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I definitely am not discounting your way of handling it... I think it's fantastic, especially because it's scalable.  Where do you 301 the pages back to, the main category page?

Eventually, wouldn't a large ratio of your inbound links be pointed to pages that are 301'd to another page?

It just seems to me, that Google wouldn't think that is very 'natural', and perhaps would just feel that the majority of the content on the site is old/ outdated since most of the inbound links point to pages that don't exist anymore. (even if they are 301'd)

Hey Richard,

That's a useful script! Thanks!

Do you think in the case of running an employment site, those 301's would begin to rack-up frequently enough to get flagged?

[edit: I meant to add this below Richard Getz script]

Hey Spencer,

Is there a way you can dynamically pull the information (for the job) into the page.... so that once the job goes away, you can then change the informatino to be a new job?

The only catch to that, would be the URL structure, becuase obviously you would need to make the URL's generic, such as "/bay-county-seo-job" or something instead of mentioning the company.

On Distilled's recent conference call / webinar, Will discuess their project hiremarshall.com (I think that webinar would be of some help to you- and anyone else reading this).

Specifically, you could develop a model which keeps those pages live, so that the company uses that same page for all of their new job openings.

Donnie Cooper.

Thanks Casey..

that's the part that was stopping me from wanting to use mvc... having to build/ maintain a different backend for each site. It just seems too redundant. Even with 'objects', you still have to update specific lines of code for each customer everytime you improve something.

Thanks for your help!

Hey Lindsay,

How about if the 'new' domain has been a 301 to the 'old' one for years **(**and has the same DNS info) ?

Hey Casey,

Is that really the main difference? Just more control because your writing everyline of code manually?

PS. Is SEOmoz going to switch to lithium (http://lithify.me/) ?

I second the smartdraw software.

I've been happy with it because you can do several other things with it.

Thanks, Richard.

I definitely keep a subscription going with lynda.com. I think we should get SEOmoz.org to add them in the discount store.

-Hey, you changed you photo! (Or, I haven't noticed until now).

What made you switch to joomla?

I'm in love with wordpress, but for some reason, I feel like mvc would be worth the switch. The only problem is, it comes at a higher cost of time invested per project. So, I'm looking for motivation to make the switch

What's the benefits of choosing an mvc framework such as codeigniter or cakephp over wordpress?

Wordpress has so many plugins, and a universally known UI for customers, it just saves a ton of time.

However, a lot of the 'big guys' like SEOmoz and Distilled(?) use Cakephp and other mvc frameworks so it has me wondering what the benefits are......

anyone?

I to use the free $75 of adwords (in the SEOmoz discount store) for every new customer to test their keywords. I think it's an over looked opprotunity by a ton of SEO's.

As a by product, customers love that you're running paid ads for free, and it gives you a chance to up sell them (if you can prove a return for them).