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Duplicate content can pack a double punch since not only does it potentially look like spam to Google but it also divides up the value of the pages between the multiple sources. Best case is to eliminate duplicate content, but often the easier fix--especially when parameters are involved--is to use canonical.

Google doesn't always seem to respect the canonical tag, but it should help mitigate duplicate content errors that can definitely drag down the rankings.

Definitely for organic SEO you will want to include your geographic terms in the on-page content. In an ideal world you could rank for "luxury real estate" but in reality that is probably a very competitive term and by narrowing it to Dallas you will capture people looking in your market and will have a much better chance of actually appearing in the SERPs.

You may even want to consider other major suburbs in Dallas to catch some of those longer tail searches.

Yeah, do the redirect and if possible keep hosting the sites on different servers--then it doesn't look like you are building your own link network. Try to avoid reciprocal links too (not always possible with mergers like this).

Nice looking blog. I have found this as well in blogs I have produced. Google seems to only include a certain threshold of blogs. Yours is a PR3 so it may not be in their "watch list."

I also find that they don't always include every site every time, even if it is a higher pagerank site.

I think it depends on whether you look more closely at visits or unique visits as a definition of traffic. It also depends on what you are trying to determine like how many visits it takes to drive a conversion or how many individual people convert on average.

It may be a little outside your budget but one of the base model DSLR cameras from Nikon or Canon shoot excellent HD video and you can tap into their extensive line of interchangeable lenses. This method would probably cost about $1000.

I have also gone the cheap route before and used a couple Kodak HD pocket cameras (Playtouch or Playsport). These record a good image as long as the lighting is decent and you don't require any movement or zooming. I would setup a two camera shoot and attach either a lapel mic or shotgun mic to the on-board mic port of one of the cameras.

The two camera shoot is nice because you can edit cuts better so you don't run into jump cuts. This is great when the person on-screen can't do it all in one take. Then just sync up the two files in a video editing program and cut to different angles when necessary.

You may also want to consider the effects of inbound links to the less optimal page that is ranking and consider updating that URL to have a better landing page experience.