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I don't think you can initiate a crawl, but you can use the Crawl Test tool to see how it looks.

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What CMS is it Mark ?

Zeeshan

All you need to do is edit your .htaccess file and add the following line of code:

ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

I hope this helps.

There shouldn't be any issue. The question I'd like to ask is, do you have a lot of outgoing links ? Is this a clients/testimonials/resources kind of a page ? Are you doing it for your users or for SEO reasons for the site gaining the link ? Worst case scenario, or if you are concerned, add a rel=nofollow.

What I'd suggest doing is randomly revising some of those 404's that appear and check whether they should indeed be 404s. Are there any bulk rules / wildcard 301s you can implement to redirect the traffic for 3-6 months ?

These URLs are usually found from external links to your website. When you click on a detail of any of the reported 404s, it tells you what the error details are, whether this link is in the sitemap or where it is linked from. You'd realize in most cases it's linked from somewhere. If it's an internal link, correct it. If it's external, do you think the webmaster might update it if you contact them or is it easier to just set a 301, retaining the SEO value ?

I hope this helps.

Cornel

I suggest adding the rel=canonical tag on your page to the version you'd like index. That way both the http and https version of the same page, will display the same "http" canonical and avoid the duplicate content issue and also act as a 301 from your https to http for the bots. The user's would still be able to get to the https homepage if they are logged into your website and or browsing on https, so that they don't toggle back and forth between https and http.

I agree. I would suggest adding the noindex on the pages and letting the bots crawl them. Blocking them would prevent future crawl of these pages, but I am guessing you would also want to remove the existing pages.

Therefore add the noindex first, wait a few days and then add the disallow (Although technically if they are noindex, you don't really need the disallow).

Sara, I agree with Bryan. If you are targeting USA, I would go for es-xx.com option. I hope this helps.

I don't think I have ever seen any data for "the most viewed" press releases. Some of those free press release websites might have a public view count, but sites like prnewswire or prweb etc, I don't think they do.

I agree with both William and Adam. I would also suggest use the various research tools at http://www.seomoz.org/tools and On-page Analysis as well as the Keyword Difficulty & SERP Analysis tools to understand what your keywords should be and the effort involved and the level of domain authority required to attain those rankings. I would also suggest using the Google Adwords tool, suggest your target market and do some keyword research.

I hope these help. Welcome to SEOMoz and you might also want to setup your campaign here at SEOMoz to see what the weekly / monthly progress is for rankings as well as any On-page recommendations from the tool. Always do your due-diligence before making any changes.

Post or PM me your website and based on that I can see what link building strategies I can recommend. The intent is to try and gain the most natural possible links...

I would try to summarize that blog post in your own words and then provide a link to it, rather then a full version duplicate. It does not help in any way. If you can find a creative way to talk about that blog post, add some more depth and insight from a subject matter expect, it adds more value to that, instead of just being duplicated across the web.

Dheeraj

I would strongly recommend you concentrate on better quality links. Article directories and SEO Only press releases do not really help build the authority required for websites to rank specially in 2012. These used to work in the past and technically all kinds of links still work, but they are all short term high risk.

Concentrate on strengthening your content, building content that user's would engage with and naturally link to. Do press releases when it's really a reason for it to be a PR. Think of it from a user's perspective. The kind of news you are putting in that PR, what would you think if you read about it in a newspaper. Would you think it is useful ? Would you call it a news ?

I hope this helps.

If it can be useful copy that is unique to every page, it might make sense to do it. If not, it might be easier to just convert it into an image as Streamline recommended and instead add other copy on the page that is more in sync with what the page is about.

Presuming that copy in the middle is something like "Why Buy From Us" kind of thing, how many different ways can you really write it, at the same time being useful to the user.

If you think about it, a lot of yellow pages essentially get the data from same sources, some even scraping other yellow-pages as well as licensing data scenarios. It's okay to use your paypercall kind of tracking on your websites, PPC campaigns, radio ads etc. It's not going to affect your local search rank-ability.

I hope this helps.

I agree with Neil. It's not bad, just a good user practice to keep them lowercase so that's there's no confusion. The best bet for you would to be to use a consistent format and mimic that in your canonical URLs so only that variation gets crawled and indexed.

Sam You are not currently using the blog/domain at fireplacedecorating.com ? I like that domain better compared to the brand URL which is hyphenated. Anyways, to answer your question directly, I see that you already have a lot of content on your ecommerce store site. How is it doing ? It might make most sense to continue to strengthen and add new content there vs adding it to a brand new domain. You could also consider adding a www.brick-anew.com/blog. I hope this helps.

You should submit an XML sitemap for the Search Engines and submit it via the Google Webmaster Console and also provide a reference to it from your robots.txt As for the HTML Sitemap, that's more for users. I'd suggest to keep it if it's usable / easy to use by the users.

It depends how strong your domain authority is and how deep within a website that page is. If you are talking about the homepage, I have seen it vary from 10 minutes to 10 days, again..based on the strength and authority of the website.

Some domain management companies let you do a 301 redirect of a domain to another domain...however they might only do domain.com to newdomain.com not specific/individual and customized redirects.