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There is no harm in adding all of the addresses to the website, although i would certainly redirect via 301 to the master, dominant (or preferred) domain.

One of the main things you need to be careful of with multiple domains is duplicate content, Google will view the website for www.goldenstategolfandputt.com and www.goldenstategolfandputt.net as two different websites even if they are the same website but just reached via a different domain. Therefore if not addressed you would get penalised for duplicate content, to overcome this problem do either a 301 redirect or a rel=canonical to resolve this.

Also unless there is a very good reason, i would ensure from a simplicity's point of view that all linking, internal and external points to a single chosen domain as managing inbound links to multiple domains can be a real pain.

In essence, there is no problem with using multiple domains, plenty of people do it to protect their brand, to overcome misspellings, passing off etc etc.

Hope that helps

no not really damned if you do, damned if you don't... this problem effects us all, we all want to rank for our primary keywords.

if you can't target both, chose your primary target for your homepage and target and internal landing pages for others keywords, ok the page won't be as authoritative, but i have seen on many occasions sub pages out ranking home pages for specific keywords

don't give up bud, just work harder and smarter for those other keywords... and don't forget the long tail

I am fairly sure that if you have the keyword set up in your campaign as "Mac Windows" that the SEOMoz web app looks for an exact match on those two words.

You currently have "...Windows on Mac...", if you change your title to contain the exact phrase "..Mac Windows.." that should fix that error with the report card.

In my experience Google doesn't necessarily require the keywords to be an exact match for SERPs, although in a lot of cases it helps, especially with competitive keywords like yours.

Not wanting to teach you to suck eggs, but although on-page keyword optimisation is a fundamental part of SEO it is rarely enough on its own to get you ranked top of google for competitive keywords.

Hope that helps

You can link build and it will yield some benefits, make sure you go for the yelp, yahoo directories etc at the very least.

Naturally the better the content, the more opportunities for social sharing, links, mentions etc

I assume you have already done the on-page seo?

What is the customers reason for refusing it, is it cost? If so you are prob banging you head against a brick wall and may be worth focusing your efforts on new receptive clients as opposed to those that don't want to know... as they say, you can lead a horse to water....

Maybe not the answer you wanted, but hope it helps!

One footnote to the link building post penguin, make sure that the quality of the back links are good and legitimate and be careful with the link anchor text, make sure you don't try and link for the same phrase/keywords

Presumably you are talking excluding the sub domain in the SEOMoz web app?

If so, it sounds like you have set up SEOMoz to view the root domain. Unfortunately you can't change from a root domain to a sub-domain so the only option is to create a new campaign.

All you need to so is set up the new campaign using the subdomain you want to crawl (presumably this will be www.domain.com) and voila!

BTW: By setting up a new campaign you won't have the crawl history, so you will need to refer to old campaign for that info.

Hope that helps

SEOMoz database of links isn't exhaustive and also is only updated once a month or so, so I wouldn't sweat it too much if the links aren't showing up in there.

You can check back links in Google Webmaster Tools, personally i would use WMT over SEOMoz for this kind of info as after all, its Google's data that determines your rankings.

If you have a 301 in place it shouldn't be an issue, although if it has only recently been added, it might take a bit of time for Google to catch up. if the 301 been added recently it might explain why it is showing up with a different page auth in Open site explorer as the OSE database is only updated once a month or so

If you want to take the belt and braces approach you could always add in a rel=canonical to http://www.trophytcentral.com/

Make sure you add in the trailing slash

See here for more info
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

Hope that helps

Using a cross domain rel canonical should fix any issues with this and mean that you as the original author get the link juice.

