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About how many do you have total? You could do redirects for the ones but if you have a lot then that would become an issue.

I think the best way is still to basically CLOAK the url with your own sub.domain forward. If you are using wordpress I know there are plugins that do it very well. If your just using regular website coding then use a service like tinyurl.com. OH and only link to related affiliate offers.

We run one site with all https and there is no problem at all - we link build as usual and see no bad impacts, in fact we are doing very well. It's not usual practice but for SEO as long as you are playing by the rules it will have no impact whatsoever.

You can use Google Webmaster tools to flag up pages that should be de-indexed once they have been 301'd or if they now 404. This should speed up the process and ensure that pages that don't get indexed very often don't hang around.

Hi Alexandre, You will need to look at the code in the .htaccess file generated by All in One SEO to see whether the plugin is just using URL rewriting or creating 301 redirects. As far as I am aware, that particular plugin does not have an option to manually stipulate when you wish to create a 301, but the only sure way is to check the code. You will need to go into your wordpress /blog directory and download the .htaccess file, then open it in a text editor (like notepad). This is a separate .htaccess file, specifically relating to what happens within your wordpress installation.The one in the root folder for your site will not tell you what you are wanting to know. I don't use All In One SEO as I prefer the Yoast plugin, but typically, what you might expect to see is code that looks something like this: BEGIN WordPress <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /blog/ RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]</ifmodule> END WordPress The key to identifying whether the plugin is using standard URL rewrites or creating a 301 Redirect is to look at the very last part of the Rule - the part that is enclosed in square brackets [ ] A plain vanilla flavored standard URL Rewrite Rule will end with [L] If the Rule is creating a 301 (Permanent) Redirect, it will end with [R=301,L] and for a 302 (Temporary) Redirect, it will end with [R=302,L] As far as your question, which I understand to be asking essentially, "what is the difference" between the two: A standard URL Rewrite is simply instructing the server that any request for a certain URL  should be served a different URL. As far as the search engine is concerned, nothing changes. It is simply used to change the ugly URL to a pretty URL (in your case one that contains the keywords you want). A 301 redirect serves the alternative URL, but also sends a signal to the search engine that the URL requested has been permanently replaced with the one that is served. This indicates to the search engine that the requested URL should be removed from the index and replaced with the URL that is served. A 301 redirect also signals to the search engine that most of the link value being passed to the requested URL should now be passed to the URL that replaces it in the index. Hope that helps, Sha

From my experience HTML sitemaps are generally ignored a lot now by search engines. You could do a basic one for users but otherwise put your efforts into getting a very good XML sitemap, that will help you more than what is generally just a static HTML page, that like most things on footers nowadays, are ignored by the SEs. A

One thing you could try is to put the following meta tag on the page, and once Google re-indexes the page, remove it immediately.  This tag will take down the instant preview, but also takes out your meta description on SERPs, so you'll want to remove it as soon as Google re-indexes the page. Once you remove it, Google will (hopefully) create a new snapshot of your page?  I have no idea if when Google re-indexes the page if they'll go create a new snapshot, or dig up the old one to display, but it seems like there should be a fair chance they'll take a new one? Again, I've never tried this, so I'm only endorsing it as a possible idea, it is not a tried and tested solution. [http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35304](http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35304)

Hi Ralph, just wondering if this happened to you again at all, or if you figured out what was causing it.

New backlinks can take up to two months to show in Open Site Explorer, because of the way the crawls are scheduled. Also, OSE only crawls the top 25% of the web, so if some of those links are on old forum threads in low-value sites, they may not show at all. Generally, they will show within two months.

Thanks Dan!

Google will strip the HTML formatting tags out and index just the links and text. Span tags are purely for formatting so there's no issue.

You do lose a little juice with each redirect, so you don't want to be redirecting the same URL multiple times. The potential problems include slowing down the site as well as increasing chance for errors the more entries you put into your file. There are times when it just can't be helped, and it's much better to have the redirects there than a site with a ton of 404s.

Here are a couple of posts about using the canonical tag that should help you. If those don't answer the question for you, I suggest opening a new question with a few more details about your site, and you should get some more feedback. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/complete-guide-to-rel-canonical-how-to-and-why-not http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-block-redirect-or-canonical

I agree. But at the same time because its still on the main domain which has authority i have a hard time believing the engines don't trust the url more as a sub-domain vs a bran new url.

Yes that's what I thought...

I'd suspect that if you change the date, and ping rss aggregators, they'll publish the content, which then becomes 99.9% duplicate content.

Hi Shehzad, I think it's more useful that you search in this web page: www.user-agents.org Bye

Good resonse James. Social is a good indicator for Google and I would tink that this factor will have greater impact over the next years to come. Like, tweet and +1 is a must. Stumbleupon is pretty big in the states and follow aswell.

Thanks Nick. I'll work through all of those points