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I assume that you have an admin section in the CMS where you are editing and entering these articles before they go live. You need to get a developer to simply write a search algo that when you create a new article and before it goes live, it takes sections of your content and looks for matches/duplicates.  You can set a requirement that it has to match on a minimum of a 4 to 5 word string and other such limitations to make sure you are not matching too many items.  It will take a few tests to find a sweet spot of too many matches vs not enough. With 17K pages, this is the only way you can really do this in an efficient way, you need some IT support/development. They may have to create a reporting layer as well to help you sift through the results. Good luck.

Hello John, I have used several enterprise solutions like BazaarVoice, and solutions for open source content management systems like Drupal and Wordpress (there are plenty of those around, mostly free) but without knowing what platform you're on it's tough to come up with a recommended solution. Since I haven't personally tested them out I don't want to list them specifically for fear that people will assume that is an endorsement, here is what I suggest: You may find what you're looking for by reading the following thread: http://www.hotscripts.com/forums/script-requests/165-looking-good-review-management-script.html And by looking into some of the solutions discussed on this page: http://www.hotscripts.com/category/scripts/php/scripts-programs/reviews-ratings/ I hope that helps! And I'm pretty sure lots of people see this as a problem that requires a solution, thus I'm pretty sure there are some solutions available to you depending on what platform you are using. Good luck! Everett

@JustDucky We recently migrated to a data center and the average loading time dropped from ~4 seconds to ~0.9. I to noticed only 1-2% drop in bounce rate. It seems only that many people were turned off by the loading times. Then again 1-2% can be anything. @John O'Haver I would invest the time simply because ~3.4 is the average value. This means that sometimes it goes up to 10 or even more. Take a look at your analytics account and see the performance per country. Also, I've been benchmarking analytics with remote monitoring solutions and I find a discrepancy of about 30% (probably due to limited sample date from analytics). I don't want to advertise any available solutions, but trying one won't hurt. You may find your times to be better (I hope).

When optimizing the navigation of your site it is best to consider the strength of the site at the same time. If you have a powerful site it is possible that you could put MORE links in the navigation in an effort to expand the reach of your site.  Anyone who is dominating their keywords should be able to expand navigation and not contract it - no matter how big it currently is.  (If I owned walmart.com I would be comfortable adding more links to the flyout nav - they are getting more powerful in the SERPs.  Amazon has been there for ages - they are very hard to defeat in the SERPs - but authority is responsible for much of that and not their linkage IMO) If you have a weak site that is being defeated everywhere then the best action for you is to get working on the strength of your site.  At this point you should have a navigation that makes sense to the visitor. I cannot figure out how large sites cope with this.  As far as I can tell they are using side nav that disappears after selecting a category of item in which the navigation is replaced with filtering tools I think that they simply have different left navs for different categories and subcategories of the site. On my sites we solve this with server-side includes... with wordpress you can do it with php... and you can also do it with custom programming that rewrites includes or the nav section of entire websites. Is there a way to find out exactly what they are doing because I am trying to explain this to our IT person and I just get a response that our site is fine how it is and these navigation links don't affect anything...even though each page starts off with the same 100 follow links of navigation. lol..... I think that you need to teach your IT person about SEO and your IT person needs to teach you about how websites work.  Or... maybe better, I would recommend hiring an SEO to solve both of your knowledge gaps.  You both need to know a lot more to run a competitive website. If you have an IT person who will not accommodate your efforts to improve the SEO of your site then one of you needs to be looking for a new job.

Place that code in between the head tags for all of the specific categories to implement a Canonical link ^.^ Hope it helps!

I like the opensiteexplorer method. The difficulty is what to do once you create the list of .edu's. We're using some of the other blogs on the subject on seomoz.