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From search engine perspective http://www.oursite.com and http://www.oursite.com/ are not the same thing.

This problem however is easily fixed, If you are using apache it's a matter of simple config file modification.

You can refer to http://www.seomoz.org/q/how-can-i-prevent-duplicate-content-between-www-page-com-and-www-page-com for more information.

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Bojan

Hi

Addin these few lines between IfModule tags should solve the problem

 <code>#redirect all requests made to http:// to http://www.
         RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.com$ [NC]
         RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]</code>

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Bojan

That sounds like a good idea.

You'll transfer ranking for those pages to new domain and if somebody has bookmarked those pages their links will still function. Overall everyone should be happy.

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Bojan

From usability side, you need to remember that not all users will use keyboards required to entered special characters.

Having special characters within URL might have negative effect to page accessibility.

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Bojan

#removes trailing slash
         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
         RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^.localhost$ [NC]
         RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}$1 [R=301,L]

Above code segment removes trailing slashes, second code block is doing redirection from non-www to www.

In order for above code to work you will need to add two lines above it, telling Apache to enable rewrite module.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on

So with that combined here is how your .htaccess file should look like

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on

#removes trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^.localhost$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}$1 [R=301,L]

If you are using non-Apache server such as IIS let me know and I send you configuration for it.

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Bojan

Hi

You can use "Physician" to describe medical office and under its attribute "members" you can post list of doctors as "Person",

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Bojan

Hi Samuel,

Just copy what seoMoz is doing with their blogs :).

Take a look at the placement of social buttons on their blog posts and track them on various social network in order to see how they promote blog posts. Also there are lots of posts and videos related to social networks on this site, so give search button some love.

As for being worried about people stealing your content, don't be. Produce quality content, share it and interact with your visitors. If somebody happens to steal your content, be cool to them, kindly ask for back-link and offer a guest post. Make friends not enemies, after all if they are stealing your content, it must be really good.

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Bojan

Hi,

As stated here

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

Using 301 redirect will preserve over 90% of your link juice. Give Google some time and it should pick up new page locations depending on your crawl rate.

As for seeing pages as new content, based on my short experience there is a period where Google will display new urls as new pages, but after a while he will realize that they have just moved. I'm not sure if there is a way to avoid this.

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That shouldn't be a problem. 301 is a valid way to inform search engine that content has been moved.

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Bojan

1. As with most thing SEO related time will tell, there are many factors that can effect your ranking

2. Here's how I do it. Go to seoMoz page with errors, Grab report as cvs, open in Excel, delete all columns except url, status code,referrer. Now sort by status code. Go to referral page and try to find broken link. That should give you better look as to what source of problems can be.

If you want, you can share cvs file and I'm willing to give it a look and see what went wrong.

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Bojan

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Hi

My opinion is that Google will update old topics with new title and new naming conventions should help you rank better for topic title. There shouldn't be any negative effects of this change.

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Bojan

Hi salvyy,

It shouldn't be a problem to determine errors and I'm willing to give you recommendation on how to fix them. Just send me cvs file and give me 30 min

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Bojan

Hi,

It's really hard to pick right option in these kind of situations since there isn't right answer There are perfectly good arguments for choosing both options and there isn't clear definition on what would classify something for one schema and not for another.

Best advice I can give you is to go with what feels right to you.

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Bojan