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If you have enough content and time to manage the SEO on the 2nd domain, I'd say go for it. What you want to avoid is duplicating your content, or cannibalizing your own keywords on the main site.

If you don't have any new keywords you want to pursue, don't have the time to properly SEO the domain, or don't have enough content for a second site, I'd say go for the redirect.

EDIT: You should also know that exact match keywords in domains is one of the less important ranking factors, and most agree it will continue to become less important.

I was thinking of a similar tactic as EGOL, except instead of re-working one page at a time, you re-work one element at a time for all pages. In doing the work incrementally and watching the results, you'll be making changes that will hopefully improve your rankings without rocking the boat too much.

Blogs are a well understood format for delivering new content. There isn't anything inherently special about having a blog, you still need to do the basic on page SEO to optimize your posts, and you'll still want to do link building to generate authority.

In very general terms, blogs are recommended for SEO because it encourages site owners to publish fresh content often, and in a format that most web users know how to share with each other. Its up to you to create the killer content that gets the links.

Option 2. You'll want to use a 301 redirect to send all traffic going to the old URLs straight to the new URL. Your users may be a little disoriented seeing the new URL but they'll at least arrive to the information they're looking for. The robots will see your new URL and assign the link juice there. Win for robots and humans.

Unless you don't care that much, in which case option 1 is clearly the easiest.

There is a drupal distribution that does this: http://drupal.org/project/drupalanswers

Have the new server prepped (your site uploaded, db's ready) before you switch the nameservers and there should be repercussions at all AFAIK. As the namerservers get updated around the world they simply point to your new server that is already there ready to go. The improved site speed will be a big win.

See: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-rank-well-in-google-products-search-a-big-list-of-places-to-get-reviews

Or are you referring to the categories you can choose for QA posts? If thats the case I can't offer any official reason, but it seems like they are kept general in scope onpurpose. So you'll see a category for Social Media, but not Google+.

I assume you're talking about a wordpress site?

Tag, author, and archive pages represent a possibility for duplicate content, and so most people recommend noindexing them. You can do that with the popular SEO plugins, like All-in-one SEO.

Generally you want more pages indexed, but only if they're quality and not duplicating existing content. Each additional indexed page represents another chance for people to find your site.

To clarify: Alt attributes should not be used in anchor tags, but titles can be. For a full list of anchor tag attributes see: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_a.asp

That's odd. You may find the url's if you download the report into a csv file. I know thats a column in the report.

You can look up the site in the Open Site Explorer to get the information you're asking about. Then you can either compare in your browser or export to cvs for spreadsheet analysis.

The blog post said 10-90 minutes, but mine has been compiling for nearly 3 hours now. I think everyone is trying out the new tool and generally slowing it down, but that should lessen over time as usage normalizes.

To me this seems like the optimal solution. With this setup you are not only eliminating the possible duplicate content issues, but you still have information for each region on the site.

Or you could use your country specific domains as landing pages, and optimize them for their home country while still hosting the majority of your content on your main domain.

The keywords meta tag is deprecated and not used by any of the major search engines, so don't even worry about that.

As for a general strategy you should focus on a keyword or two for each page and optimize for that. When you link internally in your site, use the keywords your optimizing for in the anchor text. When acquiring external links try to do this as much as possible. Don't cannibalize yourself by trying to optimize for the same keyword across all your pages.

I wouldn't worry about making landing pages in order to get them ranked - thats what your main pages are for. Use landing pages to test out what converts best with A/B testing, and as end points for your PPC campaigns.

You should either get the old 404 page back or create a new one. A good 404 page can lower your bounce rate significantly. If you redirect what should be a 404 to your home page, you could end up with engines indexing those pages with the homepage content, setting yourself up for a duplicate content situation.

301 redirects should be used if you have content that is moved. It shouldn't be used to redirect non-existent pages somewhere else, and it should be kept in your htaccess until there are no more links pointing to the old URL.

It looks like the title is empty on the URL you shared. Adding a title to each product will help tremendously with SEO. The generally accepted best practice is the format "Keyword Keyword | Company Name".

The duplicate content is most likely caused by the dynamic aspects of the URL. You can solve that issue by adding Rel Canonical tags to every page.

This is a guess though. If you can post an example of two pages with the supposed duplicate content and I can give you a more concrete answer.

This is always a risky endeavor. It may work in the short term, but for the long haul my money is on the search engines getting better at detecting this sort of thing and ranking sites accordingly.

I realize I'm not specifically answering your question, but I think you'll be hard pressed to find anyone who will recommend a link buying service on seomoz.

I've never tried this so my answer is just speculation, but I can't see any reason why that would be a problem from a technical perspective. From the users perspective it may be a little jarring to be whisked around , but you can soften that with a friendly message on the page, or an animation of an hourglass or something.

If you do give this a try please let me know if it works.

The method currently in vogue, and also SEO friendly, is a javascript based lightbox. Here is one example.

It degrades nicely for users without javascript (like a crawler bot) because its a normal link that is just rendered differently for the java enabled viewer.

You should put them in folders in order to pass your domain authority to them. If you put them in subdomains you'll have to start building their domain authority from scratch.