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Hello Matt,

What you are doing sounds a lot like doorway pages and you will definitely be flagged if not penalized for it.  Aside from the fact that it's frowned upon by search engines, it is also bad for user experience as well.

For example, if I am on shopping.com and start clicking around their navigation bar, I would expect to be situated in the same domain.  However, if I found myself suddenly on amazon.com, that would be a cause for concern and frustration.

You can try to game the search engines by creating identical pages but it's most likely they will see through this via your source code, c-block ip, linking profile, etc. as these patterns become apparently pretty quickly.

There are multiple angles you can go about to getting the webmasters contact information even if it's not listed on their website.

Search for them on popular social media websites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.  That's a great way to put a "face" to who you are and let's the webmaster know you are going out of your way to find out more about them.

A method we like to employ on our team is to examine the target websites backlinks and build relationships with THOSE webmasters.  Once you build a decent rapport with them you can broach the subject to see if they can get you in contact with the target website.

Link building isn't easy and as many have said before in the SEOmoz community it's more like relationship building.  With that mindset and a little creativity, you'll get some of the best links on the web.

No, that is not a problem and not very important for SEO that you have "clean" looking text in a text browser.

A few months ago I thought I had to optimize (and by optimize I mean make it look pretty) for a text only browser as well.  However, after conducting some competitive research I found that some of our top competitors (ranked #1-5) were in far worse condition from a text only browser stand point.

In a nut shell, as long as you have the text visible then you are good to go.

TIP: To see how Google views your website type the following in the search bar~> cache:www.yourwebsite.com then click on "text-only version"

Hi Eric,

Yes, there is definitely a way to determine what pages your visitors are landing on and what search term they used to find it.  I'm going to assume you are using the new version of Google Analytics.

1. Login to your respective Account and Profile
2. Go to Traffic Sources > Sources > Search > Organic
3. This view will display phrases from search engines
4. Under the graph there should be an option that states "Secondary Dimensions" 5) Click that then search for "Landing Page"

A new column should show up and give you the answer to your question.

I hope that helps!

Yes, you probably answered your own question.  In WordPress, there are two different settings under Settings > Privacy:

1. I would like my site visible to everyone, including search engines and archivers.

2. I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors

If option #2 was selected, WordPress doesn't create a robots.txt file for you but instead it automatically generates a tag on every single page.

I hope that helps!

The Keyword Difficulty Tool doesn't tell you if you have a canonical URL problem.  The metrics used in that report highlight inbound links and are separated into two categories:

1. Root Domain Linking Root Domain - this is the total number of unique root domains links to your entire website regardless if it's the home page, contact, about, testimonials, etc.

2. Page Linking Root Domains - this is the total number of unique root domains linking to that specific page ONLY and in your case, the home page.