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Thanks Big Bazza... I like the 'better' vs 'accepted' reasoning. Not too confrontational

I would not rewrite. If your competitors are grabbing lots of your original content and using it you could contact an attormey to take copyright action against them or file DMCA complaints. You need to be really serious about this to take these steps and have the ability to prove the the content is your own.

Sounds like more of a user issue than an SEO issue really. Personally I would let them choose. You don't know what language someone is going to prefer. I'd go for the root domain.

We've adopted the following solution: we show the English homepage, but we determine the user's preferred language (from the Accept-Language header sent by the browser). If our site supports that language, we show a temporary balloon that highlights the related link to go to the localized homepage. Thank you all for your hints and notes.

I do write meta descriptions on all my blog posts, and I actually do use the Wordpress All in One SEO pack.  However just because you put information for the Meta Title and Meta Description for the article, does not mean it is going to show up in the blog tags or in the blog feed.  The feed and the tags consist of a combination of several different articles and are created dynamically.  However, they are not given a meta description tag.  I would like to find a way to give them a meta description tag. Any suggestions?  I'm not sure if giving tags a no index is the right thing to do or not.  I have actually had several tag url's get ranked for great long tail keywords in Google.

well, no downside if you do it right. Ive seen (and been part of!) when you do this type of thing on a large site via automation and don't realise all the implications of where you are redirecting. When you start doing this stuff, you appreciate what people mean when they advocate KISS You may well experience changes to indexation etc as you are effectively changing the flow of PR through your site and its pretty hard to know what the effects will be beforehand on a large complex site Make sure you have a good view on your analytics & try this on a smaller part of your site and see what the effect is (if you can)

To restore those old urls is not possible. (~400 of them). I've removed them (via google webmasters), but I still see them as errors in google webmaster tools (but they are decreasing slowly).

Thanks this is the kind of 2nd opinion I was looking for

I see. I think the concern is with duplicate content though, right?

The best way to make a press release effective is to have a media or blogger read it, and call you. I would work on establishing relationships with those people via twitter and blogs, and then sending a link to the press release.  One good link on a radio, TV or high level blog is far more valuable than what you are suggesting. I think the days of using many, many type web tactics to build links are fading.  we need to think like PR people. I know, this isn't much help.  To answer your question directly, assuming your release has some merit besides links, I would use the sites the pro's use like www.marketwire.com/

Consider reversing your thinking from "what will be my loss to panda" into "what can I do to make this site kick ass". Reach for opportunity, extend yourself. If this was my site I would get a writer on those product descriptions to make them unquestionably unique, beef them up, add salesmanship and optimize them for search.  This will give you substantive unique content, that converts better, pulls more long tail traffic and moves out of competition with other sites that do the minimal. Sure, it will cost money but in the long run it could bring back a huge return. My only caution on this is that if you make this investment in writing you need to do that on a site that has can pull reasonable traffic.  If you do this on a site that has no links it will not do you much good.  It is part of a marketing plan not a single item on a "to do" list.

Classic.  Well maybe he shouldn't change anything if he is currently ranked #3, but I assume that is due to the strength of his domain, stupid.com. All of this talk about bacon reminded me of a couple of fellows here in Seattle who come out with a new bacon product every year, and to promote they also come out with some type of bacon art. May I present to you, Bacon Kevin Bacon: Bacon Kevin Bacon

Thanks, that's what I assumed. Has anyone besides Amazon been able to get this to show in the SERPS? Seems like preferential treatment by Google

Of course if you used the link juice you save by not indexing the tag pages  towards your articles this "could" bring in just as much traffic or more than you lost by blocking those pages. I guess that is my question... does blocking out certain pages on your site put your sites link juice towards other pages?