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Sean,

Here are some resources that I have for you

http://www.webforgers.net/mod-rewrite/mod-rewrite-syntax.php

http://roshanbh.com.np/2008/03/url-rewriting-examples-htaccess.html

Hope they help you in understanding how to go about .htaccess.

As far as I understand, you are facing the issue since you pointed yourinterlinking URLs to your .index.html page rather than your absolute URLs.

Shailendra, Its not accessible from my end as well. I am using firefox & chrome and they do not seem to work. Please post a URL that we can have a look at.

The only thing after redirect (301) is that you should tell Google which URL is relevant for it to crawl and rank. Eg, for marketing purposes, you may have the URL, www.company.com/productname-cityname on your website and have a URL www.company.com/london on your brochures, but you must tell Google which URL you want to promote. People use Google to recall URLs as well (thats the reason why facebook is one of the most searched terms on Google). Therefore, it might be wise to do a 301 from the time it goes live or put a rel=canonical from the start so that if Google indexes the new URLs by chance, it knows which URL it should consider for ranking.

Chain redirects happening at page level hurts if you have had the URL in the past and Google had indexed. I think that when you consider the situation that not all juice is transferred from the redirected page to the landing page, chain redirects makes you lose page authority.

If you have an architecture (server architecture), webcache in place, maybe (although not very sure), you can work with chain redirects to interface between your internal website architecture and your user interface.

When you see a category >subcategory>product the best way to tackle page title duplication would be Product Name with an unqiue identifier (eg, size etc)>categoryname>section

The unique identifier will make each product page title somehwat unique.

In that case, I would do a url based redirect to your affinityproperties URL. Joecline doesnt ring many bells. But do not do a domain level redirect, rather put in a URL based redirect.

You can use open site explorer to see the link profile just to make sure that affinityproperties has a better link profile. If Joecline has a better link profile, I would keep Joecline since the link authority matters in Google rankings.

Damn, thats a lot of work. What did Rand say to your question? I use a hell lot of tools myself and its really painful to keep track (i dont have multiple clients though, but I have close to 500K keywords to keep a tab on.

Joe,

1st of all, which one of your websites rank better for your target keywords?

Which one is an older domain?

Which one gets you more natural traffic (not from search engines or referrals, but direct traffic).

I would go in with the domain that comes up on all these 3 answers.

I think thats an answer that either Rand or Gillian or anyone from mozplex would be more equipped to handle. I would rather have a credit system where  X$ gets you Y credits. Its on the user how he/she uses it. Each pro tool would cost credits and he can get a renewal every month.

well, dont worry, Bing ranking signals are a bit different than Google. Try to submit a XML sitemap to Bing as well.

Rand posted a useful article a few months back. Here is the link:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-vs-bing-correlation-analysis-of-ranking-elements

The idea is to keep doing right things and eventually, it will jump up.

I dont think that vanity URLs matter that much (if at all). I think that building authority and posting relevanta and useful information is more important than the handle name. I would get some reputation on the social media accounts 1st rather than worry about the username or twitter handle for the social media handles.

a rel=nofollow tag on the embedded tag would be a good thing to do since that would tell Google not to give any link authority to that URL.

1st of all, do you have https on your website ? It would be a good idea to disallow robots through robot.txt from indexing sensitive parts of the website (user login etc etc).

Then submit a website through a sitemap. ( You can also mention sitemaps in your robot.txt).

That should get the ball rolling. You shouldnt expect huge benefits over a short period of time, but it will slowly show up.

put the reviews in # for now till you have a good content base and then carefully do the flip to vice versa.

sorry, my bad, I meant, noindex for tags and categories.

Sometimes, if you have put in a short and less keyword oriented description at DMOZ, you would like to replace it with an optimized snippet (although, you cannot fully control what Google shows as snippet: it maybe your meta description or excerpts from your body content).

If you feel your DMOZ snippet serves you well, you can let it be.

If you are using PHP, then you can include as is explained in the URL below:

http://detectmobilebrowsers.mobi/

Yu can use a javascript based useragent redirection as well:here is the URL:

http://www.quirksmode.org/js/detect.html

You can also use the Yahoo Library API to detect browsers (mobiles have different browsers as compared to desktop computers and laptops.

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/yahoo/yahoo_ua_detection.html

For apache level redirection:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1005153/auto-detect-mobile-browser-via-user-agent

Hope these resources help you.

Add a meta tag as or

That will do it for you.

Google's resource for this:

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35264#2

Make a social network or profile website where everyone has their own space where they can write (something like a personal blog). Now, ask people to write reviews, send customers and users of your services for any of these professionals a feedback form with the URL to their profile and tell them to rate and review these guys.

Keep a strict moderation policy and try extracting useful information and compile them in a wiki kind of a storyboard as a summary of discussions, or a composed real time bio.

That should keep search engines interested.

what about adding a # in the URL? Have you thought about that? That will drive all the authority to the page you want to rank higher in search.

I dont recall the video, but there was a talk that search engines disregard the part of URL after #, but crawls them.(correct me if i mis interpreted the video, or didnt recall it correctly).

But, that should be a solution to your problem.

Further you can add nofollow to your category and tag pages, if you want faceted navigation and content duplication issues to be solved.

are you sure that you havent been logged in and are seeing searches which are not personalized?