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I would write as much unique content as possible, even if there are feature sets that are the same, explain how they are applied to each different product.

In the US your website is not showing up as #1. You may have to log out of your google accounts and clear your history. I sometimes ask my friends to google my company to see their results because they never search my keywords. Good luck!

Use "-" instead of "+"

Here is an article I always have bookmarked for URL Structure, even though it is from 2006, it is a good source of info from Rand.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/11-best-practices-for-urls

I would stick to one internal blog instead of focusing on two. I have tried it before and writing blogs and getting links is super time consuming for even one site. I would put my best effort on one site and give it a 100% effort.

Well stocktips.com doesn't seem to be a valid site, so there is no content to crawl.

If you're speaking in generalities (based on an exact match domain example), then if you do all your on page optimization, have decent content,  and start getting links, you should start seeing your site in top SERPs in a few months. If you do the work.

I had a client with an exact match, good on-page, a few natural external links and a couple blog articles and they were on the first page of the SERP after about 3 months.

Bottom line is that no one can tell you how long it will take, because it depends on the competitiveness of the term, if someone is doing SEO better than you, then they will out-rank you.

Well the main article should be on its own page with its own value, so that could gain some steam if it is linked to or picked up by other blogs as reference.

I think in the end it depends on how good the content is, if its good content then it should stay relevant and help your website.

I have a similar problem with a client of mine.
While I feel on paper, their on-site SEO is below par. They are consistently ranking #1 and #2 for their keywords.

The one thing I have done was come up with a plan and structured it out in excel and word, just in case a large problem occurs.

The best solution would be to write out your proposed changes, and start small. If you start small and structure your plan in a timeline, you can re-structure the whole site over a long period of time without seeing any negative effects initially.

Pascal,
chrwald is referring to a 301 redirect, which is safe for seo and should not result in an infinite loop. I've done this myself to redirect the .index.html to the root so that duplicate content would not appear.

A 301 Redirect removed any duplicate content errors that were showing in the crawl report, maybe redirecting the old site to the new site this way would help.

Sometimes OSE cannot pick up all the links like Shelly mention. To double check to see if google has picked up on your links. I usually set a google alert in my email for the exact term I was targeting. You will most likely see your PRWEB link when google does their crawl but pick up some helpful links and news what your competitors are doing at the same time.

I found a pretty basic SEO book called SEO secrets by Danny Dover. Gives you basic ideas and terminology. Sometimes it is nice to read a book. Old school but I still like reading my newspaper that has been printed.

/fred-review/ would be fine, as long as they are a separate directory you should have no problems.

Is the brand name affected? Id make sure that you rank #1 for your brand name, because Google is giving those site large site links that almost go down to the fold before the #2 listing.

Also, I would grab as many social media profiles that you can, so if a user searches for you then your twitter, facebook, etc... accounts should show up on that first SERP page.

I'm sure there are a lot of different ways of getting rid of bad press(you'll find a ton of ideas here), and hopefully your company doesn't assume you'll create good press for them, that's up to them to change the ways they currently do business for the future.

I believe the link directories are fine within reason. Don't rely only on link directories but submitting to them I have found did any harm. I think if you have a good mix of link directories and natural links you will be fine. I would avoid low page rank directories.

Agreed, do not make a big drastic change, be patient and you will be rewarded.

Well your first example would be referencing 2 separate directories, where the second example is one directory.

Here's a quick snippet of an article from Rand. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/11-best-practices-for-urls

These last examples have done nearly everything right:

• http://www.discoverohio.com/visitors/map.asp
  Brilliant - it's short, descriptive, static and obvious.
• http://web.mit.edu/is/usability/usability-guidelines.html
  Despite the subdomain, everything else is near perfect.
• http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jk35.html
  I'm letting the White House off the hook for not using "john-kennedy" as the page title, because they've wisely also provided his number (the US' 35th President).

By using the open graph protocol you can control how the like/share/recommend appears on a Facebook Wall.

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/

I would recommend majestic seo. It cost a few bucks but it catches missing links from OSE. Both are great tools.

You could use an SEO plugin so that the meta description is the same formula (ex: "category" | "blog post" etc...), several are available for WordPress.

I think it is very important to keep the post unique across your social media. I follow a lot of companies and the last thing I would like to read is the same post in your blog and your facebook wall. For a consumer I  enjoy reading unique content.

For seo purposes that unique content across social media is up for debate.

You can see what kind of re-direct you have set up by looking at the .htacess file.

A 301 redirect from t-chek.com to thchek.com would be your best bet, it will pass through the link juice from links pointing to t-chek.com

You would need to edit the htaccess file for t-chek.com

Do you have an editing software, or video graphic software to add a watermark? What about intros and outro's, even if it is just an image?

The Rank Tracker will show some of your SERP page ranking history.

But, this is probably something you want to track in detail over time yourself. I regularly update a spreadsheet where I track any significant changes compared to any edits I've made to a site.

I would include at least one main blog to your site. Not only are you putting out fresh new content on your website but maybe one day you will have a huge following of people interested in what you say in your blog. Blogs are great in helping your potential clients but sometimes really fun to read.

Personally, I think there is certainly some value in having a domain name with some age and would lean towards investing your money in that direction.  Your client certainly doesn't want to abandon getting some links to this page so I would encourage them to keep some budget open for that but if I had to recommend one over the other I think I would recommend getting the domain name with 9-10 years of history.

Good luck!

What you are referring to are site-links. I find that they appear mainly when searching for a brand name, hence when you searched for SEOMoz, you saw those site-links. But if you searched for "seo", you will notice that they are not as dominant.

Also, they are generated by Google. You can go into webmaster tools to remove them (and kind of strategically select which ones you want to appear) , but you cannot create them yourself.

We use hyphens and non-hyphen keywords for seo. We have used it for quite some time and we have seen no negative effects.