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Hi,

I am not sure if maybe i am just on an old interface... But here is how i do it (Screenshot attached)

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2. Next below Sub Navigation you will see "My Private Questions"

And you are there

Shane

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It depends on how the pages are being created (I would assume it is off of a template page)

So within the template of this dynamically created page you would place

But if this is the global template - you cannot do this as it will noindex every page which of course is bad.

If you want to PM me the URL of the page I can take a look at your code, and see what is going on and how to recitify, as right now i think we are talking about the same principles, but different words are being used.

It really is pretty straightforward. (what I am saying) The pages that you want to be not indexed DO NOT need a nofollow they need a meta noindex

But there are many variables, as if you have already robot.txt disallowed the directory, then no bot will go there to get the updated noindex directive....

If there is no way to add a meta noindex then you need to nofollow and put in for a manual removal

If you forward it then the "Keyword Match" benefit is negated.

Creating a landing page that promotes the specific product with links to your main domain is a current tactic used by many. You must make sure it is not a "thin content" site or duplicate to your main domain or this will negate the benefits as well.

Personally I do not necessarily suggest this tactic as it is becoming less and less effective and will continue to do so.

But as i said it is definitely is a tactic employed by many and if done correctly can generat sales, but I would not look at this as a longterm silver bullet...

w00t!

**No I don't mind I think it is funny. I don't believe "Ethics" and "Marketing" belong in the same sentence frankly. **

That is kind of a scary comment not only for Users, but also for your clients in my opinion from MANY!!! angles

So without ethics in Marketing, how are consumers to trust anything?

Personally it is outlooks like this in my opinion that are the "Bad Apple" that spoils the bunch...

HeHe I love network and IS teams, something can always "Not Be done"

Where there is a will there is a way, they just did not want to look for it

Below is a link to a calendar, but is subject to change; I believe the rough estimation is every 4 weeks

http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/25141119/Linkscape%20Schedule

Hi,

I believe what you are looking for is

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

If I read the post correctly as adding a sitewide canonical in header.php would not work, unless you actually programmed a php statement that all it did was add www, but this would only be a backup, if I was unable to do 301 in my opinion

Shane

Hi,

I just did this and had similar issues

It looks like the .htaccess is correct at the old domain.

but you need to put in re-directors at the new domain that will take in these extra items due to these directories do not exist at the new domain.

There could be an easier way, without putting a redirect after a redirect (which possibly losses a little extra juice) but I am not aware of a way without redirecting all 404 queries.

after you have put back the 301 that was working at the OLD domain In the .htaccess at the NEW domain you would put

Redirect /category/models/next/2 http://www.example.com/

This will tell any queries for http://www.example.com/category/models/next/2

to redirect to http://www.example.com or whatever you put in....

hope this helps!

I am not so sure it completely answers his question.... His question was about "Everlasting" Links, as an SEO the term everlasting and spun content, in content farms does not fully align....

I would also think that he wanted those links to "pass rank" for "eternity

I understand your response may be that even High Quality Content and Blogs are not "Eternal"

But you have a much better chance of longterm success, over a 3 - 6 month gain, unless this is for this purpose, but without knowing more I am afraid to say you did not "answer" his question.

You only gave him an answer that was a possible solution to one aspect of his question if you are getting technical about it

Hi,

Technically yes,

Be sure to back up your .htaccess before trying but this below should remove the trailing slash (by redirecting / to non slash), and fix duplicate if you have it.  But like i said back up first just in case

#remove trailing slashes RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^\.domain\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

EDIT

Since I am not full aware of your actual situation... Below is if you only want to redirect trailing slash on URI's that are past root (sub directories redirected, but www.example.com/ is left alone

<code>RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]</code>

"e.g keyword stuffing etc (if you go by all the webmaster tools guidelines and white hat stuff that is) yet don't appear to be penalised either which makes it hard to justify to the client why we are not 'copying', for want of a better phrase, the method used by higher ranking competitors."

Personal Opinion

Google is not the omnipotent source of knowledge it portrays itself as - It is a large corporation with communication, process, procedure issues just like any other large corporation.

But at all times, it must portray a sense of "omipotence" or constant understanding of its product...

The problem lies in the scope of the products "resources" (the inter webz)

So it relies on some Mcartyisms and Propaganda to get webmasters to "do the right thing" or even rat eachother out for their own gain, thus giving Google more easy intelligence.

