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I am sure Google can identify it is a Q&A site, but they don't care as it is irrelevant. To Google, a web page is a web page. Whether that page is a Q&A, forums, blog article, e-commerce store or any other type of web page makes absolutely no difference. The web page is designed to display content for users in an internet browser on a pc. Google will examine the content in a similar manner for all sites. All the standard SEO metrics apply: page title, quality of text, links on a page, etc. The links on a page affect the flow of Page Rank throughout your site. I would suggest each page offer a block with your main categories and another with related questions. You do not want to offer 100s of links as that is not very user friendly. If you check the Google Analytics on a website with 200+ links on a page, you will likely discover most links are never used. If you only offer 50 links on the same page, visitors can easily find helpful links and select them.

after a 301 redirect can I delete the pages and the databases/folders associated with them? Yes. Think of a 301 redirect like mail forwarding. If you have an address, 1000 main street and then move to a new address you would leave a forward order (e.g. 301 redirect) with the post office. Once that is done, you can bulldozer the house (e.g.. delete the webpage/database) and the mail should still be forwarded properly. How does one create a 301 redirect? The method of creating a 301 redirect varies based on your server setup. If you have a LAMP setup with cPanel, there is a Redirect tool. Otherwise I would suggest contacting your host and ask how to create a redirect based on your particular setup.

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That depends on the eCommerce you are using. If it an open source one, check for SEO/SEF plugins in the community or ask help in the developers community asking for plugins/module that offers you that opportunity.

Hi everyone, I've been away from the internet for a bit, but from the SEOmoz twitter account stream it looks like this was a hardware problem last night that has been resolved in the past couple of hours. If you still have a problem accessing your campaign, send an email to help@seomoz.org. Thanks, and sorry for the troubles!