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The reason that I suggested 50 tips per paint guy was to give every participate a unique set of tips that would survive any duplicate content problems. Any real paint guy should be able to come up easily with 50 tips.

I do agree with you..as I told before there are tons of tools available to do this process automatically. I will try to use one of the most popular addon from prestashop addons site.. And let's see how it goes

the only thing comes to my mind is akismet . one of the best plugin's created for wordpress. when ever i create a new blog. the first thing i do is activate that plugin and get an api key from their website. i have seen great results with akismet alone.

When you redesign a website, whether utilizing WordPress or any other technology or CMS, there are several things to keep in mind. I'll first address WordPress. I am a WordPress developer (as well as an expert on various other CMS technologies), and as such WordPress can be very good for any website large and small. However there are many things to consider. First, when you select WordPress you must determine whether you choose to use a template and make modifications either visually or to the code or if you will select a developer to create a custom WordPress theme. Selecting a Template can be effective but you MUST know the quality. There are so many people and companies out there that provide WordPress templates whether a fixed price for the template or a club membership, but how do you know its any good? I have found over time to trust only a few as many sites out there provide very poor quality templates. You might be asking how can I define quality in a template and what about these templates, they look good. The visual aspect to your template is of course important, however the quality, especially when it comes to SEO is based on the actual code, html, css, etc. Many developers don't provide quality code, so SEO can and will be affected - ie improper use of header tags, etc. Over time here are several WordPress vendors that I have found provide great quality: ThemeForest this site is by far the best. Their requirements for becoming an author are extreme and they only accept the best. I have been working on selling themes here as well and they look at EVERYTHING to ensure quality. WooThemes this site provides excellent themes and they feature some of the best developers on the web! StudioPress also offers great themes and high quality. Now on to plugins. If you have your theme and it provides the quality you desire, utilizing various plugins will ensure that you achieve the desired SEO results you are looking for. As mentioned by Sha, Yoast SEO is a very good plugin which is found here http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/ however I also use All in One SEO and have found it very good for SEO and received great results. As mentioned you want to make sure that your content is optimized and everything ported over so keeping current links will definitely help. You could also have Google re-index your website. I also suggest utilizing a Sitemap.xml plugin to ensure that it is constantly up to date: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/ If you find that a template is not helping you or meeting your requirements, I would recommend a custom WordPress theme. This will ensure that the website is developed properly for SEO and ensures all plugins will work properly. There are many other aspects that can play a part in a WordPress built website, but these are the most significant. If you have any further questions or comments, feel free to ask and I will do my best to answer your questions! Thanks, Mark

If I am understanding correctly you want people to access DomainA.com when they go to DomainB.com? If this is the case, you could set up DomainB.com as a Domain Forward to DomainA.com. For instance a Client I have right now has www.drcharlescrane.com and www.drcharlescrane.net. Hosting is only set up for .com and we domain forward .net. You can also have this set up as a domain forwarding with mask so if you wanted the user would actually see in the URL domainb.com but pulling domaina.com's content. I hope this makes sense and if you need further clarification let me know. Also where is your domain registered. I use Godaddy primarily to the low costs for domains. Here is a how to domain forward provided by them and more information on the topic - http://help.godaddy.com/article/422

Well then it does. I often see images counting as links for many websites.

That helps. So you redirected every url to the matching url on the new domain? Good! That's all you could've done. Now the problem is: the new domain is new, hasn't built up long time value and probably all the links that are pointing to the old domain, haven't been spidered yet to be redirected to your new domain. That's problem one. Problem two is a bigger one: all your links are now devalued because they are all being redirected to your new domain. I'd try to find the low hanging fruit and e-mail them to change the link to the new site and preferrably not to the homepage, but to different pages on you site.

If you have access to your .htaccess file then there are plenty of methods how you can do this. Write this in your .htaccess file: redirect 301 /index.html/ http://www.yoursite.com

Hi Jeremy, I have a forum in the RC space as well, running on DNN Active Forums (www.rcnvavalcombat.com). My top five most common keywords in GWT are posts, private, combat, ship, forums, and admiral (a user rank). Ryan gives good advice to not sweat it. Keri

You basically have three options regarding your links: 1. Make administrative changes to limit the links. Take a look at the following URL: http://www.rcnightmare.com/forum/. The page has over 250 links which is too many for SEO optimization. Every forum section has 3 links: the forum section name, the last post and the last poster. 40 sections x 3 links each = 120 links. Additionally some sections such as Electric Monster Trucks has a group of subsections. Add to that the category links, the normal navigation links, the footer links and the sidebar links and you wind up with 251 total links. A key component of SEO is optimization. Your site is presently designed so all your content is accessible. From a SEO perspective, the more popular/important content should be more accessible, and the less popular content should be less accessible. As the forum owner it is up to you to make some decisions. 2. Make programming changes to limit the links. You could remove the link to the last poster, as an example. That one change would remove 40 links. You could also make changes to the links in your navigation, footer and sidebar. There can be positives and negatives to these changes. 3. Disregard the issue. You can ignore the issue and live with the understanding your forum articles wont rank as well in search engines. You can try to adjust your other site pages to be better optimized.

If the content is too late, you're right, the Googlebot may not grab it. However, Google is getting better and better at indexing AJAX content that's loaded after the fact. On one of the sites I work on, we really didn't want to go through the whole process of serving up an HTML snapshot to Googlebot (outlined http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/).  About a month ago, I did a search in Google based on the AJAX content, and it returned the page, meaning Google is finding that AJAX content and indexing it!  They're indexing comments now (see http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-indexing-facebook-comments/35594/) as well, like Disqus and Facebook comments.  What kind of comments widget are you loading that Google can't get at?  Maybe they'll be able to index them soon? I would guess that Google would devalue <noscript>text, as almost everyone has JavaScript enabled. Otherwise, everyone would be keyword stuffing in their <noscript> tags.</p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;">The option you outlined sounds like it could work. If you're just taking the content from JavaScript, and loading it in the HTML if the user doesn't have JavaScript enabled.  Google is actually suggesting in their ajax crawling guide to actually serve the Googlebot a static page instead of the page with AJAX content, which seems much closer to cloaking than the option you're suggesting.</p></noscript>

You can always private message me thru moz as well.  Best of luck.

An additional thought. In addition to the plugin Redirection, last week I also added platinum seo pack. Any chance either is causing the issue?

I generally trust Duane, so I'd take it at some value - I just haven't seen that problem pop up much, practically. Theoretically, you'd create a loop - so, if it leaked, it would keep looping/leaking until no juice was left. That seems like an odd way to handle the issue. My bigger concern would be the idea that, if you rel-canonical every page, Bing might not take your important canonical tags seriously. They've suggested they do this with XML sitemaps, too - if enough of the map is junk, they may ignore the whole thing. Again, I haven't seen any firm evidence of this, but it's worth keeping your eyes open.

Most welcome You can install Mozbar if you are using FF or Chrome, it has a lot of useful features.

Thanks for the detailed response and confirmation about the canonical being the best solution. This definitely helps. Some of the tracking URLs are actually being indexed. It doesn't seem to be negatively affecting anything right now, but I'd prefer to prevent any potential future problems if possible. Thanks again.