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Working on developing a news product and wondering if there are tools available to gauge search interest in a particular topic.

For those that work in news, what are your favorite SEO tools?

Going through Bing's SEO Analyzer and found that Bing thinks having multiple H1's on a page is an issue.

It's going to be quite a bit of work to remove the H1 tags from various pages. Do you think this is a major issue or not? Does anyone know of any case studies / interviews to show that fixing this will lead to improvement?

If there aren't any crawling / indexing issues with your site, how important do thing sitemap errors are? Do you work to always fix all errors?

I know here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/bings-duane-forrester-on-webmaster-tools-metrics-and-sitemap-quality-thresholds

Duane Forrester mentions that sites with many 302's 301's will be punished--does any one know Googe's take on this?

I applied over two months ago, and my application is still marked as pending. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to get access to the Adwords API?

And /. or are there any online tools (with access to Adwords API) that I can use to import large quantities of keyword data into excel?

In its webmaster guidelines, Google says not to index search results " that don't add much value for users coming from search engines." I've noticed several big brands index search results, and am wondering if it is generally OK to index search results with high engagement metrics (high PVPV, time on site, etc).

We have an database of content, and it seems one of the best ways to get this content in search engines would be to allow indexing of search results (to capture the long tail) rather than build thousands of static URLs.

Have any smaller brands had success with allowing indexing of search results? Any best practices or recommendations?

We are considering implementing a site-wide contextual linking structure. Does anyone have some good guidelines / blog posts on this topic? Our site is quite (over 1 million pages), so the contextual linking would be automated, but we need to define a set of rules.

Basically, if we have a great page on 'healthy recipes,' should we make every instance of the word 'healthy recipes' link back to that page, or should we limit it to a certain number of pages?

We are transitioning to responsive design and some of our pages will not scale properly, so we were thinking of adding the same content twice to the same URL (one would be simple text -- for mobile and the other would include the images, etc for the desktop version), and content would change based on size of the screen.

I'm not looking for another technical solution (I know google specifies that you can dynamically serve different content based on user agent)--I am wondering if any one knows if having the same exact content appear twice on the same URL will cause a problem with SEO (any historical tests or experience would be great).

Thank you in advance.

Say you were given a list of 10,000 recipes and asked to build an SEO friendly site.  Would you build a recipe search engine and index the search results (of course making sure that IA and user engagement metrics are great)?

Or, would you try to build static pages?

And, because google can currently crawl these search result pages, there are a number of soft 404 pages popping up. Would adding a noindex tag to these pages fix the issue?

Thanks for the links and help.

How does seomoz keep search results from being indexed? They don't block search results with robots.txt and it doesn't appear that they add the noindex tag to the search result pages.(ex: view-source:http://www.seomoz.org/pages/search_results#stq=testing&stp=1)

We are moving to responsive design--should we 301 re-direct all of the old m.domain URLs to the corresponding domain.com

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769

Hi Ryan,

Wouldn't that cause issues with crawl efficiency?

Also, webmaster guidelines say "Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don't add much value for users coming from search engines."

I've done quite a bit of searching, but can't seem to find a time efficient way to accurately analyze keyword difficulty for large sets of keywords.

All of the keyword difficulty tools out there that I've tried are either 1) not accurate 2) slow (like seomoz's kw difficulty tool only allows 5 entries at a time).

Can anyone recommend any shortcuts / tools / processes to analyze kw difficulty for large sets of keywords?

Thank you. Are you sure about that?

So, we have a page, like domain.com/searchhere, but results are being crawled (and shouldn't be), results look like domain.com/searchhere?query1. If I block /searchhere? will it block users from crawling the single page /searchere (because I still want that page to be indexed).

What is the recommended best practice for this?