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I like your driveway story. I will resist the temptation! When i think back to when I first started a website for my parent's company, I hired a web designer. I paid him about $1000, I think, about 8 years ago. It looked great and I said thanks and I was very pleased with it. It had about 60 products at the beginning. Then in due time,I wanted to change the kicker line and sidebar navigation. I had to change 60 pages! I then learned PHP on my own and fixed the website. I didn't think they could do something similar with SEO, but, I guess from the responses, you can.

You are absolutely correct Kevin. By deciding to use a specific URL format on your site and consistently using the same format in all internal links you have done everything in your control. The overwhelming majority of the external links to your site will be correct. Additionally, the links which use the wrong format will then be 301'd to their correct format rather then offering a 404 error. Only a very small percentage of links should require redirection and those that do will get it.

MY page is a basic html page. I have already rewrited code, there are a handful of dom elemnts, css files sprited etc. PAge load time went from 230 milisec to 500 when I implemented the new features.

Hi Ryan, Looks like you're using Wordpress. To take care of those redirect issue, try the following in your .htaccess file. Test thoroughly on a demo site before going live with this. Wordpress plugins that you're using might have options that reach the same effect, so look into that as well. RewriteEngine on Options +FollowSymLinks #Force trailing slash     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www.)?mybabyradio.com/$ [NC]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.)/$     RewriteRule ^(.)$ http://www.mybabyradio.com/$1/ [R=301,L] #Redirect non-www to www     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mybabyradio.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mybabyradio.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Hi Sadullah, It's too bad you asked that question now, after doing some damage. I hope it's very minimal. There is not much to be added. Keith already gave you great answer. You are a member here, please remember that all members of this community are here to help, ready to cooperate...sometimes it's good to ask, as you have nothing to loose.

How soon do you need the 404 error data?  If you are okay waiting for a few days until Google or SEOmoz crawls your website (or your clients) then that works. If you need it immediately I would highly recommend checking out Xenu Link Sleuth or Screaming Frog.  They crawl your entire website (or client and competitors) and report on the HTTP status, title tag, h1 tag and many other things.

Respectfully, I'm not sure I understand either, but I'll take a stab at it... So you've got an excel sheet with tons of URLs in it, and you need to see how many links point to each one? Or, you need to get a list of all the URLs pointing to them? If so.... Richard Baxter just wrote an awesome post about getting loads of info into excel in a scalable way You could also build a custom app of sorts to do exactly what you want with the SEOmoz api. If you're wanting to get a list of URLs that point to each URL in your spreadsheet, I think you're going to have to use the api for now. Does this help?

Anyone else any responce? so far its +1 Yoast's Wordpress SEO, any one from the  All in One camp that switched over or vice versa?

Thanks, guys! I'll keep this thread updated with our implementation and offer advice for would-be schema's Cheers, Andrew

Just simply redirecting them to your site will not carry seo benefit. You should vrite great content for them, market themindividually: eran links, do social etc and place conversion points that point to your site. The point is exact match domains is that it is easier to rank them in google for the exact term, but that means writing content, doing marketing: just like with any other site. If you can see from the attached article there are pros and contras. I would always think twice to create another domain. In first place I would always want to make new content for my primary site. I don't know your budget but I think dealing with microsites are for those with big budgets.

Many Thanks to all of you for your clarifications .

I'm following up on old questions here, and wondering how this ever turned out for you. Are you back to your previous traffic yet? Do you have any hints for others in this situation (as yes, we have seen other people in this situation!). Thanks!

If you're still looking for ideas of what to do with the duplicate content, Dr. Pete's post from earlier this month gives an in-depth look at the different types of duplicate content and solutions. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-in-a-post-panda-world

Hi Tolod I see your most concerning error being that your IP address does not seem to be resolving to your domain name, looks like your DNS settings are not configured properly. I.E. http://208.43.169.47/watches-and-accessories is showing in the browser address bar instead of http://www.watchrepairny.com/watches-and-accessories If you're not sure how to correct this, your hosting provider should be able to help. Regarding duplicate content errors, have a check which pages are being reported as duplicate and compare them against each other to come up with your own conclusions. To be classed as duplicate, they would need to have substantially similar content rather than exactly the same content. Could be that your titles, descriptions and headers are very similar. Hope that helps, Regards Simon

neither works for me. my urls are still in domain.com/file.html format

excellent, thanks Robert!

Hi Chukwuemeka, First a quick note - it is not possible to write a script that does this using html, but by converting your normal html files to PHP, you can achieve your aim for a standard site without having to use a CMS like Wordpress. This post in the Youmoz Blog Adding "Related Post" Links without a Database should provide everything you need to make it work. I hope this will help solve your problem ... if there is anything that you don't understand just let me know in the comments or come back to this thread. I owe my boss a BIG beer gift this Christmas for writing the code that makes this work Sha

surly your admin folders are secured?, it would not matter if someone knows where they are.

From what i had seen this was the only way to automatically put updated news on our website from the .gov website. My thinker went on and i realized I can embed RSS feeds into the site without having to link out but once.