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yes , so never ever take it down, especially when the old site has many backlinks to it already ...

To tell you the truth it is actually very easy , but you have to familiar yourself with .htaccess HTTP REWRITE engine .. Seriously it took exactly 2 lines of code to detect and 301 redirects walla.mywebsite.com into www.mywebsite.com/walla HTTP Rewrite is an extremely useful tool, if you are not familiar with them , please go here http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/sitemanagement/urlrewriting.html (or just google http rewrite redirect)

I would base this on the number of pages and your ability to get into the database of the CMS environments.  Depending on how deep your link structure is, this may be a quick process.  If you are able to map the fields correctly, you can duplicate the aliases with a little elbow grease.  Simply export the main drupal content table and reconstruct it as a wordpress table, then upload. If you don't feel like handling the MySQL for this, I would still recommend duplicating the aliases... 301's are very useful, but it does seem like their is a small bit of decline as the SE's reset your info. Do keep in mind the your page code will also need attention.  Drupal vs Wordpress in its rendering will produce different code.  Your SEO capabilities are also going to be effected by the plugins that you are using in WP

If I was a client and the service provider gave me a bunch of numbers I would not be too impressed. The thing that would get my attention is something ringing. That could be my telephone or my cash register. How can you make something ring? That will make you an unquestionable success.

I republish article content from other websites.  This is always done with permission and often the other sites ask me to do it because they have a message that they want to place in front of my visitors.   I value this content because my visitors consume it. Unfortunately these pages do not perform well in search even though I optimize them so that they do not directly compete for the same keywords as the origins.  Why? There are usually several other sites with the same content. And they compete with each other in the SERPs and share the search traffic. I incur labor costs in posting the content and acquiring nice images to make it look good on my site.  Sometimes these are not fully recovered because of their reduced traffic.  Also, these pages have a linkjuice flow into them that might be more valuable if sent to other pages. I view these as costs to serve my visitors and the industry niche of my site. One other risk is the duplicate content.  Perhaps updates like the Panda update would reduce rankings of sites that contain lots of duplicate content.  I have not seen that yet in my niche.  The quality of the content is some of the highest on the web and the sites that republish it are almost all authoritative.

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I agree with John's assessment of the links to your site. There is nothing you can do about them and Google does not penalize you for any unpaid links that you have acquired. Also, on one of the sites we had a dmoz link and it is not showing in OSE? Linkscape only captures the top 25% of pages on the internet. The question is, how buried in the dmoz directory is that link? If you go to dmoz.org, how many clicks does it take you to land on the page with the link? What is the PA of that page? If the page is too deep or has too low of a PA then Linkscape wont see it, and Google may not either.

The extra you see added is the encoding for the ’ character (think of how you see encoding if you have spaces in your URL, it's the same type of thing).

If it's for design only, why not use a div with a defined height and set to scroll? Then you get full seo benefits as well.

My vote is to use the full url on this.  Just eliminates the possibility for confusion (although both technically work).

Pagerank does not flow through like a normal link would.  At this point its a "domain authority" type of link, still worthwhile to have.

Does anyone has any other suggestions?

MJ, the challenge with that suggestion is it sounds like you are maintaining two websites. That solution would not work for any situation with UGC or any data which changes over time. Even in cases where the pages were purely static content, a canonical tag would notify search engines of the page you wish to be indexed but not users.

Mike is right about the shared hosting - just make sure that there are no outbound links to the affected site.  Shared WMT account won't matter. You can always use a different Google account if you're still worried

If you have more pages that all contain links to the same pages (e.g. category pages) then more link juice will be flowing to those category pages. I wouldn't just remove the content, at least 301 redirect the old products to a category page, or a newer version of that product if appropriate - include a message on the new page explaining that the product they searched for is out of stock, but we suggest this/these alternative(s), or something like that. If you don't want to 301 them, you could just have links on the out of stock pages to new item or category pages.

Hi, I had a quick look it seems this site has around 2,000+ pages of content in a different language on a .us domain, so they are targeting people who speak chinese I believe from the US market. Quite a good idea I guess, I also believe the competition would be lower as .cn domains would not have the same power as the GEO rich .us domain. If you have great content, a huge number of pages and a few very targeted high quality links you can rank for a whole lot of long tail keywords. Regards, James.

I have a site that gets 2000 to 3000 posts per year of temporary content - these are very short posts.  The content is great for a few months but then the value is lost.  Each year we delete 2000-3000 pages of this content. Before we delete we look at analytics to see if any of these pages are pulling traffic.  If there are pages pulling traffic we 301 redirect those pages to relevant pages of evergreen content or create new pages for the redirect. After that all remaining URLs are 301 redirected to the homepage of the blog. Some of these pages might have a few links.  The redirects conserve them. To make this easy the posts are foldered by year /blog/2009/    /blog/2010/   /blog/2011/   etc.

In the SEOMoz 2011 rankings report, it shows that exact match .com domains are 0.22 correlated with higher rankings, whereas exact match domain names (with other domain suffixes, like .us) are only 0.17 correlated with higher rankings.  So, it still appears that .com is still the boss.