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My preference would always be to use the htaccess file for redirects. There are some situations where the site owner cannot modify their htaccess file due to various restrictions, in which case you would need to use a CMS-based solution or extension.

Fredrik, This is very helpful and gives me a clearer understanding as to how to make this work properly.  The example was just that, and meant to explain basic functionality.  We'll make sure we end up using an index-able HTML based version. Much thanks for your advise. ron

Yup, afraid your assumption is incorrect, Mark. Webmaster Tools shows you it's best representation of ALL incoming links it's aware of, both followed and no-followed. It's not making any attempt to indicate which of those links may or may not be contributing to your rankings. Put another way - just because Google is aware of links to your site and is listing them doesn't in any way indicate that those links are contributing "juice" to your site. If you want just a list of the dofollow incoming links, you'll need to use a 3rd part tool - like SEOMoz's Open Site Explorer which allows you to filter the followed separately from the nofollowed links. Paul

Hi SEOKeith, In the US, I've never had a problem with GetListed.org being down. What I really like it for is a quick glance. For example, if a local business owner phones me for the first time, I can punch in their URL and zip code and, right there while I'm on the phone, I can get a very quick idea of whether they've done any Local SEM or not. I find that very helpful.

tried searching the internet for a template and not come across one with k2 that is a newspaper template, this is why i have asked the question lol. With reference to getting a custom one, at the moment i cannot afford one for at least two years.

Thanks for your reply, in this case it's a webshop, the about us and contact ware just as an example. Did I understand your reply right if I say  I have to create seperate (webshops in my case) in order to avoid getting penalized? Kind regards, Jason.

Thanks for your response Irving. We put some of our preview sites on subdomains of our main domain, but then remove them after the site goes live, so their shouldn't be any duplicate content issues. The main question is just how Google is finding these subdomains.

Out of total 365 days in a year both things happened at exactly Aug. 22nd. Hardly a coincidence. Knowing that Bing/Yahoo indexed 100 times less of our pages than Google did it is naturally normal to assume that the reason may be in some out-of-website factors?

It is best to use the domain.com/blog as the link juice and authority picked up by your blog will be passed in part to the root domain, therefore increasing you domain authority etc If you take the subdomain route the link juice and authority doesn't get passed and the blog is treated as an independent sites in Google. Therefore i'd go domain.com/blog every day of the week

Istvan makes a number of good points and Matt Cutts has certainly alluded to a loss of some link juice when using 301's, although Google's official line is that there is no loss. I'd not seen the 15% number before, which is certainly high enough to be discernible above the 'noise'. I support his contention that, in terms of getting existing inbound links repointed, it's best to focus on the few high value links and then look for new links driven by quality content. This has the double benefit of cleansing some of the now-devalued link types, whilst appealing to Google's measurable preference for 'fresh' links.

Thanks! The blog post from Rand is particularly helpful.

Could be....although I was pretty careful about how I set it up. Google is indexing everything I post within half an hour.

It makes sense I'll just need to figure out where to use it on the page.

Thanks for your response, the new domain name will be purchased and used exclusively for the German store. I will try to obtain both with and without the umlaut, but the first only if responsibly priced.  (since the domain is just for ranking purposes)

cheers for this. it is always hard to decide how much content to put on the home page as i would like google to keep coming to the site and seeing new content. what i was worried about is, the small content i have now, not sure if you have looked again, but i am worried that the content is not enough for google to come along and say wow we have new content.