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Ok, got it.  Thanks for your help!

Great, I really appreciate the info.

Great information.  Thank you.

I tried what you suggested but it didn't work. I still have a few more things to try when I get back from vacation. Thanks for checking back with me.

No problem Everett.  Thanks for the information.

I've done a lot of work on both researching how my competitors are received on social media (especially on Twitter) and hope I can provide some personal insight to help. We've been able to granularly develop a fan base for a brand I represent, but larger competitors have a naturally easier time engaging their social media following and then converting them towards their social media campaigns they run. For me, I have found a lot of leverage developing relationships with video bloggers as they have a prominent role in my market. By creating these relationships we are able to genuinely reach the video blogger's audience and run campaigns by ourselves that run simultaneously or in conjunction when video reviews come out. A large part has been understanding where conversations are being held and how to get their attention. In terms of social media, I've started to test a mix of online strategies such as retargeting ads mixed in with social media efforts which has brought in more sales then per se strictly focusing on social media. Being brought on to do in-house social media for a few brands, I would say its a mixed strategy, not just focusing on growth in your fan bases and engagement isn't enough. My initial objective when I started the in-house work was to induce conversation where now it is on growing sales and brand awareness. It involves product pitches, PR, marketing, advertising, guest blogging, etc., etc. with social media helping to tie together and fill in gaps that has helped to generate the sales. As others said, it is about goals- very specific goals for what you are trying to do. My mistake at the beginning was growing "conversation" and "engagement", which is not really a goal. Generating sales for Product A through blog coverage for the spring has brought in tangible and quantifiable terms. The latter has continued to bring in better success both in terms of sales and growing social media channels. While I do believe social media is a long term commitment and serves a place in directly growing sales, I believe a mixture of different online practices with social media tied in is a better bet.

You're good then.  It's the negative z index implementations that have issues.

Ryan, Why do you say z-indexing is a blackhat trick?  I use it for my float bar on a few of my pages just to keep it on top, and it moves with the scrolling of the page.  I'm not hiding anything with it.

Great information from all of you.  Thank you!

Testimonials are also a great way to get some content in the first-person voice where it's unnatural to do so otherwise. You can have a testimonial that says "Company xyz helped me fix my computer" and it's a way to get the phrase 'fix my computer' in and sound natural.

Great information.  My understanding was always the same as Steve's .....it depends on the ratio of unique vs. duplicate content.  A while back, I had read that this ratio was something like 80/20 (duplicate not to exceed 20%).  However, I think I will make each piece unique for best results.

Some of those headers might help you serve your page faster.  They might  save you and your users some bandwidth. I guess if you think that page load time is super important (most say it's a small factor) then you could argue those are important for SEO but genrally speaking Marcus is right.

I regularly post new 200 level pages to my site, so I guess I'm most interested in getting new links.  However, I do see the point that Alan is making as well.  Thanks to both of you for taking the time to answer this.

I think you were right.  I did what you said and found it linked from a flash file.  Since this is the only one showing in the csv crawl report, I think it's fixed.  Thanks very much for your help! Brad

I think you pretty much have to be engaging with people on social media - otherwise in what sense is it "social"?  You're missing out on a lot of opportunity not only to win your users' hearts and minds, but also to learn how they interact with and think about what you do.  That's how a lot of companies right now are using social media - to figure out what their customers really like and want so they can make a great product.  The conversation will happen whether you participate or not - don't you want to be part of it?  If you're not, you have no control over the message. So who to hire to do it?  I've had a great time working with the good people at Social Creatures Media.  That's who we use when we need some social magic.  I don't know what you'd consider a "reasonable" cost but I find their pricing more than fair for the quality work they do.  And no, I don't work for them

It sounds like you have a duplicate content problem inclusive of a duplicate Meta description problem. If you can make the content unique on both domains you will have the ability to update the Meta description creating two unique pieces of content which puts you in a better position than you are in now.

Thanks Tyler.  I will check out that url.  I also learned of another site from an SEOMoz Sitemap video that makes it easy to create a sitemap: www.Gsitecrawler.com. Thanks very much for your help.

That makes sense.  For now, I have just added the canonical tag to the urls.  Thanks so much for your help. Brad

ok, I'm just helping out a friend who showed me this site.  I have no idea how it was built.  So, do you think this site is indexable and SEO friendly?