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Unfortunately I can't give that information.  The only character I have in there is the "-" before the website name at the end.  I typically use pipes "|" but the dash was already implemented across the site.  Looking at some of my other clients now, it's starting to look like 70 characters is NOT the standard anymore.  I'm seeing consistent page title cut-offs under 60. Ugh.

I just checked and that's not the case, I wish it was though.  It gets cut-off at 54 characters!  Isn't that way too short???

I re-wrote the page title of a home page for a site I'm working on and made sure it's under 70 characters (68 to be exact) to comply with best practices and make sure it doesn't get cut-off in the SERPS.  It's still getting cut-off though and right when it gets to the brand/website name.  Does a "-" have anything to do with it?  Does that translate to an elipsis?

Format:

keywords - website/brand.com

Can anybody tell me why this would be happening?

As of yesterday's OSE update alot of sites that I'm tracking saw their PA & DA drop significantly.  This was for multiple sites, whereas last month's index saw those stats increase significantly.  Has anybody else seen this happen to them and perhaps drawn any conclusions?

These are all great ideas.  I know it takes a little creativity to find something that works.  Could it be as simple as simple as just having a "Servicing Areas" section with pages for specific places, and listing directions from those locations?

What's the best way to go about creating new pages for geo targeted keywords for a business?  I ask because, these keywords are areas that they provide service to, but the brick and mortar business is not located.  I've already run into problems trying to put too many locations onto one page.  What's the best way to attack content for these new pages in order to get these geo keywords in there?

What changes to a website constitute resubmitting a sitemap?  For example, if I add new in-site links, should I then resubmit?  Or is it more for changes to URLs, Page titles, etc?

That's what I thought.  Could there be some negative impact that I'm not thinking of? Besides that small percentage of link juice.

What do you do if you have a client that never implemented a 301 redirect on their domain?  For example here are the OSE stats for the URLs;

http://url.com

PA: 48 DA: 50 LRD: 65 TL: 1,084 FB: 178 FB: 14 T:5

http://www.url.com

PA: 51 DA: 50 LRD: 165 TL: 2,271 FB: 178 FB: 14 T:5 G+1:3

My first instincts are to redirect the first one to the second one, but is it too late for that?  Will that screw up all of their established stats?  Any input or examples of past experiences with this would be great.

How come links sometimes show up in OSE or Yahoo Site Explorer and then when you go to the page, they're not there anymore?  Why is a link indexed or considered active but is no longer on the page?

Good point.  So it's really not worth spending time on that particular link building strategy?

I set a little bit of time aside for each client to comment on blogs for backlinks, but it just seems like a waste of time at this point.  Most blogs have comments turned off, or won't allow links.  Obviously making your name a keyword and making that a link is very spammy, and alot of blogs are using Disqus or making you login with your facebook account to post a comment.  What's the best way of going about this these days, or is it not even worth the time?

Thanks for your input Sean.  Kind of what I was thinking.  I understand it's not the most natural process, haha.

I'm in negotiations to get links placed on a popular blog with good stats.  I'm allowed to pick older posts on the site, and I get to pick the anchor text.  Is it best practice to diversify the links by having different keywords pointing to different pages or am I better off pointing as many links as I can at one page (varying anchor text)?

Also, is it best to pick a more recent blog post, or is it ok to pick one from say, 2009?

Thanks Daniel.  Question; Are you saying it's best to only optimize one keyword per page in general or only have one link pointing to, say the homepage from another page? (as opposed to a bunch of different keyword links on one page pointing to the homepage)

When creating links within your website, is it bad to have a anchor text link pointing back to the same page?

Say the page the homepage is optimized for "credit cards".  If I have a "credit cards" anchor text link on the page the link points to, is that bad practice?

Secondly, if it's better to put that link on a different page, wouldn't I be placing a keyword that's optimized for a different page on the wrong page? (hopefully I'm making sense)

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Using the on-page report card tool helps alot.  As long as you take it's advice, you should be in good condition.  I use it all the time to double check my work.

Thanks Keri!  I thought it might be something like that, so I'm glad you could confirm.

I made some on-site changes to a site last week, in particular their page titles.  This was all done on the same day at the same time.  Now, one of those pages, got re-indexed  on August 8th and has my updated changes, which also helped with my ranking.  The other page I made changes to still shows a cached version from July 27th, which is before I made the changes.  Why wouldn't google have an updated page from August 8th for both pages, not just one?

Every response here is on the nose but I thought I'd throw a good example of a proper paid directory link.  In researching backlinks for a client competitor, I saw they had a link from the local chamber of commerce.  Tracing that link back, it came from their directory, which the competitor was featured in.  I then contacted the chamber to find out how to be included and it turns out it has a pricey yearly membership fee.  With that fee though, you're being included into a VERY reputable business directory along with a juice passing link.  I think those are the types of paid directories that are worth the money and seeking out.  It's a little outside the box, but look at what it does for your site and it's legitimacy.  I know this was a bit random, but I thought it was applicable.