oh how strange it didn't work that time. When I posted it in the business forums it said something different ...... maybe I dreamed it, I shall have a look for it later....

Hi Lorenz, thank you for all your answers today. I have been busy and redesigned both the blogs, so am learning slowly. I am struggling to explain the url issue, I will try it here and see if it works. I have just copies your site url and will post it here and when I save the post it should say something different (well it did when I posted it in forums) http://lorenzlammens.com/ I was just curious as to how you did that, it is very nice and I believe google like links with keywords in....

I am not 100% sure what you refer to, but my URL's are re-written in two ways: via my .htaccess file and my website engine that runs on PHP. This does require some more advanced web developing skills....

Let me answer your second question first: Give your new blog time to rank. New content, especially in a sub folder needs to accumulate trust in the search engines. You can speed up the process by registering your feed with Feedburner and your blog with Technorati, amongst other usual suspects. If you want a full list, email me, and I'll send you all the sites you should register your blog / RSS feed with. As for your first question - it would be bad practice on my part to discuss strategies for your s...

Hi Sally, this is untrue. What is likely to happen is that Google will index your content first, then the article that has identical content. It will put the article in the 'supplemental' index, meaning that the article will only rank for very broad, long tail keyword searches. However, the danger is that your blog post ends up in the supplemental index, because Google indexed the article first and allocates more trust to the domain. Duplicate content is always a bad strategy. Imagine somebody f...