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Correct, 301 redirects of duplicate homepages in order to consolidate them into one should not be an issue.

Whenever you have multiple versions of your homepage like that (e.g. www.site.com, site.com, site.com/index, www.site.com/index, and so forth),it is considered best practices to choose one, set your preferred domain (www vs non-www) in Google Webmaster Tools, and 301 redirect the duplicate homepages to the primary one you chose.

If all the meta description said was "Visit www.blah.com today" then I'd be more worried about it not being interesting or descriptive enough to grab a user's attention.

I'm not seeing what the issue is... posts are correctly showing %post_title%, search is correctly showing %search% | %blog_title%, etc.

Are you saying that you want the Search Engines to index your page titles as is without appending the blog name to it?

If that's the case, you need a more descriptive title. Google reserves the right to re-write titles as they see fit to make them more relevant for searches. In this case I see that they add the H1 tag to the end of some post titles in the SERPs. The only way to possibly stop that from happening is to create more descriptive post titles where Google wouldn't feel the need to alter them.

That is yet another reason Rel=canonical was created... for when one page is a subset of another page. E.g. Your Nike page is a subset of the Trainers page.

A billing invoice? If you click the symbol in the upper right that looks like a Head with some lines next to it you will see a dropdown. Click on "Billing & Subscription". On that page you'll see a tab for Billing Information. Scroll down and there will be an Invoice History list with view links next to each invoice. You can then print those pages.

In the upper right-hand corner by "Campaigns & Tools" there's the symbol that looks like a Head with a few lines next to it. Click that and in the dropdown is "Billing & Subscription". On that page you'll find a link to Cancel.

So every page has several hundred links to spammy duplicate pages? This is a bad thing.

First off, link equity leaving every page on your site would be split between all these several hundred links whether your NoFollow them or not.

Second, the fact that they are essentially duplicate of each other and there are potentially hundreds of these pages means that your site is likely hurting from thin content penalties.

Third, that image makes it look like old school 90s keyword stuffing. Which is just all sorts of wrong.

My assessment is that Yes... this is hurting your site.

Even though Google is rewriting the title, it is only rewriting the title for specific search queries that it feels you are relevant for despite not having the correct title and may not always do that for every similar search. So ultimately it is better to fix your titles and rank properly for what you are intending to rank for than it is to hope Google continues to find you relevant to queries you wouldn't otherwise have show for & change your titles for everyone all of the time. If Google still occasionally rewrites them, that's fine... just don't leave your SEO up to Google like that all of the time when its so easy to do it better yourself.

Getting rid of duplicate titles can help but it may not noticeably improve rankings. That would be dependent on how well you're ranking already and whether the title catches the users it is intended for so there are increases in traffic, decreases in bounce rate, higher conversions and so on.

There are any number of reasons this could be happening. Perhaps they have more high authority links or maybe your site has a lot of links that don't pass much value. Their site could be older and getting a slight boost from that. They don't have social media accounts but they could still have been shared more on social media than your site. The level of traffic, bounce rate and exit % could be better than your site and Google could be seeing them as more relevant for those target terms because of it. Even though they don't update as often, their content could be considered more authoritative. Considering we don't know everything that makes up the ranking algorithm (& its constantly changing) and only really have concepts of the correlation between things, there's no way to definitively state that Tactic X is always the reason one site is higher in rankings for a specific search term than another site.

As Digital-Diameter said, the best choice for fixing this problem is a 301. A Canonical tag can eventually lead to the incorrect URL being replaced by the correct one in the SERPs but it is also important to note that the Rel=canonical tag is a suggestion, not a directive. What this means is that the search engines will take it into consideration but may choose not to follow it.

Simplest way is usually to set the pages to NoIndex.

I had this happen to me. I added a 5th campaign in Pro that didn't show up in the Analytics Beta. After waiting about a week though the fifth campaign started showing up in both Pro and Analytics Beta.