So in response to NeilD i would say the reason for your clients or the question you let them answer in respect to this is "How Much Risk, and How do we Mitigate that risk, and how do we quantify it against ROI" If these questions are not easy for you or the client to answer, I would suggest running a very clean campaign. But if you have a set of disaster recovery plans in place, and the client is fully aware of what you are doing - then it is a gamble (hell half of life is a risk gamble)

Basically in short, the webmaster guidelines are just that GUIDELINES, one must make their own decisions on how to follow them.... as strict rules, or guidelines...

But the key to remember is Google is the gatekeep, and gets to change the rules at anytime, so this is the reason I personally follow them as Strict Guidelines, with a tiny bit of wiggle room is some instances.

In response to the initial question - The SEOMOZ authority rankings are based in data sets that are thousands (probably more) less intensive than the real algorithm - So the metrics you are referring to are merely a simple guideline to beginning a competitive analysis not a "source of truth"

Hope this helps!

You can have success with either option, but the general consensus here on SEOMOZ I believe is subfolder

Example;

www.yourdomain.com/blog

Shane

I am not sure there is an easy answer.

I would calculate your losses on the de-indexation

I would OSE the URL's in question (and verify through webmaster tools) See how many external sites point to them.

If you do not have many incoming links, then I am not sure de-indexation is so bad, comparatively to the man hours or work needed to keep this up now and in the future.

I think it would just become almost like a Profit and Loss (P&L) scenario.

Also if you are already seeing duplicate content penalty's, in the grand scheme it may help to get rid of those pages as post PANDA it MIGHT be dragging you down.

But really this is all speculation, as I am not fully "up to speed" with the exact situation, and the answer in my opinion would be based on alot of factors not just SEO.

Hope this helps!

Shane

Hi,

Just from the Looks of the site you gave as an "example" it looks like a BMR type site...

These are going to be going down hard, as they in most cases serve no purpose other than as a link farm, shrouded in thin badly written content.

These types of schemes used to work very well, but with recent updates I would HIGHLY suggest staying away from this strategy you give of searching on PR and Penalty and expand your search to include other factors such as...

User Experience

Alexa Rank

Is the content currently on the site in question even good?

Does it allow social sharing easily and are there social shares?

Is its backlink portfolio just a bunch of links from Blog comments and other shady looking sites

There is quite a bit more to consider, but just as a suggestion, I would say look further into the quality, other than just how you think a search engine might perceive the site in question

Shane

PS just as a "Real World" scenario, One of My Niche's has LOTS of guys who do this, and they all (March 23rd) lost all rankings for Anchor Texts that employed this strategy, due to it WAS their only strategy...

Others may have a different opinion;

But as you have described it, I am not sure there is really a good "SEO" answer other than re-write the content...

Reason;

Each duplicated page is probably already not passing rank, due to it is just duplicate content of something that has already been indexed. (I am assuming) Of course this might not be the case, but unless the content is re-written, and of high quality --- These pages are probably doing nothing for the sites (SEO/SEM wise), and the "Link Juice" they are passing is probably negligible (if any).

So to answer your question;

If the clients won't rewrite the content, the pages are probably useless as it pertains to "Link Juice" or SEM strat, so personally, counting on this as an SEO asset to the site is probably a miscalculation.

Since these are all different domains/clients a canonical is probably out of the question as well. I think you are on the right track, but more along the lines of just using for User Experience, not for any SEO/SEM tactic.

Hope this helps

w00t!

Hi,

Last weekend (Or the one before that, they run together) Google did a PR update. Google even took a hit from a PR 10 to PR 9

Keep tracking your campaign and traffic for anomalies, if you see a unexplained decline, then worry, otherwise i would just keep focusing on creating quality content, gaining quality links and making sure your site is free of "spammy" SEO techniques and duplicate content.

Hi,

After looking at your site, the redirect of non www ---> www is already implemented?

Did you just make this change recently, cause all URLS in Google still show non www

Just In my opinion this could be the reason for the rank drop, as Google is "Confused" but it should get it right soon (few weeks or so)

Why did you change from non www to www?    are most of you incoming links coming to www version?

Shane

Have you questioned the SEO Company About their practices and how they gain your links?

