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Yes, I forgot to include keyword research. It's such a normal part of what I do that I forgot to include it in the list. Thanks for reminding me Salman

I wouldn't have structured it that way myself. i would have gone with something like domain.com/productname for easier readability, but you've already structured it it sounds like. I wouldn't change it if it's already been spidered. To answer your question, no it doesn't hurt. Google sees page.php?c=1234 and page.php?c=1235 as different pages.

I think you may be seeing Roger/OSE still finding some downloadable files and considering them to be links and messing up your OSE reports. Check out what one of the OSE engineers had to say on this similar thread. http://www.seomoz.org/q/competitive-edu-research-via-open-site-explorer. I'd advise you not to panic, but instead email help@seomoz.org and ask if this what is happening in your case. They also need the feedback of which domains are still showing problems after this latest update.

Thats a good question! I can't honestly say but if that is showing correctly then you don't need to worry about it effecting the rankings or your CTR.

there is an article site that i came across and i was going to put an article on it but stopped myself because i did not understand the trackbacks. it allows you to put the article on the site and then at the bottom is ask you if you would like to put a track back, i did not understand what it was asking me so i did not write the article. Should i have let it blank or should i have put the site down that i want to promote

I would look into why your site is generating multiple urls for the same page first - so far it would seem the duplication is occurring because of the query string being appended to the url. If you can prevent that - the next thing is to use the canon tag to point the duplicate pages at the original, and on the dupe pages add a "follow noindex" tag - this means you will be telling google that you know this page exists and you are aware it is the same as another page, and tell them which page it is you actually mean. The canon tag should be in the head, and have the full url of the original page that you want to rank. The duplication of the page is the issue here - changing your titles will only mask it for a few days.

With limited specific info at this point I would say no. Again Google ranks web pages not web sites. So just because the home page ranks really well in their actual HQ city doesnt mean that a page for a city a few miles down the road wolnt rank well too. And it wouldnt hurt either. It makes comon sense that a Company providing a specific service a town over could also serve this town. Just build links to the right city pages and you should be good.

Thanks!!

If your posts are getting good traffic and rank well already, I recommend writing a new post and putting a link at the top of the old post saying that you have created an updated article. You can never be sure what the "magic sauce" was that made Google like your original article.

I have a couple thoughts for you: Make sure that your database is creating pages that are crawlable by search engines. Create unique content for those pages that are optimized for keywords and other SEO best practices. Especially check what HTML your database is spitting back out, not all CMSs are created equal. As far as what to do with those job pages after the position is filled, that's really up to you. I do think that people expect filled jobs to disappear into the void. Though you could put a "FILLED" announcement on the page and create something where it would recommend unfilled jobs that were similar. On an e-comm site I worked on, we decided to leave up sold out product pages, but make it super clear they were sold out (and of course, they were not linked internally anymore), due to the traffic coming from search engines who'd crawled those pages and external links. Then the pages had a "recommended products" on them which drove people to similar items.

Cheers bozzie311, I'll look into that - much appreciated!

6 duplicate page titles seems a relatively small amount. Duplicates are an issue in that search engines have to decide which page to rank. Applying the canonical link element can help with duplicate page titles sometimes, but if you are optimizing for different keywords on each page i do not think Google penalises heavily for this (I could be wrong) it just makes it harder for them to know which page to rank. If you are certain of the keywords you wish to rank for (and show this) throughout each page individually I do not think you should have a problem with your page titles.

Hi Michelle, I think this might be best as a follow-on to the similar question you have in your thread at http://www.seomoz.org/q/how-to-get-videos-to-show-up-on-serps-as-your-own.