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Thanks for the clarification. I too saw it on the calendar earlier (set myself a reminder on my calendar) and was confused when I saw no changes on my sites... and then the 29th as the update.

I use Google Alerts to track domain-level backlinks (via the link:http://www.example.com trick) but is there a way to track/be alerted of long urls, not just the domain, without having to set an alert for each specific url?

Hmmmm okay I'll try that and send it to the programmer. Thanks!

I like the call-to-action button that HuffPo uses on its FB button, where with one click, a user on their site can 'Like' their main page on Facebook without actually having to go there (assuming that they're logged in, of course). I'd love to use it on my site but...

I'm trying to understand how this works. It seems like it's a custom wrapper, as i'm not seeing the toolset in dev tools  (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/ etc)

Anyone know about this?

Good point, I guess I should add some color. Attached is an OSE exam of their site, our toaster landing page and then our main home page. Obviously, we are two completely different sites, and our main page holds a huge edge over the /toaster page.

Knowing this, would you:
A) play it safe, keep Kool-Kitchen-Apps.biz domain/site, and 'pretty it up' 
B) redirect to /toasters, dice roll
C) redirect to /, likely keep or  improve ranking for "toasters"
D) panic, stop using computers, hide in neighbor bushes until arrested

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We are KitchenApps.Com, your online portal for kitchen appliances. One of our biggest selling products is toasters, but despite SEO efforts, **KitchenApps.Com/toasters **ranks on page 6 for "toasters"  and barely budges.

One of our competitors, Kool-Kitcken-Apps.biz just tossed in the towel and sold his domain/site to our boss for the cheap. It's an old domain, but the URL isnt lovely. He's got content, but it aint pretty and of course, we sell differently than he does, have some different products, etc. BUT BUT BUT hold everything, he ranks on the first page, with his homepage, for "toasters" his best ranked keyword. A lot of sites have linked to his site for toasters, buying toasters, etc.

Of course, the boss wants to just toss his content, and since his domain is different than company name (which is literally KitchenApps.Com) we should redirect Kool-Kitchen-Apps.biz to our SEO friendly KitchenApps.com/toasters url. He expects that will keep the same positioning, and we'll snag the toaster clicks.

Can we expect to maintain the positioning on page #1?

Did you see the same results in positioning as you had before they were yanked from the index?

Right? Yeah we've done that, I just want to make sure my expectations are set correctly on a site-wide reindex. The realistic repositioning timeline, etc.

A programmers 'accidentally' put "name="robots" content="noindex" />" into every single page of one of my sites (articles, landing pages, home page etc). This happened on Monday, and we just noticed today.

Ugh...

We've fixed the issue; how long will it take to get reindexed? Will we instantly retain our same positions for keywords? Any tips?

I noticed that some sites have a specific section on Youtube, under the structure youtube.com/social/blog, which contains backlinks to the site. For example, this Twilight blog: http://www.youtube.com/social/blog/twilightish

I've had trouble finding out information about this. Is this auto-generated by Youtube, or can someone set this up?

Seriously, Ryan is always ALL OVER Seomoz comments with good feedback

We currently use Sharethis, but I've noticed many sites using Addthis for sharing. Is there any preference or reason to use one more than the other?