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Correct : )

but if you want to move a page within the site you do.

So if you wanted to move www.yoursite.com/page1 to www.yoursite.com/page2

you would need a 301 redirect because you are changing the URL of that page.

Hi Linda, No I am saying if the URL is changing then you should do a 301 redirect. If the URL is staying the same then you will not need any redirects. However, if you have 5 pages that you want to combine, you can 301 redirect all 5 pages to one of the pages. 301 redirect does a few things, as far as the search engine it tells the search engine that the page has moved this also passes most your link juice (page rank) and prevents duplicate content issues.

Probably not legal, copyright infringement.. However, I would not worry too much if someone has a problem with it they will contact you to take it down, make sure you do so.

As long as your URL will remain the same you do not need any redirects.

If you have a page www.example.com/contact-us and a page www.example.com/connect-with-us and you are combining them, then you would do a 301 redirect from one page to the new page.

Those links do not pass page rank and therefore Google will most likely not look at them as an attempt to manipulate. I would recommend take them down anyways because they are not helping anyone. I would not spend too much time on it, but I would rather not have irrelevant non-authoritative links pointing at my site. It's like getting a reference for something from someone you dont trust/like.

You got it!

Produce content that people can benefit from : )

Not necessarily.. If your article gets no action and it's keyword density is perfect (if there is such a thing), it will not out rank (give more authority) an article that goes viral without perfect keyword density.

Remember Google does not like manipulations. The latest Panda update is designed to detect keyword stuffing and other unnatural on page factors.

Place your keywords where it makes sense for the user and in time your site will gain authority.

I agree with George _"Wordpress 301 redirects the links from the non-www URL to the www URL so your link juice should still flow to the new URLs and the shared links will still resolve to the right page" _in the long run this will conserve you link juice.

No prob : ) Let us know how it works out..

Ideally it's best to go after 1 keyword per page 2 max.  This is one of the reasons for it...

In your case I would target the keyword "isle of mull cheddar" it has the best search volume using: http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/keyword-difficulty

| isle of mull cheddar | 37 | 46 | 170 | 36 | 140 |
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| buy isle of mull cheddar | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| buy cheddar from isle of Mull | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

Do you have anything redirecting in your htaccess file? It could be that or it could be on the hosting end...

No it will not. I like to use brandkeyword for my domain... If my brand name is: White Blue Green Red and my keyword was "color" I would look for the url : WBGRcolor.com if it's available...

so If i do a 301 on my current  free xxx.wordpress.com blog does it matter that the name does not match?

Yes you can do a 301 redirect from one name to another, it does not need to be relevant it can be www.cat.com to www.dog.com : )

Currently my free blog is my url.wordpress.com, would it be an issue if i did a 301 on it? At that point would my free blog be dead?

I don't think this will be an issue. However I never did a 301 redirect from a free wordpress blog, I know that you can set up the 301 redirect within Google's webmaster tools. Your old feed would be redirecting (when someone types www.oldurl.com they will end up on www.newurl.com) but you can copy all the data to the new location.

HI chris,

I checked http://www.internationalcheese.co.uk/ and I did it in the SEOmoz report card: http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization/new

Just put the keyword you want to rank for and for which page. it will give you back a grade with instructions on correcting anything that is not best practice.

The wordpress which is the site.

Exactly, and as George said :   "you are likely logged in at the old sub-domain of simply onestopmuscle.co.uk rather than the new sub-domain of www.onestopmuscle.co.uk"

I currently have a Free domain.wordpress.com blog, should I transfer that over on my own site if I am hosting?

If you transfer it make sure you can do a 301 redirect so that you keep all your link juice and avoid duplicate content.

**Also I see that wordpress charges an annual fee? is this normal for wordpress? **

Yes this is normal for wordpress.

Would I still have access to themes etc?

No you will not. They belong to wordpress.

In your opinion whats they best way to come up with a good blog name?

Well I like to include the keyword I am targeting in my URL along with my brand name. So if my brand name was Apple Bear Plant Inc. and my keyword was rabbit I would look for a URL like: ABPIrabbit.com

Since its wordpress you can do it in the wordpress settings back end.

Personally I like wordpress. However hosting does not have too much to do with SEO other then the location in which you are hosting. If you are hosting outside of the US it may be a bit more challenging to come up in a SERP within the US.

You can run the external blogs at the same time but why would you want to? It's better to have all your content on your page to gain your own natural backlinks and have more fresh content.

I would no index the tags.

I attached a little image for your review.

I pulled the image from this article on setting up wordpress for SEO: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success

However it's still the best practice for most blog's.

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