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That is the shortest answer i have ever seen Ryan give.

I can agree on all of it

goodness knows why they do it

But place this javascript in the page, and it will reload the page in the parent window, in short it will redirect to your page

if(top.location.href!= window.location.href){
window.parent.location.href = "yourURL" 
}

That will piss them off

I remember this forum was full of people whinging about being out ranked by spammy websites with cheap links.
Now I see people with spammy websites and cheap links whinging they have lost rankings.
Those who were the wingers are now the winners and those that were winning are now whinging.
Every dog has his day
There was a time where you could beat the system, those days have long gone, for long term results its not a matter of beating the search engines, but making sure you have not made any mistakes, that you are free from errors, you have prefect crawlability, good content and quality links.

I c ant tell you why your rankings have dropped maybe Google has found a load of doggy links and dismissed them, I don’t know.
But I can tell you have a lot of problems in your site that are not helping your rankings.
You have 40 pages excluded by robots.txt, you have links pointing to them pouring link juice into a black hole. If you really don’t want that indexed, you should add a meta “no-index, follow” tag to them, then the link juice will flow into and back out of the pages.
You also have over 800 un-necessary redirects, each one leaking link juice. I say un-necessary because the links are internal links and you could point then at the correct destination and avoid the redirect and the leak. An example.
The link to "http://www.outdoornativitysets.com/store/p/519-Nativity-Angel-2-Piece-Set-.aspx" has resulted in HTTP redirection to "http://www.outdoornativitysets.com/two-piece-nativity-angel-figures.html".

You have over 800 broken links, I did not look at all of them but most looked like they were to images, not as bad as links to pages but still not good.

There are various other problems but these look like your main ones

no, shorten them to 65, to fit all search engines
http://thatsit.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-title-is-too-long

Having many keywords means your are diluting them,

the title Keyword gives all its credit to one keyword, but Keyword1 Keyword2 only gives half the credit to each.

Your parents can leave you all their money, but if you have a brother you will only get half.

I would agree with you. You have to ask yourself why do we have a blog. i find many people have one but dont know how or if it is helping them. Why have one on a different domain? To give links to your main site? Then why reciprocal link back to it? If your blog can attract a handfull of links under the same domain, it would out-weigh any links from your own blog on a seperate domain. (hope that makes sense)

I think having the blog in a subfolder or subdomain is the best use, you stand to gain links and traffic and you can use these pages to funnel PR to your home and landing pages, see link
http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerank

I had a look at a few pages and i am not convinved that they have unique content. these 2 pages for example are not very unique, they both have the same text,

/catalog/product/view/id/1003/s/qus993/category/58/

/catalog/product/view/id/3387/s/wr54-1236c/category/58/

I can’t tell you why your rankings have dropped maybe Google has found a load of doggy links and dismissed them, I don’t know.
But I can tell you have a lot of problems in your site that are not helping your rankings.

You also have over 3800 un-necessary redirects, each one leaking link juice. I say un-necessary because the links are internal links and you could point then at the correct destination and avoid the redirect and the leak. An example.
The link to " /plastic-storage-specials.html" has resulted in HTTP redirection to " /plastic-storage-specials".

You have many pages with contains a large amount of script code.
http://thatsit.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-page-contains-a-large-amount-of-script-code

You have 25 css pages  excluded by robots.txt, it is my belief that search engines do not like this, you could be hiding content with css, it does not help them trust your site.

You have many pages with duplicate titles or description .

There are various other problems but these look like your main ones

I wont disagree, links can be good, but links that you can just go out and get are usually not worth it.
Quality and unique content described by Egol is what you need.

Click data will eventually get you ranking better and better for the keywords that your content deserves not necessarily the ones you wont to rank for. Search engines look at the activities of users, they see what keywords they enter and what results they click on, did the user come back and click on a different result, what was the last result they clicked on. From all this click data they can start to see what results served the users needs for each keyword and rank you accordingly.

I create many websites for people, from their content and purpose I can just tell if they are going to successful. I make sure the site crawls perfectly with no errors no redirects and mess, I make sure the content is described to the search engine well using structured data, its the clients job to supply good content. If that content is good. I will see over the next few months it continually rise in the rankings.

click data will eventually overrule everything, of your site does not satisfy the users needs the search engine will eventually know this no matter how many links you have, and visa versa

All links consume link juice even nofollow links.
What happens to the link juice is the question, does href="#" just flow back to the same page, first thoughts are yes, but then if that is the case, you would be able to manipulate how much link juice flows out of other links but adding more. so I think they may waste link juice. JavaScript links use link juice and there is no guarantee that Google is able to pass that link juice on.

A lot of CMS use this type of links href="#" on a A tag then use the A tag for some other reason, such as a button to fire JavaScript. I believe that if you want a button use a button, if you want a JavaScript link then attach the event to a SPAN or DIV, use A tags only for real links and be sure you know what is happening to your link juice.

This does not look like an error, this is what is supposed to happen. You say this is a "Notice" not a "Warning" or "Error".

I think they are just letting you know it is there.

A blog can help, but often does not. you need to have a blog that people want top link to, it much be relevant and link back to your landing pages

make sure content is relevant, try to attract links.

dont post the same artciles anywhere else, this will lead to duplicate content.

good to hear that i am not alone.
I can avoid a job day after day after day. but once im on my way, the sun comming up tells me its time to quit

No imposible, but you are correct you could spend a lot of time and money trying. but depending on the keyword being below them is not so bad.

If your keyword was lawnmowing, then someone wanting their lawns mowed would skip wikipedia and the .gov and go to you, but if the keyword was Founding Fathers, then where better then wikipedia to get info.

There was a guy who went by the name "Earl Grey"

Rand can thank this man for getting him a break.

Earl Grey was interviewed by Neesweek as a Black Hat, when asked by the interviewer if he knew white hat SEO he could interview he gave Rands name, and SEOMoz boomed from that point.

Forgive me rand if i have not got the facts correct, but thats the routh story.

I find whitespark Local Citation Finder gives god results, it does not post for you, but does give a good list for given keyword and location

http://www.whitespark.ca/local-citation-finder/#

I thought it would be handy if we had a timeline with dates of any updates to the algo's.
Does one exists here at SEOMoz or elsewhere.
Thanks

Yes and no. having a 404 that the SE finds is not going to hurt you, it will eventualy remove it from its index, but if you have a broken link pointing to a 404 then yes you are leaking PR. Seeing you did a scan, that usely follow links, i think you must have the later.

That i can not tell, you but i would say yes.

If uyou were a search engine and someone searched for a hotel, you can return a page with the term hotel on it, a page with a hotel object on it, or a page with a well filled in hotel object on it.

I would say that the latter is of much more use.

Neither crawls the whole internet, same with bing Yahoo and Google each have a different index.

SEOMoz tries to crawl the pages that matter. I would suggest the links you find in most indexes are the better ones.

it looks like your site was down when it was last crawled