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Try DYNO Mapper. If you are looking for a tool that will generate a URL list, I think it will work really well for you. It also will give you a full content inventory that you can filter, search, and export content types. This particular Sitemap Generator is also integrated with Google Analytics and has collaboration capability for multiple users. watch?v=kjFBnQCoxjI

First thing's first; I found that only Google will validate extended sitemaps. Yahoo/Bing states in SE/WMT that they will parse the valid information in the sitemap regardless, but I'm not perfectly clear on this. You can search within sitemap category on the search engine pages. Remember now that the src attribute is not a link, so if this is how you are adding multimedia to your pages, I'm not sure how you will include them in your sitemap. There are many discussions about iframes passing page rank, and the consensus is that they currently do not. If this is the way it has to be for this project, then of course you should add alternate text for iframe and frameset elements, add a title, and maybe include a link inside the iframe. Really, what else can you do? But some good news can be found here http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-matt-cutts-012510.shtml. It's possible Google may change the way pageRank flows through these kinds of links.

I haven't seen or heard anything about Panda making any changes to how Flash is crawled or indexed. It would count towards page content though yeah, just not in the sense of that page content in a normal way. Videos, images, everything counts as content in some way or another... it just doesn't have a lot to go on for what that content is about.

There was a really good Whiteboard Friday on this topic. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-where-to-host-and-how-to-target-whiteboard-friday Rand discusses the tradeoff of the approaches you mention above.  Be sure to also read the comments.  Some commenters mentioned they had really good results using  geotargeting in Google Webmaster Tools.

As there tends to be a risk for clients due to the fact that we can't ever guarantee anything, what we do is tell the client that they're not under any contract tying them to us so if we don't deliver they can cancel at any time. That minimises the risk a bit for them. Also, if you're thinking in just terms of rankings with them for the moment you can say that if you don't get x number of keywords (whichever keywords you decide between you are optimal) to page x by date x, and then page y by date y, etc... then they stop payments until you do.

Hehe, well spotted!

I would keep them on the same URLs and explain the dupe content risk to client.  Then client can decide to upgrade them himself, have you source new content or allow them to run "as is". I know of a lot of sites that have pages like this that are working well and make nice money.

Do send an email to help@seomoz.org about this with the details about this, they'll want to know and see if they need to tell Roger to go behave.

This sounds wonderful! Can you give an example?

I have about 0.02%-0.06% depending on the client for mail.google.com but it reallly depends on your keywords you are targeting aswell. On the content network don't bother looking at ctr unless you want to test a new ad

Thank you Daniel & Steve for your comments. This is pretty much the line we have taken on this, always nice to get back up on something that is new to us. Great answers and greatly appreciated Best Regards Sean

Keywords in the domain name are not carrying as much value as they once did.  (See the Matt Cutts video below). The value you that you would get from having your keyword in the domain of a microniche is pretty small. I think, if you had these two options: bodybuildingfortheelderly.com MyMainSite/bodybuildingfortheelderly ...you could still rank the second one really well.  And, any links you build to the second one would help the entire domain. watch?v=rAWFv43qubI