This could REALLY help us here give you the best possible answer (even though right off the bat, #2 seems like a bad idea, just for the fact you need to see what is going on, so it can be stopped if necessary before other sites are penalized)

The Best Answer is #1 in my opinion

Since the most probable cause for your penalty is content farms and overuse of anchor texts, here is a nice post about a person who went through that

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/unnatural-link-warnings-blog-networks-advice

This is a little old, but it is a WBF on this issue

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-oh-i-got-a-penalty

Here is also a post from Dr. Pete on cutting the bad links strategies

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/6-ways-to-recover-from-bad-links

IMHO

I would personally (since you know it is a penalty cause you were warned) use Dr. Pete's article to help you track down the bad links, attempt to remove them, fix any other issues you may have on your site that are "questionable" and submit a reconsideration letting them know you worked with an SEO firm, and you took matters into your own hands, cleaned them up, and it won't happen again.

And then you wait....

Hope this helps

Shane

Make sure and back up you .htaccess before making any changes...

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*).asp$ $1.php [R=301,L]

Would convert all asp to php

but this would only work if you kept your directory structure the same

Example

Old Structure http://www.somedomain.com/about.asp

New Structure http://www.somedomain.com/about.php

If you did not you will need to do it manually for each page

Redirect 301 /about.asp http://www.somedomain.com/about-Us.php

If there are spaces, be sure to use quotes

Redirect 301 "/about us.asp" http://www.somedomain.com/about-Us.php

There could be other easier ways, but if I read correctly above, this would be my suggestions

And of course as TIm suggests above, the proper SEO process would be manually for each page, redirecting to its proper counterpart (if it is indexed, and has links pointing to it or a User Experience page)

Shane

Probably not, although if he is acting unethically is this someone you want your customers/perspective customers seeing you involved with?

w00t!

Hi,

I am not sure about time, but most the forums I saw people were wainting over a month -

Google Says

If you think that a sitelink URL is inappropriate or incorrect, you can demote it. Demoting a URL for a sitelink tells Google that you don't consider this URL a good sitelink candidate for a specific page on your site. Google doesn't guarantee that demoted URLs will never appear as a sitelink, but we do consider a demotion a strong hint that we'll try to honor when generating sitelinks.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47334

I think it is just a waiting game - Or you could probably just 301 that 404 URL to a correct one?? This would probably be the quickest path to resolution

hope this helps

My Initial Reaction with all the new reports and studies coming out on the Importance Social going forward -

Would be to say the Social Benefits, heavily outweigh the loss of PR to external sites..

But then again, also in PR as I understand it, the difference between .0001 and .001 in PR CAN be huge in the determination of placement..

So I think it is a give and take....

But both positions cannot be ignored **NOW  **BUT I most definitely agree that Vinnie's take on it is a more longterm approach, than hoarding page rank...

by hit, do you mean de-indexed or just bumped down aggressively?

Cause the ones you gave seem to be affiliate sites, with thin content, and light design elements, so I can definitely see how these could have been devalued.

Here is the reason I am pretty sure it is not a "Hack Penalty"

First, I am not sure that exists - Google cannot interpret if you have been hacked or not, only if their is malicious intent on your site due to or after the hack.

And as to your password being readily available.. anyone could create a site like this, with passwords, and without google going through each page on the web like this, they would not know if it was real or not. (it is also very easy to brute-force or rainbow a commercial host)

This creates a whole new realm for Google as web avenger, as well as SERP integrity protector.

I am just not sure the password release could be involved.

UNLESS!

A penalty was leveraged against justhosts ENTIRE commercial subnet, due to a issue that was caused due to this password release.

But I do not think you or the sites would be singled out due to the password release, only if something bad enough happened that got Google's attention..

BUT then i believe you would be de-indexed, not de-valued.... (blacklisted)

hopefully this opinion was clear as mud

Hi,

If the "Author" in question is the owner or operator, or even the "Face" of the brand then - Yes, it is fine as this person most likely wrote this content anyway, or is the "owner" of the content.

I wish i had a source, but I remember this exact question somewhere to Matt Cutts, and he referenced his own website that he does use it, and I believe gave a similar explanation as above.

Also as a note (of course this is not air tight evidence)

But I actually do use it on a homepage on one of my sites, and actually saw a bump a few weeks after it implemented in my "niche" - cause the author only writes about that specific niche (but of course as I said this is only off the cuff evidence, not reviewed)

Shane

Sure;

I am not sure what the incorrect page is, so below is an EXAMPLE ---- if you want to send me by private or on here, both old and new URL's I can complete the code for you

So EXAMPLE WOULD BE;

Be sure to back up .htaccess first !

