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well, no downside if you do it right. Ive seen (and been part of!) when you do this type of thing on a large site via automation and don't realise all the implications of where you are redirecting. When you start doing this stuff, you appreciate what people mean when they advocate KISS You may well experience changes to indexation etc as you are effectively changing the flow of PR through your site and its pretty hard to know what the effects will be beforehand on a large complex site Make sure you have a good view on your analytics & try this on a smaller part of your site and see what the effect is (if you can)

Thanks, that's what I assumed. Has anyone besides Amazon been able to get this to show in the SERPS? Seems like preferential treatment by Google

Can we just use the top style dropdown like www.adventurefinder.com has? Yes. If you are ever unsure, any easy test is to right-click on the page and View Page Source. Search for the text used in the navigation menu. If you can read the text in the page's source code, then Google can definitely read it as well. Even if you can't read it, Google MAY be able to still pull the data. It's one of those things where if you can see it then you are fine, but if you can't see it you may still be fine as well.

Thanks, yea I can use canonicals with bigcommerce. I just wasn't sure how much the URL structure really influences the rankings of the page. Like if everything else is perfect, but there is one variable in there that isn't (ie having /categories/ in the URL) how much that would actually effect the results.

The forum or blog could improve rankings if it is on the same domain and attracts links from other websites.

I would highly recommend getting an individual to do it on elance. You can look at their ratings from previous projects and how much money they have made from this line of work. This way you can be sure that you are getting a proper writer to do this work. Additionally I would say - good job on the rewriting - this is necessary!

I have been able to get a couple domains ranked for the same (low to moderate competition) keyword before. They had same whois and server.

We have a similar problem, we have a javascript dropdown nav at the top which brings the user to every product category on the site (+100), but we also also have the main categories listed in the left column.   So we have used "no follow" for the javascript dropdown nav, and also other pages like shopping cart etc, so leaving the spider to use the main categories listed in the left column to crawl the site .  But not sure how effective or useful that would be

Dear searchpl, It will be better to add and verify blog.domain.com in your GWT, and add a separate sitemap inside this account.

Im not sure how you will handle 301 without access to IIS itself. Is there a reason why you want IIS7? If you can run apache with "classic asp" then would that work for you: http://www.apache-asp.org/install.html I personally use rackspace. If you know how to install everything then the cloud sites with 1GB of rank would do good for you which runs about 50 bucks a month.

i'm a new writer for myblogguest.com just trying it for my test site.