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It really depends on the site's needs. Let's say that you already have acquired enough anchor text specific links but need to water down your links with greater brand and/or anchor text diversity. A sitewide link with your brand may be just what your site needs (plus it makes it look like you have a ton of links, discouraging potential competitors).

If you haven't yet acquired enough exact match anchor text, I would go with ane ditorial page with a single link to the single page that you are trying to promote. The 3 links-per-page thing is beginning to become an easy footprint for blog-review style link building.

That being said, in terms of pure PageRank / mozRank passed, a sitewide link would pass the most. Whether that correlates with rankings is a totally different question.

Order matters in Rewrites. You will have to place that Rewrite Rule above the others.

This number varies widely based on keyword and industry. In template industries like people who sell wordpress templates or joomla templates, you can safely get 80 and 90% exact match anchor text. In other spaces, you need to keep it less than 10 or 15%.

The easiest thing to do is look at the top 10 in your space. Determine the average percent of exact match anchor text, then make it your goal to match that percentage. More importantly, get your Overall link metrics above your competitors, so while your percentages are in line, you have more in both quantity and quality than your competitors, but all within safe proportions.

If the links have keyword rich anchor text, I would ditch them. In general you should only acquire directory links with brand as the anchor text in your link.

If you need these to be 301 redirects...

RewriteRule ^-c-25.html(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/dolphin_tshirts [R=301,L]

I think that would probably work for him, assuming that the category IDs remain the same.

If your site is in PHP, you could simply add the code...

$targetURL = "http://www.sitename.com/whatever-page-you-what";

if(stristr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],"-c-25.html")) {

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); header("Location: $targetURL");

}

?>

If you don't have access to PHP, you could add a line like this to your HTACCESS file...

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} (c-25.html) [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://www.sitename.com/your-target-page [L,R=301]

Someone might want to double check me on that rewriteRule above, though.

No. The truth is this - if your niche is profitable, people will buy links. If you are afraid of buying links because they may damage your site, create another site, and buy links to it. It is that simple.

However, you should be smart about it. Hire an SEO firm that does uniquely prospected, targeted links. It will be expensive, but that is what your competitors are doing, and it appears to be paying off.

To my knowledge, Bing does not officially support Google's ajax crawler implementation at this time, there is still question over whether or not Bing correctly handles cross-site canonical tags as well.

That being said, Bing's long-tail traffic, especially in the UK, will represent such a small percentage of the traffic available to your site that I am led to believe that Google's implementation would be sufficient for NetMovers. Google handles these URL's just fine (as long as your implementation is correct).

1. Create a bunch of blackhat, auto-genned spammy sites in your space...

2. See what they automatically get long-tail traffic on...

3. Write content on your site targeting those keywords...

Paid, targeted, individually prospected links. Sorry, but it ain't cheap.

Search Suggest is also dependent upon the volume of content related to those keywords. Remember, the original search suggest provided you with data on the number of search results available for the phrase. We have seen marginal improvement with just massive content syndication and no click manipulation.

Finally, whatever you do, it will have to be sustained. Suggest is updated alongside whatever keyword metrics Google is using. You can't simply hope to run a single mechanical turk campaign and then permanently influence the results.