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on

Redirect 301 /example/example.html http://www.corect-page.com

Of course below is just my opinion... But it seems highly plausible...

Everything we do leaves a footprint, that footprint is analyzed by the algorithm - The algorithm has flags both ways with unnatural links. Either done by you - or against you...

I think this has always been one of Google's biggest challenges,not always necessarily how to penalize site owners and SEO's who are actually using Black hat - but how do you filter that against having black hat done against them algorithmically ?

The reason some claim it work, is I am sure there ARE ways to do it... But as ipositions **excellently ** points out.. This money could be much better spent employing strategies that not only help your search positioning, but your overall brand perception and marketing in general. Opposed to just hurting someone else to make yourself look better (sounds like politics!)

Shane

It seems your are trying to connect a Brand Page as an Author - Which is not accepted yet

(I am assuming this, due to Brand Pages only have the link sections you have described)

Make sure your are using personal profile for author - then your brand page would use publisher

Specifically for the link given above -

I would not....

There appears to be 2 options

1. Impression based ad service (which is cool, if you think you will see ROI from the people who would be on this site, but I have no idea what you are promoting/selling)

2. Linkroll or "Friends"  which again, if you think you will see ROI from being in a 20+ list of varying services... Sure go for it.

But from an SEO perspective, a cautious approach would be NO - On the other hand, if you are a risk taker ----- who knows what Google does or does not penalize these days.... (I am not sure they even know anymore)

Shane

PS Option 3 is your links embedded in text or others articles, which sounds like a blog network to me... Which would change to NOOOOOOO

Not necessarily -

Alot of PRWebs high authority distribution network is Nofollow

Also just because it is picked up, does not mean it is not duplicate content - or will not be treated as dup content in the future

Over the past few years I have personally seen a massive depreciation of Online Press Release distribution "White Hat" SEO benefits.

I also am not sure I would agree post Panda/Penguin - that Press releases are a good way to pass "Link Juice"

I am not saying it is a lost cause, but just feel your assesment is a little circa 2009, 2010

Hmm so it seems it is just an ROI question...

So personally I would put it in those exact terms - What in terms of gains has been seen since the beginning of link building efforts?

Gains in SEO cannot always be monetary, so what is the goal of the site - and how have you helped towards that goal, and how can you show that you directly affected those gains to the goal?

I would not say he is a dumb person, I would say he want to know his ROI, and if you cannot justify the money he is spending to you (not being a jerk, just my opinion) is not showing tangible results in terms of rankings, traffic or increased conversions (or whatever the goal is) then I am not sure I understand what you would be doing for the client?

Totally agree with Zeph, and kind of goes with my statement "not being a jerk, just my opinion" that he may just be impossible to satisfy cause he does not understand his own goals or how to reach them for the longterm.

Hi,

In regards to google, I think the best source of determining this would be Google

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=79812

To answer your question though, Google states it should be

There could be other search engines who prefer it the other way, but switching it around in my opinion would not help with rankings or keywords anymore than

the

Fix it as quick as possible

Find any exploits you may have missed (keep WP Up to date, disable admin account, if on shared hosting check all file permissions, make sure you are using SFTP (port 22) ect...)

Monitor your traffic for drops and check web cache of Google to see if it was even indexed

If you do take a knock (which I doubt unless it was there for a while) I am not sure a reconsideration would do anything, so you will probably just have to do some damage control

(ie... get lots of social mentions on a good piece of industry relevant content)

Hope this helps

PS this can help you with hardening WP install http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

It does not understand mod_rewrite R=301

[RP]

is the equilvalent

on the actual base syntax, I am not completely sure, but I believe it would stay the same

That is currently a pretty loaded question - and I think most everyone has a different take in the current climate.

To make a truly informed recommendation; Quality of content, Linking Practices and amount of posts to be made per week, month ect.. would be needed.

The fact that you used quotations on "network" was correct in my opinion, as it appears this "network" serves a legitimate purpose, as it was explained - so not sure it would be considered a 'Blog Network" which can hurt you and has gotten so much heat from Google over the past month or so.

As if we started classifying everything that links to eachother as a "network" then pretty much the entire web could be considered a network! As in one way or another we all link to eachother in a six degrees of kevin bacon way....

