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Can you explain to me how you did your site map for this please?

I always advise people NOT to use the robots txt to block off pages - it isnt the best way to handle things. In your case, there may be two options that you can consider: 1. For variant pages, (multiple parameters of the same page) use the rel canonical to increase the strength of the original page, and to keep the variants out of the index. 2. A controversial one this, and many may disagree, but depends on situation basis - allow crawling of the page, but dont allow indexing - follow, no index, which would still pass any juice, but wont index pages that you dont want in the SERPs. I normally do this for Search Result Pages that get indexed...

Thanks Nick! Isnt' black hat. It's unique content. It's more an "urban dictionary". Thanks again!

the question on what scale it has to be done....

Hi there, I think I have responded to an older inquiry of yours a few months ago, so I thought I'd chime in here. The other 2 responses (thanks guys) mention the on-page SEO - but you will also need to start attracting some .ca links to help gain some visibility in the area. It's tough because this is a U.S.-based site, with a U.S. TLD and address, so getting international visibility is tough - it's pretty hard to geographically target organic searches without the physical presence. Links will definitely help. But if it were me - I would strongly consider PPC as well.

Thanks for your help! Thats great!

There were no detectable inbound links to any of those pages before the pagerank update. What other signals could have affected it... content quality alone? By the way content was written using the same writer and same quality level.

I'm not abandoning the city or the website so I don't really want to change the main website to the new city. If I basically create a whole new website with content and SEO for CityB at BrandedCompanyName.com/City-B, would it be more difficult to rank for 2 separate geographies on the same domain? I'm basically thinking that this "subfolder" for CityB would have it's own site with unique content and I could point the CityBWebsiteDesign.com to this subfolder just for offline marketing purposes. Does this seem to be the best solution? Thanks, Jared

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Here's a good post (here at SEOmoz) about the rel=canonical tag: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/complete-guide-to-rel-canonical-how-to-and-why-not Here is a good resource for 301 redirects in other languages: http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php I don't have much experience with .NET but it looks like there are two ways to accomplish it. 1) Make changes to IIS to create the permanent redirect, 2) create server side code (maybe you have to check what URL is being requested and redirect them to the correct format?). You should be able to use REGEX like is displayed in my original post to accomplish this in .NET. I would say the change directly in IIS, if you have access, is the way to go. Jared

thanks Tom

javascript character data, processor, it show's old and new browsers how to read your xhtml content, old browsers will read as html, but javascript isn't readed by crawlers

Have you tried to search on seomoz blogs here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/widgetlike-techniques-for-small-business-link-building, i think here is explained all you need

Then put the primary location within the Title of the page

Thanks Tom. While it seems that search engines generally handle these characters well I still had to ask because I did two Google searches: One for "lole" and another for "lolë", and I got very different results. On the first search my website came up on SERP page one but on the second one we were nowhere to be found on any of the first 15 pages. Whats more, every one of the first 10 SERP pages or so contained at least one instance of the character with an accent in the title, description, or within the on-page copy. So it seems that special characters and regular ascii characters are not one in the same, or at least they are not weighted the same. I do have to agree with you on the fact that most users will not go through the trouble entering Alt codes on their search bars. On the other hand, the fact that we barely register on SERPs for the company's DBA name might be cause for some concern.