Replytocom is a native WordPress error that can be a bit of a headache. I actually just answered a similar question about this a few days ago. that question was partially about Disqus but is still relevant. Here's the answer from that one:

Ah, Wordpress. The Replytocom parameter is an annoyance but can easily be fixed. Its not so much that removing Disqus is causing Replytocom... Disqus was just masking its presence. Replytocom exists as part of the native WordPress commenting system. Go to Webmaster Tools > Crawl > URL Parameters. Choose to Edit Replytocom, choose "Yes: Changes, reorders, or narrows page content", under How does it affect page content you can choose Other, and then choose to have Googlbot crawl No URLs with this parameter. You can also add replytocom to the Robots.txt for the blog to disallow it. And If you're using Yoast there's an option under SEO > Permalinks to remove ?replytocom variables. From Getting replytocom error when removed disqus comment system i want to remove the disqus

I do often agree with your assessment and perhaps I should have worded it as "you might want to consider" instead of "make sure".

Its because in certain circumstances, having a blog post about something like "5 Reasons the New Toshiba Laptop is Awesome" with a link to your ecommerce page selling the product could be considered a paid link or the post may be seen as an advertorial. Because you sell laptops and you're writing a blog post about laptops that includes a link to the sale of laptops on your own site, there is concern it _migh_t be devalued especially after all the news concerning press release links and advertorials in recent months.

Of course, much of this is conjecture and the more I think about it the more it would seem that the people I've seen concerned about being hit for something like that are people that have been doing other, more sketchy things.

Yoast is good though one of the blogs I manage ran into a compatibility error with Yoast recently after the update to WordPress 3.6 (which was not fixed in 3.6.1) that lead to all of our pages serving a 500 status code to bots even though it showed everything correctly to users. We couldn't get it fixed and weren't sure what the exact cause of the issue was... so we're now using the All-In-One SEO plugin for one site to handle certain meta data for posts. We also use Headspace on another blog (which was because of a compatibility issue with AIO a while back). Honestly we're running pretty much 99% of the same plugins on every blog yet with every update there's always one that has a crazy compatibility error the rest won't and then we cycle through "seo" plugins until something works.

Overall though I don't mind WordPress... I've learned to live with its myriad quirks.

In the top right, click the symbol that looks like the head and shoulders of a person with some short lines next to it. Choose Billing & Subscription from the dropdown. You should be able to make all necessary changes from there.

I've always been more of an "if they cannibalized then cross-link" type of person, followed up with a hint of "tweak accordingly". If our blogs are ranking well for something and drawing in more people than the actual product page, it could be that more people are just looking for information and not necessarily purchasing... of course there's the AIDA conversion funnel to consider as well. Why not make sure there is a prominent link/call to action that users can follow once they're done digesting the info so then they can look at the product page and (hopefully) convert? And make sure the link is NoFollow or it could be seen as unnatural and/or inadvertently hurt you depending on Google guidelines for the given month/week/day.

Facebook Insights already has a way to export data into an excel spreadsheet. All you need to do is click into Insights and in the top right corner there's the Export Data button. Choose the data type, choose either .XLS or .CSV, select the date range and click download.

If you're looking for a way to automatically pull the data into an existing spreadsheet, append the information to the existing data and automatically update formulas... then I'm at a loss. My excel talent stops at conditional formatting & filters.

Ah, Wordpress. The Replytocom parameter is an annoyance but can easily be fixed. Its not so much that removing Disqus is causing Replytocom... Disqus was just masking its presence. Replytocom exists as part of the native WordPress commenting system. Go to Webmaster Tools > Crawl > URL Parameters. Choose to Edit Replytocom, choose "Yes: Changes, reorders, or narrows page content", under How does it affect page content you can choose Other, and then choose to have Googlbot crawl No URLs with this parameter. You can also add replytocom to the Robots.txt for the blog to disallow it. And If you're using Yoast there's an option under SEO > Permalinks to remove ?replytocom variables.