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You are correct with your statement about not wanting to duplicate the article.  The question you should be asking yourself is not "What's in it for me?", but "What's in it for my user?"  If it makes sense to put your blog out on blogger for your customer base then do it.  If it doesn't, don't.

The question I have for you is are you hosting your wordpress blog within your site or is it hosted our on WP?  If it's hosted out on WP, I recommend that you bring it within your current site (i.e. www.currentsite.com/blog).  This way your customers don't leave your domain to read your blog posts.

I have recent experience with a very similar situation.  We decided to go ahead and change the entire look of the site and a lot of the content, but we kept the same URL structure.  For one of the main keywords we experienced the following:

Google: We fell from first page to fourth page over a period of 4 months.  We are just now starting to see an uptick in rankings and have climbed back to the 3rd page.

Bing: We climbed from the third page to the bottom of the 1st page over a period of 3 months.

Part of the redesign was to focus our on page optimization results.

In answer to your 4 questions:

1.  Redirect anything that won't be there for sure.  You don't want people clicking an old link just to find a 404 dead site.

2.  Yes you can redirect more than one old url to a single new page, but make sure it is a logical redirect and is helpful to the user.  Don't just do it for fun.

3.  Like Joram said, "You'll have to wait and see"

4.  Don't redesign just because you are tired of the look.  Too many web site owners look at their website everyday and get tired of the look when it is a perfectly fine site.  Have a purpose for redesigning that includes something along the lines of, "This redesign will help my visitors because...."

I am curious if there is a way to get the on page optimization report card to not show a grade of "F" for a page that I'm not targeting a particular keyword for?  For example my home page has a lot of grade "F's" for keywords that are targeted on different pages.

Is DMOZ really a spammy link?  It's the first one that came up using those filters.

The site hasn't received any unnatural links warning.  I just know that rankings dropped DRAMATICALLY in April.

I also know that the mozTrust of this site is pretty low compared to the competition.  I attribute it to this.

For one of my sites I am working on I outsourced SEO about 3 years ago.  One of the "tricks" the SEO used at the time was to pay for several Blog posts to be "sponsored" by this web site using exact match keywords for the domain.

1 Where do I look to determine the spammy links pointing to this site?

2 Have you had success getting rid of these bad links?

Do you have a Pro Plus or higher account?  You can only rebrand the top of reports with your own logo if you have a PRO Plus or higher membership.

On one of my sites I have 61 notices for Rel Canonical.  Is it bad to have these or is this just something that's informative?

Jennifer, you answering these questions reminds me of any drive with the kids, "Are we there yet?"  Just know that it's because we are all so excited to get there.

One of my competitors site's jumped from about 4000 links 2 months ago to about 10000 links today.  That seems REALLY unnatural to me given the market (roofing products), but if it isn't what are they doing?  My gut tells me it's fake, but I'm just curious what some of your takes on it are.

I'm looking for a coach who can help me get to the next level with SEO and help me determine what's junk and what's true advice.  Are there any recommendations any of you have out there on where to find such a person?

Depends on what type of sites those "not so great sites" are.  If they are viewed as spammy, no they won't help.

With the recent Penguin update, I've seen this term "natural links" thrown around a lot.  How do you build natural links?  That to me seems like an oxymoron. If I'm building them aren't they synthetic in nature as it is?  Can anyone give me a sample of a natural link?

I would start by adding links that are not optimized with keywords to those URL's that you feel are penalized.  Level up the score for natural vs unnatural links.  I wouldn't drop the url's because you probably have some good links out there pointing to those pages.  It'll take some work, but you can recover from what I've been reading.

I am looking for some ideas on what best practices are for pages that contain lists similar to this page:

http://www.backcountrysecrets.com/outdoor-sport/15/places-to-swim-and-swimming-holes.aspx

Is it better to break up the list into seperate pages of 25 listings or keep everything on the same page?

1.  I wouldn't remove the ones that have errors and warnings.  I would fix them.  Removing them isn't going to help your other products rank better.  When I mentioned quality of your feed, I just meant don't have a product that is called Blue Mug and then the description says, "Blue Mug"   Title would be Blue Mug, but then describe the mug fully.  This blue mug is 4 inches tall by 2 inches wide and features an ergonomic handle.  It's perfect for the chronic coffee drinker who is afraid of developing carpal tunnel..."  Pretty awesome mug huh?  More descriptive information that is accurate is what I mean by quality.

2.  250 reviews from the 3 different sources from what I can tell is better than all from the same.  The reason I think this is because sometimes it's easy to manipulate one site, but to manipulate 3-4 is more difficult.

3.  From what I've seen Checkout reviews are THE BEST reviews to have, so enabling Google Checkout is important.  They are often times the hardest reviews to get, but the payoff is seen in product listings.

From the testing I have done here are my findings specific to your questions:

1. Age - Not much of a factor.  In fact, I have found that product listings seem to like fresh content.

2. Click Rate - Haven't seen much affect over the 3 sites I run.

3. Overall Quality - BINGO. The quality and quantity of data in your feed is the number 1 thing that I have found truly affects.

4.  Bounce Rate - My bounce rate is pretty low when getting people from product feeds for all my sites, so I can't give feedback if a high bounce rate affects.  I will say that product feed listings is one of the best sources of converting traffic for me though.

5.  Diversity of review sources - This is probably the second biggest factor I have seen combined with #6 Google Checkout reviews.  The more good reviews you have the better your product listings seem to do.

6.  Company location in Google Local - Sorry can't give feedback here.  Location doesn't matter in my niches.

Lastly, I just want to add that you want to make sure that you have data in every field possible.  SKU and other product numbers are very big ones as they help you to rank with the big box boys on products that have several sellers.  Provide something to your customers that they can't, and you'll find it helps a lot.

Makes perfect sense.  I run a site with very targetted traffic per state at backcountrysecrets.com.  Doesn't do someone in California much good to know what is available in the outdoors in Idaho if they are looking for something to do this weekend in California.

That being said, I still let everyone from California see what is available in Idaho, if they choose to see it.  Who knows, they might be considering a move or visit to Idaho soon.  I really don't think it is worth the worry to hide anything from your customers.  I would worry more about making it easy to find their state.  Perhaps use their IP address to display a prominent link to their state on the page.

The other thing to consider is that IP matching is not always correct.  I often get targetted ads for Denver, CO even though it's 8 hours away because of my ISP.

Perhaps my problem is I have never been to a pub.

This is a question that has been nagging at me for more than a year now.  I've played around on Twitter and LinkedIn, and am a frequent user of Facebook.

I really struggle to see how a small business can utilize Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Let's get the obvious, "Tell your friends about your business" post out of the way.  I have a friend that posts about his business everyday, the same thing, over and over.  I have since blocked his feeds because they are annoying.  I always pay attention to when someone makes a post about a new business they are starting because I want to watch and see how they use social media to grow, but it never seems to develop into anything more than a simple "I have a new business." I don't want to be the guy at the neighborhood Christmas party that everyone ignores because they think the only thing I will talk about is my business.

I've also tried doing the "Build real relationships on Twitter" approach.  It seems like everyone I chose to follow and try to become friends with was a bot. They didn't post anything, but "Inspiring Quotes" and "Random Facts".

I think my real question is "How do small business use social media, WITHOUT being annoying?"