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Thanks to both of you, I've now downloaded the toolbar which is making things so much easier. Much appreciated guys Paul

I just thought of something else, if I do a robots.txt disallow to this parameter, wouldn't it kill all the rankings from external links to pages that contain this parameter?

yes u can cookie the user based on IP and send them to the appropriate place. since bots aren't browser based they can't accept cookies and see the default content. dunno why they need to do this though

Hi Corey Thanks for the response. I'm looking at 301's and adding them in as required.  Hosting is Apache based.  As always as going through the data there were pre-existing issues that me beign causign a knock on effect. Cheers Mark

Kristian. A few things i think this would play off of would be A. Your keyword research. ( The page that had the title " State Job " what is the keyword you are trying to rank for on that page ") It would really matter. B. Run the Url you are getting the link from through open site explorer and take a look at the link juice . Age of site. etc. Ideally you want the .gov link to link to your homepage to pass the most juice, but it really matters on your keyword research. If the State job page is not far deep into the Linking Architecture of your site it should be fine. .GOV links are important links so maximize your efforts. Ask yourself where would it benefit your more. If the answer is to your homepage then , Maybe do a blog roll on the home page that references State Jobs. i.e.: if your homepage visually and with body context is about left say construction jobs, it wouldnt be a good idea to link it to the homepage. Unless the .Gov site is specifically talking about Contractor jobs. I hope i was clear. Let me know some of the info so i can further help you out Best Wishes, & Happy Holidays Hampig M. BizDetox

As far as the post-panda world goes, I found this post to be helpful for both beginner and advanced SEOs alike: http://www.whitefireseo.com/site-architecture/subdomain-or-subfolder-post-panda/360/

Just test on a demo server before going live and back everything up. There shouldn't be much of a difference between transferring homepage v other pages (although without knowing a specific CMS, I can't give any specific tips). Make sure canonical urls are correct and run a crawler to test for broken links.

Try this tag instead since you are going to use exactly the same content on your website – _However, you are free to set Google Cross domain canonical. For more information - _ _http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/credit-where-credit-is-due.html_

To make sure that the visitor encounters all the landing page elements that will help them make a decision to take your desired call to action, the eye flow should be well-thought-out. Good eye flow makes the consumption of the information being shared in the page quicker for the site visitor and ensures that they end up seeing your desired call-to-action. Tips: Arrange web page components in a logical visual hierarchy. Determine the order in which you want the viewer to look, and design your web page to support that order. To learn more about visual hierarchy, read the following guides: "Working with Visual Weight in Your Designs", "Creating Focal Points in Your Web Design" and "Using Power Structure and Gestalt for Visual Hierarchy". Use graphical elements to your advantage. Arrows, icons and attractive images can help direct the eyes of users towards an area of a web page. Use high-contrast foreground colors on certain web page components. If an element has a bright color relative to its background and surrounding elements, it’s likely to garner attention. i hope this information will help you!!! Good luck

Domaining is a huge industry in itself, but yes, there are some good ones out there.  dnforum.com and namepros.com have been two sites that interest me a lot. General guidelines- .com's are by far worth the most based on supply/demand, especially anything with a single dictionary word or 2-4 letters (less always better, no numbers always better).  Other TLD's can be worth something, but seem to see much less consensus on their value.  Even the above- it does vary.  Sometimes you see a fish.com sell for $1 mil.  I've seen other dictionary words go for south of $5k (although that's been a little while). At the end of the day, I would only consider what it's worth to you though.  I personally don't think that .com's will ever go anywhere, but the Internet is fast-paced, and there are no guarantees.  There are some pros out there that are buying some pretty fancy boats off of buying and selling, but they do it in large volumes, and play the numbers.  Personally, I ran a hosting company for 7 years, and had to resist a whole lot of temptation to buy up domains based on the enormous wealth of data of data on other webmasters kept in good faith that I had at my fingertips. After leaving to start my own inbound marketing agency, I bought the domain of my last name (northcutt.com) for more than you've suggested, but there were real reasons (most of all, that I was left with little else than my personal brand to side-step into a totally different industry, and I had the chance to do it).   But that price was built into my startup budget.  Whatever you go with, I'd just make sure it's something you're happy with typing thousands of times, and explaining to people how to access.  A lot.  Anything short and memorable can also work well, and I wouldn't worry too much about weird TLD's for SEO anymore.  Personally, I'm a big fan of .io domains as well.  

Thanks Chris -- yes, you nailed it.  I have seen this strategy used lots of times, but it just occurred to me today that it was probably a mistake.

Hi Andrea, Thanks for your replies. I decided to retrieve the old domain and do 302 redirect from the new domain to the old one. I will let google index the old one completely once again and only then i will do 301. Would love to hear what you think about that. Thanks, Eliran.

Nice article on 'Money Keyword' Anchor text. All of our search results links' anchor text is unique and we have over 60,000 of these pages. I am pretty sure they will be diversified enough. They are all somewhat specific, so I am pretty certain they will not match exactly what the user searches for in Google most of the time. Another question that has come up. For example, 2 of my pages are competing in google: A product page ranking 4th, and a dynamic search results page ranking 5th. Would no-indexing the search results page make the product page shoot up higher than 4, or is the purpose of removing competition just to guide the user more specifically where I want them? As long as I use the the noindex tag in a robots.txt file correctly, do I have your blessing? Thanks so much!

Don't waste your money.

You are very welcome Paul and thanks for the compliment. I am working on another post, but am torn where to post it, my own blog or YouMoz. In YouMoz they get more exposure, but my own blog is desperate for new content, lol...We'll see I guess. Let me know what you decide, 3rd part vs. YouTube. I'm interested to know what you experience.

My pleasure, Jake, and good luck with the changes.

Looks awesome! Thanks so much! I've just taken a look and can't see the process clearly - users upload their own content is that it then share effectively using the platform?

You are correct, it is for company name/branding. Our current site is not ranking especially well. It only seems to do amazing for branded search terms.

I'm a little confused to your questions.  Can you explain a little more. Internal Link structure does have correlation with rankings.  I really should say that "smart internal linking" has correlation to rankings. Also, external links (obviously) It may be a situation where some pages are linked to more than others.  Have you used any tools (opensiteexplorer.org or WebMasterTools) to see your site's links? If you can, post a link to your site so we can see it and explain a little more about your questions.