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As I painfully learnt this past weekend, you may want to get going pretty slowly on it. I went a bit nuts, within 80 - 100 of our archived articles pages (only inserting one link per page), with about 7-8 different terms to the appropriate pages and got heavily punished for those terms. Long story short, be very wary of what you read on the matter.

I will do so. And hope to get that back.

Thanks Charles.  We'll try that.

Hi Wissam Yes, I read through it and a few others, but wanted to get clarification on some specifics not covered all that in depth in the guide.

Yes, you assumptions are correct. I'm concerned with similar aliases, typo domains, etc. So the best case scenario is doing at the hosting level. What if that is not an option, and I have to do 301 redirects from the registrar level? Next best option?

Pagination is just links. Google can follow the links. How you set up and offer your pages is important, especially for areas with a lot of pages. If you have 40 pages of content then I would recommend a structure that offers pages something like "1,2,3,...20...40". If you don't offer a middle selection then that content will probably never be seen.

If you have any idea of what the email address used to create the google account was, then this page can help: http://www.google.com/support/dartsignin/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=114766

The ratio of followed vs nofollowed links on a web page is not a ranking factor. You do want to keep the total number of links offered on a page down to the minimum number required to provide the best user experience. Repetitive links and unused links should be removed. Your page rank flows through your followed links.

Great - thanks for the info Stephen!

Hi Ryan Thanks for those useful comments & alternative ideas. I think we'll stick with the original idea & use the 301 approach rather than remove the listing if possible so the link juice can be directed to the client site. Cheers

I was thinking of doing that too, but it's just too much work. This site only gets a little traffic, so I would need to build it up and then build something good to blog about. I'm just going to 301 it for now. Maybe in the future I will be inspired to do something better with it. Good thinking though. THANKS!

Thanks John.

I could turn it off each night and turn it on in the am...LOL ...or better yet redirect it to google.com each night and redirect to the real site in the am. The 301 works fine no matter the page.  Chances are most people would only type www.a.com and all the backlinks are to www.b.com (the real site)... The actually site is at the incorrect spelling....but it is a common misspelling. Thanks for the help.... I did not want to get goowacked for a simple thing.  That is a good new verb ...goowacked.  If you run out and regiester the term ....send me my royalties. Cheers

This is a great idea. Probably gonna use it

Thanks guys. You've confirmed what I suspected. A trim is definitely needed!