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I ran a report and nothing really jumps out at me as spammy or horrific. A principal at their organization tweeted a few weeks ago about his "hatred for penguins". He even tweeted yesterday stating that he is "always the 1%" referring to the recent Panda update that only affected 1%.

While Open Site Explorer didn't produce many negative things I am definitely concerned. I guess the solution is to just simply ask him what is going on. He tweeted it for God's sake....i'm sure he realizes that Twitter is public.

If I move forward with the acquisition:

1. Should I, if there is a way, just acquire the domain and then attempt to unlink existing links?

2. Can I just buy the domain, completely kill the site, and then build again from scratch? Even if I do that, the links to the domain will still be out there.

3. Should I even move forward with the purchase if I know these tactics have been used?

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Well put! I link out to a lot of .gov sites because they contain information that my customers find useful. As long as you are keeping your customers' needs in mind when writing content and/or linking, you are on the correct path.

As long as I can blog, and capture the SEO benefit from blogging, I'm happy. As a new blogger I'm sure I won't need much functionality. What did you mean by "better SEO" in your statement above?

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I asked our developers to implement a WordPress blog on our site and they feel that the technology stack that is required to support WP will interfere with a number of different .NET production applications on that server. I can't justify another server just because of a blog either. They want me to find a .NET blog solution. The only thing that looks decent out there is dotnetblogengine.net. Has anyone had any experience with this tool or any others like it? Thanks, Alex

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I'd like to clarify a little bit. This is not our core site. Our core site is a branded domain (www.suretegrity.com). There are some individual products that i'm creating microsites for. I am not a fan of hyphenated domains either but these will not get put on the radio, or even get placed in much marketing material. It will be loaded with great content but the big difference here is just that the domain is now product specific. It's a search results only play.

I own a couple domains that are specific to a product and would like to know which one folks on here recommend.

Primary Google Search Term Example: "Tax Bond"

Example Domain 1: www.taxbonds.net

Example Domain 2: www.tax-bond.net

I've done research on here before and have come to the conclusion that hyphenated domains aren't bad (no more than 2 hyphens though). So, do I go for the EXACT search term with the hyphen or do I go for the pluralized search term without the hyphen, even though most people will not add the "s" in the Google search?

Thanks, Alex

Well put! I link out to a lot of .gov sites because they contain information that my customers find useful. As long as you are keeping your customers' needs in mind when writing content and/or linking, you are on the correct path.

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Thanks for the replies.

I'm not sure I stated my question clearly. What I was wondering, was whether it is better to return status code 500 from the requested url, or status code 301 from the requested url. So in one case, the actual url content would be the error page, and in the other case it would redirect to the error page.

I'm not even sure if there is a difference, but if there is I'd like to learn more.

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I asked our developers to implement a WordPress blog on our site and they feel that the technology stack that is required to support WP will interfere with a number of different .NET production applications on that server. I can't justify another server just because of a blog either. They want me to find a .NET blog solution. The only thing that looks decent out there is dotnetblogengine.net. Has anyone had any experience with this tool or any others like it? Thanks, Alex

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I understand HOW to remove a page. I want to know whether it's better for me to manually remove it or let Google remove it on its own.