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Many Thanks Stephen .

Thanks a lot  Alan for your time in taking close look at the site and for useful links.

My apologies. Try this one

http://bit.ly/vfN5tq

The site http://goo.gl/bQkCF is displaying a strange description for keyword "taxi software" in google.com (second position ). Instead of description, text "logo" is being displayed. I understand that there is no description on the site, but still why this text. I would appreciate if you would let me know if anything is wrong with the site.

I was assuming that by including / after allow, we are blocking the spiders and also thought that allow is not supported by search engines.

Thanks for clarifications. A better approach would be

User-Agent: *
Allow: 

right ?

The best one of course is 

**User-agent: *
Disallow:**

Any particular reason for doing so ?

Hello,

What does the following command mean -

User-agent: *
Allow: /

Does it mean that we are blocking all spiders ?  Is Allow supported in robots.txt ?

Thanks

Many Thanks to all of you for your clarifications .

Is this correct

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

What does $1 mean ?

"if you have duplicate content on 2 TLD's you be be ok" Would it be o.k if 2 TLD's ( say .com ) are a ) Targetting different countries b ) same country

Hi,

Is this the correct code for redirecting www to non www version on Apache server

RewriteEngine

OnRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Thanks

Thanks Ryan.

Ryan, i  need clarification regarding your first point.

"Without any copyright notice at all on the page, you are really leaving yourself wide open for theft. "

What if the content is still stolen with copyright notice in place ?

Thanks Alan.

But If you have a URL like keyword1-keyword2, that page can be returned for the searches -  keyword1,keyword2 and even “keyword1keyword2”

Let's say  url  is www.example.com/seo-india

This page can be returned for seo, "seoindia", seo india, and even seo-india, but not for  seo_india

Am i right ?

Hi,

I would like to know if the following statement holds true today or it doesn't matter whether we use hyphens or underscore

If you have a URL like keyword1_keyword2,  Google will only return that page if the user searches for keyword1_keyword2  ( highly unlikely ) .

But If you have a URL like keyword1-keyword2, that page can be returned for the searches -  keyword1,keyword2 and even “keyword1keyword2”

Thanks

Thanks Ryan. I fully understand what you are saying and will be careful while making the change.

After reading your answer, i searched for methods on how to generate 410 error.

Lets say i want to remove a page named xyz.html.

Which of the following entry in .htaccess is correct

Redirect gone xyz.html

or

Redirect gone /xyz/

If xyz were in a folder named ABC,

would it be correct

Redirect gone /ABC/xyz.html

Thaks

Thanks Ryan. I  am learning new things not only from SEOmoz, but also from you too

The best part is that your answers are always  explanatory.

Do search engines Read RoR sitemaps ? Are they necessary ?  Isn't xml sitemap enough.

Very insightful answer Ryan.

Is there any official word from Google regarding this. ( That  they reward new sites for a short period ).

So, you mean to say that after a short period ( what is short period 1 month, 3 months, few weeks ), the sites are pushed down and the initial advantage is lost.