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Jason,

Thanks for the quick response and informative link.  I hope you are right, it does seem like you are, but we will have to wait and see in the meantime.   And I'll have to just keep on looking for other traffic sources.  Best of luck

My site has been affected by this issue (loss of links) as well, with pretty decent hits to rankings and traffic, in particular my main keywords.  Generally speaking how long/what does it take to take reach some consensus as to whether it is an update or a just a temporary hiccup?

Great, thanks a lot.  That makes sense as to why I can get an on-page 'A' score yet ultimately could be doing more harm than good.

I am not quite sure I totally understand the concept of keyword cannibalization.  I have seen the SEO Moz Snowboard example... I tried to apply the concept but the on-page ranking sees a category page of mine with KW cannibalization.  By the way, I still get an A for the targeted KW.

I have an e-commerce site,  one category page targets 'wool sweaters' and a product page for example is : 'chunky-knit wool turtleneck sweater' (there are 8 products total in this category all are flagged Cannibalizers).  I didn't think KWC would be an issue...ranking seems to be effected judging ranking for other category pages w/o KW cannibalization issues.

So, my question I guess is KW cannibalization really a big deal?  What is taken  into account when judging KW cannibalization.  Title Tags? URLs?

Thanks in advance

Hey Ben,

This post immediately popped in my mind:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/mission-imposserpble-establishing-clickthrough-rates

Although it is over a year old, it is an  interesting study.  The download available from slingshot is good too...Maybe not what you're looking for, but I just looked at it so I thought I'd pass it on.

Thank you very much for the quick response, I will take a look at that solution

Greetings from a first time poster and SEO noob...

I hope that this question makes sense...

I have a small e-commerce site,  I have had Roger-bot crawl the site and I have fixed all errors and warnings that Volusion will allow me to fix.

Then I checked Webmaster Tools, HTML improvements section and the Google-bot sees different dupe. title tag issues that Roger-bot did not.  so

A few weeks back I changed the title tag for a  product, and GWT says that I have duplicate title tags  but there is only one live page for the product.  GWT lists the dupe. title tags, but when I click on each  they all lead to the same live page.  I'm confused, what pages are these other title tags referring to?  Does Google have more than one page for that product indexed due to me changing the title tag when the page had a different URL?

1. Does this question make sense? 2) Is this issue a problem? 3) What can I do to fix it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Jeff