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Hi Greg, we have done something similar in the past. Here is what we did: We had few images (flow charts and stuff) and some of them acquired some decent links. So, we came up with pages that had content highly relevant to those images. We redirected all those to these new pages via 301. After few weeks we saw great results both in web and image searches. And yes, the link juice flows to the new pages though not that much which used to flow in the past but most of it will. Hope this helps. Best, Devanur Rafi

I had a similar issue with usedcars.com. We had several hundred thousand URLs that were redirecting from parameter driven URLs, to clean hierarchical URLs with a huge initiative to clean them all up in a few months. It took well over a year and still didn't see them getting recognized. I blogged the process - but the part about what I did to speed it up: I grabbed one of my many impulsive purchased domains and quickly set up hosting and an old school html site that consisted of one page. I then exported all of the links on the Google "site:" search through a Firefox plugin called SEOquake that exports the results into a csv file. It's not the prettiest, and there was a lot of work still needed to get to just the URLs, but it was the best solution I could find (note: if any SEO reading this knows of an easier way to do this - please add to the comments for prosperity). I then parsed out the parameters in the URLs in a separate document and used those as the anchor text for each URL. Finally, using excel I then concatenated the URLs and parameters (that were now anchor text) into an html href string. Then copying and pasting the "string" column into the html code, the page looked like: The page wasn't the prettiest, and it had thousands of links (the above is just an example) so it was bad all around, but the point was to get those links crawled by Google. Of course every SEO knows that you can't just build a website and expect it to immediately get crawled - right? So I set it up in Google Webmaster Tools and submitted the page to the the index: I even got more fancy to ensure Google would see the page and crawl all of those old URLs and +1'd it on Google. Did it work? I checked the URLs this evening to see how many Google is seeing and the number has dropped from 550,000 to now only 175. I took the domain off of the server, and now have it parked elsewhere (back where it belongs) and removed the webmaster tools account. All traces of it ever existing are now gone, and the small moment of my attempt to get those URLs removed has passed. It's very black hat - and could potentially get you in trouble if not approached carefully. But - it worked...

Wow! They actually sent me a shirt. Thanks Moz staff!

Hi Chiaryn, I'm glad to hear it! And thanks for the update. Cheers, Christy

Gregory, I will tell you that your dumb questions have been asked by others, me for one. So, where to get the answers: You are here and there are answers here. If we cannot give you what you need, you will find that Moz has a help hub. I tried how to set up branded keywords and it does provide some answers. Short of that, you simply ask the team. Now, you may end up on the Seattle VS. Portland SEO cage match page where you just have to decide which is the one that will offer hope. Well, having  been to both cities, I would suggest you choose based on the pics. With Seattle you have a whole crew coming from a fish market (if you like fish, well never mind re the smell), or with Portland, you have the answer to the question "touch or tackle?" ... figure it out, these cats can tackle some SEO. But, I digress. You are in the Moz analytics section and under keyword rankings you need to click on add and manage keywords. Then manage brand rules. For your brand, I would suggest this: click include each that you have above. (one at a time). For my company, drumBEAT Marketing, I have it as drum beat marketing, drumbeat, drumbeat marketing, drumbeat marketing houston, drumbeat houston, etc. The reason is I know that if they are searching for anything related to drumBEAT, they already know we exist in some way and by virtue of that, it is a branded term. So, drumBEAT SEO, drumBEAT Copywriting, etc. are all branded terms. I do it the same way for clients. I include their brand name, geo locator + KW + brand name, etc. If it is a domain, I include that so drumBEATMarketing.net, www.drumBEATMarketing.net, etc. Last, you state: "I find these sort of unanswered questions almost every time I try something new." Fantastic, now you can learn because you have questions. So, each time come to Q&A and ask the question. I promise you will learn more this way than by having example after example. You will be forced to think about what is the question and how do you communicate it. You will be nervous about asking the wrong question and you will force yourself to stretch a bit - before you ask the question - just to be sure you tried everything. (In doing that you may actually find answers we do not know of and we will learn from you.) You will see that SEO and using the myriad tools available for it means you are going to be asking questions for the next....few years at least. (I am still asking questions.) I will also tell you that I in no way work for Moz, am not compensated by Moz (ok, thanks for the Tshirts Megan), and I do disagree with Moz and its team occasionally. Really. But, I can tell you I learn more here than anywhere so you are in the right place. Ask another dumb question, I dee double dog dare ya! Best, Robert

Thanks you Chris and Gagan! Your responses were fast and valuable