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good catch bootleg. I think if you get the dupe content and 301's working correctly google will love you a little more.

are you using the exact same URL's with the new CMS as the old cms? if not have you done 301's?

you should redirect it to the content that best matches the original URL. if it is a product page send it to a product page. etc.

agree with EGOL and irvingw.  even if google crawls your pages near daily, having pricing information that changes constantly in a title tag is not best practices.  Depending on what you're selling, you could draw inspiration from some of the larger E-commerce sites in terms of best practices for title tags on product pages.

Auto dealership SEO is a tricky thing.  Stephen is right on the suite # issue.. that may fix it temporarily.  Do you have two different brands, with two different employees etc, or is it one employee that can sell different brands?

unfortunately, without a link everyone will be tossing darts in the dark.  There have been a ton of people who have recovered from panda - both from adjustments in terms of their own SEO and Google fixing and tweaking the udpate.  How long have you been down? what were you ranked previously and what are you ranked now (if you're ranked at all.)

I understand and see your point on 50 articles to a single domain.  We create blog content 3 x a week on our own domain and from that once a month create an article that is generally hosted on one of 3-4 industry news sites.  I think outsourcing "article marketing" to a 3rd party could be devastating, but if you're creating fresh, unique content that offers real value from a branding perspective having that content hosted on a website that has 1m+ uniques per month versus 30k uniques per month will have a bigger impact on ROI.

I suppose my biggest mistake was leaving out clarification of oursourcing to a 3rd party and the type of content being created vs where its being hosted.

I can understand the competitor issue, but aricles and whitepapers can offer legit backlinking from news sources, etc. could be very beneficial

Article marketing can be a great tool for SEO and general Lead Gen if you are in the correct environment.  We do quite a bit of Article marketing in the telecom (b2b) industry.  By promoting thought stewardship and branding through articles (both online and print) we associate ourselves as experts to decision makers in a longer sales cycle process.  You're also generating quality content that is inherent to the direction google is headed.  Some issues with articles include dupe content if you host your articles on multiple sites etc.

message me offline and I can go into further detail with you.

Agree with this 100%.  Also make sure you're handling wire information correct.  Have Nofollows setup correctly unless you actually want to pass juice back to websites.  A big SEO trick is to publish link rich press releases and send them through wires.  Most publications fix this, but a few dont.  dont be one of the few.

I hope someone corrects me if im wrong on this but I believe 6 months will be more than enough time for the passed data to go through google.  That being said after the 6 months you'll lose and juice from the links going to the domain currently.  are there significant website linking to it now and could you contact those websites with an updated URL?

Will you be able to 301 the URL or will you have to lose it all together?  if you 301 everything should be fine.

Be very consistent with your 301 redirects is my best advice. Last year we did a significant update in terms of content and otherwise to a new domain.  make absolutely sure you're sending as much content to the correct locations on the new domain and you'll be fine.  Avoid the trap of 301ing sub pages to the main domain url as much as possible.

I worked for 4 years on an ecommerce project focusing on the SEO aspects for that website. Obviously the goal would be to differentiate the product as much as possible.  WIth out knowing exactly what type of products you're selling its hard for us to give you an accurate list of ideas.  My recommendations would be to focus on the differentiated terms first in the product descriptions focus on color, size, etc. and avoid dupe content as much as possible.  Another possibility (although we didnt do it) would be to try nofollow on product pages and focus on the category pages for the products.  Technically this could be considered best practices, but it could have undesired effects.  may i ask what type of products you're selling and what cart software you're using?

there isnt a penalty, but you want to insure that you're sending the right juice from the URL.  if you're 301ing an apple page to a pear page you'll eventually lose the juice

there isnt a penalty, but you want to insure that you're sending the right juice from the URL.  if you're 301ing an apple page to a pear page you'll eventually lose the juice

Agree with erica.. once a week is the bare minimum.  if you can twice - 3 times a week you're going to be paying dividends much quicker with more content.. think about it 1 blog a week is 52 new pages a year.. twice a week is 104.. the content adds up quickly.

that being said.. if you're going to create a blog and not update it on any level of consistency its better to avoid it all together.

it is better to have no blog than the perception of an abandoned blog.

a very quick review of your site showed some promise.  you have a section for case studies etc.. you can use case studies to garner industry expertise and link build from that.

Another great way to start adding content to any type of website is a blog.  if you were to add an industry specific blog to the site you could quickly start conversations with your b2b customers.  Remember to provide industry specific news and thought stewardship and you can help link / content build very quickly.  From there you can run some social twitter, fb, etc. and hopefully start growing links from that.  personally I dont see much room on fb for my b2b, but i still see a lot of growth on twitter.

one last thought is to work with your happy customers to provide back links or cross links to start building out some good linking techniques..

just a quick .02   Im sure others will have some great ideas too

Bing is actually providing their search results and ad on yahoo results pages.. they are now "bing powered"

I agree with this.. put PRODUCT first followed by CATEGORY, and COMPANY last.  you want to focus on what the customer cares about... usually the product.