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I saw that in WEBMASTERTOOLS has an option to change address. There is a manual for change of address. In the case also for 301 redirection: https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=pt-BR&answer=93633 One of the guidelines is: You're joining two sites and want to make sure that the links to outdated URLs are redirected to the correct pages. So I think that is okay to do multiple 301, since the very google guides. : )

There is an good article on this issue here.

Putting a blog or other content on your website that is marketing focused to complement the content that is primarily meant for your business or customers is a good idea. This type of content allows one to drive new traffic, to get links in, or  to get social shares. It would be good to keep  it on the same domain and to use subfolders. Like footballgames.com/blog or footballgames.com/articles. But you do have to avoid stuff that might make your blog appear manipulative for SEO purposes. Try to link  across intelligently from your blog to your business content and vise versa. Don't have anchor text rich links on  every page of your blog linking over to the business pages. Optimize the blog to be helpful to visitors not just for the benefit of the crawler. A blog should try to entertain, educate, and build  trust with your audience so that one can improving the site's browse rate and get people to look at more pages. Hope this helps.

Hi William, Thanks for your opinion - I must admit it still seems strange to me.  OK so they want to give the Twitter homepage more authority - but in doing so make it less likely that individual profiles get ranked?  Obviously they are aware that Google will index deeper pages anyway, as that's exactly what they are doing.  I know that canonical is a hint, but it seems pointless when they must get a load of value from profile pages. Would love to hear from somebody who has a really good idea of why - still a mystery to me! Thanks, Mark

Hi Stephen, The URL's in question are: UK version: http://www.avogel.co.uk/health/menopause/ Irish version: http://www.avogel.ie/health/menopause/ Any help would be appreciated. Kind Regards

Astrid, David is right; you will put almost the entire backlinks' profile of .net at risk. The quantum of the risk and the subsequent results are factors that nobody would be able to predict with perfection.

1. Is it possible to redirect everything from www.boughtsite.com to www.mycompanysite.com while leaving the other sub-domain sites active? These other sites have different audiences than our main site. Yes. You can redirect anywhere from a single URL to the whole website. You can certainly redirect the www subdomain. 2. Would it be an okay solution to just place a link on boughtsite.com to mycompanysite.com telling visitors "We have been re-branded to  My Company" If you redirect the www subdomain, where will you place this link? You mentioned the subdomains will remain active and have different audiences so the link does not seem to be helpful there. The www domain will be redirected so no one will ever see the page. 3. Can I use an i-frame to move customsite1.boughtsite.com to www.mycompanysite.com/customsite1 instead? Can you? Sure. But why would you want to? What are you trying to achieve with the iframe?

Ha,ha..Oh sorry! I didn't catch that. And yah, he is one happy little panda.

Thanks Russ, It is set up wtih #, so users can easily link to & navigate to a specific page. It is quite a undertaking to transition, so we are primarily looking for business reasons for why it may help us.

Rand recommends a pre-emptive reconsideration request if you really don't know the source of the bad tactics. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/negative-seo-myths-realities-and-precautions-whiteboard-friday

This is a difficult question because the buy-in of the authors (faculty) matters. What you really want is that each blog created is regularly updated with good, fresh, vibrant content. If only 1 of the 20 faculty members is actually going to blog regularly, you will probably want to create a single blog and have them post to various categories. Otherwise, you will end up with one regularly updated blog and a ton of dead ones. If you have good buy in, I would create blogs on a category basis. It is highly unlikely that these blogs will be accessed by people looking for the faculty members specifically, so they don't each need their own blog.

Hi Adam, Thanks for your reply. I suppose what I could do is mention to them that if they are taking content from our website, they must have at the bottom of each page 'Text supplied by Company Name' the company name supplies a keyword that we target. I have actually just noticed that there are many retailers out there who are copying our content from our product pages without me knowing, I noticed this by copying a pasting the first paragraph of a number of my product pages, however what is strange that these websites come above my product pages, is this something to worry about? is Google giving me full credit for these pages? Kind Regards

Superb, I thought so but I'd recently heard otherwise but I thought I'd double check. Thanks for the quick reply! Adam

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Thanks Sha! that was incredibly useful

Commas in the URL aren't necessarily at an SEO disadvantage. It might be a good idea to change them for better usability and better CTRs, but as Russ says, I don't think this is an urgent task.

Since you are running an e-commerce site look into deploying some micro-formats / rich snippets. So pop over to schema.org and start implementing some of them. They are perfect for what you do as you can tie your reviews and stock details into every item