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Have a look at how users behave on your site throughout the day -- maybe using a real-time stats package like Woopra. As Riggz says, it's usually the case that most sites will have their own natural rhythms when it comes to how audiences engage. By monitoring the busy times of the day you'll have an indication of when your users are more likely to want to engage with new content. It's also a great opportunity for a bit of testing. Over the next few weeks, experiment with different days of the week and times of the day to publish new content, and use a service like Twuffer.com to schedule tweets to the new content at different times of the day. In my own testing, I've found that tweets sent toward the end of the working day can be the most effective way of gaining traffic to content posted at lunchtime. Your mileage may vary... but it wouldn't be fun if it didn't

Thanks for your input.

Creating different page for every city and county is someway spammy and actually doesn't give great user experience... just think if you would like to visit a site where are "tons" of pages, actually not adding anything valuable to the website. Create one page where you can list in nice list style cities you offer your service and look for interesting local directories where you can add your business. If any specific city is more important than others... you can create an article about it... like... How to Find Good Pool Cleaning Company in New Jersey... and give some good tips how find company, without excessively promoting your own company... you can refer there to review sites and other places, where your business is listed and has good reviews... About local listing, you can find some information here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-beginners-checklist-for-small-business-seo - but for this one is important where your business has office. Hopefully it's useful information Bill, good luck with business!

Obv using an automatic xml feed, I've changed the settings to submit and will see what occurs. Thanks again guys.

Just post on google's forums stating the new date of purchase, you checked and removed all the bad stuff, etc etc.

Worthwhile having a watch of this http://www.seomoz.org/blog/preventing-linkbased-penalties-whiteboard-friday

I'm not sure if it was related to postcard delays or not, but Google Places had some outages up until recently. I'd recommend being patient with the postcards as well - you can re-request a PIN, but if you do so and the original card shows up it'll no longer be valid. sigh Phone isnt always an option either - if you're claiming a listing chances are you'll have to wait it out until the card arrives.

I considered this but our shopping cart software is has a lot of "black box" features including this one, so I have no control over how this feature is handled. Also, we use SLI search with site champion, which does a very similar auto-generated landing page function for category facets so including this function again would be redundant and possibly dilute our indexed results.

If every single product page is linking to a category page, I am sure that Google will discount these links some what. I think linking from articles and good quality content to the category pages will have some positive effect, but like others have mentioned don't spend too long working on this as the total benefit will not be huge.

Actually I'm asking about SEO consequences at whole. Let us say that I've choosed to use R301. Would the search engines decide that my domains are duplicated (even if content is less than 4% equal by copyscape.com) or the redirected page flows its juice to counterpart page w/o any penalties from SE? Something else that I have to beware of or must do? Thanks!

We had the same issue moving our site from nopcommerce to magento.  The structure of the site in regards to category and even file extension (.aspx to .html) changed.  We had over 2000 products and to create redirects for all of them was quite a bear. What we ended up doing was to look into Google's rankings of our top 500 pages and focus on getting those redirected initially.  Checking both the supplemental and primary indexes helped us to figure out which ones to do.  I also ended up using excel and its formulas to create the redirect links enmass and then copied them to my .htaccess file.  Also too, if you had a specific directory where your ecommerce site use to be located ( we had /Store/) create that directory and place your .htaccess in that file with Symlinks turned On. This seemed to take care of everything for us and helped us to focus on links that were actually indexed.

Yes , its temporary and ur page will be back

SEO = Gaming the search engines

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If you're looking for truly apache mod_rewrite stories I cannot help, but I have implemented site-wide redirect schemes so that (for example) all URL's are put into Title Case, all folders are redirected to ensure trailing slash, and much more. It made a big difference and is highly recommended. Our duplicate content (that google wasnt even reporting but that we saw with tools like the IIS SEO toolkit http://www.iis.net/download/seotoolkit) dropped to zero and shortly afterwards our traffic increased as a result of increased keyword ranking almost across the board. Too many people ignore this.

Absolutely. In fact I realised that I missed the above after posting but my edit did not register. I hope my editing priviledges are not revoked.

Your right its a huge challenge but 301's for pages with external links seems a bit more realistic to do Thanks