A really good seo gets more referals than they can handle!  So sick of low quality, unethical, high volume crappy seo scammers out there....AAARRRGGHHHHHH!!!!!

Ok, I feel much better now....

This is just my opinion, but the fact that someone would have to cold call to find SEO clients throws up all kinds of red flags.  A talented SEO NEVER needs to cold call. In fact the problem is not finding new clients, the problem is having to pick and choose who you take on. Isnt the point of seo to bring in leads and clients? If your own seo skills are so poor that you have to cold call, then...well I am go out on a limb here, but get the he k out of our industry and giving real seo's a bad reputation.

I recommend looking at www.servint.net I am customer of theirs and they are awesome. The support is the best i have ever dealt with and they have been around since the 90's.

Well I am going to also go with your suggestion, I am going to pick up some hosti g from Pair next. Thanks for all your input!

Four attempts to contact a salesperson at Liquid Web was a complete failure and aggravation.  They are a good host I am sure, but they didn't have it together enough to have a competent, friendly sales rep with a working headset available.  And when I did get a rep on the phone...which I could barely hear, they seemed annoyed that I dare ask what the benefits of hosting with Liquid Web are.  Really, I wanted to go with them, but I felt like I was already seeing red flags.  Pair, honestly...and perhaps this was a mistake, but I didn't like their website...it seemed very bare bones and antiquated....I mean was not looking for a host with the flashiest website by any means, but their site was concerning to me....too, basic...like not even minimalist, but just looked unsophisticated.  It made me concerned they may be very frugal, and I feared that frugality may also apply to purchasing infrastructure...and Orange....eh...I don't know..just wasn't feeling it.  With Media Temple I spoke with someone that sounded very professional, not salesy, was quite candid and knowledgeable....he was one of their engineers...site was nice....their market growth impressive....I just got a good feeling from them.  Perhaps I had the wrong mindset in my decision, but hey....it's $20 buck a month and I am going to be bringing on about 4 more hosting providers, so I am not too concerned. Honestly....liquid web REALLY irked me....

I just went with Media Temple....thanks!

I just tried Liquid Web...I was going to go with them, but twice I called and the voice connection was horrible and when I asked the sales rep to explain the benefits of going with liquid web as opposed to other providers, she almost acted annoyed...it was very uncomfortable...not a great way to enter into a business relationship....unfortunately they are scratched off the list of possibilities as a place to bring our rapidly growing web agencies client websites....

Trying Media Temple and your suggested Pair...thanks!

Good morning my fellow Mozzers! I am currently looking at adding some diversity to my current web hosting and I was hoping I could get some suggestions. I dont currently need a VPS or Dedicated Server, I just need some shared hosting, you know, packeges that are sub $20 a month...i mean i will pay more than that, but so far everything i look at that meets my needs(basic hosting, email, ect...). This is for client sites and they are growing in number somewhat rapidly. I currently host with GoDaddy and they are amazing in the support department, but I do question whether their servers are causing slow page loads ect...but all in all I am happy with them. I have used Netword Solutions in the past, but left them because i was not a big fan of talking to support people in india and malasia. I do think that their servers might have performed better than GoDaddy so i am not ruling them out at this point

i am looking for a provider that has excellent support and who has servers that are not so overloaded the can render pages and content slowly. Performance is very important to me. I am not looking for the cheapest, I am looking for the overall best.

Thanks in advance SEOmoz family!!!

Yeah I looked further into the URL removal, but I guess technically I did not meet the criteria....and honestly I am fearful other potential implications of removal....I guess I will just have to wait for the 301 to ick in.  I just cant believe there is not a simple .htaccess code to cause all URL's to show the .html extension.  I mean it is a simple thing to implement the reverse and have the extension dropped...I mean....good lord...

Thanks for all your help though Mike, I truly appreciate the efforts!

Nope. .....good lord....

Nope.

That caused the same "500 Internal Server Error" .......  

Oh, and my site auditor is seeing it as a directory with a file in it???  Ugghhh....

Nope.  Didn't work.  I am seriously about to lose my mind with this....

I get a server error when I do this?  Sooo confused...  Here is the htaccess changes I made.  FYI...I have removed the code you told me to put in there temporarily so the site's not down.  I attached the server error screenshot too...

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ! .html$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ! /$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^hanneganconstructionllc.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://hanneganremodeling.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.hanneganconstructionllc.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://hanneganremodeling.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^hremodeling.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://hanneganremodeling.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.hremodeling.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://hanneganremodeling.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index.html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index.html$ http://www.hanneganremodeling.com/ [R=301,L]

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^hanneganremodeling.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.hanneganremodeling.com/$1 [R=301,L]

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Thanks Mike, you are awesome!  I actually was thinking to do that, but I was concerned that it might have some larger implications?

I also just resubmitted a sitemap so hopefully that "might" speed up the crawl process...

Thanks again!

No it's not a wordpress, it was created with Dreamweaver.  I didn't make sample and sample.html same page, but google is treating it that way....  I have implemented the 301, so I guess I just have to wait for a crawl

Thank you very for your input!  When I implement into my .htacces what you suggested I get a "Internet 500 Server Error" ?   Maybe it would help if I list what I currently have in my .htaccess  I had to redirect some old domains and did canonical redirects and default non .index....I hope this help, I am at my wit's end...  I also attached a screenshot of the webmaster warning... THANKS!!!

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^hanneganconstructionllc.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://hanneganremodeling.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.hanneganconstructionllc.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://hanneganremodeling.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^hremodeling.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://hanneganremodeling.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.hremodeling.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://hanneganremodeling.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index.html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index.html$ http://www.hanneganremodeling.com/ [R=301,L]

RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^hanneganremodeling.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.hanneganremodeling.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

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I tried the canonical and when I enter the url without the .html, it doesn't resolve to the url with the .html extension.  I tried an .htaccess reirect...I am stumped, I can't get it to redirect automatically the the .html  I accidentally manually submitted the url to google and manually in submitted it to index and that when this issue began....

Google somehow has indexed a page of mine without the .html extension.  so they indexed  www.samplepage.com/page, so I am showing duplicate content because Google also see's  www.samplepage.com/page.html   How can I force google or bing or whoever to only index and see the page including the .html extension?  I know people are saying not to use the file extension on pages, but I want to, so please anybody...HELP!!!

I have had no issues whatsoever with them. I actually have found them to provide the best customer service out of all the toolsI have used. Early on when i was trying different tools i cancelled with them after my next month billing started by about a week. They pleasantly cancelled my account and refunded the entire amount i was charged for the current month even though i was a week into it. I also had some technical questions that truly were beyond what support should be obligated to answer...really the questions were the type you typically would need to pay an seo consultant to answer, but they thoroughly answered them. Because of how they handled my cancellation, as well as overall service and i actually get a human on the phone, I am now a long term customer. I do agree that their data is not always 100% accurate, but I have tried all the well know tools out there and no ones data is 100%. On their site they list the specific times you can reach them. Anytime i have called it during the time window listed on the site i get a human...based in the US too BTW...