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If a human curator isn't possible (and it doesn't sound feasible for your site) then this is the next best thing. If it makes you nervous you could make the alt tag Photo of %title, but I don't think that is necessary. For example, Amazon uses the title as alt tag too.

I use a very simple litmus test: Would I personally find this directory useful?

My answer for this site is no. I can't think of a point at which I'd want to browse sites from around the world loosely based on an industry. Frankly I'm surprised this directory has so much domain authority. My guess is their value in the SE's eyes will continually drop.

Egol: I'm not 100% sure on that, but my suspicion is that its only for Webmasters tools, not for analytics or adwords or the like.

M: My apologies, the dashboard is actually the site page... you need to home page. When you're logged in, click the "Google WMT" logo on the top and it will take you to the home page that lists all your domains. Its on that screen.

From their dashboard there is a link on the right hand side of every domain that reads "Manage". Click that and select Add or Remove Owners. And on the next page at the bottom click Add Owners, then add your google account email.

I use the Socialite plugin on my wp blogs. Not only can you have your posts automatically tweeted, but you can also use a URL shortener of your choice, and cross post to facebook and myspace as well.

This looks more like a dynamic site using AJAX, rather than anchors in the page like you're thinking.

See: http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting-started.html

No funny stuff. The page you see is the page google intended to show you, with all the SEO value for the page itself being responsible for its spot in the SERPs.

For SEO it doesn't matter at all. As long as your link points to a valid page or resource, the crawler bots will suss out the full URL.

I personally use relative links wherever possible. They keep the file size smaller, and they're more versatile if you restructure or move domains.

But is it actually a problem?

If you give your images good titles and alt attributes, it can get picked up in image searches and be an additional way visitors can find you.

I just learned that I'll be dealing with this issue next year and began thinking about it too. The vague strategy I formed was to update addresses in this order:

1. Website

2. Google Places

3. Yelp

4. LinkedIn

5. Then go over site logs to pick up the rest.

Its too bad you can't 301 a building huh?

That part of the report is very picky, if your keyword is not the first word in the title it gets upset. For example, I was getting a report on my optimization for "Adoption", and my title begins with "Open Adoption Services". The report said I should fix it.

Check your external links. Are they mostly pointing to the category page instead of your home page? For the keywords you're trying to rank for, do they appear in anchor tag text pointing to the category page instead of your home page? I ask these questions to try to figure out why it appears your category page has gotten more page authority than your home page. Once you find the answer to that, the way to fix it should present itself.

As David points out the meta keywords tag is ignored by every search engine that matters. If you poke around the SEOmoz tools you'll notice they recommend getting rid of them, only to prevent your competition from sniffing out your keywords (they still can, but they have to put more effort into it).

Post tags, in a wordpress context, is more a way of organizing your content for the benefit of your human readers, not the engine crawlers. A lot of blogs will use a tag cloud to show topics that are often covered, provide a cool visual element to the page, and to help their readers browse to stuff they want to read.

There is a potential to hurt your SEO with these tags. If you're on wordpress I recommend the SEO all in one pack plugin. Using this you can mark your tag pages (and author pages) as NOINDEX to prevent any possible duplicate content penalties.

The opposite. Pages designated as canonical are more likely to show up in results. Here is the Google answer regarding Rel Canonical: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394

Basically canonical tags say to Google "If you find multiple copies of this page, use this version." Note that duplicate content can refer to the page both on and not on the www subdomain, for example:

http://mydomain.com/mypage.html

http://www.mydomain.com/mypage.html

Can be confused by some crawler bots, so using rel canonical everywhere is generally considered a best practice to avoid these situations.

The reconsideration request is just to speed things up. Google will eventually crawl back over your site, but since you know about and have access to this short-cut, there really isn't any reason not to take it

It means you only have 4 links on your domain that point to that page. Visiting the site I see most links go to other domains, and the links that do stay on the domain go to subpages. Usually the logo and navigation are responsible for lots of internal links to your main pages, but that is not happening on this page.

Are you asking because you think there should be a higher amount of internal links, or are you asking if this is a bad thing?

I've begun using this tool to compare pages for duplication. On the page they say 80%+ is duplicate, but I would be far more conservative.

http://www.wordsfinder.com/tool_duplicate_content_checker.php

Google has been looking at CSS for a while now, but I think its only to stop black hat tricks like z-indexing away filler text or using H1 tags where they're not actually headlines. An overflow:scroll is just a way of visually organizing your content, so I can't see any good reason that Google would penalize this. Of course, I don't have data to back this up so take it for what its worth.

What they could conceivably do is subtract some weight from the text inside the element with the overflow property. If there are two paragraphs on a page, one with overflow, one without, it could argued that the paragraph without the overflow scroll bars can be seen as slightly more important, since its presented in full.

Woah, quicker on the draw! I yield to you, sir

Have you already tried www.xml-sitemaps.com ? It will crawl and generate a sitemap in whatever format you want.

However, in terms of reporting problems I've found the SEOmoz crawler and related tools to be invaluable.

You can save your sitemap in xml format from the above site, and use that to submit to search engines.

In my experience multiple views do count. I'm not sure about the autoplay, but I can't see a good reason Youtube wouldn't count them.