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We use Boldchat. I've not seen any drags on loading and it seems to work well. CSRs don't complain about it anyways.

One of the SEOmoz webinars? I haven't heard about this, but I'd imagine it would involve finding relevant authorities and databases that hold some interest in the patent and getting them to reference your site directly in association with it.

Thanks for that Yumi. Although some product pages are slightly different, I still think they're too similar to be called 'unique'.

I think the search engine wont able to track this link at all ... When i tried to browse my site using the google bot (Google Webmaster tools) , my site always detected that google always have the javascript disabled... However , what you showed us right now is only the script , where is the anchor link that will call this script? Most often people would do something like this on the anchor text Click Here In which case the search engine would be able to successfuly tracked the links back to 'xxx.com'

I suppose the main problem could be a lot of similar (even duplicate) content. To avoid this, after a certain time period it might be worth 301 redirecting the old pages to their most relevant category pages. If you 301 redirect to the new archive ad, and then 301 redirect that to the next archive ad and so on, you'll have endless 301 redirects for ever and ever! Perhaps it isn't worth the effort of doing what I suggested initially and it might be best to 301 straightaway. It's worth testing on separate categories if you have the time.

To tell you the truth it is actually very easy , but you have to familiar yourself with .htaccess HTTP REWRITE engine .. Seriously it took exactly 2 lines of code to detect and 301 redirects walla.mywebsite.com into www.mywebsite.com/walla HTTP Rewrite is an extremely useful tool, if you are not familiar with them , please go here http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/sitemanagement/urlrewriting.html (or just google http rewrite redirect)

Hi Mike, Just wondering how this turned out, and if you're still looking for advice. Your question came through when we had a hiccup with the Q&A section and didn't get the visibility that it normally would, which is why you didn't have much in the way of answers.

This might be worth watching. If my memory serves me correctly there was talk about that in here http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/getting-value-from-xml-sitemaps

I have a site that gets 2000 to 3000 posts per year of temporary content - these are very short posts.  The content is great for a few months but then the value is lost.  Each year we delete 2000-3000 pages of this content. Before we delete we look at analytics to see if any of these pages are pulling traffic.  If there are pages pulling traffic we 301 redirect those pages to relevant pages of evergreen content or create new pages for the redirect. After that all remaining URLs are 301 redirected to the homepage of the blog. Some of these pages might have a few links.  The redirects conserve them. To make this easy the posts are foldered by year /blog/2009/    /blog/2010/   /blog/2011/   etc.

Hi! It is a result of the OSE update. Rand talks about it a little in the blog post at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/brand-new-open-site-explorer-is-here when he says: In addition to all the amazing new features in Open Site Explorer, Linkscape's index just updated using a new infrastructure that's allowed us to crawl much deeper on large, important sites. For many pages/domains, this will mean an increase in the total number of links we report, but likely a lower count of linking domains (unless you've gained a lot of links in late June/July) since we're excluding many domains that are low-quality/not-well-linked-to. We'd love your feedback on this index, as it's the first one of its kind, and will continue to see tweaks/improvements over the next few updates.

you are correct. there was a bug and my questions weren't posting. thanks.

The Spiders cant crawl the app ( assuming its a native app ) in which case I dont think there will be any "direct" SEO benefits, but you might get new followers for you brand who might  indirectly help in SEO but if its a web app and if search spiders can index the content then it will have some direct SEO weight to it. NOTE : this is just my thought ( would be interesting to see if anyone thinks otherwise ) Hope that help

1. How can I gain on the domain authority front? (more diverse links?) I believe that the authority of your domain is more determined by who is linking to YOU rather than if you are linking to a few blogs in the sidebar. 2. Should I no-follow the links on their blog so they don't have hundreds of pages with the same links (most internal) on there site Why not just remove those links from the sidebar of the post and category pages.  They would still display on the blog homepage but not on the many pages inside.  If you have wordpress this can be done by defining an alternative sidebar for those pages.

I think that's what probably happened. They kept the link up until it got verified, then they dropped it. Most of the link directories don't do any follow-up after the initial approval.