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Greetings Champions! Sir Thomas is correct, Wikipedia is a non profit organization and can not help profiting companies in that manner. If you notice companies like Dell, and IBM have pages because of their historical significance. I also thought this would be awesome and tried it, with the same results even after a lengthy talk with a mod. Good luck on your quests for Page 1! Justin Smith

If you can no-index , follow all but the default, then you will send link juice to the pages but it will return the link juice because it is follow, but they will not index because they are no-index. If you use robots, then it can not read the page to follow the links.

I also never had any problems changing the IP. The servers changed (from Switzerland to Germany), but that didn't seem to affect anything - since Amazon's EC2 came up, they seem to be less strict on geolocation. However, here's a video of Mr. Cutts about changing webhosts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfqKKquA_R0&feature=player_embedded He only mentions to change TTL in the DNS settings, so that the change goes faster, so I assume there are no additional points to notice.

How soon do you need the 404 error data?  If you are okay waiting for a few days until Google or SEOmoz crawls your website (or your clients) then that works. If you need it immediately I would highly recommend checking out Xenu Link Sleuth or Screaming Frog.  They crawl your entire website (or client and competitors) and report on the HTTP status, title tag, h1 tag and many other things.

Respectfully, I'm not sure I understand either, but I'll take a stab at it... So you've got an excel sheet with tons of URLs in it, and you need to see how many links point to each one? Or, you need to get a list of all the URLs pointing to them? If so.... Richard Baxter just wrote an awesome post about getting loads of info into excel in a scalable way You could also build a custom app of sorts to do exactly what you want with the SEOmoz api. If you're wanting to get a list of URLs that point to each URL in your spreadsheet, I think you're going to have to use the api for now. Does this help?

Is the content unique that is the main question? I would not delete the blog I would look at putting 301 re directs in place and mapping out content and urls on the new site. I would also look at moving across content if it is unique, you could even add content to a sub domain if it is not that great.

Hi Tyler. Both the links you offer are to Dr Pete's profile page. I am presuming this response was shared with you for your private Q&A? As a follow up to you or Dr Pete I would ask the following questions: Would you agree the best method of redirect would be at the server level? If so, would you agree that once a redirect is implemented at the server level there is no reason to keep the old page on the server, and that even if the old page was kept it would never be seen or crawled as long as the server redirect was in place? If the answer to both of the above questions is yes, then it is in perfect alignment with the information I shared. If the answer is "no", then I would have further questions based on the response. What method are you using for the redirection? The first response I shared specifically clarified it was for a server (htaccess) redirect. I use that example since it is the most common form in my experience, but there are other ways to do it. Thank you for sharing the reply. So far it sounds like it affirms the response I offered.

Hi Tyler, It's a good thing to use the HTTPS version of the badge on your HTTPS pages because otherwise, the page would be reported as unsecure by the browser to the user. On the other hand, displaying HTTPS ressources on a HTTP page matters. Downloading and decrypting the secured ressources will use more bandwidth and CPU on the server and client side. In other words, HTTPS is slimply slower than HTTP so it will be detrimental to the user experience. The difference might not be signigicant, but it's always good to keep that in mind. So, I simply suggest you match the protocol of the ressources with the one of the requested URL. HTTPS with HTTPS and HTTP with HTTP. Best regards, Guillaume Voyer.

Like Mr. Barth says, 301 redirects occur on the server level, before a page is even served up to the end user, and so presenting an alternate isn't possible this way. You could use the meta refresh tag, or another server side technology like php or asp to accomplish this. Do this and the link juice is gone, though. To address that issue, you should use a rel canonical tag to tell robots that the buyers site is the canonical version of your domain, and assign all value there. EDIT: To be clear, I'm recommending you both forward the request AND use rel canonical.

If you mean viewing the source of the page and the actual html elements that is what I did. With Javascript turned on all of the html elements show up. With it turned off they don't, thus much of it is being written via javascript. Instant preview on that page from the google serps does not show all of the comments, just the likes. However the cached version of the page does show all of the comments, but it must be some sort of screen capture because the majority of the comments do not show up when viewing the source of the cached page. So not sure that really confirms anything. I guess to find out you might have to do a controlled test.

I agree with the above and ensureing unique anchor text and Egol where multiple pages where you can dominate several positions in search is great. We have a main keyword that we target on several pages and use anchor text that includes that word but also targets longer tail variations. e.g. word, phrase with word, elaberate on word.

One of my most important jobs as a webmaster is to get website visitors to do what I want them to do. That's how you make money.    (pig nose intentional) If I have an opportunity to make money by getting them into a specific page then my job is to promote that page strongly.  Of course, I want the visitor to be happy but my job is to make money. I don't have any problem with promoting a money-making page twice (or three times!) on a single URL and there is no better place to promote my best stuff than on the homepage of the site.