Hi Chris,

Thank you - that is what I am referring too.  I work in taxes so I'm sure that we have some visually impaired customers - I will continue to put the attribute on my links!

-The SEO Impaired

Hello To Those Who Are Wiser Than I,

I am wondering if the href link "title" tag is needed, or serves any purpose, on mobile websites?  Also, does it effect SEO in any way?

I ask because generally the href link title tag provides more information to the user when they scroll their mouse over the link - but this action does not happen on mobile!  Users have no mouse and thus no extra information would be displayed.

I'm really wondering if it still matters for SEO purposes on mobile though.

-The UnEnlightened

So if 301 redirecting all of them is seen as negative, what is the best way to consolidate all of these sites?  I thought the purpose of a 301 redirect was to permanently transfer traffic from one site to another - which would mean that a 301 redirect would be the ideal method for consolidating multiple versions of an identical site.

In essence, is there a way to gain at least some advantage from the links that these sites of garnered over time?

Hey,

I would be redirecting each entire site to a specific page on my chief website.  Admittedly, this means that there is some precision lost because each site is a copy of the chief site but all the affiliated pages on a copy link to only one landing page on the chief site.  For instance:

• www.1099softwarepro.com and all affiliated pages would redirect to www.1099pro.com/software.asp
• www.W2Professionals.com and all affiliated pages would redirect to www.1099pro.com/prodw2pro.asp

Hey,

My company currently has one chief website with about 500-600 other domains that all feature the same material as the chief website.  These domains have been around for about 5 years and have actually picked up some link traffic.

I have all of these identical web-pages utilizing rel=canonical but I was wondering if I would be better served, from SEO purposes, to 301 redirect all of these sites to their respective pages on our chief website?  If I add 500 301 redirects, will the major search engines consider this to be black-hat link-building even though the sites are related and technically already feature the same content?

For an example, the chief website is www.1099pro.com and I would 301 redirect the below sites to the chief site:

• 1099softwarepro.com
• 1099softwarepro.info
• 1099softwarepro.net
• 1099softwarepro.biz
• 1099softwareprofessionals.com
• 1099softwareprofessionals.info
• ...you get the point

Do search engines consider keywords such as "1099 E-File Software" & "1099 "EFile Software" the same?

Many of the keywords for my website will have a dash "-" when properly spelled out but there are many users who would simply omit it when spelling the word.  Another example would be "W-2 Software" as opposed to "W2 Software".

Hi Chris,

Thank you - that is what I am referring too.  I work in taxes so I'm sure that we have some visually impaired customers - I will continue to put the attribute on my links!

-The SEO Impaired