(LOL has anyone every tried to produce a "6 degrees of Kevin Bacon" of linking!

That would be a funny blog post!

As a side note, personally - If you content is really good! I would not put it on another persons site, put it on yours!!!!

I believe they are coincidental...

I am not sure Google would take action on the entire Subnet range, for a password breach.

I believe it is only when malicious intent is found or suspected, and the release of passwords was not a malicious act in its own.

Check your Webmaster Tools for Malware messages, and see if there are any other messages. As say, you might have just fell victim to the latest round of quality checks from algorithm -  You may have just been bumped -

The idea of first making sure you are protected - then trying to get some fresh content and social signal/links is probably the route I would take.

Shane

"Google uses spell checking software to check queries against common spellings of each word. When we determine an alternative query that we think might improve the search results, you'll see "Did you mean: (more common spelling)" at the top of your search results page. For example, if you search for [ foot ball ], at the top of the search results page, you'll see "Did you mean: football," a more common spelling of the game's name. Please note that our spell check feature is completely automated, and we cannot make manual changes to individual queries."

http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1723

So I would say in the case of Businesses, it is still algo based, (no manual interaction available) and predictive based on search volume and alternate queries available in predictive algo and spell check software?

"Basically what I'm asking is, this will be a terrible outdated badly SEO'd shop, but if a high volume of people are clicking on it and staying on it from their lingering ranking will Google just let it stay at the top?"

Maybe for a few days, until the index changes but it is tough to say for certain what would happen without knowing or seeing a before and after shot of sites code.

My main point to them would be -

What is the ROI in switching, and does it counteract the negative you might see from current ranking drop? (and how much traffic will you really get from this keyword)

It would all come down to end strategy, but if it is as you say "a terrible outdated badly SEO'd shop" I am not sure I see a great reason for switching, but of course I do not even know what your company does.

But to the question in your title

"Can I swap a website yet keep it's high ranking for a competitive keyword?"

I would first say what do you mean specifically by "swap" but it appears you are only talking about the Server and Architecture.

If this is the case it is VERY possible to keep rankings, but not sure as I have never worked with Amazon shop. So I am not sure how much control you have, but a very short broad answer would be yes, it is very feasible to even change domains and keep rankings.

It all just depends on if it is done correctly. (but of course I cannot answer the question as it pertains to Amazon shop, as I have never used it)

Yeah...

Sorry,

Just cause it has a high moz auth, and is in Google does not make it a "High Quality Link"

I am still with Egol on this, it sounds like manipulation, in theory so subject to risk - So if the ROI of traffic justifies.. go for it, but if this is solely for a "Link" on a "Network"

Still gonna say, it is a... low maybe - probably not at this time. I would personally wait out penguin aftermath to get a little more data on that first.

Shane

PS. Also no matter which way you slice it a 300 word post with 3 links ( 1 link per 100 words) is most definitely a common blog network footprint. Just an FYI

Hi,

If needed - this is the .htaccess code to help fix this issue; (Make sure and back up .htaccess before making any chages)

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomainhere.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomainhere.com/$1 [L,R=301]

The above code would redirect all traffic from non www to www version of your site fixing dup content issues in that regard

Source ;http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php

PS Spaces between lines not needed (funky formatting here)

Hope this helps

LOL,

I like the last line

"Good luck convincing the good doctor to change his/her opinion."

I can relate!!!!!!!

It depends on how similar the content is - I am not sure the threshold of content needed for canonical to be taken as a directive (cause I know Matt Cutts says a few differences are ago, but that is not really an answer)

It also depends on if you want your category page to rank for different terms.

I am not sure overall this is something I would do, cause the purpose of canonical is a more efficient way to deal with user necessitated duplicate content, or a precaution against duplicate content, and it seems you are trying to use it to change SERPS.

Although nothing I have said, nor do I have any proof this would bring negative or positive effects, I just personally would not do it.

A 301 is really the only way to safely change rankings, or just take a really hard look at your onpage SEO, as there must be a reason Google is placing that page above your Homepage, so in the longrun that tells me there is something not "optimized" for that keyword on homepage, so if you switch you could loose the ranking all together.

I'm not quite at a "$2500/mo deal" so there has to be something between $2500 and nothing for building links around my content...

So I am in a much more competitive niche, and without giving to much away I do not spend a dime on link building, and compete neck and neck as a local business against national brands... With that said, my point above is you do not necessarily want to "Build Links" in the old school way, you want to create a content strategy that defeats you competitors crappy content strategy.

