Thank you for your response. I don't plan on using this for twitter. To track how successful certain articles & press releases are I use Google's UTM link tracking. At times these URLs get quite long and my client asked about using Bit.ly URL shortener. I just wasn't sure if they acted as 301's or not.

Have you done this in the past and found that you still got credit for the links? or have you only used it with social media that are normally no follow's anyway?

Do URL shortener services like bit.ly act as 301 redirects? I was thinking about utilizing one for longer query based URLs and didn't want to risk losing link juice. Thanks for the insight!

Regards - Kyle

That was going to be my assumption but i wasn't 100% sure how they worked with sub domains. Are you able to supply a little more information on implementation? It is extremely important that it only blocks: sub.domain.com and not domain.com

This is a pretty quick and simple (i'm hoping) question. What is the best way to completely block a sub domain from getting indexed from all search engines?

One item i cannot use is the meta "no follow" tag.

Thanks! - Kyle

Agreed, i just found it odd that they currently rank for "print and apply" but not for "print-and-apply" it leads me to believe that if we did target one way or another it could influence rankings. I would be intrigued if anyone else has seen this before.

I have a client that has been optimizing for "print and apply" for the past 5 months. Yesterday they decided it was more grammatically correct to use "print-and-apply."

There question to me was "is this going to effect our SEO?"

So...

I checked the difficulty using the keyword analysis tool, both keywords had the same broad/exact adwords traffic as well as difficulty percentage. When reviewing the top 25 listings for each keyword it looks like the same sites rank in the SERPs between 1-8 and then after that it is completely different.

So, is there a better keyword to target? Are these two keywords different enough to truly have separate search results?
The top 8 results didn't even target "print-and-apply" in there content or title tags...

Thanks for the input/discussion - Kyle

I have always been under the impression that top level (or root) domains can hold different domain authority than that of a sub domain. Meaning that sub domain's and TLD can hold different ranks and strength in search engine result pages. Is this a correct or just an assumption?

If so when i add a root domain and subdomain into the campaign manager i get back the same link information and domain authority?

www.datalogic.com
www.automation.datalogic.com

Have I made an incorrect assumption or is this an issue with the SEOMoz campaign manager?

Is there actually a published article with statistics that state that more followers/fans give you higher ranking in SERPs?