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More pages is better as long as you are not repeating yourself. This way you can make very targeted content for very targeted keywords. It would be hard for a page about wooden lintels, steel lintels, concrete lintels and cavity lintels to rank for for the term "steel lintels." However, if you have a page solely about steel lintels, its a lot easier to get rankings on that phrase.

The key is not to repeat yourself. You don't want duplicate content. Ehow got dinged on this in the Panda update and so did about.com because they would have two articles about essentially the same thing, like "how to use a screw with a flathead" and then "how to use a screw with a phillips head." techinically, they are slightly different, but they are essentially going to say the exact same thing except for the one detail about the shape.

So don't make a bunch of articles that are all nearly identical, but create as many pages as you can to get very targeted content.

You should do some research into doorway pages. What you are talking about is a bad, black hat SEO technique. Doorway pages are domains you buy up and then redirect to your main site. It's a form of buying links and PageRank when you think about it.

If you see an expired domain with high PR and buy it up, that's fine. What is not cool is when Google has a full website in its index for a given domain and then the next day every URL of that domains 301's to the home page of some other domain. You don't want to get caught up in it, check out Google guidelines on doorway pages.

Take it from me, you are wasting your time if you are chasing PR. I wish this stupid myth would die already. Google's algorithm has advanced a whole lot in 10 years. PR is near meaningless at this point. Instead try to focus on the Page or Domain Authority from OSE, or perhaps mozrank, something other than PR.

Here's a good place to get started: http://www.dotsauce.com/2011/03/17/google-may-adjust-keyword-domain-rankings-how-to-avoid-getting-dropped/

From an SEO perspective, all TLD's are supposedly treated equal, but I have my doubts. So the text book answer is your TLD has no affect on SEO. Now if you got a .co.uk for a US travel site, that could be problematic. But a .us is supposedly the same as a .info or a .com or .net or whatever else. Again, I have my doubts.

The problem with a .us domain is in your branding. Let's say you were YountTravel.us. You cannot brand yourself as Yount Travel because by default everyone thinks .com. So you have to brand the .us with your brand name so people will actually remember your website.

My best advice is to not pay any attention to keyword rich domains. Google said they won't for long. I would build any website around a brand, so I think a brandable .com is infinitely better than a keyword rich .us.

Are you saying you have misspellings of keywords on your pages, and Google shows you them in WMT? I assume this is what you mean. This means Google recognizes you are misspelling something. If you can fix the spelling of a misspelling, why wouldn't you? I would fix the misspellings if you are able to.

Webmaster Tools takes years to update. It's data is more or less worthless for how out of date it is. I still have crawl errors last detected over 2 years ago that are not errors anymore. Still coming up. There was also a known bug recently with the inbound links, so that could be affecting things.

Either way, don't put too much credence in it, no one knows how often these figures are ever updated so Google is likely way ahead of what they are telling you in WMT.

Submitting articles is a great way to get some backlinks. I would suggest ezinearticles.com, buzzle.com, and maybe a few other high quality article directories you can find. Here is a list: http://www.articlesdirectories.com/

You usually have to put the link in your bio/about the author section, so keep that in mind as you submit your articles to these websites. And don't submit several articles to the same category of the same website with a link to the same URL over and over again. Not going to do much good. Maybe a a few articles to each site with links to different pages of your site each time.

First things first, make sure there is a prominent link on your homepage to the new page with the anchor text being the keyword you are targeting. That will do wonders in boosting its ranking. While the new page may be a better quality result, it is not as relevant because of lack of links. You can keep building links to your home page and all but it will take longer for it to move to #1 than the new page will take. It will move up faster I believe, at least when I have done something similar that's what I have seen. Keep the new one and focus link building efforts on it.

301 redirects still pass link juice, just not quite all of it. If the content of the pages remains the same, you should still be fine, you might see a slight slip but not much.

For one, do not use rel=nofollow on any internal links. Matt Cutts has said this in the plainest of language. Don't do it. PageRank sculpting like this does not work.

What you describe is true. If your home page has a certain amount of link juice, the more pages in your site and the more links per page will diminish the amount of link juice each page receives, at least from your own pages. You can increase the amount of pagerank of any page with external links.

At the end of the day the way you try to funnel around pagerank on your site is almost entirely meaningless. Unless you have a ton of pagerank, you will put in a lot of work redoing your architecture for nothing. Think of your users first and what makes the best user experience. That's the most important.

From there, simply get some external links to your most important pages. That's what I would recommend for this.

Minimizing 301 redirects is good. Google is not case sensitive except in file names. So seomoz.org is the same to them as SEOMOZ.org or SeOMOz.org. Doesn't matter. Filenames like TOLMG.html are different than tolmg.html.

Try it. Find an image on your website like img.jpg. Now type in the full URL of that image with IMG.jpg instead of img.jpg at the end. Not the same.

So since you use .html as your URL ending, those are specific files with specific names, and they are case sensitive. You will have to redirect every uppercase file name to its lowercase counterpart when the new site is up. Or find a way to allow uppercase .html file names. That's how I understand things here.

The SEOMoz tools currently do not show search volumes with your rankings and traffic reports. This may be a feature later, and I really hope it is, but currently you cannot do this, have to keep two spreadsheets for now.

If you want to take drastic measures you can tell them to change their content or they cannot continue to sell your products and you will be suing them for copyright infringement. Extreme, yes, but also effective.

A less extreme way is to make sure Google indexes your content first when you put it up. Immediately put a link to it in a tweet and facbeook share. Have a canonical tag declaring your URL to be the original. If you get indexed first, all the duplicates that follow will be the copies and you will be fine.

I wouldn't necessarily look for stats or studies about meta descriptions here, but look at research done on PPC copy as well. There is likely a whole lot more of it for one, and its a very similar concept. Which words get more clicks? That's what it boils down to. I'm sure if you look more for stats in the PPC side of things you can find more concrete sources on what language is most effective.

Facebook shares are pretty powerful, focus on those and not likes. You want them to post a link directly to your website and not your Facebook page. This has a high correlation with rankings, so getting all those shares can be a very effective SEO tactic for you. Is it worth it? Depends how much a paid user would normally spend. If it is pretty minimal then sure, go for it. But if each user normally pays quite a bit and they are expensive to add for you, then you may want to say "first 100 people to share us on facebook get paid version free" or something like that. Get the shares but minimize the damage.

These techniques work just fine. Panda may have hurt the quality of these aggregators and directories, but they still pass link juice. I would probably not pay for it, but there are a lot of free ones, and if you have a blog you might as well submit to them as it is quick and easy.

I guess I'm going to just use a bunch of the random lists out there and go through each one individually to let you know if they still work or whatever. This could be a while...

I want to get into some good paid directories, but every list I have found out there is either just a top ten and repeats the same ones or is a list of 500 where I know most are worthless.

Has anyone submitted to paid directories that has a list of good ones that are actually worth submitting to?

This is simply the change from the last ranking update. I don't know of a way in SEOMoz to show keyword ranking history, it all operates on a week to week basis when it updates.