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As someone who has just spent three hours today going through the public Q&A entries (I'm an SEOmoz associate), I have seen responses with multiple thumbs. I think the most I've seen (or noticed) is 3-4 thumbs, but I do see two thumbs quite often. The Public Q&A is fairly new, and the most recent two weeks are restricted to pro members (I don't know if free members can add thumbs after two weeks, or just view the answers), so it may be just a lack of people so far. I do thank you for your thumb usage and participation!

Hi Paul, did you find a good way to automatically do the trailing slash redirect?

Have you had any impressions, or were you able to figure out why nothing was showing for the UK campaign?

Hi Susan,

Are you able to share any particular area of the report that you need assistance on?

Hi Melinda, I see your site showing as the first result for a query of your domain name without the .com in Google. Have you regained some of your rankings yet?

Petra, did this work for you?

Keri [SEOmoz associate]

Hi Ben,

Do you need any more advice on implementing this, or are you good?

Were you able to find anything that worked for you? I see reviews of calendar plugins, but nothing talking about the SEO-friendliness of the calendars. The only thing I see related to that is questions other people ask, wanting to know a good recommendation.

Giorgio, I'm wondering if you've re-submitted your XML site map, and if you've started to see any positive changes yet from the better content.

Hi Monique,

How did things go with IT? Is there anything we can do to help convince them that this can be redirected?

If you have some lessons learned that would make for an interesting blog post, feel free to write it up and submit it to YOUmoz!

Glad to be able to help, and sorry I didn't get in here sooner with the GWT link [my avatar doesn't readily show it, but I am an associate for SEOmoz and I try to help provide timely help].

Hi Brian,

Did your site get crawled again and is everything good now?

Keri [SEOmoz associate]

I've never seen a percentage similar type option in Word, but you can merge and compare two documents to see the differences. I don't think it'll work enough for your case, it's more helpful for two documents that are in the same order and spotting the differences between them (like a draft proposal and final proposal).

Or quickly in some aspects at least. I'm glad for your site it's working well. A thought -- have you done a change of address in Google Webmaster Tools (if the old domain was verified)? Wouldn't hurt. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=83106

Just curious what your company ended up doing about this, and if you've seen any impact yet if you have made changes.

Timon, how is your site doing now? Has it recovered, or are there still issues?

The site looks visually nice, except for the list of keywords at the bottom that Adam mentioned. I agree that some good backlinks are needed.

For user experience (and a bit for ranking, but primarily user experience at this point) I suggest looking at the file size of the images on your page. My first impression was that the site was slow to load, and I noticed you have several large image files that could be reduced either by saving a png as a jpg, or compressing the jpg (investiate smush.it from Yahoo).

The logo actually reduces a whole lot via smush.it, so that can help a little. Have you looked at the graphic elements that came with the theme that you didn't necessarily create?

Yahoo's Y!Slow extension for Firefox can also point out a lot of other areas for speeding up the site.

There's a post in the last 24 hours about Xenu and Screaming Frog, it's worth a read to see if a) screaming frog my work for you and b) if the 64 bit version of Xenu mentioned in the comments can solve any problems.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/crawler-faceoff-xenu-vs-screaming-frog

Jason, if you can post the contents of your robots.txt file, or give us a link to the site in question, we can help you diagnose what is happening.

A second question is -- what type of content is being blocked? If it's a directory like /admin that is being blocked, the robots.txt is likely working as intended.

You can also verify your site in Google Webmaster Tools and look in there at the crawling section, as it will tell you what pages Googlebot hasn't been able to crawl. Google offers some help at http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/03/speaking-language-of-robots.html.