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Hello Adam, Thank you very much for your answer. I can see your point in keyword domains becoming less and less beneficial for seo but if you were to chooce a domain for targeting greek market what would you choose from the ones that I have mentioned? Would a .me be a good idea for google.gr? Do second level domains have good chances? are subdomains good for seo? I know some questions need a lot of discussion but if you were to pick one of thoose, what would you get? Thank you again, George,

I actually like it - think it makes sense for what you're describing, and I don't think I'd change it. The other option might be a 301 redirect or simply linking to only one site, but then you'd be changing branding/domain and possibly losing the customer.

I think that is not a problem, because when the someone arrive to medical web site realizes that the comunity is very big and professional. obviously everyone must write about the self experience and his work. Maurizio

Never a bad idea to connect with others anyway, maybe consider an anchor text review at the same time.

Hi Jason, As for as the bots are concerned, there is no difference between subdomains or subfolders in terms of SEO. I've always gone with subfolders, myself, as I find them easier to manage than a bunch of different subdomains, but you are free to use whichever format with which you are most comfortable. Just make sure you are creating really good, unique content for these city landing pages to avoid looking manipulative. Remember, true Local rankings hinge on physical location - not service area - so these city landing pages will need o be thought of as more organic than local, and all traditional SEO tactics apply.

I hear you! Well they are at the "fore front" of the RV industry. And actually I really like some of what they bring to the table, some of the more obvious things like title tags and meta descriptions I have little control over which is frustrating! We are supposed to get an update to the site here in a week or two, I'm hoping some of this will be taken care of. But we can't switch right now, because honestly they are probably one of the best in the industry as sad as that sounds and we drop in rankings and it's a big pain everytime we switch companies. I'm going to look into getting their name taken off of our site. It might be part of the contract, I'm not sure. I have also been trying to make unique content for each page, but I usually do a little at a time. Any advice I welcome from as I'm a beginner at SEO. So my take aways from you are: Unique Title Tags

Also, if I am not mistaken Google said that if you disavow a link it would most likely take a few weeks to months for it to start happening.  Since the new functionality is only a few days old, I doubt anybody would see results yet.

Hey, in theory, this would be okay, but I would certainly do some quite specific redirects so each page on the first site points to the most relevant page on the second site. This is one of those things, in theory, if there is nothing untoward, then you will be fine. If you are doing this to gobble up the SEO value of site A and combine it into site B and you do it in an unnatural way, you may have problems. There is a good post here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-guide-how-to-properly-move-domains It's an old one about moving domains but it is a good one and is just as relevant today. Hope that helps! Marcus

I can't agree more with William Lau. When I build links I always do it naturally. If I find a website that is the perfect fit for my campaign then I am going to attempt to get the link regardless of whether it is follow or no-follow. This is natural link building.

Going back and changing 1,000 pages probably isn't reasonable, but you can keep this in mind when moving forward and creating new content. Front-load your recipe description and steps 1 and 2 of the recipe so important information comes in the first 60 characters. Best of luck!

Make them relevant to the site & valuable to the users seeing them. Don't make them just say "Click here for linkbest broker Seattlelink" but create something cool for the visitors of that site, like "Check out Johns 2 minute video guide to picking the best broker for your financial situation" That way "link juice" from those sites will just be a by-product from doing this & you get considerable value with referral traffic as people actually click through those links.

Are those URLs (or URLs like them - I realize they're just examples) actually being used in internal links, or are you just saying that they all resolve? The case-sensitivity thing isn't a huge issue, and the canonical tag would work well for that. Otherwise, you'd have to 301-redirect every possibly version (and 98% of them will never be used). I'd really focus on fixing the internal links first, and then 301 or canonical the versions you used internally (or that have inbound/external links). For the "Default.aspx" version, I think 301s are a little better, but ASPX can be a bit persistent about that, so it's a bit hard to advise. Sometimes, you are constrained by the platform. The biggest difference is that a 301-redirect will also redirect people, so they'll be more likely to link to the proper version. The canonical tag only impacts Google. Both work reasonably well, though, and do pass on most link-juice if used properly.

Sorry but think you are missing the point. I have sites that have 1000's of links all good quality and they only just scrape PR4.  This is a dead site with poor link profile, no content and inbuilt redirect and no activity for 5 years. A couple of good links would not normally warrant a PR4.

Hey, no worries, glad it helped!