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Thanks it was a great post however I still don't have an exact answer.

Do I create a Suite # for both businesses or just the new business and call it either Suite#1 or Suite#A

If I change the primary business to Suite A or Suite 1 and then name the new business suite B or Suite 2 I will have to go and change all the marketing I've already done for the first (primary) business.

Thanks it was a great post however I still don't have an exact answer.

Do I create a Suite # for both businesses or just the new business and call it either Suite#1 or Suite#A

If I change the primary business to Suite A or Suite 1 and then name the new business suite B or Suite 2 I will have to go and change all the marketing I've already done for the first (primary) business.

If I am running one business at one address and I start a new business what should I do to avoid triggering spam filters for having 2 businesses using the same address.  I've been told by an seo that I trust the best way to do this is create a suite #.  If I do this then I have to change all the addresses on the existing campaigns for the Primary business because if I create suite #'s it changes the primary's address by doing this.

If you are doing a press release can you use the same content on the release with multiple sites for example....

1. press release done through PRWeb can you take the same press release and post in on Ezine or even add the release to the blog of the site that the press release is linking 2?

I have an idea for a new "socia"l website. No its not a facebook or anything like that, but I feel it fills a void in a particular niche. The problem I am having is figuring out a marketing plan to get people to sign up. When you're starting a new social website like this its kind of important for it too feel popular and you need users to make it feel popular and useful. Which kind of gets you into a chicken or the egg type scenario. There are a few keywords I intend on doing SEO for, but I don't think pure SEO will make this community popular.

Some ideas I have:

• Creative "tell a friend" strategy that builds incentive to get friends signed up like win an ipad or something like that. I also want to make it easy to tell friends, so you can import contacts from facebook, twitter, and email contacts rather than typing in all those emails by hand.
• Targeting a few blogs related to this niche hoping that they will interview me about the website.
• Advertising on forums and blogs related to my niche.
• Making the site simple, visually appealing and intuitive so users can dive right in without thinking.
• Making a good enough product to where the site can get buzz on active subreddits and hackernews.

I'm a software engineer by nature, so marketing isn't a strong suite of mine, but I'm no rookie to building popular websites either (just been a while). I'd like to get some ideas from the seomoz community on this. Thanks.

I have seen some pretty massive fluctuations in two SERPS I keep track of over the past 24 hours. The changes in rankings haven't just affected my domains, but competitors domains as well (both good and bad for them). I am wondering if it has something to do with the changes Google launched in February.

Like others have said I am going to wait and see if the changes remain for a few days until I panic.

Just wanted to let you know that submitting all the sites I wanted removed into an XML sitemap worked. I then submitted that sitemap to webmaster tools and listed it in the robots.txt. When doing query "site:domain.com" index pages went from 20k+ down to 700 in a matter of days.

I could link to them then, but what about creating a custom sitemap for just content that I want removed? Would that have the same effect?

I suppose I'll wait longer. Crawl rate over the last 90 days is a high of 3,285 and average of 550 with a low of 3 according to webmaster tools.

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Yeah the pages are low PR and are not linked to at all from the site. I've never heard of removing a page via webmaster tools. How do I do that? I also have to remove several thousand.

*edit: It looks like I have to remove them one at a time which is not feasible in my case. Is there a faster way?

I have a website that was likely hit by Panda or some other algorithm change. The hit finally occurred in September of 2011. In December my developer set the following meta tag on all pages that do not have unique content:

name="robots" content="NOINDEX" />

It's been 2 months now and I feel I've been patient, but Google is still showing 10,000+ pages when I do a search for site:http://www.mydomain.com

I am looking for a quicker solution. Adding this many pages to the robots.txt does not seem like a sound option. The pages have been removed from the sitemap (for about a month now). I am trying to determine the best of the following options or find better options.

1. 301 all the pages I want out of the index to a single URL based on the page type (location and product). The 301 worries me a bit because I'd have about 10,000 or so pages all 301ing to one or two URLs. However, I'd get some link juice to that page, right?
2. Issue a HTTP 404 code on all the pages I want out of the index. The 404 code seems like the safest bet, but I am wondering if that will have a negative impact on my site with Google seeing 10,000+ 404 errors all of the sudden.
3. Issue a HTTP 410 code on all pages I want out of the index. I've never used the 410 code and while most of those pages are never coming back, eventually I will bring a small percentage back online as I add fresh new content. This one scares me the most, but am interested if anyone has ever used a 410 code.

Please advise and thanks for reading.