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Unfortunately no - client is finally moving to 2013 which is on IIS7 and have proper rewrite facility. There doesn't appear to be any decent way to accomplish it on 2010/IIS6.

Have you tried using a crawler to see what content it returns? e.g. http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php There's also a user agent switcher for Chrome (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg) that you can use to simulate Google. Hope that helps.

Any ideas, any working with photographers using zenfolio? or sites with large amount of sitewide links point back??

Thank you for your reply, this is interesting and I could keep it as a "backup" solution.

Even setting your location and cleaning your cache will not show the same results from a person that is actually in that location. Google uses SEVERAL factors, including ip addresses. I would suggest you open an incognito window / private window and then use a proxy/VPN provider to set your IP address as from that location, for example HMA (paid, but cheap). Hope that helps.

I agree to a point but if your running a company on the web I would I would open my Who is to allow people to see my company information. I would not use my personal email I would use an email that is tied to your company however has its own individual box and I would set the spam filter extremely high on it. I would also make sure that your company information is listed primarily for spam filters more than search engine optimization however I know that by opening it up you will not be a will to hurt yourself with the search engines by blocking it there's a possibility that you can however if you feel very uncomfortable having people see the information I completely understand however I would strongly recommend just having very general information and then letting your DNS host or web host serve as the technical contact Check this out #5I'm not saying that this is 100% right but it does make some sensehttp://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/the-5-easiest-ways-to-get-search-engines-to-trust-you/I hope this is of help sincerely, Thomas

I agree with DrPete.  You cant have the pages within the robot.txt otherwise Google will not crawl the pages and "see" the 301s to then update the index. Something else to consider is on the new pages, have them canonical to themselves.  We had a site that Google was caching old URLs that had 301 redirects that had been up for 2 years.  Google was finding the new pages and new titles and new content, but were referencing the old URLs.  We were seeing this in the SERPs and also in the GWT.  GWT was reporting duplicate content for titles and descriptions for sets of pages that were 301ed.  Adding the canonical to self helped get that cleaned up. Cheers.

I agree with Andrew.  If you use GA, custom variables are the way to go.  You can actually put several parameters onto a page and have them in plain English without have to have a bunch of crazy stuff in the URL.  We use this on a site and it works quite nice. What is great about this too, is that since this is all in GA and if you have goal and goal values setup you get all types of insights into what are the most valuable categories etc on your site. If you do need to change the URL, setup the 301 redirects from the old URL to the new URL and you should be fine, especially if you have a 1 to 1 relationship with those 301 redirects. One thing to consider, we have setup urls for articles etc that read like this www.domain.com/folder/######-page-name-slug-here.html The ###### is a ID number for the content that we use internally in our CMS.   We are then able to use the ###### as a fail safe in the URL structure if there is some other error in the url when it is types in or linked to for example www.domain.com/folder/######-page-name- www.domain.com/folder/######-page-name-slug-here. www.domain.com/folder/######-page www.domain.com/folder/######-page-nam www.domain.com/folder/######-Page-Name-Slug-Here.html www.domain.com/folder/######-page-name-slug-here.htm www.domain.com/folder/###### We setup our system so that if any of the examples wrong URLs occur above, the system can use the folder and the ID to always 301 redirect to www.domain.com/folder/######-page-name-slug-here.html As we have the ID as the absolute identifier.  We have found this helpful with the inevitable issues that may come up with an incomplete URL. Good luck!

I would use rel="canonical" instead.... Check this url: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/smartphone-sites/details

Yes, You should exclude coupons. I do, personally, at least.

Is this caboose that you propose adding to these pages relevant? If yes, then add it to the main body of the page.  Why attach it down there where nobody will see it? If no, then why are you slapping it to the bottom of the page.  Delete it.  If it is valuable content then publish on its own page.

Hi,I would suggest not to forget the Google Webmaster Guidelines, as they are updated frequently: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769?hl=en And youtube Google Webmasters help channel, for video guidelines, this will keep you updated. Recently there was a question to Matt, about linking multiple domains. As you can guess the answer was something like, if it's really worth to link it from a user point of view do it, anything else might be considered as spam. Here are some videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0-jw_PfwtY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzaimchdNpM To my opinion, from now on, anything that links or repeats too much, will be over optimization. I believe the task for google is to get people to act exactly the same online, as they would do offline. So to answer you question about linking, I would say, if you believe this link would be clickable and would  help your user to find the content - it should be ok.

Thanks for everyone's input! Without pointing any fingers, let's just say this is happening in the wild right now. It came as a bit of a surprise to me as I wouldn't expect Google to be fooled into ranking a site better for multiple keywords based on dynamic internal anchor text. To be clear, I have no evidence this technique is helping or that the motivation is to game Google for better rankings, but I haven't come up with any other reason. If it is working, I must admit, it's pretty clever...

+1 to Egol. Drop that article on your blog located on your domain and promote it socially and get people reading it. Forget sharing your article and spreading it out.. Duplicating it is a bad idea anyway. If it's great it's going to draw attention. Make that attention point to you.

Hi Mike, I am happy it worked out. you can use this to check as well http://seo-website-designer.com/Response-Redirect-Header-Checker All the best, Tom

Ok we are trying this approach. We have set up the 301 redirection for all URLs from .info as the content is exactly the same on .org. We will see how it will work. About your side note: all links were created by users of the site, we didnt do any link building strategy yet. It seems they are all using the brand keyword to link from us. Thanks for your suggestion.

Sorry to hear it. Been there, and had to deal with it also! Read this over to help you understand the best practice. It's a great learning piece that will help going forward SEO Redirection practices and the SEO guide to HTTP status Codes by Dr. Pete. Another great piece and article. It sounds like the a 302 temporary redirect is the best practice if you are only redirecting the site for 4-5 days. Then you can remove the redirect after the site is back up after the DNS failure taking place. Cheers!

It's all about link profile. GoDaddy may appear to get away with site footer links on domain holding pages, but they have a massive link profile, not least of which they gained during the whole SOPA/PIPA outrage. Chances are it's not harming their ranking overly much, but it certainly isn't helping it much either. Whereas a small web designer with a site wide footer link on every site they create could well have those as the vast majority of the total links - leading to a heavily skewed and very unnatural link profile. Now then I'm sure that some of the larger web design and service outfits got where they are with the help of site wide footer links, site widgets etc, but Google moved the goalposts so you can't take that route any more.

Thanks for those valuable inputs Karl. @Blink-SEO Just a quick glance at the site's IP revealed that stevesims.com is hosted on a shared web server with an IP address 195.238.172.64 that has about 1,134 domains hosted on it. There are few porn and other bad sites sharing this IP address. Though there are different views in this regard and this might not be the cause of current rank drop, I recommend this site to be moved to a better host with a dedicated IP as I recommend to all my clients who are serious about their online business. Also Google PageSpeed test for this site says that the server response time is sub-optimal and the score is 48% where it should have been ideally above 80%. Please look out for detailed analysis at a site like, gtmetrix.com. Next, I would recommend you to visit, http://www.barracuda-digital.co.uk/panguin-tool/ and check if (I am sure it is) this site is a victim of Penguin update and take it from there. You can then try bad link removal service like, http://www.removeem.com/ Hope this helps and good luck with your SEO audit. Best, Devanur Rafi.

Depending if it's a one-off or recurring event, you could also include a summary of what took place, and some teaser copy for next year: "Look at what you missed, watch this space for the 2014 conference" or some such. Otherwise 301 redirects are probably the way to go.