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That's exactly what I have found as well Kane - that you so much for your time and insight!!

One more thing - separate to the other note. It is likely that google has already destroyed some of the sites that used to link to you, so that is another reason you could have less power.

I don't see a problem with that. Before you change it, I'd compare CTR & bounce rate before and after the change. For example, if your traffic for that keyword went down 20% from 1000 visits to 800, but your bounce rate dropped from 60% to 40% at the same time, then you'd have 480 visitors with 2+ pageviews instead of the 400 that you had before, which suggest higher quality traffic is now visiting the site. Also, compare the goal completions in your Analytics software before and after. If the bounce rate & goals are similar, then you might as well go back to the old method.

I'm not sure there would be a problem, but why would you NOT want your prices in the Google results? The customer is going to eventually find out what your price is aren't they?

Hi Zsolt: I was referring to a program called Spring Metrics - supposedly it provides insight on conversions.

Hi Marcus: Thanks for your reply. Actually, I do have other pages already employed with keywords I'm trying for - but those pages all stay at a PR of 3 for some reason: http://www.indierockcafe.com/new-releases/ - "best new releases" or "best new albums" or "popular new albums" - You'll see I rank for these words - but it's almost always the homepage - I do realize that it has to do with links and anchor text going to the homepage rather than the other pages. Maybe link building for these pages will help change this? http://www.indierockcafe.com/artists-and-bands/ - "hot new bands" "best rock bands" - you'll probably see I have #1,2,3 for all these rich keywords, but Google is almost always choosing the homepage. (PS - I'm not trying to rank for variants that include "indie" because the site is saturated for that term and http://www.indierockcafe.com/top-ten-songs/   - "best new songs" "hot new songs" "popular rock songs", etc. Regards Phil

Hi Phil Are you using exact match or broad match for the keywords?  Phrase or exact might give you a more realistic search volume.  Also, the CTR can be very low for Adwords.  Is that zero for estimated daily clicks?  It sounds like you'd only be getting 50-100 impressions a day. -Dan

On the Blogger platform, tag pages are blocked in the robots.txt so they won't be index and thus, won't cause duplicate content issues (no matter what canonical tags they have on them). Archives seem to get around this issue by creating full html pages; thus, it doesn't show up as duplicate content, but as snippets of content on an indexing page. Please contact our Help Team help@seomoz.org to help you add your Blogger account as a campaign.

The issue is the repetition of words more than anything.  There's no justification or rationalization that can be used to say "this long URL is valid from a readability or a page topical focus perspective.  In fact, it can both make the site look untrustworthy to some users, and potentially cause search engines to flag the page as "over" optimized - going too far with keyword repetition is definitely something that can cause a page to lose some of it's ranking value.

Check your 'Archiving' settings. You can turn off monthly archiving completely there. That would eliminate that duplicate, but I guess you wouldn't be able to have dated archives as a means of navagation.  As for the tag, I am not sure if there is a way around that or if the no archiving setting would take care of that too. I don't use Blogger much, but just took a look at blogger to see what you were talking about. One would think Blogger would allow a little more control over things like this.