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Spencer, a most excellent question IMO. I am going to stick my neck out here and say use it on both. It took some thinking and digging for me to wrap my head around it, but I think I have it: You should only use rel=pub on one page of the site. Given that, you use it on the one that is your brand or which has the most traffic, gets lots of plus ones, etc. But, you said this:  We also have a community subdomain... I think the subdomain should be treated as its own site and let it also have rel=pub to the G+ of your main site. The individuals who write, whether for UGC or your experts writing will be rel=author for their pieces. By doing it this way you can aggregate the plus ones to your G+ from all which gives your site a better profile in the eyes of the Google. This opens a lot of doors for you (at G's choice obviously.  Now, I am certainly open to being wrong, but if you think about it for a moment it makes sense in this way: If your firm owns multiple sites (we are a marketing firm and we own a few properties ourselves outside of the main site) but your brand is what owns them, then you can be the pub of all. Again, the individuals writing will be the rel=author.  I look forward to more comments. Most excellent question for forcing us to think.

I know crazy right

THIS. IS. FRIGHTENING.

if you come up with a big idea, and link the page in the idea, you will get tons of links

+1 to what Doug said. A nofollow link can still drive a lot of value in the form of traffic. Looking for additional ways to turn that page into a linkable resource would probably be the best use of your time, rather than trying to figure out which specific links will have the most benefit.

This is a fantastic answer, thank you.

I've used Link Detox for a while. I've found that all Toxic links are classified appropriately, but that's not always the case for suspicious and healthy. Links marked as moderate, low risk, or very low risk can still be coming from spammy directories, link lists, massive resource pages, etc. And on the opposite side, sometimes links from BlogSpot blogs will be marked as suspicious even though it's a legit blog that linked naturally to you. They're just flagged because they have few backlinks or low trust. It's best to do a manual review of each link to see what's really worth keeping. I've used Link Detox with Rmoov in the past and had good results with it. Rmoov is easy to use and keeps track of everything for you in a Google Doc.

Hi Richard, It sounds like the best way to answer your question would be to use an example and think about it from a user point of view. Let's say you own a hotel site with the following URL structure: www.example.com/hotels/london  - (in your case this would be your www.example.com/venue/paris page) If I was a user and I now want to see all hotels, it would make sense that the page www.example.com/hotels/ would show me that. If it doesn't and I get redirected to a less important page I would find that strange. Forgetting Google for a minute it's also not good to put users through an internal redirect as it's slower and if users see the URL change it can confuse them. To summarize, I would remove the 301 redirect and create a category page as it's better for your users and can have a chance of ranking for a category keyword. I hope this helps, Craig

Thanks David, at this stage I have set up site to no index follow tag pages. Thanks for blog usability feedback. Related posts is next on the list of to do for the blog.

Thanks Francisco

How can I get these links? Requesting other to add something about us in their Wikipedia page. IS their any trick in your knowledge that can help us. Can you tell me the status of this page?

You are wondering why a 301 creates an entirely new URL is because it redirects to another outside link it can be outside of your domain or inside. Your domain the content of your site obviously was from the links units on Google does not look too kindly on sites that we could possibly not being wanted by some households as it is not for children. I only use screaming frog  to do it quick audit of you links your site free up to 500 pages http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/ Here is best manual for screaming frog http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/screaming-frog-guide Honestly you may have some trouble because the content of your site this however if this is illegitimate business Please do not take offense at all as some of the keywords you were drinking for our big negatives in this business For us that are not making those sites. I hope this is going to help, Thomas

Answer to First question: I don't think anybody knows yet as Disavow just hasn't been around long enough yet. But what I read is that it causes Follow links from the "bad" domains to list to be considered NoFollow links and therefore harmless. Answer to Second question: Yes, yes, and no.  I wrote about this in another posting yesterday here: http://moz.com/community/q/google-disavow-file-update Good luck!

Hi, I am having the same difficulty trying to find a good strategy for long tail SEO for our ecommerce clients, considering that it is difficult to have long content on our product pages as it is not recommended, as well as the fact that it is quite difficult to compete with the likes of amazon, walmart, and even your own distributors! As such, I am thinking that to target long tail keywords, it would best be wise to create a blog consisting of different content and media that targets your specific keywords AND within an article for example, link back to your product page within the long tail anchor text your targeting to the product page everytime. In addition, you could also take advantage of testimonials and reviews for targeting long tail keywords on your product page. Hope that helps. Thanks

Okay. That makes sense. I will do a link profile check on each of the domains parked and 302 redirect on selected names. Others will be pointed to some other location to collect the  type in visitors. Thank you.

Mozrank is primary a metric of link popularity. So the only way to improve it is to get more high authority links. More info: http://moz.com/learn/seo/mozrank

Yes I am using Magento. I did exactly what you said but I think magento set it up wrong. Please see my other question that I just made listing what went wrong.

Great! - thanks for your help You were right about the search terms. I looked at site search through GWT and both types of customer use a slightly different language & i will use this data & add it to my keywords for each site. Cheers, Ben

Sorry for slow response kids school holidays have started! Yeah Doug i thought their on-page was well stuffy, almost spammy but some how they still get away with it. What i have noticed on a few tests we have done in May / June is how quickly I can get a new site to rank for 2 or 3 keywords and stick in a matter of weeks. Bang goes my theory of building one great website and it's back to building micro sites specific and not have all eggs in one basket. Tom I know I should not get wound up by it, but when you spend 10 years on a brand / site to be beaten by some crappy sites it's hard to swallow, like anchovies Dan yeah the site has ranked high for a while, and I see his other sites doing well, I may wake up one day and he gets hit across his network but to date that's not happened and I am not sure he is actually breaking any Google rules.

Hi there - I'm not 100% sure without looking, but I do know that depending on where you get your PR it might be "toolbar pagerank" which is not updated often, and not current to what your actual PR is. Did the other pages have any PR before? But as Mike said, I doubt this has caused an actual drop in PR. -Dan