Rand explains the usage of cross domain canonical links in the following whiteboard friday:-

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/cross-domain-canonical-the-new-301-whiteboard-friday

hope this helps

Firstly have a think about whether you really want to cancel your subscription, you will lose everything (all stats and reports). And the wealth of knowledge that seomoz offers.

but if you still wish to cancel your trial is 30 days and not one month. The following is from seomoz help section

How do I cancel my Subscription or Free Trial?
You can cancel your free trial any time within your first 30 days and you won't be charged. So, if you sign up on December 1st, you can cancel any time before December 30th and won't get charged. If you're already a paying customer, you can also cancel anytime! You'll remain PRO through your paid period and the account won't be renewed at the end of that paying period. You can cancel your account by logging into the site and then going to the Billing & Subscription page.

So to play it safe I would cancel on the 1st.

Hope this helps

Hi Jen

There are some useful blog posts on here which help with understanding the use of a canonical link listed below.

You would place the link on the duplicate content pages, and link these through to the page that you want the link juice to go to. The pages still appear from a user perspective but google does not see them.

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

You can use the seo moz crawl to see which pages are duplicates.

Hope this helps

Hi Rob

Do you mind me asking where you got the link profile breakdown from?

I've been using link detective and it doesn't seem to be anywhere near as concise or informative as your list.

thanks

Justin

Hi Bilal

A good thing is to add Google seller ratings as this will help improve click thru rates

Google has an article on this 
http://support.google.com/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=190657

Basically, unless your sites/products are getting reviews on sites such as price grabber, realtime etc the only easy way to achieve this is google checkout.

There is a good blog on Moz, its a couple of years old but still relevant and well worth a read
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-rank-well-in-google-products-search-a-big-list-of-places-to-get-reviews 

Hope this helps and good luck

Just curious as to the Mozzers views on directories such as HotVsNot, JoeAnt post Googles Penguin update.

It seems to me that these kind of directories are exactly the kind of sites that Penguin is targeting? Yet, i can't find any evidence that links from these sites have been negatively effected.

Would appreciate your views on whether these are "safe" directories, just a matter of time before Google hits them, or that Google has already hit them

Justin

Agree with Safor

Here is a blog from Rand on this subject, its a couple years old but still valid

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/understanding-root-domains-subdomains-vs-subfolders-microsites

Hope that helps

Hi Nadejda

Where did the report come from? Is it from the SeoMoz web app or elsewhere?

If it is from the web app, the duplicate content issue often arises when a campaign is set up using a root domain as this will check www.domain.com and also domain.com.

If that is the case you should either 301 from http://domain.com/ to http://www.domain.com/ or alternatively you can set up the rel=canonical tag to solve this.

Also if you haven't done so already set up the primary domain in Google Web Master tools

Info on 301
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

Info on rel=canonical
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization 

I hope that helps!

Its is unlikely it is doing your SERPs any good as Google does generally penalise duplicate content.

To solve the issue, you could add in rel=canonical tag into the duplicate pages, this will tell Google the dominant version of the content

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

If you take this approach, i would make sure that prominently on the page you include cross link to the other pages

Totally agree with Cornel.

Don't ruin what you have as you might not get it back!

Put your effort into making the product page also rank well for the keyword.

Although this doesnt strictly answer your question.....

In my opinion, guest blogging has negligible benefit in terms link juice, sure a blog with a good Domain Auth and Page Auth will certainly do no harm in the eyes of Google, it certainly isn't main reason you should guest blog.

Guest blog's real benefit come in the form of brand awareness and recognition, great content will equal click throughs to your site, the blog has the potential to be linked to and shared on social networks (which in turn means more click throughs and links).

So when writing a guest blog, i would be far more concerned on how relevant it is to the community of that blog and the potential reach of your post rather than the domain auth and page rank.

Hope that helps (even if it doesn't strictly answer your question!)

We have taken the view that we will leave our "site by" links alone, we are ranking well for key phrases and the danger being that changing these links will affect it.

That said, we have removed links from some client websites with poor DA and PR as a precaution and it doesn't seem to have done us any harm, in fact i think it may have improved SERPs on a few keywords, but a little early to say for sure.

Thanks Maximise and Sven, both very informative answers.

I have changed the question to a discussion as it seems there may be no definitive answer  to the above, so look forward to hopefully seeing further input from the Moz community.