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A SEOmoz crawl report on 1/20/2013 says we have 530 duplicate page titles most of which are pages like this these two:

http://www.audiobooksonline.com/reviews/review.php/details/38

http://www.audiobooksonline.com/reviews/review.php/details/104

These pages are the result of allowing visitors to post their opinions and ratings about specific audio books.

Google Webmaster Tools reports we have 16 duplicate page titles none of which are a review page.

Why is SEOmoz reporting duplicate page titles?

Should SEOmoz be reporting these pages as having duplicate page titles?

Why isn't Google Webmaster Tools reporting the review pages as having duplicate titles?

Many of the 1000s of pages at our Web store that were established several years ago but still relevant today have underscores separating words in page file names. For example: http://www.audiobooksonline.com/whats_new_compact_disc_audiobooks_audio_books.html

Should I replace the underscores with hyphens like this:

http://www.audiobooksonline.com/whats-new-compact-disc-audiobooks-audio-books.html

or should I duplicate pages with underscores using hyphens and have the older pages with underscores 304 re-directed to the new pages with hyphens?

Which SEOmoz tool can analyse our home page and offer optimization advice and compare with competitors?

We sell 1000s of audio book title, many of which are published in more than one format (abridged, unabridged CD, and/or unabridged MP3) by the same publisher. Currently each title has its own page but the basic description of the title (story) is the same. Here is an example title that is offered in three formats.

44 Charles Street - Danielle Steel - abridged CD audiobook

44 Charles Street - Danielle Steel - MP3 CD audiobook

44 Charles Street - Danielle Steel - CD audiobook

Each of the above pages has a different page title, a different URL, a different meta description however much of the body (from [Listen to a FREE Audio Clip] down is the same.

Is this duplicate content hurting our SERPs?

I started a campaign 5/11/2012. It's still churning. Here's what the Crawl Diagnostics Summary has said for the two days.

• Starter Crawl in Progress!
• Processing Crawl Data
• Started: May 11th, 2012
• To get you started quickly Roger is crawling up to 250 pages on your site. You should see these results within two hours. The full crawl will complete within 7 days.

Should I / can I stop this campaign? How?

We currently have 16465 audiobook products presented at our Web store. 5411 of them are out-of-publication (OOP). Here's an example: Harry Potter Audiobook 2 : Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling - cassette audiobook

Many of the 5411 OOP products are duplicates and triplicates of one title but were offered on a different medium (cassette, CD or MP3 CD) or were a different type (abridged, unabridged, dramatized). The description (story-line) is the same for all.

Because we know once a page gets on the Internet, it can live there for years, we decided to keep OOP product pages at our Web store to:

1. Let those who may have searched for the product and clicked on a link to an OOP product's page that it was no longer available.

2. Invite them to explore our Web store.

3. Let them know that although the product may not be available on cassette, CD or MP3 CD, that it might be available as a digital download.

We know that Google does NOT like duplicate content from one site to another and even within the same site.

If we redirect all the 5411 pages to one OOP page, will this eliminate this duplicate content issue? The OOP page would explain that the title they were looking for is no longer available but that it might be available as a digital download.

Some of our top search performing competitors do NOT limit their titles to 70 characters.

How important is the 70 characters or less guideline in getting excellent search positions?

Does having titles greater than 70 characters hurt our search engine positions?

I want to get a report on all the back links to some of our competitors.

How can I filter out competitor back links that also back link to our site?

Does SEOmoz have instruction and/or a video on how to increase back links? Where?