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Glad to hear it Stacey. There is a lot of customisation you can do with this, so hopefully you will manage what you require. -Andy

Andy's correct. The answer is most likely yes.  So if screaming frog find these pages, most likely the Google bot will as well. Also, as long as the spider can find the page, it doesn't matter if it's static or dynamic. However, If you have multiple parameters, Google may decide it's not a useful page and won't index it. Make sure to include a sitemap with all these url's as it may help in getting them indexed in case your site architecture is poor.

Hi, First of all, it isn't imperative to have any keywords in a URL to appear 1st, or indeed, anywhere in the URL. There are circumstances it will help, but it isn't imperative. How well your site matches the content of the pages is going to be key for you. Google is always going to be looking for a site that is going to be seen as an authority on the subject. To answer your question, if you just buy a domain and then forward it, the domain that is just forwarded will not appear in Google at all. The only time there will be a forward, is when someone types the domain in exactly. it sounds like they have a good domain that is old and will have lots of history attached to it. I would start to look at penalties, what has happened at specific dates and see if you can come up with a correlation. There is always a reason, and there is no reason why they cannot rank again. -Andy

Pursuing any avenue just for links is the wrong way to go about it. Press Release links have gotten hit bad lately because of their misuse and overuse... but if you have some news on your business that is actually PR worthy then shopping it around to respectable sites and getting your news out there to the right people can increase your qualified traffic. Same goes for guest posting. Its been hit bad lately but its not about the links per se. Getting your name out there, branding, sharing useful information or something humorous or poignant can help people learn who you are, increase your qualified traffic, etc. etc. and you don't need a followed link to reap the benefits. It also wouldn't hurt to look into social for branding and community purposes. And a product/tool/widget/infographic can also be a great way to gain links and/or spread via word of mouth/social mentions. But be sure not to go embedding any hidden links in sharable widgets or you'll get bitch slapped by Google as well. As Andy put it, creativity is the key here. There are so many ways of earning links, getting shared and being seen online that there practically is no limit to what is possible.

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Thank you everyone. The question was answered extremely well! I appreciate it. Sorry for the late response, Ruben

Hi Noah, As you've chosen 'local website optimization' as one of the categories for your question, I wanted to ask if what you're talking about here is a local or an organic ranking. Is there some chance that the landing page is a city landing page on the website and does the Google+ Local listing link to this city landing page or to the homepage of the website? It would be good if you could provide some further details as it will help you get better guesses at the cause from the community.

Got it - thanks!  i am optimistic that the duplicate pages I fixed will make a big difference and I will be able to tell, but well see! ... Neil

As Chris said, Google has recently changed how long your titles can be, but rather than give you a definite number of words you can use, you now have a number of pixels. The general consensus here is that you have 512 pixels. Screaming Frog Spider has just updated to a newer version that now includes how long your titles are in pixels, as well as words. I don't know if there are other tools that do this yet, as I haven't searched, but they do a free version that you can download and will crawl up to 500 pages of a site. You can download it here. -Andy

@Claudio and Chris, thank you. Claudio, yes you've cleared it up for me. Although I was going into the second option for search volume, I wasn't for some stupid reason clicking on the keywords to separate them from the groups to get results for each keywords. That's the bit that was frustrating me. Your response made me look further. So thank you. It's helped me make a decision on a domain.

QuestionJonathan Poston‏ @wjonathanposton @methode do utms neutralize backlink value? Re: for @Moz discussion closure https://moz.com/community/q/do **Response: **es-a-utm-tag-influence-the-linkvalue … Gary Illyes ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ‏Verified account @methode Yeah, although if they are not canonical, they'll funnel the PageRank as well as other signals to the canonical URL

Did Andy get the answer you needed? It sounds like everything has been taken care of but I wanted to be sure.

Hi I raised a similar question yesterday. http://moz.com/community/q/no-access-for-uk-get-listed-and-now-moz-local-alternatives-to-moz I use Whitespark which is good but someone kindly also recommended Brighton Local yesterday.

Well thats the odd thing the links to the old page were returning 404 page not found error so that and the very low page authority led me to believe a 301 redirect was needed

Hi Rajesh A rewrite is not a redirect. So whether it's a 301 etc is irrelevant. Rewrites work without redirecting the user elsewhere and simply convert one URL structure to another. Might be a good idea to talk to a developer about it because rewrites can cause issues with other pages or other rewrite rules if not implemented correctly.