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if its that close i agree also the word properties in your domain would help.

Hi Carlito, first of all there must be this breadcrumb information in the content of the page that Google can identify and understand it. Take a closer look at this link http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=185417

I'm not sure they dont matter, i would think that .pdf, .doc and. xps for example would be less usefull than a htm, asp, aspx. but David is correct, you are better of not haveing a file name. I develop using Microsoft Asp.MVC, there are no file names in MVC i believe seomoz is also written in MVC, cant remeber what tipped me off to that maybe some one from SEOMoz can confirm MVC also leaves very clean code, no postbacks or viewstate to clog up the code

Hi Haig, It seems the problem is that Google is ranking the www version of your website.  The reason why your website isn't being shown in the ranking report is because you entered it as vegashotel.com and thats what our web app is looking for in the SERPs but since www.vegashotel.com is ranking we miss it.  I do believe we have this fix in the works so it will be counted in the future but for now you will need to go into Google Webmaster Tools and specify that you want the non-www displayed. Casey

Hi Eyepaq, SEOmoz using a CDN to host all of our images, though we set up a DNS change so they can be hosting on a third party server but listed at cdn.seomoz.org.  Doing what you are talking about shouldn't effect any of your "juice" if you are just using it to display your images using the img tag or via css.  You pdfs might be affected since you are using a <a href="">tag which tells Google you are linking to that file.  In the long run you will be much better off than anything you might lose by doing something like this.</a> <a href="">Casey</a>

Thanks - Ill go with the TAG.

When Google finds more than one document (ie URL) with the same content, it has to define which of them is the representative document of the cluster. In doing this it looks at inbound link metrics, essentially, plus date of the page, pagerank and other factors. In this decision, it can be wrong, indexing a page that can hurt you indexation (consider this situation: it indexes as representative document page 2 of a listing page in descending order: new items in this category end to be at page 2 or later and are less likely to be discovered). The canonical tag can be a good solution, even if it is a hint and not a rule to Google...

If those pages are indexed by Google and Google returns them in SERPs then yes, they will 404. That is why you need to test the page first and do a header redirect 301 to either the category page or the home page. Hope that was the This Answered My Question : )

Great advice from everyone!!! Thanks! Saibose - If I add a twitter, FB or blog feed to my site, and it updates daily, this will help the rate that google crawls my site? Does it matter that it is embeded content?

If it'll be a couple months, a 301 makes sense. Get it fixed as soon as possible and get things setup with proper 301's and you'll be okay!

Until MichaelC shows up Sounds reasonable, I would also put a canonical tag on it saying the / is the official page. What might also be an option is to put a parameter on like ?hm (if possible) and in Webmaster Tools - Site Configuration > Settings > Parameter Handling you can tell them to ignore the ?hm. However I'm not sure how well that works and I would have the canonical in there as well.

Duplicate content is no longer a penalty reason - google will only decide who of them is the original source and list in the search engine results the appropriate source. Sometimes however the one that in fact is the one that did copied the content is getting listed first and the original source is getting down in search results.

I am fairly sure that Pagerank is now constantly updated, it may well be that they only adjust the visible pagerank every three months though. I can only say this next bit speculatively because I don't have the data (I would love to see the periods and numbers for the site above), but the cap itself might be a somewhat fluid idea, pages may be retained in the index as they are discovered but get pared back to their "hard cap" periodically.

Here's some ideas from yesterday -http://www.seomoz.org/q/site-structure - maybe worth checking some of them out.

So is the solution for stem queries to attack offsite with increased relevant, promoted content? Or is it also 'fattening' relevant content on page?

You've pretty much confirmed my suspicions. I can set the redirects up myself, its just been about 5 years since I've done any SEO work. What I meant was should I mod_rewrite or "redirect 301 /oldurl /newurl" ...I've forgot a lot of stuff that I used to do with ease. My own sites were always started off right and weren't as bad as the one I'm working on now, so I'm in unfamiliar territory. Thanks for your advice, I appreciate it

I would recommend doing SEO to the site particuliarly if you are going to promote via TV ads or anything other than PPC that could result in search queries. The reason being is you could capitalize on QDF, real-time results and auto suggest queries. To keep it extremely efficient make the page a template where you can just change the "keyword" in a file & save so it updates on the site. A slightly more lowtech way would be a global find & replace on the html file for the "keyword". Basically, you do the onsite SEO once and then spend 5 seconds updating to the new keyword every 5 days. You will want to post a short blog post each time there is a new promo to help get the search index updated quickly; just make sure to ping the appropriate services with your blog. For offsite I'd recommend the general social media sites (facebook, twitter) and any extremely relevant niche social media/forum/community sites. If these are promotions that would appeal to mom bloggers & deal finding sites then do an outreach campaign telling the site owners you are going to have a new promo every five days and offer to give them a "heads up" before the general public. You can then build an e-mail list & blast out the promo to them. At the same time you can offer to have them follow your promo twitter account.

Also make sure you 301 redirect every page of the old site to its counterpart on the new .com site. So many people just redirect their home page but forget about the rest or don't know how to do it right. And you don't just want all your old pages redirecting to the new home page. Every page should go to it's .com counterpart. Make sure that is going on and that will help you avoid losing too much in the rankings.