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Im sure a lot of us here will recommend the popular CMSes like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc. I think they are all good CMSes. But you ask me, you can use any. The only thing you really need to consider is which CMS has the most support when it comes to hiring a developer or designer to do customization work on your site.
i think the problem here is, if you longer work with that designer, will you be able to find someone who can work on updating your site powered by textpattern? i think most modern CMSes (like Joomla,Drupal,WP) are now built to be SEO friendly. If you use a CMS you never heard of, it will be hard to update the site in the future.
i think the recommended 100 links is to make sure your page is as its maximum effeciency. but in the real world, not all sites can maintain 100 links per page. i think what you can do is choose only those links that gives you the most pageviews / clicks and the rest can be placed on the inside page of that category. this means you only need to have the links that you really, really need the visitors to click on from the page.
for search engines, having a sitemap really helps a lot. you might also need to think of adding related categories on all your category pages to you have a good internal linking structure.
hope this helps 
yes facebook account pages and facebook fan pages are indexed. you can see samples here
maybe you are adding a privacy filter that your site wont be indexed by search engines.
sorry im not rand
but we can never prevent other sites to link to us. i think Google is smart enough not to penalize your site just because of this. but thats just me.
pre musta?
we tried to run facebook ads linking to our sales/landing page for several weeks and we concluded facebook ads is not for us. google adwords performed much better and its expensive to get a lead from facebook clicks.
i think it depends on what you are advertising. if you want to increase your facebook page likes, go for it.
also, not everybody are adding correct and complete info on their account profiles, you might be advertising to the wrong people all along.
yes, i recommend to 301 redirect Website B to Website A since it has more backlinks than B. Its easier to move files on your end than to contact those linking to you to change their URL.
i remember SEOmom said they bought SEOmoz.org because SEOmoz.com was taken. Now that they got the .com, they just redirected it to the .org most probably because it already has tons of backlinks than the .com.
Here are my recommended first things to do for a new site
Make sure the site has no errors and well designed with useful information to encourage repeat visits.
have a dedicated phone number to track offline leads. this way even though they wont sign up, the number of calls from that specific number are considered leads.
facebook page. facebook pages are most likely mentioned on sites and social network than a regular website. like follow me on Facebook links.
have a dedicated phone number to track offline leads. this way even though they wont sign up, the number of calls from that specific number are considered leads.
Here are my recommended first things to do for a new site
Make sure the site has no errors and well designed with useful information to encourage repeat visits.
pre musta?
we tried to run facebook ads linking to our sales/landing page for several weeks and we concluded facebook ads is not for us. google adwords performed much better and its expensive to get a lead from facebook clicks.
i think it depends on what you are advertising. if you want to increase your facebook page likes, go for it.
also, not everybody are adding correct and complete info on their account profiles, you might be advertising to the wrong people all along.
yes facebook account pages and facebook fan pages are indexed. you can see samples here
maybe you are adding a privacy filter that your site wont be indexed by search engines.
tried the subdirectories idea, but having domains for each country is more effective.
also you need to host the country targeted domains on the specific country you want to market to.
the best way is still absolute, prevents scrapers from inserting their urls also similar with Kate Morris' response on rel canonical absolute url recommendation http://www.seomoz.org/qa/view/32136/canonical-url-absolute-or-relative-paths but there are cases that we use relative urls, but only when absolutely necessary.
update your site daily so google sees something new everytime.
i think the recommended 100 links is to make sure your page is as its maximum effeciency. but in the real world, not all sites can maintain 100 links per page. i think what you can do is choose only those links that gives you the most pageviews / clicks and the rest can be placed on the inside page of that category. this means you only need to have the links that you really, really need the visitors to click on from the page.
for search engines, having a sitemap really helps a lot. you might also need to think of adding related categories on all your category pages to you have a good internal linking structure.
hope this helps
yes, i recommend to 301 redirect Website B to Website A since it has more backlinks than B. Its easier to move files on your end than to contact those linking to you to change their URL.
i remember SEOmom said they bought SEOmoz.org because SEOmoz.com was taken. Now that they got the .com, they just redirected it to the .org most probably because it already has tons of backlinks than the .com.
i think the problem here is, if you longer work with that designer, will you be able to find someone who can work on updating your site powered by textpattern? i think most modern CMSes (like Joomla,Drupal,WP) are now built to be SEO friendly. If you use a CMS you never heard of, it will be hard to update the site in the future.