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No, I think you're missing the point of the site.  It has nothing to do about live blogging games.  It is about aggregating articles and putting them in one place.

Here is an inspiration in the tech world:

http://launch.co/

I obviously have modified my site to include a little more description because of the nature of the articles.

The post pages CAN be linked to (link button to right of post's time), but as the main page and readability should be the focus, I didn't included a big title link on the main page.

The point is to read everything on that main page and not have to click, unless you want to click to the actual article outside my site.

I am using Social Networks but don't want to use them in lieu of the site.  And, I'm not using comments at all, so I'm not sure why you're pointing to those links.

Anyway, seems like we're not seeing eye to eye, but I appreciate the effort.

Thanks Thomas for your detailed answers.  The problem is that many of the solutions defeat the purpose of the site and the user experience.  The whole intent is to for people to be able to come to the main page and be able to scroll down and quickly get the summaries of the articles for the day without clicking to other pages.  Responding to the above:

TAG:  the reason that I have "tag" pages is so I can create a post and have it go two places--one to the main page and also to the page, for example, of the team.  I wanted to do this without manually posting on two different pages (as I'm posting so many times a day) to save a great deal of work.  I want the user to be able to access the post on the mian page but also have a "page" for each team in the menu bar so fans of a particular team can see all their posts on one page.

2. Every post I make is in fact as a "post" and not a "page."  All posts go on the same page because that's the point of the website.

3. I'll look into the 301 redirect.

4. Like I said, the format of all the posts on the mainpage is the entire concept of the site.  I want people to be able to come to the site and scroll through (while they're in a grocery store line) without clicking around.  Almost like Twitter for descriptions of articles.

I'll check Dan's wordpress article.

But, the question remains, using the confines of the current usability of the site, is there a way to make smaller changes that will maximize the SEO?

Thanks again for your feedback.  I'm not trying to be obtuse and do truly appreciate the help, but I also want to stand true to my vision.

Hi,

I have a website that aggregates NFL analysis (not news).  I write 3-5 line summaries about each article I link, so there is a pretty good amount of daily content.  Here's the site:

http://www.profootballhotreads.com/

After I received my initial report, there were several issues, and I just wanted to get some thoughts on them.  Some of these might be related to the aggregate nature, some might be not a concern, but I want to know which ones I should really worry about.

1. Too many links.  My main page is a continuously running scroll of links, so obviously this is going to be tough to accommodate.  I know this makes each link less "valuable," but does it actually affect my site in any way?  I don't really have links to my site on the page other than in the menu, which I assume would be scrolled first.

2. meta description on tag pages.  For site design reasons, I have several "pages" that are actually tag collection pages rather than unique pages.  For example, each team's page is simply a collection of anything tagged with that team.  So, I don't know if I can provide a meta description for those pages without making that the default meta description for any post with that tag.

3. I supposedly have tons of duplicate pages but when I go to those pages, I don't see it.  Webmasters said I only had one duplicate.  Not sure what's going on.  I'm thinking anytime I update a post, it is reading it as two different posts even though only one post exists at a time on the site.

4. I have tons of duplicate page titles.  Basically, I have tons of pages on my main page because after a certain amount of posts, it goes to a "new" page, even though it's just a continuation.  So, I have Main page 1, Main Page 2, etc with the same title and meta descriptions.  I don't think this is a concern, is it?

Thanks for anyone who might be able to help.  Let me know if there are more questions.

Jason