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It does.  Thank you.  That was pretty much my understanding but I just wanted to get the opinions of the experts!  Thanks again.

my guess is you have the same title tag on every page (possibly due to a php include file?) but without a link to the site it is impossible to tell.

If I understand the second part of your question then no a canonical link on your index page will not solve the problem.  You had a canonical link to the head of any page showing duplicate content linking back to the main (i.e., canonical) version of that content.  You can read about it in greater detail from Google here: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

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That is exactly what I was asking although I asked it poorly so thank you for interpreting my question as well.  The other reasons to do this would include what? branding issues?

My client has a site hosted with a company that allows very little customization including I am unable to add a blog to the site.  As he has a fair amount of time & money invested in the site, he is reluctant to start over.  So my question is this.  His blog is currently hosted off site, would it benefit him if I had them add a cname or a record to show his blog at blog.mydomain.com?  Or does Google recognize that it is still a separate site and treat it as such?  Finally does it matter how they set it up cname, a record or redirect?  This is definitely not my area of expertise (if that is not already obvious from the question!).

Thanks for your help!

Matthew

I am curious as to people's opinion about the Facebook like button you add to a given website.  It would seem with the increased influence of social media indicators that you would want to have people "like" your webpage (as opposed linking the like back to your Facebook page) when they go to your webpage, but this dilutes the number of likes you get at both Facebook and your webpage.  It is my understanding that people are more likely to "like" a page that already has a lot of "likes."  As most of my clients are very small businesses, this is a significant consideration as their "like" volumes are very low by default (i.e., if you only have a few hundred people who even use your business it is hard to get thousands of likes).  Thanks for your opinion!