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Hey Karl! As Patric said you can find most information over here in Moz. Now the main question here is, do you need to do local SEO? I mean, is your potential client a software or a brand with locals? This can drastically change things for you. Here you can find an example of an SEO proposal that may help you get started faster. If you answer the previous questions I can give you a better hand on this.

The fact that the links are all related to what you do doesn't change that they would all be coming into the same structure in about the same way from every site. Editorial links are those placed once on a site by the owners without provocation to inform their readers about something they find interesting or useful outside of a planned relationship. Editorial links are chaotic in nature, meaning there is no pattern to them. Google has been working to find and count these links higher than crafted links which typically have a pattern. I'm not saying this is definitely going to be the case for you, but the more links are designed to appear, the more they have a pattern. You're trying to negate that, but lets just say there has a tendency to still be a pattern. That's why I mentioned not to count on these links. They might do you some good, they might not. I hope that answers your question!

You definitely don't want to appear as though you're running a private blogging network for links. Google's gotten way more sophisticated these days about detecting who's connected to whom, even beyond your domain registration Who.is info. That said, if your sites naturally work together, you shouldn't have much of an issue, especially if you're getting outside traffic and links.

Hi Steve, First of all, don't worry about internal pages being added that have a 301 feeding them. Remember that link juice flows all ways, not just continues down a site structure. I think I understand what you mean above, and I would copy the content from the old pages, produce them on the new site and then have a 301 that points from the existing pages to the new pages on the mens. All this tells Google is that the content has moved from one location to another and it doesn't need to get any more complicated than that. By all means, rewrite the content if you feel it needs a bit more of a mail spin, but a cross-domain 301 is not an issue. Google talks about these issues here as well. -Andy

Awesome - thanks for your help Mike! I really appreciate it! Jeff

I guess often greed can be counterproductive. This questions has been asked for years with the same silent treatment. I would have offered my 100+ clients a service upgrade years ago (with access to individual campaigns for extra say $15 a month, most would be thrilled at such opportunity) possibly bringing 100+ campaigns to MOZ. As it is, with current limitations, i'm just using MOZ occasionally to do some research on client's requests. Everyone looses.

A simple reply to your question is Yes 2-3 articles from 1 domain have more weight than 1 article. From my point of view, it is beneficial for Google as well as users also.  If a site gives you the link for more than one time then it will increase the authority of your pages. Also, you can able to get links for more pages of your website and it's also good for getting more referral traffic. and it is easy to get links from those who already linked to your pages instead of starting a cold outreach, Hope it helps.

If it's a national business appealing to a national audience, then I would consider NOT setting up Google My Business listings. I have seen a national business set up their local business listing (Google My Business) and they ended up losing a ton of traffic overnight. Their mobile traffic, which was coming from various cities in the US, was good. When they set up a Google My Business listing, Google started only sending mobile traffic from 500 miles within the business location. If you're a national business, then you shouldn't necessarily set up a local presence.

This type of duplicate applies to far more than just the homepage...so by implementing a single redirect rule, you handle this type of duplicate for every single URL on your site, and neither people nor search engines will ever see the undesired version. If you do this via canonical tags, you have to include the canonical tag on every page, which could be very time consuming depending on how large your site is.

Great thanks, that sounds like a plan.

Hi Egol, Thanks for your input. The term is actually quite bad as in not your main stream type of adult content so I'm not sure how nice the people are but I get you drift Thanks for your help and input! b

Hmm, that is weird that they are not showing up. I would try submitting the URL into Google's URL submitter: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url Hopefully by doing this, Google (and Moz) will index the correct title tags so when you use the Moz Page Grader it pulls the most accurate information. Hope this helps!

Hi Tom, This has been extremely helpful! Good work man,

In general, for link value to transfer either through 301s or canonicals, the content of the page needs to be nearly identical. See Cyrus' post for more. And canonicals are not always followed by Google, they are just a "hint", so it's unlikely you'll pass much value that way.

Many thanks for this, Andy.. appreciated. The site is; http://bit.ly/1PqGTbS I look forward to your response, Lee.

Thanks for your reply! The intention is not for SEO, more for users to make them aware of the product page and to check it out. So it should be useful and I imagine it shouldn't be a problem then