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Ok, got it.  Thanks for your help!

I have a paragraph at the top of my homepage.  I was told I could use css to make the content visually appear at the bottom of the page but it would still get indexed at the top of the page, still giving it the same level of importance.  Can anyone tell me how to do this?

Great, I really appreciate the info.

Great information.  Thank you.

When using keywords in url's for internal pages, isn't it a good idea to use dashes or underscores in the url between the keywords?

I have a two-part question:

1.  I know that bold and italicized font can help keywords rank better.  I have a block of regular text on my site that is really more for SEO than anything else.  If I reduce the font size, will it have an impact on the importance of the text?

2.  If you reduce the size of font enclosed in header tags, such as, reducing h1 text to 8 px font, does that have an impact on the importance of the text within that h1 tag?

I tried what you suggested but it didn't work. I still have a few more things to try when I get back from vacation. Thanks for checking back with me.

Sure Steven, here are some examples:

http://www.rmtracking.com/blog/fleet-management-and-tracking-80%93-the-easy-way/

http://www.rmtracking.com/blog/?p=23&akst_action=share-this

I have tried using both types of redirects below:

RedirectMatch permanent ^/directory/gps-global-positioning-system-other-gps.html$ http://www.rmtracking.com/compareproducts.php

Redirect 301 /blog/fleet-management-and-tracking-80%93-the-easy-way/ http://www.rmtracking.com/blog/2011/05/28/safety-at-sea-with-gps/

I have a number of 404 error pages showing in webmaster tools and some of the url's have numbers, % symbols, and some are pdf's.  My usual 301 redirect in my htaccess file does NOT redirect these pages where the url's have special characters.  What am I doing wrong?

No problem Everett.  Thanks for the information.

Great information.  My understanding was always the same as Steve's .....it depends on the ratio of unique vs. duplicate content.  A while back, I had read that this ratio was something like 80/20 (duplicate not to exceed 20%).  However, I think I will make each piece unique for best results.

Is it possible for you to put that listing content in an image?  This would allow you to continue using indentical content on all pages.  However, the content in the image would not be searchable.  If you are just using this content for the user experience, that's fine.  If you want it indexed to add quality to the page, you will instead want to make each listing unique.

If you are looking for an open source solution, I recommend phpBB (http://www.phpbb.com/).  We have used it for a few years for our forum and I'm happy with it.