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If multiple domains are resolving to the same website but with different URLs, then it's a potential problem for duplicate content. The best thing would be to choose one domain to use as your primary domain, and then 301 redirect all the other domains to your primary domain.

I know that Amazon shows ads from AdWords since they are considered part of the Google AdWords Search Network (not the Display Network). I haven't used AdWords to advertise on Amazon since late 2011, but I just checked out a Amazon product page and checked out the Sponsored Links. The URLs are being sent through A9.com, but the landing page had the "gclid" parameter appended to the end of the URL which leads me to believe that these are AdWords ads.

I had a lot of success advertising on Amazon product pages by offering the product cheaper than Amazon did and including the price in the copy of the ad. For example, a ping pong table was on Amazon for $300 and so I created an ad for the exact same ping pong table and listed it for $279. Even though my site did not have the reputation/credibility of Amazon, shoppers were more than willing to click on the ad to visit a third party site for a better deal.

Anyways, that didn't really answer your question, so if you want your ads to show up on Amazon under the Sponsored Links, I suggest setting up an AdWords account and choose the Search Network.

Yes, you should 301 redirect .asp pages to .htm even if they have the same page name.

You should be able to go to http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization and enter in the URL and keyword. For example, I just tried the report for http://www.shadetreepowersports.com/Dirt-Bike-Helmets-Goggles-s/2536.htm for the phrase "dirt bike helmets" and the report card gave you an A.

I can't say for sure what happened last time since I am not exactly sure what you did. But as long as the 301 redirects are set up correctly and Google is not having any trouble accessing and crawling them, then you shouldn't experience any major negative results over the long term.

Now that I've read your initial post again, I see that the Maine page is one of the States you tried to redirect as part of your test. However, as I posted above, the old page is not being 301 redirected to the new page, so Google may have dropped your site in the rankings since you essentially had two very similar pages competing against each other for the same terms.

The page that is ranking #8 in Google for me is http://www.businessbroker.net/state/maine-Businesses_For_Sale.aspx, and on that page, it has the old Title tag and it is not redirected to the version of the URL with the new Title tag.

When I visit http://www.businessbroker.net/State/Maine-Businesses_For_Sale.aspx, I am seeing the new Title tag.

Since these are two completely different pages you will need to 301 redirect the URL with the old Title tag to the new one. That should solve your problems.

How long have your listings been active? It can take time for OSE to crawl billions of pages on the web and then attribute links back to sites. So if they are relatively new links, then OSE just hasn't had a chance to update its data but they should show up eventually.

I would suggest running the report card for each individual page for that page's targeted keywords rather than testing the homepage for all of your site's keywords.

I visited the page http://www.businessbroker.net/state/maine-Businesses_For_Sale.aspx and the Title tag in the HTML is "maine Business for Sale Ads - maine Businesses for Sale & Business Brokers - Sell a Business on Business Broker" so perhaps you did not publish the new versions of the Title tags?

As for your lower case/upper case issue, I went to both URLs and they both resolve to an active page. I would suggest making the URLs consistent to minimize the risk of duplicate content. First, I would set the designated URL in the rel="canonical" tag for each page. And depending on the type of server, I would suggest forcing the URLs to 301 redirect to a single version of the URL. Here is a good blog post on how to address this specific issue - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/common-technical-seo-problems-and-how-to-solve-them

It's a bit difficult to provide an exact answer since I don't know how your site is configured, what kind of server you are on or what your goals are, but I will try answer your question about how to change temporary redirects to 301 permanent redirects.

If you have a Linux/Apache/PHP server, you can configure sitewide redirects within the .htaccess file. Here is a useful tool for creating .htaccess 301 redirects - http://www.htaccessredirect.net/

If you want to handle the redirects on a page by page basis, you can also do so using PHP.

Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" ); Header( "Location: http://www.new-url.com" ); ?>

Here is a good primer for how to set up 301 redirects if you are not able to set them up with .htaccess or PHP - http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php

Also, for SEO, it is critical to the search engines that 301 permanent redirects are used instead of 302 temporary redirects in most cases. You can use this tool to test if your redirects are working correctly - http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/redirect-check/

Let me know if you need any additional assistance.

