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mydomainname.com/muscle-cars/ and mydomainname.com/muscle-cars/muscle-car-restoration.html are two completely separate urls. I wouldn't worry about that.

Here is an article from Danny Dover, formerly of SEO Moz which although a couple of years old I believe is still relevant as if my memory serves me correct he mentions the same process in his book which was only published a month or two ago. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-guide-how-to-properly-move-domains Hope this helps.

Thanks for the help guys! I made the recommendation on the 301 / job closed.  we'll see how it plays out.

Thanks Adam for all your comments. I agree Google encourages the use of video and my concern is the load time of moving from 2 seconds to 11 seconds. This will be a good test!

It's your video and your attribution - to me it makes sense to have a link back.

Sounds like you should be in a position to know fairly quickly then. Give it a week or two and see what happens.

The question is a great one, and the responses to it are also great, but they directly contradict each other! Could the SEOMoz staff weigh in on this one?

Hi Mark, In the case of title tag keywords, less is more. The most value is assigned to the first few keywords in the title. If your website is selling apples and you found a niche opportunity with the granny variety in CA, your homepage title tag should look something like: Granny Apples CA | Your Company.com | Are your green apples safe to eat? Note the following: Keywords come first Your company name (branding) comes second Promotional copy comes last but still includes keywords If you want to target cities in CA, it would make sense to make separate, unique landing pages that offer value. You can use cities and state abbreviations in those title tags. You don't want to devalue the strength of your home page's title tag. Keep it short and to the point, focusing on your main keyword target. Here's a great best practices guide for title tags. Just a reminder: click-through rate is very important...keyword stuffing a title tag may "cover your bases" for more keyword targets, but it could be turning away visitors.

Yeah that's pretty odd then. I assumed it was your rank trackers since we had a similar issue once with ours and it was just an option un-ticked. I have been looking at some of our clients sites rankings today and we're not having the same thing, plus I would assume that it's not something happening to many people, such a change would mean all forums, blogs, etc... with be filled with people asking the same question and wondering what's going on. If that's the case, it means it's just this particular site. What browser did you use to check manually? It's just that with Chrome it doesn't matter if you're logged in or not, it will still give you some level of personalized results some of the time (which is stupid I know), and to make matters worse, I found FF to be returning completely different results to both Chrome and IE for a few searches yesterday. Maybe it would be worth checking in a couple of different browsers. If it's still the same then I hate to say it but you've got two options... 1) Wait it out for a couple of days in case it's just one of those weird things that do seem to happen, and/or... 2) Start thinking about what changes were made with the site recently to have caused it. I doubt that's at all helpful as I'm sure you already thought of that but like you said, it is bizarre... bizarre Google stuff seems to be happening a lot lately! Have you got points left to ask in private Q&A? That's probably your best bet since then you'll get one of the SEOmoz staff answering and if they don't know, no-one will.

Yep

Having multiple h1 tags throughout the website is fine but having repetitive h1 on a single page dilutes the importance of h1 tags. There is no penalty for such usage because in doing so, the person himself dilutes its importance.

That's a good idea and could be worth trying out. My only slight worry with this is as newer products are introduced, there is invariably a period of time when both are popular searches so I wouldn't really want to append 'blue widget 2010' content to 'blue widget 2011' during this period and possibly lose rankings. I could add 'blue widget 2008' and 'blue widget 2009' of course to the 'blue widget 2011' page, but this might look odd that 'blue widget 2010' wasn't there. I guess I was also asking if losing pages looks bad to Google - do they like to see a continually growing site?

As Barry's blog post title says, you're not alone with Google not always listening to your title tag. He has a post about it on Search Engine Roundtable at http://www.seroundtable.com/google-title-selection-12989.html. In short, it's Google, it's not you.