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I use Chrome and the same thing is happening to me, even with the "remember me" box checked.

What access are you referring to - SEOMoz? (You didn't clarify, but I'll assume you mean SEOMoz; people post about all kinds of sites and programs here, so being specific can really help how fast you get a response.)

They don't have a multi-login feature, (yet - however it is something they are working on). Before I joined I used a colleagues login so I could access under her account, so - since that's the only current option, if you are comfortable you can do that.

If not, then as of March 2012, Moz still wasn't sure when a multi-login feature would be implemented.

When you did the on page analysis, did you ask it to check for "sarasota liposuction" or just "liposuction" - I've noticed that the checker tool is very specific like that.

And within Webmaster, add a sitemap and resubmit it. That gives Google an indication that something has changed and they should recrawl. If you already have Webmaster and a sitemap, then just click on the "resubmit" button. They generally get to it within a few days and it's the closest way I know to "force" a crawl.

Agree. Also, too many links isn't as a big of a deal as it used to be. If Google even thinks there's a link there, they will try to crawl it or make the connection anyway.

Wordpress isn't very secure - even with the security plugins and such you can  leverage. SEOMoz has some great content on the subject of subdomains vs sudfolders...what can impact being able to use that is if the blog is hosted on a different server than the TLD and if so, if the domain mapping can work to point the blog to the subfolder/subdomain is Google sees it as being associated. This is a challenge for some systems (including mine, even though in theory it should work). Sudfolders are the preference.

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/domain

As someone going through something similar right now, I'm going to throw out there to tread lightly. I got some great advice on setting things up, but the domain mapping with Wordpress has been a nightmare. Nothing wants to point correctly, or domain map, in the way that it should in theory.

My lesson is to test everything out first, and try the mapping and pointing before doing anything else.

I agree with Ryan - you need a strategy. I think one of the biggest mistakes we can make when targeting SEO keywords is going too broad and hoping that we can capture things that quite honestly aren't the right fit. You really have to know them, their terminology and how they search. The article link Ryan shared is a great layout for how to go about a sound strategy, which will eventually answer your questions.

However, as for the global monthly searches - personally, I say ignore that. Check the "exact" phrase box and look at the local monthly searches. I want to have an idea of how small of an audience I can end up with if I select certain words. It's a very different perspective to find out a word you thought was really popular actually gets 170 searches a month and at best  I can only hope to capture a percentage of that.

I agree with Clancy - my goal is to find words with significant traffic while identifying what can lead to the best conversion and least amount of bouce backs.

Ex: a word, "example" that has 1,000 local searches a month - if I can capture 10% of those searchers (100) vs. "specific example) which has 100 searches and 10% (10), I have more opportunity.

I should clarify: Screaming Frog is not a monthly fee, it's annual.

And throw in Screaming Frog. Depending on the site, 500 URL crawl is free; any site with more pages is 99 pounds. It will crawl any site like a crawler and can sometimes give additional information outside of SEOMoz. (Moz crawls 10,000 pages at a time and I have more than 50,000.)

Check out Keywordspy - you can get some OK data under the free offering and SpyFu's free part of it's tool can also round out competitive information.

I've run into problems with news releases getting lots of inbound links and then ranking higher/better than core pages that I'd rather have ranking for similar subject matter/keywords.

As someone who is currently dealing with the making a WP blog look like it lives on a subdomain, I will agree with Dr. Pete that it's very tricky.

Question - when you say major video sites, do you mean like YouTube and Vimeo? I'm just curious why you'd want them to not be part of your own account/channel within each for better branding...which is part of the strategy.

First, what's your goal with the videos? And why would you want them to live outside of your hands (ie., have a third party manage and post, and I assume then also oversee all the title/description/tagging, etc.) when the best SEO would come from keeping it under your umbrella? While you may not think there's time to manage this on your own, what do you want to get out of it and then is that worth the trade off of losing the ties to your ownership?

(Granted there are a lot of variables to take into consideration - like if you have embedded links in the video that can drive viewers back to your website, and ultimately what the CTA for the videos include, etc.)

I have used disallow parameters for all kinds of things; you can set it up and test it in Webmaster tools under "crawler access" before you implement on your site to confirm it's done properly.  There have been a few times I've had to tweak it to get exactly what I wanted.

I'd test with the "/" in front of it as one option - again, just in testing, to see if there's any difference in results.

Since Google already got a hold of it, it'll take a lot of time to see results but don't be discouraged since they have to re-crawl and figure it out.

Good luck

One last random question, pls: have you had to purchase a dedicated IP if using shared hosting? I think we may need to but before we go making this bigger without promise of it paying off, I thought I'd see if you maybe had run into this and how it may have turned out? Pls.

I like using robots.txt for stuff. - mostly because our homegrown cms limits our abilities.s however, if these pages have already been indexed then disallow limits the outcome. Ideally, disallow or no index or any of those are done in advance so Google doesn't get their hands on it; doing it after the fact can take some time for Google to figure it out and put the pieces together. Can your site manage a canonical for this?

Thanks for taking time to follow up and I appreciate you and Ben offering help. I'll work with my designer and report back Cheers, Andrea

Dan, small world, indeed! Correct; we tried and ended up in an infinite loop with our Apache system and my web designer has been trying a plug in or two to see if there's a way to map the domain. We seem to be hitting all kinds of random hiccups and as none of us are network admin savvy, I thought this may be a good place for the road less traveled. Thanks for reaching out! Andrea.

And, if you are interested, here's a nice blog on it: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/301-redirect-or-relcanonical-which-one-should-you-use