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I'm working with an ecommerce site that has many product descriptions for various brands that are important to have but are all straight duplicates.  I'm looking for some type of tag tht can be implemented to prevent Google from seeing these as duplicates while still allowing the page to rank in the index.  I thought I had found it with Googleoff, googleon tag but it appears that this is only used with the google appliance hardware.

I enjoy using crawl test inside moz but I need to find a way to crawl all the pages on a site.  It would probably be in the neighborhood of 10,000 urls.  Does anyone know of a free tool and if not is there a paid tool that will do this?

I'm thinking about buying a competitor and 301 redirecting their site to mine.  The high level stats are as follows.  My site has a DA of 46 and the homepage has a PA of 55.  375 root domains, 170,000 links.  The site sells millions of dollars worth of product each year.  The competitor (who I had never heard of) has a DA of 58 and a homepage PA of 64.  They have 634 root domains and 260,000 links.  They aren't selling much of anything (less than 100,000 per year).  We might be able to operate their site but I'm concerned about maintaining 2 platforms.  My question is about the value of buying this site and 301 redirecting it to my site.  Would this create long term SEO value or not?  Any examples that have been documented are greatly appreciated.

My site bluecotton.com sells custom printed t-shirts.  Our DA is 46.  Our homepage is PA 55.  The design studio is where users create their designs.  Over the years the design studio has received a lot of fan fair including links from gizmodo and adobe.  When I rank against our biggest competitors customink, ooshirts, uberprints.com I find that our domain as a whole doesn't look all that great.  However, when I look at the history of our subdomain I see that we are more trusted and credible than all of our competitors.  We have 10k links pointing to the design studio.  Here is my question.  What if I did 301 redirect of bluecotton.com/studio.html to bluecotton.com?  Then I created a new url for the DS.  This would not cause users any problems.  In fact for many they would get more context around what we are trying to do and what we offer.  Is this crazy?  I never find results in google for the design studio.  It always shows our home.  That is pretty much what happens to all of our competitors on the higher traffic terms that are driving real sales. So why do i ask?  If my subdomain is more valuable becuase of the design studio links then I wonder if I redirected it to the homepage if it would supercharge my homepage and propel is forward in the serps. Thoughts?

Clearly this site is buying links.  They have the most exact match link profile I have ever seen.  It appears their strategy has been to buy links for their domain as a way to mask all the other exact match purchases they are making.  I have also been sent copies of the emails where they are attempting to purchase links.  Thoughts?

I monitor about 10 websites in GA.  Many of these sites are in a stable phase of their lifecycle.  I've noticed this year that direct visits on all my sites and even friends sites have dropped by 20-60%.  Has anyone seen any explanation for this or noticed this when compared to previous year?  In every instance I have no penalties, notices, anything and the drop is made up completely of "direct visits".