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Maybe auto close the question after 30 days? The community is pretty active and if it isn't answered within 30 days it's probably not going to get answered (or marked as answered)?

Sad Trombone

Reviews, reviews,reviews!

I would make sure to fill out the second page more completely. Add more photos and videos and try to get some more reviews under than particular location.

That is such a huge problem. Too much of my time is spent fending off these guess that over promise results with no basis. They just take blind shots and hope to pick up some $$$. Makes the entire industry look bad.

Depends A LOT on the subject matter and intended audience of your content. Whenever possible allow for user generated content as well, similar to the Q & A section. If your users can get involved they will help you build links naturally.

Otherwise I am very similar to EGOL in my methods. Great content = Links.

That is a huge question. It really comes down to the quality of those clicks? Are they converting? I'd take a low CTR with a high conversion rate over the opposite (depending on ratios, obviously).

Read the SEOmoz beginners guide. It's a great resource that can serve as a sort of how to/check list of activities to develop a good SEO foundation.

I would tend to agree. It could help to gain some traffic but the resources would be better served being used towards optimizing on your own site. It probably wouldn't hurt to have your brand in more places though?

No follows do have some positive correlations with rankings. Rand did a good job explaining this in the last White Board Friday video.

Definitely Cutts. Many of these questions would pertain to the why more so than the what...

Exactly what I was about to say. Cutts knows all.

That would be my guess too. That is strange...

There is a lot to this question. I think the way you are doing titles now is probably great for increasing the click through, mostly because they are in context. I would venture to guess you may be able to get more impressions by changing this up, but I always recommend quality over quantity. This being said I have NO IDEA what your traffic goals/stats look like. Good Luck!

I had heard something about that as well, but I still think .com/blog reads better/looks cleaner than the blog.abccompany.com

Of course that is pure personal preference

No problem!

Has anyone used authoritylabs? They seem to do a decent job...

I generally go by what is "searched" more, but it is always smart to use the type of language your customers would use in conversation. This will not only help with impressions but click through as well. I would encourage using all the variants throughout the website copy.

http://www.companyabc.com/blogtitle is definitely the way to go.

"Some subdomains (http://blog.companyabc.com) GET NO BENEFIT from the root domain they're on."

but...

"Subfolders( http://www.companyabc.com/blogtitle )  DO appear to receive all the benefits of the subdomain they're on and content/pages behave remarkably similarly no matter what subfolder under a given subdomain they're put in."

As stated by Rand himself!

While 301 redirects do pass the "juice" it is never certain that you will get 100% to go through, however it sounds like long-term the new URL will help increase the overall SEO value of the site. I think it's more descriptive and I would make the switch, but I'm a little separated, obviously.