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Then put the primary location within the Title of the page

I'm following up on old questions here, and wondering how this ever turned out for you. Are you back to your previous traffic yet? Do you have any hints for others in this situation (as yes, we have seen other people in this situation!). Thanks!

Pages authority is determined by the number of pages linking to that page and the the authority of that linking page. Or are you looking for the actual math behind this determination?

Update: I used ISAPI_Rewrite from http://www.helicontech.com/ to handle domain alias redirects and it uses proper 301 redirects to the primary domain. Also I found an article in the Google Analytics Forum Archive http://groups.google.com/group/analytics-help-basics/browse_thread/thread/380a839ebd9a7f6a which answered my other question on finding the count of referrals to the primary domain from the alias domains. Apparently it's very simple and their is no setup needed. Just go to Visitors -> Network Properties -> Hostnames for your site's profile in GA.

+1 to the above. It was a good model when it launched, but now just too cluttered to be of any real significance.

That makes sense, it is important, but scales isn't so i'll just go for the one move up then. Thanks for this. -dan

April, my guess is that it's related to oscommerce or another login/ecommerce/trial purchase module. The oscsid parameter is from oscommerce. Someone logs in, then they get variables appended to the URLs so that they're tracked through the system. That's one place to tell your developer to look.

Thanks Tom. While it seems that search engines generally handle these characters well I still had to ask because I did two Google searches: One for "lole" and another for "lolë", and I got very different results. On the first search my website came up on SERP page one but on the second one we were nowhere to be found on any of the first 15 pages. Whats more, every one of the first 10 SERP pages or so contained at least one instance of the character with an accent in the title, description, or within the on-page copy. So it seems that special characters and regular ascii characters are not one in the same, or at least they are not weighted the same. I do have to agree with you on the fact that most users will not go through the trouble entering Alt codes on their search bars. On the other hand, the fact that we barely register on SERPs for the company's DBA name might be cause for some concern.

Hi sorry for not replying earlier. I have finally sorted it. It appears that the wordpress PHP include tag at the top of a static pages cause 404 errors on HTTP header requests...I changed a bit of code and it sorted itself out. thank you for taking the time to reply. Best Haydyn

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Hi! We're going through some of the older unanswered questions and seeing if people still have questions or if they've gone ahead and implemented something and have any lessons to share with us. Can you give an update, or mark your question as answered? Thanks!

It would depend on two things. 1. did they received your email? 2. Did they even bother opening and reading your email at all? If you're able to satisfy the ones above then chances are you are almost 50% in having a good link.

I hadn't heard of the farmer update, thanks for the tip.  After researching it, this could definitely have contributed.  My client had previously had SEO work done by a company that relied heavily on Article Marketing and it also appears that they submitted the site to a multitude of link farms.

WOW! Let me just say that again, WOW! Yes, I would suggest a Drupal person or perhaps a better template. This one seems out of date as it still uses inline CSS. As Mary Anne mentioned, there are other issues as well. Before you try and re-write everything for the H2s, I would look at some other code issues such as the alt tags. Personally, I would look for another template after talking to someone who knows Drupal. All the best