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We are seeing some of the same stuff. Often if you compare rates of what you can see you can have a good idea of what keywords the majority of those visits came through... never the less a pain.

The best advice I can give is to ask goal oriented questions whenever possible. Questions that help you tackle and issue, not necessarily a symptom.

I don't think (most) of the questions that are asked on here are bad, I just think the tactical questions are on a different level that the strategic questions that could be asked.

The more KPI related the questions get, the more subjective answers will become, too.

Man, sounds like I had it better than what I thought!

As you probably know SEOmoz had some hosting and server issues recently, and this came at a terrible time for me... We are in the middle of battling some duplicate content and crawl errors and need to get a fresh crawl of some sites to test things out before we are hit with the big one?

Before I get a million thumbs downs- I love and will continue to use SEOmoz, just need something to get me through this week ( or until Roger is back! )!

This is exactly what we do as well, or if the product is obsolete always keep the page and use it to suggest relevant products.

There shouldn't be a problem since this is internal linking. Just watch out for having too many links per page.

In general, 301 aren't bad unless you have a whole string of them. For instance if a 301 redirected to another 301, then another, etc... If 301's are shallow they usually do not present a problem.

I'm sure what Robert meant to say is that it would depend on the environmental changes on your site as well as of the sites that are now beating you?

Have they initiated a linking program so that they have higher Authority? Did they change their on-page strategies? Has your page been mistakenly linked to by a bunch of low quality sites?

It is also possible that Google did tweak their algo, even if it wasn't a "Panda" tweak. Google themselves admit to changing the algo up to once a day.

If everything has stayed the same on your page as well as competitors, then it was probably a Google update...

Ryan is right. However I believe PERFECT on-page can still overcome links to some extent. I see it happen everyday, however the root domains I work with have some authority built up which helps to some degree.

Salmen is right... I'll add that not only is a link from a spammy site bad, but reciprocal linking can also downgrade the value of a link since it seems forced, which it is.

I hate to sound so cliche, but if you can come up with content people will link to and share without having to trade links with them, then you will get the most SEO benefit.

However, you are definitely headed in the right direction and if linking to your friends is helpful to your audience... do it!

Adding it as an image would help, actually. Otherwise you need to either remove the text, alter the text to be unique for each page or product, or add enough unique content to each page so that the page becomes unique enough to not be rated as duplicate content. Best practice would be to write completely unique content and get rid of the block text (or make it an image)... although this is time consuming it would be very beneficial.

Be sure that the page does have enough content on it if you remove the block text. If all that changes between product pages is just a couple words and a picture it may still be considered duplicate...

I don't think this would come across as cloaking at all. It's a fairly common practice.

Definitely. Use good consistent anchor text! Helps determine relevancy and importance of the product page!

Depending on the content and original network it was distributed to it should spread to different domains anyway, the key is finding a quality distributer. Never hurts to supplement with a free service too.

We actually have a followed link and several no-follows from Linkedin?

I'm not sure of any but would really like to find one, however by adding a geographic modifier you can get a good idea. Unless you are really swinging for the fences for a generic international KW, this is probably how people are searching anyway.

It is indeed duplicate content! You might want to consider doing a redirect. I also noticed that you haven't done a redirect from the non www. domain either!

Bounce rates are tricky. Sometimes the better the landing page, the higher the bounce rate. What you guys have been touching on is that is is near impossible to come up with a real relevant benchmark for the web as a whole. ... But if you/your clients are better than average it makes a nice sales piece...

For what it's worth I think it happens relatively quickly. We 301'd a site recently and saw rankings boost shortly thereafter. I will concur that the SEOmoz toolbar is immensely useful for things like this.

Which feature? You should have reports available in Pro as well as the ability to monitor mentions and add keyword columns to track?