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Best practice is a single per page and using CSS to style.

I don't have experience redirecting entire sites to other sites, but when it comes to 301 redirects you want to avoid redirect chains (abc.com redirects to def.com redirects to ghi.com, etc.). This is a pattern too common among malicious sites, so search engines will tend to see it as a negative signal. Avoid this while still passing as much link juice as possible by editing the redirect on abc.com to send traffic directly to ghi.com.

Changing the URL as you've done should help, but if it is still a search results page, Google won't want to show it, even though they don't put a lot into identifying internal search landing pages. So you should be fine with what you've done. If you feel these pages are really helpful and you'd like to land users on them, an improvement might be to create navigation to http://www.mysite.com/travelguide/attraction-guide.html and similar pages and redirect internal searches for relevant keywords to that page. This way the page is more than a search results page.

Yeah, Google generally will come across just about all of the parameters while indexing your site, but you can add parameters as well.  When you log into Google Webmaster Tools, you should see a list of parameters when you go to the Site configuration > URL parameters page.  They've given more options now that you can change for each parameters, beyond whether or not Google should ignore them.  If you click Edit for a parameter, now you can set: Does this parameter change page content seen by the user? (Yes, No) How does this parameter affect page content? (Sorts, Narrows, Specifies, Translates, Paginates, Other) Which URLs with this parameter should Googlebot crawl? (Let Googlebot decide, Every URL, Only URLs with value ___, No URLs) It will also show you sample URLs with the parameter to make it easier to figure out when these parameters appear, which is very useful, as sometimes you don't which pages have which parameters. Google's help file for this can be found here.

Agreed.  There are also a ton of other local directories out there that will help build your citation (if your going for local) authority & credibility.

Thanks Ryan, you seem to always have good information. I researched it and I agree with your comments.

Tom, Thanks for the response, Yes, It is the best way to discover the products. So i believe noindex, follow is better ,too Just needed second person to confirm , But i was wondering why Matt Cutts blog is using all 2 of them together? Instance: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/page/3/

Thank you so much, Daniel! It is now fixed. Yippee!!!

Seohosting.com is actually a hostgator company - and we're going with hostgator for this. These recommendations above came during the Distilled conference in New Orleans for reference. Thanks for all your feedback!

A bit of a related question: How often should you be pinging on sites like Ping-O-Matic if your content is being updated everyday, Mon-Fri?

That would be bad for SEO, and search engines would not likely index the content. It's possible, but not likely. I am working with a site that has done this exact thing, and the content is not indexed.