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I would like to get some opinions on the best way to handle duplicate / similar content that is on our company website and local facility level sites.  Our company website is our flagship website that contains all of our service offerings, and we use this site to complete nationally for our SEO efforts.  We then have around 100 localized facility level sites for the different locations we operate that we use to rank for local SEO.  There is enough of a difference between these locations that it was decided (long ago before me) that there would be a separate website for each.  There is however, much duplicate content across all these sites due to the service offerings being roughly the same.  Every website has it's own unique domain name, but I believe they are all on the same C-block.  I'm thinking of going with 1 of 2 options and wanted to get some opinions on which would be best. 1 - Keep the services content identical across the company website and all facility sites, and use the rel=canonical tag on all the facility sites to reference the company website.  My only concern here is if this would drastically hurt local SEO for the facility sites. 2 - Create two unique sets of services content.  Use one set on the company website.  And use the second set on the facility sites, and either live with the duplicate content or try and sprinkle in enough local geographic content to create some differential between the facility sites. Or if there are other suggestions on a better way to handle this, I would love to hear any other thoughts as well. Thanks!

My company recently created a WordPress hosted blog.  It is hosted completely separate from our company site.  The primary domain for the blog is blog.mydomainname.com, but we immediately created a folder within our company website for www.mydomainname.com/blog that has a reverse proxy to the blog itself. I'm curious though if we should consider taking the content from the blog posts and re-creating that within our company website as well?  The blog posts are very good SEO rich content, and we always struggle to find new content to put on our company website as it is already. Would like to get some folks thoughts on this. Thanks!

I am getting ready to implement a blog for my company.  We have our website controlled through a commercial Content Management System that has a blog feature, but it is cumbersome to use and doesn't have all the bells and whistles of a Wordpress blog for example.  I know for SEO purposes that we would be better to use the CMS blog and make it a subfolder (www.mysite.com/blog) instead of using a subdomain (blog.mysite.com).  However, we would like to use the hosted WordPress blog and find a way to retain the same SEO value for our www.mysite.com site that it would provide being a subfolder on the site. Any suggestions? Installing Word Press CMS on our current web servers is not an option.  We would have to use Wordpress hosting services for the blog.

I am in the somewhat unique position of owning and administering around 300 websites that each have their own unique domain names.  We have a corporate website and then many individual websites for hospitals and nursing centers that we operate.  My question is how would you recommend using these sites to build good incoming links between all the sites?  Should I take every opportunity to find as many places to link from each site to all the other sites that are owned?  Is there anything I should avoid that Google would penalize me for or discount the links all together?  Sorry this is a such as long question... but wasn't sure where to start.  Thanks!

To improve SEO on a particular keyword, should you use that same keyword in the title tag of multiple pages within your site?  Will that help or would it actually hurt by causing pages within your site to complete against each other for that keyword?  Does it make a difference if that keyword is truly used on all those different pages?