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Thanks for the quick response.  Does this method typically work for these situations?

Not sure if this matters but just for scale we are talking maybe 50-100 ads per day being posted under different names through out the US.

I really trust the MOZ communities opinions on this and would appreciate any help.

Our company has a competitor that puts our brand name in the majority of their craigslist ads. If you search craigslist for our product name, 80-90% of the results are this one company.

Can anyone recommend a REPUTABLE flagging service that can flag their ads that break the craigslist TOS by using keyword spam? I'm open to any and all suggestions.

I've got two pages I'd like to combine into one.

These two URLs: widgets.com/about_us.php & widgets.com/contact_us.php

would become:  widgets.com/about-us

Two questions...

1. Is it okay to combine the content into one page and setup 301 redirects for both pages (without losing page rank)?

2. Do I keep the original pages in my sitemap.xml file or just take them out after I setup the redirect?

Thanks in advance!

Probably obvious but in a industry where there are many competitors, it seems like you can always find a couple of good links from each competitor that can be acquired. Maybe even run the sites linking to your competitors through OSE to find other sites in your industry with high page authority.

I have two places I post news for our company.

Our blog - typically more informal posts
mycompany.wordpress.com

&

Our news page - typically more newsworthy than the blog
mycompany.com/news

My question is, It is okay to just copy the exact text from my wordpress blog and paste to my news area of my site and vice versa?

Does this hurt ranking potential for either page?

Oooh, that is a very cool tool.  I just signed up for it and it looks pretty sweet.

However, this is probably a little to instant for my needs.  It doesn't look like there is the ability setup a report that runs over a certain time period like daily or weekly reports.

Cool none the less, probably very useful for brand new sites though.

I'd like to get a weekly report of all of the brand new referral links that have come in to my site over the last week.

Is this something that can be done in google analytics?  Is there a better tool for this out there? Thanks in advance