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Actually the last couple of YouMOZ posts have dealt with the subject. Might be worth readin and making a decision from there - http://www.seomoz.org/ugc

Wondering why you would recommend this solution vs. confining such redirects to the .htaccess file. Thanks.

I don't think they need to circulate their content anymore as it's highly distributed already. I'm also not completely sure about this, but I think google ignores the pound # tag. As it's so commonly used as an anchor and for ajax/javascript. Try searching # in google

Depending on the type of listing, well optimised Places listings could help significantly, particularly if you can get your client to work with their clients to post reviews on the listings. In almost all cases where we've actively engaged the client, more reviews and high rated reviews helps us easily outrank competitors - a single review where there was none before often gets our Places listing on the first page of serps for some of our target keywords.

You are not the only one that is frsustated with this, please post url i can only guess without it.

Never for seo but it is good to use on blog comments or where you dont want to rick linking to a spam site. but for SEO, no-follows still lose link juice. even for a login page i would still no use it, as linking to a login page that links back to your home page can be usefull in link sculpting

Hi Rishad - depending on the way the blog format is built and the backend technology, this might be either a bit challenging or quite simple. If, for example, you're using Wordpress, you can simply use the same exact format, but republish the existing content at the new URLs (essentially changing where the installed version of the blog publishing software points). If, however, you've got something custom, you'll need the developers/engineers to make changes in the codebase to publish at the new URLs. For everything old, you'll want to create what's called a "rewrite rule" - either ISAPI rewrite (if using Microsoft/ASP/.NET/IIS base) or mod_rewrite (if using Apache/LAMP). Your developers should be familiar with how to do these, but if not, there's some good, more details resources here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/url-rewrites-and-301-redirects-how-does-it-all-work http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection The fact that it's on a subdomain won't make a huge difference - it should just make the rewriting and the pain from potential lost Google juice less harsh. One thing I'd also suggest - sending in new XML Sitemaps via Google + Bing Webmaster Tools when you relaunch. You want them seeing those new URLs quickly (link building to the new blog location and tweeting/FB sharing those URLs can help, too). Best of luck! Rand

Thanks for the reply. It confirms what I thought. I just wanted to get input from more experienced colleagues so I could make an informed decision.

Use words like: Kangaroo, Fosters, Wallaby, Shrimps, Barbie, Castlemaine XXXX, Strewth? Ah, the double English problem (rising to the triple and quadruple when thinking about USA and Canada). I can give you a few things but I've not had enough success with any to say they are undoubtedly the way forward. Another site a) Subfolder - /aus/ b) Subdomain - aus.domain c) New TLD - domain.com.aus Rather than hash out the pros and cons here's a recent Whiteboard Friday - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-where-to-host-and-how-to-target-whiteboard-friday Also check the comments for some good suggestions and sites.

The problem with serving content for different channels is that crawlers read 2 pieces of the same content and can penalize you. There a few workarounds for that.One is obviously the fact that you can add a rel=canonical tag, but if you are serving same content due to only channels, it may pose an issue. Example: if your webpage URL is www.mywebsite.com/abc (which can be accessed via navigational links on your website) and you have a url www.mywebsite.com/xyz which you use for mobiles, PPC or any other channel, but both having the same content, it will cause problems. The way to deal with such issues is adding parameters (campaign id, etc) to 1 URL to tell google that you are using this version of the page(the one with campaign id) for some specific channel. If you are making your website ready for the mobile, the best way is to tackle is to write device detection codes in your htaccess file. It may look something like this: RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.iPad.$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://ipad.mydomain.com [R=301] If you are serving content in different languages, then it shouldnt be much of a problem (generally speaking)

LOL I don't know why, but I'm addicted to this Q&A : ) I like helping people, and I think that is why I like SEO so much. It allows me to help people achieve something they themselves would not be able to.

So you're saying that in the webpage file itself, at the top if (isset($_GET["mobile"]){ $_SESSION["mobile"] = $_GET["mobile"]; $url = //Get the current URL, use RegEx to strip query strings header("Location: " . $url); } ?> If that's the case, and if in fact that's SEO friendly, I definitely like that idea!

thank you Sameer, thank you Peter, very useful!

I see  no reason to have duplicate titles regardless of the reasoning. You are loosing keyword potential. There has to be other supporting keywords you did not use on strong pages that you could supplement on non competing pages.

I am also with Spencer on this one. If the new site is done, then 301 the old site to the new and just maintain the backend on the old. If you admin logon is on the same domain, you might have to 301 individual pages over to the new site.

Sorry. I just noticed that my link in my earlier response was broken. Here is the correct links http://bit.ly/feg8co

Well, thats what this q&a is for, isn't it? Glad I could help

You are welcome Not going to lie - this q&a section is really fun to play around with

The links on our link exchange script accounted to about 2% of websites total links, most of our link building has been through natural articles and websites posting about us. So even if Google discounted our links via link exchange - this wouldn't of made us drop this much? I agree with you.  That's a very small number and unlikely to be the problem. The duplicate content issue is fixed. Excellent! I have removed the link exchange script. Good.... Even if I link as www.freemoviedb.com as anchor text, will it still help me rank for my keywords? Yes, you'll want to keep a number of links out there with your keyword anchor text, as that still has a high effect on ranking for a particular term.  But you'll want to present a link profile that has a more natural "mix" of keywords and your domain to avoid getting flagged as spammy.