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Hi Alan, Thanks for that, it worked perfectly!

Thanks Alex, I had a feeling I'd read something about people trying to use multiple-snippets in a single meta-description to try and get relevant descriptions into the serps depending on the keywords used. A bit too dependant on the whims of google for my liking, and if we're talking about an e-commerce site, then it's enough work generating a single quality description for each product let along multiple ones.

I know these are basics of wordpress. Now, i need to read some articles to enlighten me. I appreciate your help. Thanks.

The SH404SEF site offers a 30-day money back guarantee if that is a concern. Also they host forums and in my experience they reply quite promptly to questions. The site also offers user guides, FAQ and more: http://anything-digital.com/sh404sef/user-manual.html

To be completely honest, I'd focus on the content on your site before building links to your site. I looked at a page about virtual gastric bands and the content did not appear natural or written for the user.The page I reviewed was quite long with the same phrases repeated over and over. It doesn't matter how many links you have to a site or how many visitors you get if the visitor gets to your site and leaves right away because the content just doesn't meet their needs. Focus your time and energy on just one main site for your practice, and make that site the best it can be. I fear you may be losing focus and trying to do too much, and letting some things slide (such as looking at the links page, you link out to sites that are hacked or no longer in existence or are under development; I don't know if they are all your sites, but I know at least some are).

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You're welcome

I completely agree with what Ryan Kent said. As with a lot of things, and even though it is a bit messy, if you are doing things for genuine reasons you are probably OK. If all of the redirected sites are pointing to where the content should be and now resides that is going to be OK, just make sure that you leave the 301's up there for a good amount of time (6 months or more).

I read just recently on tehBing blog, that Bing will treat a 302 that has been in place for a long time as a 301, and visa versa, if a 301 keeps changing they will trat it as a 302 But I have no idea if Google does anything like this. “An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.” Will Rogers http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive/2011/10/06/managing-redirects-301s-302s-and-canonicals.aspx

It was an absolute pleasure! ; )

I think you misunderstood me on "staying true to the page title" If your website is about selling blue widgets and you page title is "blue widgets - johns widget corp" then you are "staying true to the page title" You are letting people and search engines know that this page is about blue widgets. Also "blue widgets - johns widget corp" is under 40 characters so this would not be the best example. Your question was if you should change all your page titles to under 40 characters so that your entire page title would show. My answer / advise to you is; if you need more then 40 characters to properly describe your page then you should not change just so that all characters in your page title show.

You're welcome Jon. That's a good question. I don't know the official answer on that one, though suspect that Google does check to see if the page exists, mainly because often it will be a valid URL that somebody types in the search box instead of the address bar. If Google don't have that page in their index, they'd at least like to consider adding it. http://www.google.com/addurl.html is the URL adding page for Google as you'll already know. As well as Google relying on people to use this form, they will also, I suspect, crawl URLs that are entered into a search box. Makes sense to me that Google would at least visit these pages searched on, though can't be sure. Regards Simon

I agree with Alan here. Paul, we use Joomla! CMS at our agency and we use a simple plugin (RSSeo) that automatically updates and is in XML format. Just like Alan's site shows the importance and frequency adjustments, I'm quite sure you can find a WP plugin...or you can write it all manually (just be ready for a few hours if you've got a large site)! Hope this helps!

I think than you had better consider legal steps. If they have acces to your content from a third domain or ip they can also do that from a furth or fifth one. So no metter how many ips you will block, if they do know you feed address they can subscribe with a completely new one. In my opinion if this is the case than legal solution should be the best for you.Copyright your articles.