suspect and links another - Panda and Penguin. Yes, algorithmic ranking drops rather than a manual penalty.

This is a friend's tool that has some more options.
http://incredibill.me/htaccess-rewrite-wizard

My preference is for the ccTLD if there will be a commitment to optimise that domain - usually the smaller countries are sales offices without a proper marketing complement, so they assume that "head office" will look after the website. Head Office usually doesn't have any budget to cater to the subsidiaries, so the ccTLD will be left to its fate.

Hence your choice of company.com/Country will do.

While Bing is not too important, note that its Webmaster tools has an option to mark off such country folders as being different countries. My suspicion is that Google automatically picks up such cues.

Being in Australia I tend to get a good share of multi-national SEO challenges.

Larger, established brands can break all the rules concerning TLDs because they get local authority through their local links and citations. A current client is a major bank with a presence in 31 countries. They just happen to be my bank, so I have observed them over 20 years. They started as a .com with an Australian emphasis and were multi-national for a while. Then they shut down some of the foreign offices. They then decided to populate their .com.au domain and left a complete, parallel copy on the original .com. Then they resumed their global focus and did NOT use their TLDs in those countries because a handful were not in their possession. These are the obscure countries that haven't signed up to the international copyright conventions. Branding is paramount for them, so no amount of SEO advice could budge them.

So their international locations take the format example.com/countryname. Does that work for them? Of course it does. I was in Singapore where I tested for myself from a local PC, so as to remove any hint of my personal history. They do very well. Despite having the duplicate content in Australia, they do very well among their peers.

A former client who has offices in over 60 countries also started as a .com and when they got more serious in the US they realised that they did not rank at all in that country. They had the usual IT-centric excuse not to make many sites, so I left that for them to resolve internally. Is sales more important than some technician's convenience? I hope they got that point. I did recommend a local micro site for the US that would display US-centric customer stories and local news events.

The takeaways here are that local content and local links can overcome any advantages/disadvantages of a gTLD for a multi-national site.

No, the owner of brandname.com will not necessarily outrank your client.If they are an established brand, they will have a lot of natural links from a

If the client owns the trademark, they can go through the WIPO process to get that domain.

You still have (as you know) a lot of links from article directories and a large proportion of keyword anchor text backlinks from the usual suspects with low trust. The home page link profile is slightly better.

You should get some URL and "click here" kind of spread in the anchor text. The link profile still looks like an "SEO job" since inner pages seldom have a lot of deep links and there isn't any hint of natural links. Some out of the box thinking is needed to get citations, e.g. finding some real magazine or newspaper to feature the page.

I have found that a 301 takes some time to take effect in the index, so I don't bother with a 302 first, There are many redirect tools on the web and I like this one: http://www.rapidtables.com/web/tools/redirect-generator.htm

First put up the infographic on your own site and get Google to index it. Webmaster Tools > Fetch as Google is a good route.

I have a Google alert for a "(specific topic) + infographic" and I often find that the site I get is rarely the original publisher. Try that in your niche, which will give you some sense of the distributors that have Google's attention.

This page has a big list of distribution sites, some free, some paid:

http://www.paddymoogan.com/2012/01/14/list-of-infographic-sites-for-link-building/

This one has some kind of ranking and I tend to agree with that ranking, at least by popularity, e.g. visual.ly is well known.

http://www.juanmarketing.com/list-infographic-sites-to-publish-infographics/2012/04/24/

You have to remove the images via Google Webmaster Tools. This support document has the instructions: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/181721?hl=en

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If the product descriptions are more or less copied from the manufacturer, then you may need to rewrite them and find ways to add user-generated content there, e.g. ratings and reviews, etc.

If you 301 the blog pages, then there won't be a blog to read and Google won't index the product pages.

This linking isn't black-hat -- it is simply old-school SEO with the use of a Links page, which has long been noted as a red flag. Note that the links page shows a grey bar for the Toolbar PR, suggesting that Google has noted it as a links page. Most of those sites are off-topic for this hair salon, so the link juice is wasted and the page has become irrelevant for its ostensible purpose.

I cannot see 6611111.com ranking for "stop smoking" in the first 400 results, You might be seeing personalised results, so use an incognito browser and clear your cookies and cache. Log out of all Google services before running the search.

Yes, doing a 301 redirect from your .nl to the .com site will be fine, but why are you doing that?

Are you going to advertise in Holland and show the .nl URL? If so, users might be unsettled if they end up at the .com site. If it is just 301'd and that's all you do, then hardly anyone other than a person guessing your URL will even use it. You might not even rank in Holland.

There are no bad SEO points for the .com site, but you could be losing the chance to rank on Google.nl. I don't think Google.nl will note the 301 and therefore show the .com as well as a well-SEO'd .nl site.

You could put English content on the .nl site, preferably a rewritten version of the .com site. The key is to get .nl links to the .nl domain (if not 301'd). Make it a Dutch site as much as you can - get listed in Dutch directories, get Dutch citations, etc.

Open Office did the trick! Thank you. Would be nice if the Moz app could do UTF-8 natively.

I recommend getting to know in advance other people who will be going to the conference. You can ask in the community forum, on Twitter or Facebook some months in advance. This will enable you to seek them out in person and will avoid the common "hazard" of meeting someone with different professional interests.

The crawl diagnostics .csv file is showing high-ascii characters instead of the correct language (foreign language website) e.g. Vietnamese, Chinese (both kinds), etc. Is there a way to get this right?

The question was more by way of feedback that the welcome email could expand those concepts with a sentence or two as per the above replies. I signed up but then travelled before using the tools three weeks later and was reacting to an article by Chris Warren at Distilled, which sent me to OSE. And that site didn't think I was Pro. I then wondered if I needed to download some app for a phone. Sorry but it was 7 am on a Saturday morning.

Incidentally, having started a campaign, my ""Social metrics only available to paid Moz subscribers" error message went away, so perhaps OSE gets a prod after a campaign is started?

I signed up three weeks ago and the first email to me begins with:

The first step in PRO is to set up your campaign. Once we start tracking your site and social media accounts, you'll start receiving handy reports of your data. You can also surface site issues right in the app to help you prioritize which fixes you can make for immediate results.

At this point I don't know what kind of "campaign" this is or what the "app" is.

I have also lodged a ticket because something seems to be broken about my Pro status. I can obviously participate here, so I have a Pro status, but at OSE, it says "Social metrics only available to paid Moz subscribers. Learn more" and hit my Advanced Report limit for the day without seeing any such report.