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Thanks Rick. Unfortunately these are articles and blogs. None of them are actually FORUMS. I'm really looking for other SEO related forums where the members ask and answer questions for eachother, like here at the Moz Q&A Forum.... Any other suggestions?

Cool. It's advisable to add canonical HTTP headers to the PDFs too, if you can.

Kurt, Just wanted to let you know, I decided to go with option 1 above.  This is the long route, but the purest form of SEO.  It will cost me more money up front, and will take time to develop, but I think its our best bet for the long run. Thanks again for your help.  I understand the canonical tag better now. Rob

Hi Noah, i would agree with all the above, and suggest that so long as there is enough content for each different element of the roofing service you provide, it would be a good idea to give them their own page. Just to further clarify Alex's point of categorisation. If you create a hub page that discusses roofing, you can create sub-pages for each element to it. To use an example: Www.example.com/roofing www.example.com/roofing/felt www.example.com/roofing/re-tiling www.example.com/roofing/anothercategory Using this structure, the /roofing page would act as a hub page to all of the content by containing an introduction to all of the sub-pages, becoming your landing page. The only other advice I would offer would depend on whether your business offers anything other than roofing services. If roofing is your sole area of operation then your homepage should act as the hub as described above as follows: Roofing.com roofing.com/felt Roofing.com/re-tiling roofing.com/another category The architecture section in the following article explains the idea of a hub page really well: http://moz.com/blog/how-to-rank Hope this helps, and best of luck! -Oli

Can't get mine to work either no matter what I do ughh!

Everything Jeff has there is the best way to combine the domains. You definitely don't want to mask and end up with duplicate content across .info, .org, .net, etc... Just send them to .com and use canonical tags

That is correct!

Thank you Ricky! Answered 2 of my inquiries in the past 24hours I like the option of having a NAV item called "cities we serve" with cities such as San Francisco landing to a Welcome Page having all the services displayed there with proper anchors(like you mentioned). Coming back to the NAV I'd like to see the San francisco splitting into the different service pages(attachment). g6t2AwQ.png

Hi Federico, Sorry for the delayed response. Yes. The extension should do the trick. Thank you! Dino

Thanks for the response Alan, really helpful to get another persons opinion. We're thinking that all  content detail needs to presented on ONE url regardless of the section that you arrive to it from and any inline content reveals will need to be unique to that section – so the content should be more relevant

Thanks for taking the time! +1 to that

you took offense for how I communicated, and for that I apologize.  However if you read the opening of my initial response, I stated that what I was going to write was a more complete response because over-simplification is very dangerous in our industry. People make jumps and leaps of assumption all too often when they don't have a more thorough understanding of the nuances of acceptable vs unacceptable.

Thank you much appreciated. I joined Moz for forum would you believe it I wanted somewhere I could go and post SEO questions, and where I would hopefully get answer, and I was hoping to get answers from "credible" people. So thanks. It's a shame that Moz took out the email the experts feature they used to have a few years ago. Anyway, onwards...

Yes, I am actually one of those third party affiliates, so I need to remove those pages from the index as currently there are 61,000 pages indexed (all duplicate, affiliate content). As I slowly build SEO pages I plan to index my SEO side of the site bit by bit. The strange thing is that teh SEM pages do have links, they are coming organically just from being in the publics eye.  In a way its a nice problem to have, as I'm hoping to capture the juice and funnel it over to the new SEO pages.  make sense? Best, Rob PS - i'm up for coffee anytime.  I'll let you know when I'm in town.

There's a link building section of the Moz Blog that will give you a lot of ideas, as well as our section on links in the Beginner's Guide to SEO at http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links.

Hi mark, Firstly I do not think that they suppose to rank on normal serp....if you got the rank on google image serp thats the best you will get. The 15th of November update focused on Google Image SERP and did boost lots of web sites that have dedicated landing pages with image presentation about specific products. It happened in one of my test blogs I use for testing various techniques to see what work and what doesnt. I did none of the optimisations you mention above, but I did on-page optimise the web page that hosts the image for the keywords I wanted it to rank, used top navigation anchors and that was it. No image alt tag, no resizing, nothing. Google just picked it up and ranked it. As I was testing the blog for link building and not image rankings that is what i can offer you atm and that was the effect it had on me with the 14th of november update. We are talking about 83.000% increase on impressions on Google Webmaster tools. so all I can advise is, do have a landing page with all your image products there but optimise the landing page for the keywords and not the image itself necessarily. Ofcourse doing the latter wont harm you but make sure that the page is optimised as well to be on the best/perfect side.

Apologies if I am jumping in, but I just wanted add something to the mix. I also have a very similar situation and I posted this question on this forum earlier today. So I was wondering, does it not matter that each website has geographic targeting for different countries on Google Webmaster? For example, we have a brochure website, and we are selling the same service in multiple countries. It make sense to have country specific domains. And it is very difficult to describe the same product 3 different ways. It just doesn't make sense. However, are you saying that the sites would need to have unique content or different content from each other even though their geographic targets are set to different countries. By the way my sites are starting small with around 10 pages each.

Hi Purple Indigo, If I can, I'll try and actually telephone the person I want the link from - this way they can't bin my enquiry out-of-hand without reading it! It is much, much easier to get the link you want if you can speak to the person (if the person runs a business local to me, I'll try and meet them for coffee to ask!) If I can't speak to a link prospect, I will email them. These have a lower success rate than the ones initiated by phone. We haven't created any link bait for our sites. This is mostly down to a lack of resource. I can't ask for a designer/writer's time for something that may not work. But, having said that, we do create a ton of regular advice articles (I work for a mortgage broker specialising in landlord mortgages) and these get linked to naturally (but there is no control over these links, but they are still very nice to have!!!) What are your preferred methods? Amelia

Thanks. That was a good read. I will make adjustments to that area soon.

Hi Luke, I think I'm going to need a little more information to fully understand your question. Could you give us the URL in question? Best, Kristina