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Site speed is only relevant when your site is extremely slow. Google doesn't penalize you unless your page load time is excessively long. You won't get a boost in rankings by speeding up your site.

With that in mind, Site load times do affect your user experience, so you may notice a lower bounce rate, more pages per visit, and possibly a higher conversion rate.

I've never had a problem with GWO as long as the code is implemented properly. Make sure you've got the code exactly where they tell you to put it.

Would you mind providing a little more detail on what problems you are having in GWO?

Either way, it's going to be a pain.

1. 301 forward the old URL's and rewrite the WP URL's to inclue "/blog/"

2. Create a custom segment in google analytics, filter by "url equals" with each blog url as its' own "OR" declaration.

I attended the Bruce Clay training at SMX Advanced Seattle, and he mentioned link pruning/sculpting (here's an SEOMoz article about it - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-says-yes-you-can-still-sculpt-pagerank-no-you-cant-do-it-with-nofollow)

Now during his presentation he mentioned that if you have one page with multiple links leading to another page, and one of those links is nofollowed, it could cause all links to be nofollowed.

Example:

Page A has 4 links to Page B: 1:followed, 2:followed, 3:nofollowed, 4:followed

The presence of a single nofollow tag would override the 3 followed links and none of them would pass link juice.

Has anyone else encountered this problem, and Is there any evidence to support this? I'm thinking this would make a great experiment.