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The copying is a manual process and I don't want any risks for the live environment. A Httphandler for robots.txt could be a solution and I'm going to discuss this with one of our developers. Other suggestions are still welcome of course!

Thanks for your quick reply, Theo. Unfortunately, this htpasswd will also get copied to the live environment, so our websites will get password protected live. Could there be any other solution for this?

Hi all,

I have a development subdomain, which gets copied to the live domain. Because I don't want this dev domain to get crawled, I'd like to implement a robots.txt for this domain only. The problem is that I don't want this robots.txt to disallow the live domain. Is there a way to create a robots.txt for this development subdomain only?

Thanks in advance!

Yes, if a service is no longer active, we would 301 it to the landing page on the main domain.

Are you using different domains (.com .co.uk)? Or different folders (.com/uk)? Just out of interest sake.

In order to identify true competition, I always add "allintitle" to my query to exclude 'less focused' competitors. Do you agree?

In essence we want to go after 1 main keyword phrase on that one-page, and we'll mention that in the metas. But your suggestion of adding more text to widen the keyword cloud is great.

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I agree with you Rand. The SEO in me wants to extend to a few additional (keyword focused) pages as well. It is indeed a shame to waste good authority. Even though the website owner has a good (broad) authority website, he really wants to widen his net by adding these one page exact domain match website... and I just want to be super-prepared

Thanks for the link Darren - My site search on SEOmoz wasn't as successful 

Hi

Are there any SEO guidelines for "one page websites". I'm looking into the 'benefit' it might have in combination with exact match URLs.

Many thanks in advance.

Thanks for taking the time to respond Josh.

I think you've summed it up nicely - and therefore helped me made up my mind (at last)

I agree with Adam.

How would you define article spinning? What is the purpose of article spinning? What's the benefit for users?

I'm afraid the purpose is to generate as much automated content to boost the number of pages artificially on your website. I don't see any benefits for users.

Looking forward to our feedback.

I've been reading up on this subject, but I still can't clearly decide which is better. Your insights will help me a lot.

I work for a client with 1 powerful corporate website and many small dedicated websites to individual projects. Which strategy would I focus on? The powerful corporate or the small individual websites?

As I see it:

Which is better?

1. One powerful domain with lots of pages dedicated to a single subject
   1. PRO: more inbound links, more pages, sometimes URL exact match
   2. CON: less focused on a single 'theme'
2. Different domains dedicated to different subjects
   1. PRO: more focus per domain to a subject
   2. CON: less inbound links, less pages... less power

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the reply. Yes, we do use a rank tracker (seo powersuite). We've put it at its lowest crawl speed. We're 3 people using the tool, not even simultaneously.

Great visual, btw. Guess I'll join you in that category (proudly though).

I start at 8 AM and 2 hours later we see the captcha's getting to a ridiculous level. The IP doesn't seem to be on a black list. No, the IP never change.

I get the captcha's as a result of using Rank Tracker by Seo Powersuite. However, it is at it's lowest crawl level. But you can imagine a team of several people tracking ranks that is raises flags at Google. What would you suggest we do as a team to avoid this?

I apply a "noindex, follow" as a standard procedure for privacy policy pages. You could do nofollow but it won't help your other pages. If you can make a few relevant good links in your privacy policy to your top pages. You'll make the best of those in-content links.

Thank you. Very helpful

I like pete's post on social media embassies as a hands-on strategy. Navigate the social media category in the SEOmoz blog section for all related articles.

Our office has a number of people performing analysis and research on keyword positions, volume, competition etc.

We have 1 external static IP address. We installed the static IP so we can filter out our visits in Google Analytics. However by 10 AM we get impssible CAPTCHA's or even get blocked in Google.

Do you have any experience with such an issue? Any solutions you can recommend?

Any help would be appreciated!

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