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You got it right on the money: "My first impression is that your existing site is under windows hosting and your developers' advice is aimed at ensuring that your Wordpress installation is on a LAMP system."

Why would you recommend Tumblr over Wordpress?

Our developers are recommending we sign up for a cloud based LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, & PHP) server to install 3^rd party software (Wordpress). They said "the blog will be on a separate IP address and potentially can have some impact with SEM/SEO."

Can anyone expand on what impact this might have versus having it on the same IP?

We recently acquired a company, and now we are going to redirect all of the pages on their site to their respective pages on our site. Do we need to keep the original pages on their site active? For how long?

Ideally, we would like to redirect everything and remove the old site entirely so we don't have to pay to keep hosting it. Is this possible?

Thanks!

Thank you much for that list!

Thanks Ryan! So in theory if the directory's DA and PA are higher than my website's DA and PA, getting a link from there should help raise mine?

Thanks Kieran and Joseph. @Kieran, we would be taking over the company, so we wouldn't want that site to function separately anymore. @Joseph, that was the plan we would follow when we take over.

What would happen to the existing rankings of the old site at that point? If the old site (that we are buying) ranked on the first page for "cool widgets" and we are on page 10 right now, would we see an immediate improvement, or would all of those rankings be lost?

We are considering purchasing an existing website in our industry with a domain authority of 52 and 20K inlinks and redirecting it to our new website with a domain authority of 26 and 1,000 inlinks. Would this be the best way to improve our new site's authority and inlinks? Would Google penalize us for doing that or would it effectively transfer the old sites authority to us?

Thanks Anthony and John.

Currently, www.mysite.com/subcategory-page.aspx shows 12 products. When I select "view 24" it adds the following to the end of the URL: "?P=1&S=G&Sh=24&Sr=1"

We have added the rel="canonical" tag to the all of the pages to direct all of the link juice to the default page and to avoid duplicate content issues and have added the parameters to Google WMT. Wouldn't changing our default page to show all the products for indexing purposes be faster than trying to developing links to all of the "hidden" product pages?

We currently have "view 12" as the default setting when someone arrives to www.mysite.com/subcategory-page.aspx. We have been advised to change the default to "view all products" and make that the canonical page to ensure all of our products get indexed. My concern is that doing this will increase the page load time and possibly hurt rankings. Does it make sense to change all our our subcategory pages to show all the products when someone visits the page? Most sites seem to have a smaller number of products as the default.

Thanks for the link!

Does the keyword tool and traffic estimator only show data from the search network or does it also include their display network? I'm trying to figure out if the estimated clicks it shows includes people who are clicking text or display ads posted on other sites.

Thanks!

Thanks for the feedback NinjaMarketer and Alan. I understand that you have to be selective when choosing which directories to post to, but doesn't Submiteaze allow you to choose where you want to post. From my understanding it just helps complete forms faster than if you were to do it all manually. Do you know if access to higher value directories is limited when using this software because then I could see how it would really be a waste?

I would like to start a link building initiative at my company for a new website, and would like to know if the value of the links built using Submiteaze would be worth the money.