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+1 blog.domain.com is effectively a different site, so you lose out by spreading the love amongst two sites..

Good Idea re the follow up post,  I did read somewhere that you shouldn't target the same keywords from two different pages,  I wonder if this is true ?   If it is then I still have the original issue of missing traffic on a good post because of the date. Maybe I update the original and change the published date.

Thanks for the info, ill do some digging.  Ill definately be writing up a YouMoz article based on the solutions tested, as they apply to SEO, gathering more hard statistics.

Unfortunately you can only get new information when the database is updated. Sorry, but we all depend on seomoz to do the datamining and give us monthly updates.

If you're still looking for ideas of what to do with the duplicate content, Dr. Pete's post from earlier this month gives an in-depth look at the different types of duplicate content and solutions. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-in-a-post-panda-world

In theory that's possible, but it's a bit of a stretch to call it a "correlation". It's like spending $100,000 advertising on the side of every bus in your city. Chances are you'll get coverage and some of that coverage will be a link, but it's not to say that there's any causal relationship between advertising on buses and improving the rank of your website.

Hi James, I agree 100% with your statement. I wanted to get the SEOmoz communities opinion on my product title changes to see if my ideas are worth implementing.

Also see Rand's recent update to the search engine ranking factors.  Keyword usage in <title>, <h1> and on-page content are all mentioned and measured.</p></title>

I'd go into Google Webmaster Tools and their parameter settings and tell them to ignore this parameter. I would need to look up the exact syntax, but Google does accept some dynamic exclusions and parameters in robots.txt, and you may be able to put that into robots and then use the URL removal tools.

I followed the steps I read in some help forums - basically deleting it from one account and then claiming it again. I just had to answer my phone to get a PIN and it all took just a day or two.. http://www.google.com/support/places/bin/search.py?ctx=en:searchbox&query=transfer

thank you, I am just looking for the ways to improve my rankings.

Thanks for your input.

Hey Keri, I tested article marketing a lot. Submitted over 200 HAND written articles (no dupes at all) to over 100 different directories. The rankings did not go up or down so I have stopped article marketing because it all seems to be in vain at this point. I wish it wasnt because I was literally hand writing these articles of 500+ words myself with 1 outgoing link on them to my site with the correct anchor text. Its really sad.

To add to what Wissam has said, it is always a good idea to think about the following regarding URLs. Be consistent everywhere. This includes both inbound links (which you only have so much control over) and internal links. Be sure to communicate this throughout the company as there are likely others who will be rolling out links (engineers, PR, SEM, etc.). We had a situation once where blog post links were being published both with and without the '/'. It made our reporting messy (until we 'fixed the glitch'). Decide whether to include or exclude the 'www' and permanently redirect the version you don't want to use to the version you do want to use. In making this decision, consider your current backlink profile. What do most of your links currently point to? Good luck!