Are all of your sales done over the phone? Or can customers make a purchase directly on your website or fill out a contact form on your site? Here are several suggestions -

1. Phone call tracking - use different phone numbers to track where the calls are coming from. There are tons of call tracking services out there but www.ifbyphone.com and www.mongoosemetrics.com come to mind.

2. Ecommerce tracking - This is completely dependent on whether or not your business sells products that can be purchased directly through the website. If so, make sure you are tracking these actions with an analytics tool, such as Google Analytics and set up multi-touch conversion tracking.

3. Lead tracking - This is similar to ecommerce tracking in that you can track where the leads are coming from. Usually lead gen sites will collect information through the website and then sales people follow up either via email or over the phone. Oftentimes there is a gap between online marketing and sales because most salesmen will want to take full credit for closing a deal over the phone when in all actuality, the online marketing team should get at least some credit if the initial lead was generated through the website. There is no perfect solution but I'd suggest using multi-touch attribution in Google Analytics in addition to some kind of integrated CRM which keeps track of all potential deals through every step in the pipeline.

If you're not looking for a full blown CRM or enterprise level marketing automation software, another possible solution is to consider trying Convertable, which is a simple lead tracking tool that provides multi-touch attribution for all leads generated through an online form (full disclosure - I am a co-founder of Convertable).

Feel free to update this thread with more information about how your business operates and I will try to provide some more detailed suggestions if necessary.

Do you have any SEO plugins installed for VB? This plugin VBSEO should fix your problems - http://www.vbseo.com/

There are some paid and free extensions available for Magento that should handle 301 redirects without manually editing the .htaccess file. I'm not sure what version of Magento you are using but here are the free ones -

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/optimise-web-mass-301-redirects-1589.html

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/smooth-move-seo-301-redirect-handler-3958.html

You can also manually add the 301 redirects within Magento - http://galathemes.com/magento-news/how-to-add-301-redirection-to-magento-28.html

While likely effective in the short term, I think buying links from Fiverr is definitely risky and I would advise against it.

Instead, I would suggest the following

1. Add the site to Google Webmaster Tools and submitting a sitemap (if you haven't already done so).

2. Post links to the site/pages on Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites.

3. Try pinging services such as http://pingler.com/ and http://freebacklinktool.com/

Usually this will be all it takes for a new site to start being indexed in Google.

Whoa, you got it approved this quickly? Was it an existing listing and you just edited it? I just tried editing the listing that shows up for my client's company (which currently has completely inaccurate information) and submitted new mailing address, phone number, website along with URLs with the contact information in the comments but still no luck getting it changed...

I'm in the exact same boat. One of my clients somehow got their address and phone number on their Google Places listing changed to something completely inaccurate and it's been at least three months where the corrected listing is still pending. It's extremely frustrating since I don't have the answer and Google is no help whatsoever and the client has definitely noticed a decrease in phone calls as a result.

If you are using an Apache server, you should be able to redirect the index.php file to the root by editing the .htaccess file with the following lines -

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.php RewriteRule ^(.)index.php$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

If you are using WordPress, there are several plugins available which will allow you to configure this automatically so you don't have to mess with the .htaccess file manually.

Do you know when you added the noindex tags? Google will need to recrawl the pages to see the noindex tags before removing them. I just looked at one your category pages and it looks like it was cached by Google on December 1st, and there was no noindex tag on that page. Depending on how big your site is and how often your site is crawled will determine when they will be removed from the index. Here's Google's official explanation -

"When we see the noindex meta tag on a page, Google will completely drop the page from our search results, even if other pages link to it. Other search engines, however, may interpret this directive differently. As a result, a link to the page can still appear in their search results.

Note that because we have to crawl your page in order to see the noindex meta tag, there's a small chance that Googlebot won't see and respect the noindex meta tag. If your page is still appearing in results, it's probably because we haven't crawled your site since you added the tag. (Also, if you've used your robots.txt file to block this page, we won't be able to see the tag either.)

If the content is currently in our index, we will remove it after the next time we crawl it. To expedite removal, use the URL removal request tool in Google Webmaster Tools."

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93710

It's hard to say without seeing the site, but yes, there are certainly things that can be done to get search engines to access the rest of your site. I can take a quick look if you want to PM me the URL.

I can't access your SEOmoz report but a 503 error message typically means the page is temporarily unavailable, usually because the server is either too busy or undergoing maintenance. Try running the SEOmoz crawl again to see if the 503 error goes away.