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To potentially simplify my question down: Is doing a 301 redirect of all the brand-specific minisites (like suzukitiresensors.com) to www.tire-sensors.com the most beneficial thing I can do to not lose rank and traffic, but also to simplify our sites down to 1 URL?

It's about keeping short and making it sound good & trust worthy. A suggestion would be millerinsurance.com   you are selling insurance   or another approach would be some idea that could become a brand ex:  myinsurance.com make a brand out of the domain name. As a guru here at SEOmoz said a domain name is only useful for [exact match] so unless you have floridainsurance.com you have to think the other way what people are searching make a brand out of that and work out seo to reach 1st position for optimized keywords. millerbenefits.com  - are people searching exactly that? if yes you're going to have a slight advantage but if no it would be the same as   millerinsurance.com where people can remember your site from the first 5 sec on it.

Hi Erik, I'm not sure there's a way to get those shares back. I do know however that Twitter follows the rel=canonical on a page so you might want to try that instead as a test to see if Facebook will honor it as well. Hope this helps a bit! Jen

Best way to safeguard is to configure 301 redirects from old URL to new URL. This will let Google know its changed and more importantly conserve the link juice.  More info can be found here: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

I just watched this video and I was going to ask the same question. Are SEO agencies really employing this as their No1 Tactic. Does this still work in Panda world for backlinks as the Market Samurai Suggests... watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=nsL5_neIHD4

I agree that californiahealthinsurance-quotes.com looks the most spammy. .Net is also often associated with spam. I would probably go with taylorbenefitsinsurance.com because that looks the most like a legitimate business.

I use the google shortener all the time because it does pass value. I would say yes.

Decide what topic you can blog about.  If you want to blog about widgets then go out there looking for widget blogs.

Right now, there's not a way, though it is on the list of eventual features. There's more information in this help desk thread at http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/20199538-is-there-a-way-i-could-add-another-user-to-access-my-pro-account

We use Power Reviews Express.  There are no SEO benefits since it's a javascript widget that pulls their review content into the user's browser during page load.  However, they do have a more-expensive inline-SEO version that will put spiderable content on your page. I's say we're very happy with PR so far.

There are two versions. Express and regular. The express version doesn't give you on-page seo benefits because it is javascript based. The regular version does but you need to do some integration. The benefit of both is customer affirmation of product and the ease of writing reviews. We use the express version.

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