Copier Leasing

Copier Technical Whitepapers

A Funny MeMe Campaign about funny copier "offfice stories" or using the Office tv show

an infographic about the history of copying but maybe a funny take that goes WAY back to even Egyptian times

These may suck, but I am not in your niche Just be creative as your competition obviously is not

There are of course other white hat tactics you should be doing, that once again you have a plethora of resource material as a pro member that are not associated with content strategies (but many are)

If you cannot write these find a SEO copywriter or agency that can help but with even a 1,500 a month budget you could do wonders (in my opinion against a competitor like that)

and PS if you need a great copywriter I have a name I could pass you privately that she does great work PM me

Look Here -

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1408986

This goes over the exact methods of getting rel=author to work -

Never Seen BS tags before, is that a way to rank higher in Vanoogle?

I would not sorry

I am a convert, I like the way search is going. of course there are gonna be bumps along the way, but I think the social integration is a better way to connect people. We have already shown our predisposition to loving this mentality of online communitites, so i think this is just another stepping stone to the new social "It"product.

I also like geolocation, I think as an SEO/Internet Marketer it makes my life more confusing and more confusing to clients/employers, but as a general user I think it is definitely on the right track to helping people get with local resources, as well as brands, which i thinks makes for a more informed consumer.

just my 2 cents

Yes, would suggest canonical as the easiest resolution -

And Irving is right PDF's are most definitely indexed, I am not sure how they are interpreted and if they would specifically count a dup content, but not sure this idea would EVER be something i would suggest as it it seems to have lots of negative repercussions.

I would most definitely agree that relative links is probably your issue, and if you canonical and remove inline relative links and make them http absolute this should resolve itself in a month or so.

Please let me stress though if your onpage and social strategy are not there link building is not gonna do it by itself.....

That is why I recommend really delving into SEOMOZ resources, as they give a well rounded idea of the intricacies needed for an "Internet Marketing Strategy"

It is situational

301 = Permanent Redirect - and better for SEO purposes as this tells the search engine that the redirected page has become the new page

302 = Temporary - Search engines of course follow the 302, I even think it will show the new page in results, but if it is a permanent, and you are worried about this - then use a 301.

Tough to give any kind of reason for use other than that above without some situational knowledge

But to a user, it is does not matter wheter it is a 301 or 302, but to bots the above differences apply.

And as a 404 I would assume it is a 301 - but not sure, due to I do not know the reason for the 404

For reference

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

Two ways of looking at this -

Enough from a User Experience point of View is in my opinion, what is needed to convey the message, whether it be with Words, Images or Design Elements. So it is completely dependent

If you are asking from a purely SEO standpoint, I am not sure there is a precise answer, but me personally from experience - if you are building a page you would like to rank well for a specific term no less than 350 - 1000 words - but I think this is completely relative - maybe if you put more about what the purpose of this page is, this might help others to understand what this page is about - and might be able to give a better "best practice" answer, as a page about a specific product would have less than a page explaining the many uses of a product line ect... And putting 500 words on a homepage might be bad for UX , but might be better for SE's - So intent is also a large factor

Hope this helps

Shane

Getting G+'s on fresh QUALITY content is one of the best ways to quick index with Google in my opinion these days.

Just a suggestion, I would NEVER noindex an indexed site just because of content changes.

make a clone, point the domain using vhost, temporarily to a subdirectory make your changes then re-point domain in vhost (or if cpanel just use a pointer) - This way no one is the wiser to the changes INCLUDING Google.

Or just make the changes, the ramificatrions of noindex are much more long lasting than a content change (unless it was left in shambles for weeks)

I would personally not look at this at how much "link juice" is passed, but the exposure, traffic and connections you create from such a powerful publication.

Personally, since it is already a subpage and a blog I am not sure that the amount of "Juice" is relevant as the difference between the two since it is already a byline and below the break is very small - So in my personal opinion they would be treated very similarly in the eyes of the algorithm with of course page 1 possibly getting more "juice" because it is linked to more. (so to technically answer your question page 1 would inherently get more "juice")

But I am just not sure, for now and in the future that what used to be referred to as "Link Juice" is really all that important on the grand scale of Internet Marketing. (but things do change rapidly) and this is just my opinion

Hope this helps