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Hi I've already done away with our own embed linking facility and chosen addthis. I'll have to read up on regexes. thanks

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Mark, did these responses answer your question?

The following is added to our robots.txt .. now lets wait and see the results User-agent: * Disallow: /admin/ Disallow: /? Allow /?product_date=&product_date2=* Disallow /?product_date=&product_date2=& To check the working of the robots.txt i found a handy website; http://phpweby.com/services/robots

If the title is relevant to the content then that's good, but from a technical sense: You shouldn't repeat any word in a title more than twice, and each instance of that word should be separated by at least one other word. Then, you have to think about what the titles are going to be on your other pages, I'd say you're more in danger of keyword canibalization within your title in that example than of keyword stuffing (assuming the rest of the site is about back pain, etc...).

I don't think ti is bad but actually encouraged. Ever copy of your content should have the same canonical tag. Obviously that includes the original. As I understand it, this is something you should be doing.

Thank you for your answer. I About Google Translate, tx for the tip but, the point is that I need/want to stick to separate domains because each domain is related to a (strong) brandname that is targeted per language. Indeed, the three domains are in different languages, but our basic content (business directory listings/names/adresses) is of course the same for all domains. Kind regards

Awesome post. To throw one step further. I would like to propose the other site of your dark coin. Links that appear to exist but really have no value. This is common in the tactics of spammers picking up dropped domains and pitching them as high PR sites for link building. They have the signals of a strong domain, but futher evaluation proves that it takes more than strong moz rank to actually provide value to a site. I would assume the SEOmoz guys would say that the value is built in to their equation but you also have to remember that SEOmoz's linkscape only indexes a fraction of the web thats out their. It performs better in some niches than other. I find it useful to benchmark against a secondary source. I commonly check a domains metrics against SEOmoz and Majestic. Both have their own strengths. If I am link buying, I stay away from any site that doesn't perform well in both metrics as you will find that most sites with decent rankings do. This will save you from dealing with "made for link sales based on PR rank" type sites that have little real world value.

Thanks bookworm!  Interesting ideas.

I wouldn't sweat it.  We left up www.bulwarkpest.com for several months while moving to www.bulwarkpestcontrol.com .... I know that there is some risk in it. But I think Google is pretty understanding of site migrations. Of course I am just a small pest control guy so they may not have ever noticed. Sooo.. take that with a grain of salt. It's does make it easier to have the other site live so that you can redirect on a per page base and know that it's working. I would rather make sure the redirects are correct and working prior to moving the entire site over. But be warned.. site redirects may not always give you the same authority... research the online Yellow Pages.

Go to the http://www.gumtree.com/ and create an ad for a house (or whatever), the in field help they give to get users to give indepth information is great without seeming forced. If you incentivise your community via "likes" or rankings, then they will want to provide this information i.e. make it in their interest to provide you with information

You might be trying to go too general with it... figure out who you're targeting first then tailor the content to them.

Can you please elaborate your question? What do mean by destination page?

It's really a process of experimenting over time to find out the method that results in the most URLs indexed that in turn brings the most relevant traffic.  Personally I wouldn't have one for each category, yet without tests there's no conclusive reasoning either way.

The forum or blog could improve rankings if it is on the same domain and attracts links from other websites.