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so if content is identical should I edit the meta tag to be identical? I have example.com/page & m.example.com/page identical in content. the mobile version does not include title meta tag at all.

Thanks Jeff and Andy, We are already building compelling content focused in those specific states. I was also wondering if there is anything in the technical side to leverage position, but local SEO and schema doesnt really apply to us, since it is usually based on a physical address which we dont have it. Building a landing pages targeting the state would be an option but we do want the user to arrive in the homepage which is not really geo targeted. Ill try a few thing for the next few weeks and I would be happy to share some results. Thanks a lot, A

Matt Cutts has a couple of things to say about news websites. One is that keeping a developing story on one webpage and updating it is a way to have a news page that can build rank. Another is that news websites that are authoritative and/or do their own original writing can do well. Here are the links to the two relevant videos. (Kind of old, I know.) http://youtu.be/9FrzDyRqsY4 http://youtu.be/mtbNpeYP_OM We have news on our website (not at all the major focus - just as a handy reference for users) and it is also valuable to us because Google news picks it up, but since those pages weren't getting traffic after the day the news story appeared, I started removing old ones to be on the safe side. (Though that might not be workable for a site whose main focus is news and needs to keep living archives.)

Can you show the beginning of the article after 30 days is up? Similar to what New Scientist do: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229720.600-memory-implants-chips-to-fix-broken-brains.html

This was years ago (before my agency built its own crawler to do this), but I used changedetection.com on a client site where they could not be trusted not to arbitrarily change title tags without asking us first. It was a competitive niche and we had more than one failsafe in action to detect changes quickly, including (of course) manual checking. I like the idea of using a tool like this to monitor title tags or pages where the competitor's new content might be listed. Having not used the tool for this purpose I am not sure how effective it will be, but I see no reason why it wouldn't work. The trick would be finding pages on their site where this new content is acknowledged, whether that be a sitemap or index page, table of contents, etc. If anyone has other tools that might do the same thing in a more direct manner, that would be great!

Hi Arie, I suggest looking into the following tools: Turn It In PlagScan All the best.

This is a complicated question that I can't give a simple answer for, as every site is set-up differently and has it's own challenges. You will likely use a variety of the techniques mentioned in my last paragraph above. Good luck.

I wouldn't freak out too much over the crawl rate immediately. Wait a few weeks and see how things go. It sounds like you did the right thing and should see the benefits over the next few weeks.