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I have the same question and i would love to hear more ideas.

Thanks I followed up with a couple of the respondents to your question, since I believe my situation presents a unique case... Zak

Thanks for your answers, I think the first has more importance for Google, as it is for the user. Too bad the study can't be found anymore !

Keri, You never cease to be able to recall the good stuff. Funny, its been a busy week so am just getting to some of this. Great post here, thanks.

thanks, but the 'scrape similar' extension in chrome doesn't seem to behave in the same way as importxml on google docs or xpathonurl in niels bosma's seotools for excel

oh... I like this a lot better.  The homepage is much more substantive.  I hope that others who know the last "look" will say what they think. Here are a couple other things to consider..... Your "Get connected" area is really big... that could be reduced to a sleek set of buttons.   If you make them very sleek you can place them on ever page of the site - perhaps in the same location - top of right column?.  In my opinion people will be more likely to share a property than they will be to share your site.  So I would want the share buttons on the property listings page. I don't know your revenue model. However, the way that you make money would determine if the property listings are on the right or on the left.... and how I place listing links on other pages of the site.   If you are being paid for leads then you want to place them where they will get maximum use. Your paragraphs...  "Whether you're looking for....  ".... Honestly.... I would either CHOP that severely.  That is something that most people will never read, yet it will push down links that lead to sales every time someone visits a site.  If those links are making money I would bring them up. Can you get listings on pages such as "Keowee Key"?... That might get sales. Finally... are you using CrazyEgg.... you can place it on your site and see how people use your links. Nice site.  Keep up the good work.

EGOL has a very important answer you need to consider, which is what I was really getting at in my second and last sentences. (but I didn't say it well) But to answer about the redirect of every page to the root: I don't have any actual experience of this but I wouldn't think it would be a good thing because the front page is untargeted, compared to the page the visitor thought they were going to get. If doing this was a good idea, there would be no reason for using a 404 page not found. You would instead just redirect all missing pages to the front page. My guess is that as soon as that pattern was discovered, the value you got from it would evaporate. Remember that the whole purpose of all those pages was to satisfy the needs of a visitor. Send them to an inappropriate place and you have failed. (by the way,  google does this a lot themselves. Their own redirects leave a lot to be desired.)

Hello Rasmus, i think it's ok now. Indexing is better http://bit.ly/yKP4nD Thank you so much. Take care A.

Chas gave a very good answer. And, more people then not will tell you working on 4 similar (but different) sites isn't the best use of time. I am one who understands that in certain cases it does make since to have 2 or maybe 3 sites in the same industry, but I wouldn't go as far as creating more then 1 e-commerce sites dealing with the same products even though the demographics maybe a little different. That doesn't make good sense to me. Your original question I think was more about the server then this sort of advise so I'll give you the best information I have at this time. The sites will be treated as different sites, look at shop services like prostores or stores.ebay they consistently have many people on the same server and all of them are able to be indexed provided they do a fair job at SEO. The issues you'll have is more with building unique and differentiating content for each site and getting good quality back links to each one, then it is with how search engines will treat them. I hope that answers your questions and helps with your goals.

Yes, that seems a fair point. I'll go ahead with the ticker and hope for the best! Thanks for your help on this one.

It should be OK if you have a single product on your homepage. You just need to follow these guidelines: The following guidelines apply to review snippets: When using review markup, the main topic of the page needs to be about a specific product or service. For example, using review markup on a page containing multiple products is not supported. Review of adult-related products or services are not supported. If the markup contains a single review, the reviewer’s name needs to be a valid name (Person or Organization). For example, “50% off until Saturday” is not a valid name for a reviewer. I'm not confident Google will display the stars, but I think for the cost it is well worth having a go.

Our solution for this is to use http authentication. So our dev sites require a simple password to access. Here is an example: http://dev.zeta-commerce.com/ This keeps the bots out and avoids the risk of a robots.txt file being released accidentally to the live site.

Vahe's post below is a good way of maximising the benefits of these othewise low quality links.  As far as finding others, that is what most of SEO is and somewhat beyond a reply here. Search quality sites like seomoz for linkbuilding for an endless stream of ideas. Always run suggestions through a filter of what you already know and what you want to achieve as there is a lot of seemingly contradictory answers in seo.