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I eventually figured out that your method was a 301 redirect and I definitely broke my site trying to use the code you posted. .. haha.  Its ok though.  I just removed the code and it went back to normal.  At first, I was editing the .htaccess file in the public_html folder which wasnt working.  Then I tried the root folder for the site (I created the .htaccess file since it did not exist.)  Neither of those worked.  (I am using Bluehost so I do not think that I have root access and I am not sure if it is a Linux server or not.)

If there is an easy way to explain what I am doing wrong, please do so.  Otherwise, I will use canonical.

Thanks for everything!

What about posting a video as a response to popular video?  What are the pros and cons?  Thanks

Josh,

Thanks for your reply.  It seems like there are lots of different ways to solve this problem.  I just watched this video on Matt Cutt's blog where he discusses his preference for 301 redirects over rel canonical tag.

Where would you say your solution fits in?

Thanks,
Dan

watch?v=zW5UL3lzBOA

In the Crawl Diagnostics Summary, it says that I have two pages with duplicate content which are:

www.mywebsite.com/

www.mywebsite.com/index.html

I read in a Dream Weaver tutorial that you should name your home page "index.html" and then you can let www.mywebsite.com automatically direct the user to index.html.  Is this a bug in SEOMoz's crawler or is it a real problem with my site?

Thank you,

Dan

My friend's website is for a local business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but the MOZbar shows that his server is located in Canada.  Will this be detrimental to his SERP rankings?  The site was just launched a week ago.

I saw various opinions in other forums and I could not find similar questions in this forum.  Thanks in advance.

-Dan

Have no fear, EGOL.  I am not a spammer.  I was planning to offer meaningful contributions and build links at the same time.  (Not here, I dont know much SEO yet.)

thanks to everyone for your replies!

I used to see URL's in the signature part of discussion forum posts covering various topics but it does not seem popular anymore.  It seems like a good way to build links and I am wondering why it is not used.

Suppose I ask a question about proper tooth brushing technique on the forum at "toothbrushingforum.com" and user "ToothBrushWizard" is nice enough to answer my question.  I used to see signatures like this:

Good luck,
ToothBrushWizard
www.ToothBrushWizard.com

Is this considered poor taste or are these links discounted by the search engines?  Is it best to keep an updated profile with your URL and hope that forum users click through to it?