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Rand and iPullRank just did a great WBF on the topic: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-freshness-update-whiteboard-friday

The main negative is any inbound links to the previous URL will lose some link juice. However, after time search engines will no longer index the previous URL, just the one that you are redirecting too. If you want to speed the process up, try and submit a new XML sitemap to each search engines' webmaster tools.

Thanks, that's very interesting. One question - if most of the incoming searches use the version number in the search term ("blue widget guide 3.0") would you still advise just changing the title? Obviously the URL will still have the old version number in it.

Hi Keith, You need to choose 1 "master" sort order, use the pagination techniques outlined in the link Alex posted, and rel=canonical all of the other sort orders to the main page of your "master" sort order. Michael.

Appreciate your response... many thanks

In any case my real concern isn't so much caching but the lack of recognition by Google that the site has a link from Alltop.com. I'm referencing the cached page as an example of how Google seems to only see certain sites on the page. Oddly enough there are a few sites that were added after my clients that do appear to have been indexed by Google, for example the site titled "Belize Travel Blog" near the bottom of the page was added after my clients and Google's index recognizes it is on Alltop (not cached however). I used this query: "BELIZE TRAVEL BLOG" site:alltop.com. I attempted analyzed the code but it crashes every browser i had when I've tried to view it (tried on Chrome, FireFox & IE and crashed every time).

Very in-depth response so thanks for this. I will see how quickly Google reindexes my proper site now that I have a redirect in place for that not so wanted domain. I will also send another 'calm' e-mail to the domain owner to see if I can get them to respond and point it away from my server. Thanks again!

Yes I can see the text version shows, everything.  Is the graphical displaying only showing the header and footer as the way the page is coded for example the code is called as followed: Main (body) Header Footer Where as conventional techniques would be header, main, footer.

So a basic LinkedIn account is free. A paid account can do things like promote job openings, filled out more in a company page profile, see certain contact info, and see who's visiting your personal profile. But most people are just happy with the basic. Here are so reasons why people have LinkedIn / ways people use LinkedIn: You have a whole bunch of business contacts that want to connect on social media, but you want your Facebook only for family/friends. As a business owner, you want to advertise for jobs on another network. You're a B2B business. You want to be seen as an expert in your business field. LinkedIn has lots of groups and q&a which help build that type of reputation. Even if you're not B2B, you target people in a certain business field. You want to promote your company's growth business wise to a professional environment on a page. Of course, there are many more reasons. Hope this helps!

Have you gone in and changed the admin panel information about your site?

Here's what Bing has to say about the meta keywords tag (hint: it's just one of about a thousand signals they look at), and why Danny Sullivan from Search Engine Land feels only spammers should use it. http://searchengineland.com/the-meta-keywords-tag-lives-at-bing-why-only-spammers-should-use-it-96874

Others are right by the way canonical may be better, but if you insist on robots restriction you should add two schemas to each parameter: disallow:?view=m disallow:?view=m* so that you block the urls that contain the parameter at the end and block the ones that have it in the middle as well.

Bing SEO Toolkit, is not BWMT email me, and ill will find them all and send you a list tomorrow mosley@thatsit.net.au

Simon is correct, SE's see this as 2 different sites, you are splitting your rank. 301 one to the other and you should get a boost over the next few weeks

sure will thanks for your input it's really appreciated.

I have it on several sites.  For most of them it has been there since AddThis was new.  We added it to a couple sites a few months ago. No problems at all. I think that it is a very good service.  We get lots of traffic back and some of our pages have received thousands of actions.

Thanks everyone - apart from following up on backlinks, will try the GWMT route and hope for the best!

I've used JoomSEF on most of my installs.  There is also quite a bit of support for several popular components.  Not as simple as some, but it gives you quite a bit of flexibility. sh404SEF is another one I've used on a few installs in the past.  It looks like they have improved it quite a bit.