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I'd take a look at the Panda tag for Search Engine Roundtable to keep up with all of the latest Panda update news. Barry's quick with covering things, and does talk to Google to confirm if there is an update. http://www.seroundtable.com/tag/panda

Raven Tools is definitely worth trying. SEO Book have some good free (and paid) tools.

I copied text from your site and pasted it into Google and searched. I found http://www.chesterhypnotherapy.com/ which has a lot of similar/copied content, as does http://emperortrainingsolutions.com/.

See this post from Rand that has a section on Keyword Density. Short version is that it doesn't make sense to look at a specific percentage, but make sure that you at least use your keyword on your page, it's readable, and you don't stuff the page. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/some-opinions-on-the-seo-myths-realities-fight

Are you asking if you should have a footer link to your firm since they're a client, or are you asking something else?

It's certainly possible that this strategy can help you rank well for your target keywords.  It's also a short-sighted strategy that more than likely will cause headaches down the road.  We're seeing Google continue to move in a direction that favors unique, socially engaging content, and there's nothing to suggest that this trend is going to change anytime soon.  Your best bet would be to take the advice of a certain company known for their linkbuilding expertise: http://www.seomoz.org/article/the-professional-guide-to-link-building-2011 Another, less biased, answer is: it depends.  Perhaps your goals are right for a more short-term approach.  Perhaps you have a very high risk tolerance.  It is the opinion of many that SEO is not really an ethical issue, but more of a business decision, and in that vain, the best course of action is whatever is right for your company - including black hat approaches.

It does look like a broad vs exact match issue in numbers.

I've heard of black-hats linking to competitors using adult websites and terms to catch their competitors in the safe search filters. I'm not sure that's what is happening here, but I'd keep an eye on it. Have you seen any drop in organic since you started noticing these links?

Hi Big Zee, So sorry you didn't get a response about this. You asked it right when our Q&A system was down for a bit and a whole bunch of new questions got buried. Are you still looking for suggestions, or have you made a decision? Can you share anything you learned with us if you have made a decision?

I'd 301 it. I haven't tested it but it makes the most logical sense.

If it gives your brand/keyphrase more exposure on SERPs then why not? Wouldn't it be great if you could rank number 1 and 2 with different websites? I suppose it depends on the competitiveness of the keywords to an extent, so do some research there.

By both languages do you mean you have two identical pages in two languages? Mark them up with rel="alternate" hreflang="x" and it will be ok. More details: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2620865&topic=2370587&ctx=topic

Hi Bryan, Did you ever find someone for this, or are you still looking? I know plenty of sources for DIY information but don't know who to refer you to offhand. If you're still looking, you might try asking in a fresh thread. I believe when you asked this is when we had the Q&A outage and a bunch of new questions didn't appear right away and people didn't see them.

Hey guys, The issue you are seeing is due to the new OSE update. We have done some updating with our crawler and this index represents the newest version - sadly, with a few bugs...We are looking into this issue and hope to have it resolved as soon as possible! The newest version of our crawler is built to be fresher, but it is also going much deeper into high MozRank pages. This bug has probably always existed, but has never been obvious since we weren't crawling as deep into domains where there are more download links. We are currently looking into fixing this so these won't be counted as inbound links. I'm so sorry for the inconvenience - once we get this new version of the crawler dialed and smoothed out, it will be providing you guys a much fresher and higher quality index! There is another thread regarding this topic, so check it out if you want more information on what is going on with this index. Thanks, Carin

Great to hear! So sorry that you hadn't received a response to your question; I believe the question came through when we had the Q&A downtime last month. Thanks for updating us, it's always good to know how things turn out.