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Thanks for the great advice.  But once you've added the non-www to www redirect as you wrote above, why not just do this in .htaccess for the ".html to /" issue?

Redirect 301 /index.html http:/www.mydomain.com/

Or

In this case if you've done the ref canonical on he "/" home page, is that good enough or do you still need to redirect /index.html to "/"  ?

Thanks!

Hi,

I'm new to SEOMoz and one of the reasons I joined is for the automated keyword lookup feature.  I have a few questions I'm hoping people here can sort out for me:

1. Is SEOMoz is "danger" of losing the ranking tool as happened to Raven Tools?

2. I've been doing manual keyword lookups for a very long time.  With the # of KW (in multiple search engines) that I now need to track, a tool like SEOMoz seems invaluable. Now I appreciate that there are differences in the exact rankings, but I've noticed that while the SEOMoz google results are very close to my manual lookups (in Chrome Incognito mode), the Bing results are pretty far off.  Is this a function of Bing? Or is this the nature of the beast?  I'd like to save time by automating the lookups (and of course all of the other features in the rank tool), but I want to make sure I'm accurate.

3. Are many people out there using an automated tool only?

Thank you!

Hello,

When doing manual keyword lookups, are people counting Google Places listings in their rankings?  E.g. If the website's places listing is the "5th" item on the results page, do you count that keyword as "5"?  -- even if the organic listing comes up first at, say, position $20?

On one hand I'd be in favor of including them in order because "who cares" if the user sees your website first, or the Places listing that points to your website first?

But then again, it's my understanding that places listings are highly variable, so that they should be skipped entirely in calculating rank positions.

So what are others out there doing?

And by places of course I mean Google + Local/Plus or whatever they are calling it this week.

Thanks!