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thanks a lot, Thomas. These are fantastic responses. Let me establish: I am not a web developer and I am not an SEO expert. I am the architect behind my site's layout and creative ideas of what should be on the site. I am slowly learning the SEO…..step by step, but the technical stuff is tough on me. Let me break down in simple terms what you have described in fantastic details:

1. I will keep growing FAQ in its current format. On my Blog I will make a Wistia video out of the FAQ and from the FAQ I will link to the Blog Video matching the FAQ.
2. "Speech Pad" is there a tool which automatically gives me the content spoken accurately or how does it work?
3. I will 301 redirect sub-domain current blog posts to new URL's in sub-folder.  
   4) http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/100-panda-recovery-what-we-learned-to-identify-issues-get-your-traffic-back - this was a GREAT read. Easy to understand and makes sense. I liked concept of linking to deep pages, as way to often we all focus on inter-linking to BIG keywords, which isn't always most natural way…..
4. I have a LOT of "read more" which expands when clicked on. It is best for user as you can see here: http://www.honoluluhi5.com/kahala-homes-real-estate/  - do you see that as a potential issue?

I will be studying more on those other links you sent. For now I need to get the blog right and make sure there are no other BIG issues. I don't think so, but…..

thx. Since all my FAQ are answering relevant real estate questions (and none of my FAQ answers general questions such as "I lost my password, what to do?") I feel they belong both in FAQ and on blog.

Let me clarify: what is issue in placing a "no index no follow" on the FAQ section and instead uploading 1 by 1 to the blog? I still don't see this? Each blog would include a video where I share answer to an FAQ and below video would be the written data which currently is on the FAQ section. Let us assume Google can look through by collapsable structure on FAQ section, which I am 99% sure they can (Google just hasn't indexed that page since I uploaded the data).

Hi Thomas, Just woke up here! Your insight has been terrific and I can tell you are spot on regarding these matters as I research. thx again. I wouldn't have notice moving the blog from sub-domain without your details

got you, Thomas. thx

thx. Content was uploaded Feb 2nd. I will observe. Probably next time indexing it will be included. the structure of FAQ is similar to some of Google's own pages and I am sure they can read the content…..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MswMYk05tk  - this video by Matt Cutts seems to indicate one can use sub-domain or sub-directory, either is fine. It comes back to my thinking Google is now so advanced they probably do not care whether a blog is on a sub-domain or sub-folder. That was more something of the past….I could be wrong, but his video indicates it does not matter...

thx. I think what I will do is keep growing the FAQ and then on the blog create short videos around the FAQ. This solves the issue and offers the insight from a different angle (video).

Interesting: I see Google has indexed my /faq page but when I take a piece from my FAQ like the below it does not show up. Does that mean the page is indexed, but the written content is not?

Example of content from FAQ NOT found when pasting in to Google:
"There is considerable risk not owning the land underneath: Leasehold owners pay a monthly lease rent to the land owner. Per the terms of the lease the lease rent could increase over time and is payable above and beyond the property taxes and any possible association dues or maintenance fees. Per the terms of the Lease there may be restrictions on property usage, alterations and maintenance."

oh, and back to confirm my initial question: after this blog "move" I can no "index no follow" the entire FAQ section and instead let each FAQ be indexed on my blog. Idea is to include a video with each FAQ and then a written version below (which is pretty much the an answer from the FAQ section).

thx, Thomas. Appreciated. After I have all posts uploaded to the new blog sub-folder and they are indeed indexed by Google, then I will delete the blog sub-domain. That is the order I had in mind. Hope that makes sense.

OK, all clear on Yoast. I will get it installed.

Great reponses. Wish I could give you extra thumbs up!

thx, Thomas. So what you are saying is: if I see the blog in its current format has NO back links (2 months old) I can quickly copy paste all the posts to the sub-folder and after 1 week when Google has indexed all those pages then delete the sub-domain and I avoid having to get my web guys to do 301 redirects. All I have to ask them to do is set up new custom URL's that are cleaner.

Please confirm I got your point correctly.

Thx: I heard of Yoast. Why do I really need that? I sometimes wonder how important those advanced tools are as Google seems to be getting better and better at identifying quality content…...

got you. So URL wise with my categories maybe something like
/blog/real-estate
/blog/non-real-estate

Cleaner and shorter.

As per my previous comment, delete Blog subdomain, re-upload all blog posts to sub-folder and make sure I have better structured URL as part of it. In this way I avoid 301 redirects to each blog posts. Would that make sense or how do you see it?

Site is 2months and 10 days old…..

thx, Thomas. Appreciate the insight. Let me ask: I should move the blog to /blog sub-folder. I should include a 301 redirect or, since the blog is very new and no links to any of the posts yet, how about I re-post each blog to the sub-folder and entirely delete the sub-domain?

If you have an H2 on your page, maybe try to include same or highly similar wording in your meta description and try to avoid any sentences where relevant words to that page (or synonyms of such words) are not found on your page. I have tried with my own site in past and it has worked. No statistical evidence beyond what worked for my own site, but consider giving it a shot.

thx, Thomas. I appreciate the details. I have a real estate website and the FAQ is mainly answering questions like "What is difference between fee simple and leashold", "What is a 1031 exchange etc". I can see some users on my blog interested in that and not necessarily looking at my FAQ for that. I plan to create a category on my blog "Learn Real Estate". I think it would make sense to "no index, no follow" the FAQ page and 1 by 1 copy paste the answers to individual blog posts. With the "no index no follow" on FAQ I am good to go, correct?

I would appreciate if you could let me know if I missed anything.

FYI, this is my FAQ: http://www.honoluluhi5.com/faq/ and this is my blog: http://blog.honoluluhi5.com

I feel the FAQ's each deserve a blog post in its own category as the FAQ will keep growing (just launched site 2 months ago).

thx

My website's FAQ section has a lot of detailed answers, of which I want to upload most on an individual basis to my blog. Example: I may have 30 FAQ and I want to upload 28 of these FAQ as individual blog posts, as it could be good additional search traffic.

Question: how do I deal with duplicate content issues? Do I Include canonical? The FAQ are all on the same URL - not separate URL's - which means each blog post would only represent a small % of the entire FAQ section, though each blog would be a 100% copy of an FAQ.

thank you. I was curious as to whether anyone had more concrete evidence on the matter.

My company is looking to hire an Intern and a university - ".edu" - has including the job description on a page with list of "Available Internship", which includes a list of 100 other companies looking for an Intern. Our profile includes a link to our homepage like all other listings.

Question: do we know search engines will give zero value to such link as they can tell it is an Internship posting page or is there a good chance it will actually be quite a valuable link?

thx, perfect

I read the article now. Apologies for me rushing to ask further. Good answer. That article covers it all well

thx, Travis. How do I tell my web developers what to do? Place this across every page on my English version: www.example/com/” />  - even though some pages may not be on my .jp site? I am not a programmer and not techy so if you can share how I present this to my web guys that would be appreciated.