Two Questions - one HOSTING, the other SEO

[shags38]

HOSTING
I currently have 650 plus domains with WebCentral and want to get out of there. I have an account also at NetRegistry (don't we all?). I need a few things of a new Registry / host.
A. $25 or less for 2 year registration of AU domains
B. $15/month max Hosting cost per month for unlimited bandwidth and 1GB storage, 1 email box with 10 email addresses with email forwarding facility, MySQL and SSL (shared) certificate.
C. Reseller / affiliate status for reselling / commissions
D. A user friendly and efficient CP system that allows me to Delegate domains automatically without having to log a job into the system and rely on someone pulling that job out of a pile and completing it 2 days later and the ability to download a domains status list in .xls compatible format. Delegation includes Transfers, Redirection / DNS redirection.
E. 24/7 efficient Tech support (shouldn't need it too often if CP is efficient as per above).

I think that covers it - not all will be hosted - maybe 20 or so, the balance parked / redirected.

I must admit that GoDaddy has all the above and more (only $15/month for unlimited bandwidth, storage and websites) and superb CP system. I don't expect to get that from an Aussie host but hopefully something 21st Century and competitive.

Any recommendations ?.... please

SEO question

I recently read an article about the aftermath of Google's Panda algorithm update back in Feb (?) suggesting that Google likes long pages of content and rewards them accordingly ("long" wasn't elaborated on unfortunately). My CMS warns me when character length is over 1000. What, if any, restrictions does anyone here know of in respect to page length acceptable to Google crawlers?
The reason for asking is that with GoDaddy you get a SmartPage free with reg that is a one page website that you can build / modify / develop with no hosting costs. To monetize a page and to get a page ranking reasonably to even consider monetizing it will require in my experience from some parking sites about 10 content articles each of about 500 words - hence 5000 words for just articles @ say 6-7 characters average = 30-35k characters plus header, some images and some other sales text and ads. So in essence a page that is about 10 times the "normal" length.

Any opinions on how that would be viewed by GoogleBot? I am not concerned about visitor opinion - these "pages" will be set up to either be monetized or purely for redirection after gaining some acceptable SERPs (4-6 months)

all comments taken on the chin and any advice warmly received
cheers,
Mike

 

[GerBot]

Any opinions on how that would be viewed by GoogleBot? I am not concerned about visitor opinion - these "pages" will be set up to either be monetized or purely for redirection after gaining some acceptable SERPs (4-6 months)

let's start at the end, becuase if the goal is wrong then the process before will not matter

you know if you redirect the page/domain you'll losr the rankings on 'that page/domain' right?

there are option to pass the power but I'm not sure that is what you talking about here.

 

[shags38]

let's start at the end, becuase if the goal is wrong then the process before will not matter

you know if you redirect the page/domain you'll losr the rankings on 'that page/domain' right?

there are option to pass the power but I'm not sure that is what you talking about here.

So GerBot - are you saying that as soon as a site is redirected it loses all of its SERPs or do you mean that because it is not being fed that it will lose ground and fall down the rankings over time?? If it is the latter which I believe to be the case, my plan was to occasionally cancel the re-direction, feed the site some more content to build up its traffic again and then re-direct again - doing this on a cyclic basis. By the way, it is traffic I want to pass on, not page rank.

Passing the Power as you put it is exactly what I want to do if by that you mean passing on the traffic which is my aim - what are the other options you are suggesting to be able to achieve this?

Cheers,
Mike

 

[GerBot]

it is the first option.

if you have siteA.com.au and you redirect it to siteB.com.au then siteA.cmo.au will stop showing on Google.

now moving further along with this.
if you '301 redirect' i.e. permanent redirect then it is possible to pass the vast majority of the rankings of SiteA.com.au to SiteB.com.au.

However if it was your intention to do this all along I'd have to ask why you didn't build the links to SiteB.com.au in the first place?

Also, you can't undo this once it is done. hence the 'permanent' part.