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I think you're right; I think I'll split things up. Thanks!

The // is most likely the result of a faulty setting in the (url routing) system and should be something that can be fixed. As for both the // and the /cpage: is it optimal? Most certainly not, neither for search engines nor for visitors, will it harm your rankings badly, I don't think so. Even though it is something you'd rather not have in your url, all other things being perfect you'll probably won't notice this in your rankings.

So anyone out there disagree with the consensus and think it doesn't matter or else is particularly advantageous to be forthcoming with client specifics?

Probably not a bad idea. Also maybe focus on making your other elements / keywords more important for search engines if they aren't already? just make it very easy for search engines to read your content, use and headings where applicable and relevant around your keywords

Smart David, it shows 3,250 results.  Do you think then the site has been penalized based on the given information of amount of links and moz ratings in comparison?

I have a client who operates 13 stores across 3 general locations. Each store has its own page with unique store information. This site uses breadcrumbs to get back to home page and a sub page listing all of the locations for that particular area. Our homepage also has a list of all of the locations, but it is feasible for tis operation since it only has 13 locations, obviously this might not work for your model. As far as bounce rate, the average store landing page is about 63%. Although it seems high, I believe that the user is getting the information they need (phone numbers) and calling the individual store, asking questions, directions, etc and leaving with the info they need to move on. They have confirmed that their call volume is much higher since we started optimizing and their walk in rate is rising also. I think it's a good move to post the breadcrumbs, it offers better user experience and like you said some linkage to the rest of your site.

Dear searchpl, It will be better to add and verify blog.domain.com in your GWT, and add a separate sitemap inside this account.

Product page www.birdproduct.com/birds/blue-bird Blogs www.birdproduct.com/blog/how-to-spot-a-blue-bird-in-spring www.birdproduct.com/blog/what-do-blue-birds-like-to-eat www.birdproduct.com/blog/5-ways-to-prevent-your-cat-from-eating-up-a-blue-bird www.birdproduct.com/blog/the-best-pictures-of-a-blue-bird-you-have-ever-seen On each of these blogs you'll have a link to the product page with a link that has 'blue bird' or some variation of it to the product page. This way your product pages doesn't have to compete your blog for the short term keyword 'blue bird', while you'll still get long tail traffic for your blog titles and have a nice internal anchor text pointing to your 'blue bird' optimized product page. The canonical page in this case is simply the url, as there are no parameters or whatever 'exclude' for Google.

I'd export the links into excel each month and then use VLOOKUP to check which existed the previous month with those that didn't being the new links.

Google doesn't know if it's a landing page or a regular page. It just sees a 'page'. Pages have on-page optimization (for a single keyword), and off-page optimization (other pages (internal and external) that point to them with different anchor text, relevancy, and authority). The page with the highest overall score is the one Google will rank highest. If you want your landing page to rank highest then do more SEO for it than for your non-landing-page. Of course, sometimes the best landing pages are really just regular pages that are relevant and well-optimized for the phrase in question...

We do have different titled on each page, which also rank fairly well for each subject.  We plan on improving those after our focus on the homepage.  Thank you for your reply!

Look at this WhiteBoard Friday : http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-where-to-host-and-how-to-target-whiteboard-friday My personal choice is to use one domain per language and I've good result also in country with more than one language like Belgium.

Personally I'm a fan of don't block them via robots. Because if you do and you don't remove the URLs from index (remove the directory, Matt said  here ), they still will be indexed. There was a good posting time ago at seomoz blog and you will see, your pages won't leave the index. I think, you should set these pages "noindex, follow". It worked good for me. Patrick