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Build links to your blog post, not to your home page. Also, I use Hootsuite to put the same blog post one rotation, ie I tweet,fb, g+ the same post multiple times. I guess maybe I have an unfair advantage in that I market a site that already has authority. There are many subjects in the webinar on this. The webinars are included in your SEOMOZ subscription: http://www.seomoz.org/webinars

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Great input!  Thanks for taking the time to respond, I truly appreciate it!

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Thank you so much!!!  The SEOmoz community rocks!! Hey, since you nailed this question....wanna take a shot at my other duplicate content issue http://www.seomoz.org/q/duplicate-content-from-indexing-of-non-file-extension-page

Yeah I looked further into the URL removal, but I guess technically I did not meet the criteria....and honestly I am fearful other potential implications of removal....I guess I will just have to wait for the 301 to ick in.  I just cant believe there is not a simple .htaccess code to cause all URL's to show the .html extension.  I mean it is a simple thing to implement the reverse and have the extension dropped...I mean....good lord... Thanks for all your help though Mike, I truly appreciate the efforts!

Can't see a problem with this at all.  In fact, it's fairly common practice. Many companies buy domain names that feature their brand + a destination.  Some companies even buy the misspellings of the brand. For example, GTMetrix has bought http://www.gtmetrics.com, which 301 redirects straight to http://www.gtmetrix.com. Provided these are redirects and nothing more, it shouldn't be a problem.  A problem would occur if your client started building manipulative and spammy links to one of these other domains, hoping that the 301 redirect would mask the suspiciousness and passed on the PageRank.  Just like all bad quality link building, this could cause problems. Buying the domains and just redirecting them, however, shouldn't be a problem as it wouldn't be interpreted as trying to manipulate PageRank or pass any strength.  It's simply being done to protect the brand, which we know Google loves, if anything.  Should your client warrant an individual site for these locations in the future, you can then reverse the redirect and go for it. The last thing you would want, in my opinion, would be thin content on these sites or the main site that only serves to attract local search terms and drive traffic to the site, without offering any real value to the user.  I think your potential client would be fine with what he's doing.

Post the link of your site. It will be easier to give you an opinion if I look at it.

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