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My suggestion would be to review the quality of the content on the site. If the site does host good quality content, then i would recommend submitting your articles on them. If they look spammy and dont really have meaningful content posted that the visitors can benefit from, i'd stay away from it.

In my opinion, i don't think you will derive a lot of SEO benefit from hosting the yahoo answers. You are better off building your own Q&A database . It is definitely more work and time consuming however there can be a lot of benefit in investing time and resources in this. There is an old post referring to Q&A as a strategy that you can access here.

Thanks that was good detailed info.  We are starting to do most of those things over the next 1-2 months and hope to see the outcome we want!

Keep them. The more content the better plus the pages probably accrued PR as long as it's accurate info and not outdated. If these pages have PR you might want to consider streamlining the links on these pages to pass PR to the homepage or main landing pages.

I have just done a test with another wordpress site I run. I changed the permalinks and the old URLs got redirected to the new URLs. I checked if the redirect was a 301 and it was. I dont have the redirection plugin installed. It appears as though wordpress does this automatically.

Hello, I wouldn't bet on it, but there's no harm in trying

Hi Keri, http://www.seomoz.org/blog/anchor-text-distribution-avoiding-over-optimization the author  Geoff Kenyon says that he would recommend a 7:3 ratio branded vs. exact.. Do you think this Ratio is good? <imo>the algorithms are not going to "always" rank a site with a 7:3 ratio over a site with a 6:4 ratio they are not "only" looking at the quality of links and the anchor ratios to rank a site, they are also looking at social media indicators.  </imo> I did read an article on seomoz about Wikipedia pages which outrank many sites and have mostly exact links.. However, Wikipedia's root domain has mucho trust and authority  so this would not be a good enough indicator

I want to create a widget, distribute it, and once it spreads or goes virals have the ability to change the anchor text and URLs which link back to my site remotely. As for search engines i don't see any issue in doing this - because there's nothing wrong with it and its definitely not blackhat. More being Smart. Plus its designed to boost authority, and build the brand rather then individual keywords.

it must be blocked using the robots.txt file. Submitting http://mydomain.com/folder/ would remove all objects which reside under that folder including all web pages, images, documents and files.

What are some examples of the "non-existent" URLs that are getting indexed, Bryan? It's going to be pretty hard to diagnose this without actually seeing the site. Paul

that's a great list Dana :). thanks for sharing.

Marcus is dead on.

i would say that it's ok to have outbound links on your site as long as the links are to established trusted sites. More on the topic on this link including a quote from Matt Cutts on this question . http://lincontex.com/the-missing-link/googles-matt-cutts-vindicates-controversial-theory-behind-lincontex-com/

I just installed webbug.  Do I just enter the url and then click "get"? Where would I typically see if it's giving me a 301? This is what I see HTTP/1.1 200 OKServer: nginx/0.7.65Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:13:37 GMTContent-Type: text/htmlContent-Length: 899Last-Modified: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:58:50 GMTConnection: closeAccept-Ranges: bytes WP Engine - Finely Tuned WordPress Sorry, we couldn't find the domain you're looking for. Did you just signup?  We're still creating the account. Did you point DNS to the correct IP address? Please find the current IP address for your site, under the WP Engine plugin page in the /wp-admin/ for your site. Did you configure the domain under your account at WP Engine? * * * If you've completed the above, then please contact us at help.wpengine.com, so we can help get this fixed as soon as possible. [image: lost-01-580x434.jpg]

Ok another tricky situation. First of all, I would like to ask you to create a Google Webmaster Account with a new Gmail id for this Domain.org [since you are worried about the association, though I can assure you there is no such thing as association with a penalize website will incur penalty for other websites ]. _So, you need to create a Google Webmaster Tools account to figure out whether the website has got penalized by Penguin update. If you have received any message in Google Webmaster Tools account regarding link warning, you need to get all the spammy links removed before applying for a reconsideration request. However, if this is an algorithmic penalty, you need to give a try to Disavow Link option. _

Hi Kami, It's unfortunate, but a number of modern day e-commerce platforms still suffer from poor canonicalisation and multiple URL's. If possible, rather than blocking off access to those queries via robots.txt or meta, I'd start by trying to specify a canonical URL when a query is created. E.G Query: http://www.dellamoda.com/Designer-Accessories.html?sort=title&use_selected_filter=Y&view=all Canonical: http://www.dellamoda.com/Designer-Accessories.html Failing that I'd try to implement a "follow,noindex" meta tag or via x-robots if you're any good with apache. If that's still a no go, then try GWT, Google is getting much better at handling dynamic URL's within e-commerce platforms and you can specify which queries Google should ignore directly within GWT There's a great post on Moz that deals with e-commerce and canonicalisation - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/qa-from-ecommerce-seo-fix-and-avoid-common-issues-webinar - I'd suggest starting there! As a last resort I'd look to block the URL's within robots.txt, but this prevents crawlers from flowing freely within your site and can result in poor indexation.

Thanks for your answer. Does an over-optimization penalty normally affects all rankings or only the rankings of those keywords, you over-optimized for? In our case, rankings for all the other keywords stayed the same or even improved during this time.