I've never heard of Google not indexing content inside of an

<aside>tag. Where did you hear that from? The aside tags are to identify related content, as you suggested.</aside>

We built a site with large images and pushed the H1 below as an experiment. We saw no downsides, and because the site was far more user-friendly and good looking (we didn't change any on page SEO really) we noticed visitors were bouncing less, browsing more, and converting almost 40% more.

Go for the user first!

Are these micro sites / facility sites actually good for the user, or just done for SEO purposes? If they aren't created with the user in mind you will probably not be rewarded for them in the long run.

That being said, if the micro sites must stay up you should rel canonical them.

What do you think about having .com and .co both running the same site at the same time, using REL? Seems like a bad idea though.

How long would you ETA a dip in traffic?

I have a site that does pretty well on a .co domain, but would like to switch to over .com (we own the .com already). If we were to transfer .com and 301 redirect all the .co pages over to their .com version, would we suffer at all? What would you guys recommend?

Powerful quote regarding Google / Search Engine dependency!

Powerful quote regarding Google / Search Engine dependency!

We built a site with large images and pushed the H1 below as an experiment. We saw no downsides, and because the site was far more user-friendly and good looking (we didn't change any on page SEO really) we noticed visitors were bouncing less, browsing more, and converting almost 40% more.

Go for the user first!

I've never heard of Google not indexing content inside of an

<aside>tag. Where did you hear that from? The aside tags are to identify related content, as you suggested.</aside>