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Google Adwords will show you what keywords the visitor/clicker searched for, when the ad they clicked on showed. The point here is that you will of course pay Google per click made on your ads.

If you are ok with that, then yes, you will se a history of which ads were triggered/showed by which keywords "that the visitor typed in". Yes, if you go this route you will indeed see alot of keywords that were actually typed in.

Ian

Vicky,

I think Google intentionally disregards a trailing slash in it's algorithm.

It is important to know that what Google intends is human satisfaction to the visitors. This is important for you to test. If you set a 301 redirect and try to surf to the old page, this is how Google will now see it. Put another way... if there is ANY way your visitors can see the old page, then yes, Google will allow it to be indexed and you need to write a new 301 redirect to make it go away and forward link juice.

Does this help? I hope I understood your question.

Ian

Sometimes asking a question publicly exposes those "oh! duh..." epiphanies.

Of course, adding content to my popular page that keyword-anchor-text-links over to a hopeful page... and do that for all three of my hopeful pages... will accomplish my goal. Still, I invite argument. Are there better ways?

Recommend an SEOmoz webinar or article that addresses this the best? (sniff... I LOVE SEOmoz webinars!)

Agreed. That is how I use it.

In my case, the page that became popular has good content specific to another page I have that I call a hopeful success. If only my hopeful success page had gained the popularity for that portion of why folks love my popular page.

Multiply that point time 3 hopeful pages.

I have a popular page that is not one of the three pages that I am hoping to raise awareness of (want to focus on). The dilemma I am trying to understand is that I really don't want to encourage all the flow from the popular to ONE of my hopeful pages (focus pages).

Rather, I want to focus the keyword portions of that page to help the three hopeful pages. So I consider the rel=canonical tag.... err no. rel=canonical would pass ALL my popular page link juice to ONE of my three hopeful pages.

What's the best way to pass the keyword link juice relevant to each of my three hopeful pages their, um, portion, of the popular page link juice.

I'm white hat by preference. All four pages are good legitimate landing pages, and of course I dread sabotaging the popularity of what is working.

Suggestions? Advice?

Where do you feel the best existing Glossary of SEO / SEM Terms explained currently resides. (and is there a better way to ask this question?)

Thank you Anthony,

I appreciate your answer and the pointer. I'm enjoying the suite of tools.

Respectfully,

Ian

It's been left alone to grind now for a good 20 mins, and ah... it's still grinding away.

Is it worth just trying again? Or does that typically mean it probably isn't going to work on the domain it's, ah, grinding away on?

Thanks