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This site should prove helpful:

http://www.notprovidedcount.com/

and of course what you can do:

http://moz.com/blog/100-percent-keyword-not-provided-whiteboard-tuesday

After reading the Post by ZOOMPF http://moz.com/blog/improving-search-rank-by-optimizing-your-time-to-first-byte I was wondering if any of you have optimized your TTFB and noticed improvements in rankings.  Have you optimized and not noticed any differences?

As a link builder - I would not pay attention to dofollow vs. nofollow ratios.  Just go and try to get the best links you can, whether followed or no-followed.

As far as the anchors - I would personally allow the anchors to be as natural as possible, so when you ask for a link to a page from a webmaster, don't even include what you would like the anchor to be - just let them pick naturally.

Very strange!!

Is it back to normal now?

What's the link to the product?

I have not heard of one - but if you find one please share with us!  I would love to take a look

Great! Looking forward to it being released as well.

I believe you have it misunderstood - they took action on the pages (on your website) which were benefiting from the unnatural links, rather than taking action on your entire website.

You should still try to target and clean up the unnatural links.

Best of luck!

If you are already enjoying good rankings in the SERPS, I would not worry about this issue. Rather, I would spend your time developing your site more with good content, as well as continuing to try to build high quality links.

http://www.stockfreeimages.com/

http://www.freeimages.co.uk/galleries.htm

And many others.

Search for "free stock images"

Hope that helps.

I would take a good look at your back-link profile, and try to figure out which links you are being punished for.

Also, if you notice a drop in ranking for only one (or a few) specific pages, look at the back-links pointing to that page and figure out which links are hurting you.

Once you target the bad links, contact the webmaster and ask them to remove your links. Document your efforts. Try again (if they don't respond or remove your links) - Document your efforts.

If you could not get your links removed, use the disavow tool (like a machete).  Submit a reconsideration request and include your documentation.

Also, someone who I follow for this type of stuff is Gary Vaynerchuk - follow him on FB/twitter and check out his website. http://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/

He is unbelievable.

His mindset and advice will surely help you figure out your social media strategy.

Agree with Oren - finding the right balance should be majorly dependent on your company and/or profession.

I think the time frame will be different for every site - I believe mostly dependent on how often google crawls your site.  The more authority you have (and the faster google crawls), the quicker they will update.

Can you give an example where it adds your URL as plain text to the code of the page?

I don't think leaving Disqus comments will harm, or benefit, your site SEO wise.  I would feel free to comment as you would naturally, while not trying to comment unnecessarily for SEO benefits.

If "Removing or shrinking this dropdown is not an option.," AND "pages have good organic positions and authority" - I would not worry about the error - continue to build authority and valuable content and you'll be fine.  Look how many internal links Amazon has, and they are doing just fine in the SERPS.

I think you should use both - each when appropriate.

You should focus on building both brands - your personal brand, and your business brand - both will pay dividends.

Not sure if you can "merge" the accounts, but perhaps someone at Moz can assist with this.

Why don't you cancel your brand new account, and upgrade you old account - and create the campaigns in the old account.

The Yoast SEO plugin is the way to go, as jStrong and Vadim have mentioned.