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The 301 Redirect in Volusion only works if the page does not exist. Since /default.asp does exist it doesn't redirect.  Not sure what to do.

So is the solution for stem queries to attack offsite with increased relevant, promoted content? Or is it also 'fattening' relevant content on page?

Hi, Usin; User-agent: * Disallow: /folder/subfolder is fine, however if you have information stored in your website that you certainly want crawled make sure it is in your site map and use ... User-agent: * allow: /folder/subfolder adding a no follow attribute to all of your pages wont be practical, if a spam crawler ignores the robots.txt it will ignore your no follow attribute. If anything new occurs with robots.txt check large website's robots.txt as they always update to new trends i.e www.google.com/robots.txt Hope this helps:)

Kevin, can you give us any type of update as to how this turned out? Did the rankings drop back after a bit, or are they still there? Did you figure out if they were using any shady tactics?

There is no way to do it from the web application interface and in my talks with SEOmoz in the past there is no way to set to a specific time or day. I'd recommend either calling or sending a request to customerservice@seomoz.org. Phone number is on http://www.seomoz.org/about/contact

Hi Sean, Please add your API feature requests to the API Feature request forum. We really do look at that when making product development decisions. You make some great arguments here and I'd love to see them in our feature requests! http://seomoz.zendesk.com/categories/6328-seomoz-apis-and-extras

A few more questions Are they all hosted on the same server / IP address? Are they all registered by the same domain registra / same company or person? Is the content duplicated too? Or have you Spun the content? Are the links low quality? Do the sites all have the "same" links? (Have you submitted multiple templated sites to the same directories etc...)

I think that Daniel and Gianluca are on track here, but I just wanted to try to structure it a bit. Google has over 200 ranking factors now, and we use "natural" link profile to cover a pretty big chunk of them. Generally, I think natural means: (1) From a diversity of sources (blogs, forums, PR, etc.) (2) Using a diversity of tactics (comments, contextual links, etc.) (3) Having a diversity of anchor text, including keyword-targeted and brand-targeted. This is probably one of the easier cues for "unnatural" links. If you're SEO'ing for "medium blue widgets" and 99% of your anchor text is "medium blue widgets", it's not natural. (4) From topically relevant sites. This is a nice-to-have, but it's not clear how well Google can measure relevance. General authority and "trust" may be more important, although I think relevance will matter more over time. (5) Not from paid sources. Technically, ads should be nofollow'ed, and some paid placements are a lot easier to spot. If you're right under a "Sponsors" banner, in a box with 10 links from wildly irrelevant and disconnected sites, or in a sitewide footer, your link is going to look unnatural).

I would also meta robots = noindex on these pages.

Make sure you have unique content (phone number, hours, address) on each city URL you want to use, pictures are a big plus. Use the bulk upload, see https://www.google.com/local/add/g?hl=en-US&gl=US#uploadfeed. Before you submit make sure to read, http://www.google.com/support/places/bin/answer.py?answer=178024 and http://www.google.com/support/places/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=28247&topic=28291&answer=173669 Make the name in your bulk upload spreadsheet unique for each location (Business Name - City, State) Use the store code field which uniquely identifies each location of your business Fill in as many of the "optional" fields as possible that make sense for your business Use a different phone number for each location Use a unique description for each location Those are my 7 top tips; I'll add more if I think of any. Two other options that may help but I have no real experience/proof on is advertising your locations with Google Boost  and Google Tags. If you are legit & spend money you may be able to get your account rep to coughhelp/pullstringcough

I would recommend doing SEO to the site particuliarly if you are going to promote via TV ads or anything other than PPC that could result in search queries. The reason being is you could capitalize on QDF, real-time results and auto suggest queries. To keep it extremely efficient make the page a template where you can just change the "keyword" in a file & save so it updates on the site. A slightly more lowtech way would be a global find & replace on the html file for the "keyword". Basically, you do the onsite SEO once and then spend 5 seconds updating to the new keyword every 5 days. You will want to post a short blog post each time there is a new promo to help get the search index updated quickly; just make sure to ping the appropriate services with your blog. For offsite I'd recommend the general social media sites (facebook, twitter) and any extremely relevant niche social media/forum/community sites. If these are promotions that would appeal to mom bloggers & deal finding sites then do an outreach campaign telling the site owners you are going to have a new promo every five days and offer to give them a "heads up" before the general public. You can then build an e-mail list & blast out the promo to them. At the same time you can offer to have them follow your promo twitter account.

Yeah, only ever used ping-o-matic as well but I don't think Google will get annoyed using multiple ones. That said there doesn't really seem a need to use so many

Thanks, I'll start a new thread.