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I agree that Thomasnet is a waste of money... I haven't seen any increases in organic positions with clients that paid to have the Thomasnet listing

I completely agree that the evaluation of the link should look at increasing your visibility in the niche, and gaining more visits that may turn into conversions.

I would go with the separate CSS for IE8 visitors.  I agree that many WILL NOT download or even update their browser.

I would send links from your social media accounts to your blog.  There is no need to post the entire article on your Facebook.  A quick teaser description followed by the link to your blog is all you need!

Spot on Doug!!   The Domain Authority will fluctuate a bit each time the site is index.  To increase domain authority,  you need good quality links pointing to your site. Rand had a great post about building "assets".

Check out:
-> http://moz.com/blog/filthy-linking-rich-how-to-passively-attract-valuable-links                 &
-> http://moz.com/blog/why-visual-assets-are-better-than-infographics-whiteboard-friday

I agree that the critical indicates the importance of the factor and that the green check mark indicates the line item's completion.

Matthew,
You SHOULD have a new sitemap every time you generate new content.  Most CMS will make a new sitemap.  I've been working with the FISSION Content Management System creates an XML sitemap dynamically whenever posts or pages are created.  As long as the file name doesn't change, you should not have to submit to GWT and BWT regularly.

Review the suggested searches as you type your query     The moz.com/improve-rankings-with-semantic-research blog post is also VERY helpful in Semantic SEO.

Using option B allows you to gather info on them before the receive access to ebook. However, if you were to block access to the page, option c would work to still gather user info. You can also track the pdf's off the landing page but this allows the user to have a local copy and 'share' your content without registering their information.

I would personally recommend option C as long as it's a hidden or protected page.

Only if notified of unnatural links would I file a reconsideration request.  Focus on building more links and creating new content.

That would be a nice feature so we can share the reports and show improvements!

Google determines what to display as the text may be more relevant to the search query compared to your meta description tag.

I agree that Thomasnet is a waste of money... I haven't seen any increases in organic positions with clients that paid to have the Thomasnet listing

Yikes...  an online gambling site!  I'd try to focus on social media link building as much as possible. The guest blogs are going to be very difficult given the subject matter.  Build out the social profiles and generate content to share on the networks.

I agree with both Mayank and Marcus above.  To do this, the site and the blog need to be on the same server.  The DNS record can only point to a domain / sub domain... not sub directories (folders).

There could be an issue with the crawler and the javascript.  Running the PageSpeed Analysis,  there were a few flags for JavaScript.  I have a screen shot of the overview.

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John

I'm pretty sure the Moz crawler does not consider the rel="prev" nor "next" commands.  Def check out the post provided by pikka.

Only if notified of unnatural links would I file a reconsideration request.  Focus on building more links and creating new content.

Using option B allows you to gather info on them before the receive access to ebook. However, if you were to block access to the page, option c would work to still gather user info. You can also track the pdf's off the landing page but this allows the user to have a local copy and 'share' your content without registering their information.

I would personally recommend option C as long as it's a hidden or protected page.

I'm with number 1 also.  The less information required, the better