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Will i get the majority of the link juice from the domains? Yes I want to know the best way to utilize them without any type of penalty. Your actions are perfect. You are redirecting them to relative pages on your site. As long as the pages are truly relevant, then you should be in great shape. The basic test is, will a visitor be happy they found the page you are directing them to? Or will they have more of a "what the heck is this" reaction? If you have re-directed the pages well, you will retain 90%+ of the link juice. How long that juice will last is dependent on several factors, some of which dignan shared. A SEOmoz staff member recently answered this same question: http://www.seomoz.org/qa/view/45944/redirecting-link-juice-from-purchased-domain-to-existing-domain

Dear Oznappies, Sheldon, James, thank you very much. I will try to proceed as follows: keep the vehicle page with minimum information, indicate that the the item is sold and show links to similar and related vehicles that the customer might find interesting. Also, I'll put NOINDEX tag on the page (I prefer the search engine to send users to pages of items that are available). Thank you!

Even then though, why would you want to use a nofollow if every nofollow decreases your page rank value?  Even if you are using it in a forum context or for an ad it looks like this would still kill your Page Rank.  Would it be better to wrap the links you don't want to pass Page Rank to in an iframe or java script?

That's the one!  Thanks!

Would you mind sharing some of your list? Do they drive good traffic?

Ryan is absolutely right. also adjust your .htaccess to link to either index.html of mysite.com/ RewriteRule ^.*/index.html http://www.mysite.com [R=301,L] Or RewriteRule ^.*/ http://www.mysite.com/index.html [R=301,L] Hope this helps

The crawler is designed to emulate the Google crawler's behavior. It isn't perfect, but crawlers will follow all the links they can. If you require more details, an example URL with the specific links you are inquiring about would be helpful.

How many websites do you have with the same Google WMT account? Is it possible there is any confusion? Can you copy/paste the exact error message?

Not at all Marcus, it happens to us all. When managing SEO, we tend to stay super focused on specific stuff

Thank you.  I have been reading the David Mihn stuff it is a great resource!

Hi Theresa. There's an easy way to remove personalized search results. Just add &pws=0 to the end of the search url. More info: http://seattleseonetwork.org/2011/accurate-rank-checking/

Do you have a site link we could take a look at... and as EGOL mentioned, any specific questions?

There's no way that I know of to adjust the frequency of their crawl. I'd put in a call to support about this. You'll get a much quicker response from SEOMoz staff there than you will here.

Hey Kristi Xenu is great and free, free I tells ya! But, if you can shell out a bit of dosh, the screaming frog is a better tool. SEOMoz's own Dr Pete did a bit of a write up here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/crawler-faceoff-xenu-vs-screaming-frog Hope it helps Marcus

You can look up the site in the Open Site Explorer to get the information you're asking about. Then you can either compare in your browser or export to cvs for spreadsheet analysis.

Same here...Started one yesterday and still not complete.

That sounds like a good strategy, thank you.

YouTube appears to value the same off-page factors that matter on most pages. Having your keywords in the title of the video, leading with the most important keyword in the description and making use of the tags all make a difference, but since these appear on the page, as well as ioff-page there may be some confusion.

Also, here's a blog post from SEOmoz discussing the idea of Google, internal search results pages, and thin content: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/fat-pandas-and-thin-content "Google has often taken a dim view of internal search results (sometimes called “search within search”, although that term has also been applied to Google’s direct internal search boxes). Essentially, they don’t want people to jump from their search results to yours – they want search users to reach specific, actionable information. While Google certainly has their own self-interest in mind in some of these cases, it’s true that internal search can create tons of near duplicates, once you tie in filters, sorts, and pagination. It’s also arguable that these pages create a poor search experience for Google users. The Solution This can be a tricky situation. On the one hand, if you have clear conceptual duplicates, like search sorts, you should consider blocking or NOINDEXing them. Having the ascending and descending version of a search page in the Google index is almost always low value. Likewise, filters and tags can often create low-value paths to near duplicates. Search pagination is a difficult issue and beyond the scope of this post, although I’m often in favor of NOINDEXing pages 2+ of search results. They tend to convert poorly and often look like duplicates."