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Hey Alex,

Screaming Frog is hands down the best desktop crawling software and it has most of what you are looking for.

-Mike

Hey Mike,

When Google re-crawls your site they will update their understanding of your redirects. Right now since you have multiple redirects you are losing a portion of link equity with each subsequent hop. Therefore if you update your redirects from A -> C rather than A -> B -> C you will pass more link equity than you are currently.

-Mike

Hey Darren,

I'm not quite clear what you mean by the same server. If you're saying both domains point to the same content in the same folder in a virtual hosting environment and it's a question of duplicate content I would definitely suggest just 301 redirecting the domain on an .htaccess level and calling it a day.

If what you're saying is that the 2 domains share the same hosting environment but are in separate directories with separate content and you're worried that since they are on the same IP address then yes the problem is slightly more complicated. I would suggest moving the 2nd domain to a different C-block and then 301 redirecting it. Another thing to think about here is...are these domains registered privately or are they registered to the same person? Many SEOs believe this tends to affect rankings.

As far as monitoring in SEOmoz pro I would set them up as competitors to compare linking metrics but as far as crawling give each domain their own campaign.

-Mike

Hey David,

It's hard to say as there has been no clear information from Google on how they use registration data. They are however a registrar and there has been most SEOs will tell you the age of a domain does factor into trust. In the past people have seen links devalued once a WHOIS record went from private to a person's name. In other words what you're suggesting is very possible, but it's hard to say that since you were named the owner once that the domains will no longer be worthwhile.

The real issue here is that what you own is essentially a link/content farm and therefore these sites may have been devalued due to Panda. Ultimately link and content farms are not a sustainable solution and you should think more about content marketing and attracting links via the awesome stuff you would be creating.

I would suggest consolidating into a smaller number of sites, 301 redirecting the link equity and then launching content strategies that align with your business goals.

-Mike

I haven't seen a case study although everyone has been showing this with Google Recipes.

The one issue that has come up is that by making it easier to display info in the SERPs there is a possibility that people may never click-through. For example, if you are searching for movie times or the length of a music recording or the time of event you can get that information on the SERPs and never make it to the page.

So GYB want us to neatly package our info for them but then they benefit because people search for something else rather than spending time on our sites.

I follow someone on Twitter called @Journorequest. They tweet and RT with the hashtag #journorequest in a fashion similar to HARO. I've also uncovered http://www.responsesource.com/index_journalist.php. I have not used either so I can't speak to their quality

Depends what you are trying to accomplish.

I'd venture to guess the ones that are going to give you value while maintaining nofollow links are going to be the more popular ones like everyone has listed here.

If you're just looking to build links that pass regular value then you're going to want go after the more obscure ones. Not sure how up to date this list is but here's a page that lists the social media and social bookmarking sites with DoFollow links: http://www.techiemania.com/list-of-65-dofollow-social-bookmarking-sites.html

It's a pain but it's easier to just create a new listing and then delete the old.