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Not sure if anyone else does anything with Google Finance. In the last few months, I have been noticing a lot of spam sites filling the search results in Google "ticker pages".

In this example you can see 4 or the 5 top results are from the same blog network with spun low quality content.

I put in a request with my IT team to implement some 301 redirects. We recently launched a major redesign and there multiple version of some pages with different URLs.

They asked why they could not do Apache Rewrites, so it was not necessary to return an HTTP header.

I know Google's Webmasters best practices is to use 301 redirects. I am not familiar with the technical aspects of Apache et al.

Are there advantages to using a rewrite? Thanks

Exactly. We were using what amounted to computer generated mad-libs to turn out a high volume of content. Panda came along and killed 1/3 of our traffic. We were also sent us a warning that we would be delisted.

My company has been approached a number of times by computer generated content providers (like Narrative Science and Comtex). They are providing computer generated content to a number of big name websites.

Does anyone have any experience working with companies like this? We were burned by the first panda update because we were busing boilerplate forms for content

Well crap. Thanks for the confirmation.

I am working to add rel=author markup to my companies website. We have about a dozen editors each posting under their own byline.

Because my team does not have full access to the website's code and our lack of "author" pages, we are using the Email Verification Method. We have set up Google Plus Fan pages for each of the editors. Can I use these pages as the verification source - or does it need to be a personal profile.

Thanks,

Mike

We are hosting the site on our own hardware at a big colo. I know that we are upgrading servers but they will not be online until the end of July.

Thanks!

I am hearing from my IT department that Googlebot is causing as massive slowdown/crash our site. We get 3.5 to 4 million pageviews a month and add 70-100 new articles on the website each day. We provide daily stock research and marke analysis, so its all high quality relevant content. Here are the crawl stats from WMT:

http://imgur.com/dyIbf

I have not worked with a lot of high volume high traffic sites before, but these crawl stats do not seem to be out of line. My team is getting pressure from the sysadmins to slow down the crawl rate, or block some or all of the site from GoogleBot.

Do these crawl stats seem in line with sites? Would slowing down crawl rates have a big effect on rankings?

Thanks