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Other than typos, 301s for previous links or type-in traffic we have only used a supporting domain for advertisement/other marketing purposes that is catchier than the company name and main URL. This domain just 301s to the main domain.

Something like this can be used in print ads, commercials or billboards to get an idea of the traffic resulting from and subsequent effectiveness of the ad. A similar idea is setup with particular landing pages like www.godaddy.com/superbowl.

Using a different domain for this would not create the best brand recognition for the main URL, however. In our case, it's beneficial to use since the URL is the main slogan of the company as well.

Does registering or renewing a domain name for more than a year improve search as a result of a more trusted site and company that will seem to be around for longer than just a year?

I'm attempting to find users to follow and receive reciprocal follows for a client on twitter.

Through the company's newsletter database, I have a CSV file of somewhere in the range of 20,000 email addresses and names.

I've been importing them 250 at a time into an empty Gmail account then connecting that with twitter each time to find some of them.

However, a lot of the PEOPLE using the email addresses on the mailing list are not on twitter but their COMPANY is. To find the company, I can obviously drop the name@ part of the email and just search by the domain but this becomes tedious real quick since it has to be one by one and cannot be bulk imported/searched.

Are there any tools/ideas out there to more easily find twitter users based on a larger set of keywords and/or domain names?

They have gotten some OK traffic. They're being clicked, but it's the exact same on each page.

There are no links coming in to any of them, however. The URLs themselves across the site are pretty weird, so I will be doing a complete restructuring of those as well.

Based on the traffic they've gotten, I agree, it would be good to do unique content for each state, but this obviously wouldn't be able to get completed for quite some time.

With all that in mind, what should we do?

We are working on a site that has 50+ pages that all have duplicate content (1 for each state, pretty much).

Should we 301 all 50 of the URLs to one URL or should we just completely get rid of all the pages?

Are there any steps to take when completely removing pages completely? (submit sitemap to google webmaster tools, etc)

thanks!

Will it make a difference if a page has this format for URLs and breadcrumb navigation

www.domain.com/category.html
www.domain.com/category/product1.html

vs.

www.domain.com/category/
www.domain.com/category/product1.html
or
www.domain.com/category/product1

does it make sense to change the category page or will it not make a huge difference?

We have a potential client with a URL structure in this fashion:

http://www.site-url.com//cpage/page.html

pretty strange, right?

my question is:

How bad are the 2 forward slashes // for SEO?

How bad is it to have that extra layer of /cpage in the URL? this doesn't appear to serve any other purpose than making the URL longer than necessary.