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Crawl notices are just that; notices. You should be aware of them but I haven't seen any notices in my campaigns that would be something that needs to be fixed. I would focus more on errors and then warnings, in that order. Those are the items that can hurt you most when trying to increase your site(s) rank. Hope this helps!

go to the campaigns page at http://pro.seomoz.org/campaigns and in the grey section at the top right of the page there is a link to your archived campaigns called Archived Campaigns (1)  Click that link and you can then press the "activate" button next to the campaign that you want to bring back online. I don't believe that data is collected while your campaign was in an archived state.

Gotcha. I did some searching around and you will not block the AdWords bot unless you explicitly block AdsBot-Google. A wildcard user agent disallow will not block the AdsBot-Google. Hope that helps!

I'll take a stab. I like the big and more varied imagery of the new page.

I will say that opinions don't really get you all the way there. I would suggest (maybe you already are) testing the new paging for improved conversion, or other KPIs using Google Website Optimizer (free), or Visual Website Optimizer (my favorite and pretty cheap). I love to prove my own opinions wrong through testing!

• All elements of the headers on the old vs. new pages appear to have different pixel heights
• I found it hard to tell that there were products to choose from because the items that are in this category appear below the fold. I would consider doing something to the page (possibly moving the products higher?) to make it dead simple that there are products below that people need to be browsing through. Check out the Google browser size tool below for help on the lowest pixel to show the important stuff on your page

Those were a few things I noticed right away. I'm sure others will chime in as well.

Relevant Links:

www.google.com/websiteoptimizer

http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/

http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/

If you have a specific directory for PPC pages then you can follow these steps that have worked for us wonderfully:

Block the directory /ppc to the robots.txt file for all user agents. This can even be live before the /ppc directory even exists.

User-agent: *

Disallow: /ppc

Add noindex, nofollow in the meta tags for all pages in /ppc

I'm not sure what you are referring to when you mention an AdWords robot?

If the recipes that appear on both sites are in different languages then you are fine. If they are the same language, then I would consider re-writing the recipes one of of the sites so that they are not duplicated exactly (might be challenging for parts of a recipe).

The biggest thing is that, if you can avoid it, you don't want a link profile that looks starkly different than the average for your category. Otherwise you might trip some red flags at the 'plex.

In my opinion, diversifying in everything you do that's SEO related is not a bad plan to minimize risk, even absent the red flag threat from Google.

I agree, Julie. Google is not going to, or able to (unless the site with the link has Google Analytics) flow more link juice to a link that gets more clicks than another.

To answer the original poster's question, just because a link is getting a lot of clicks does not make it valuable. Traffic means nothing in the grand scheme of things. It's all about what that traffic is doing on your site once they get there. Are they purchasing? Are they turning into leads? Are they bouncing immediately? In all likelihood the traffic has some value, but to truly measure which would be better would require more information.

All else being equal, a link that drives traffic is better than one which does not.

Will you clarify what "clicks" you are referring to?

Great question. I think you are fine with having the same content on two sites in different languages. Google I smart enough to see that you are targeting difference audiences, locales, etc. The queries that would drive traffic to each site are completed different (language-wise) so the two sites are not even in competition with each other generally speaking. I would personally move forward with the two sites without worry.

I would suggest using hand-written translations though, rather than auto translations, which should also help differentiate, if you are super worried.

You're correct. These links definitely used to be dofollow. It appears YouTube may have changed the links to nofollow when they redesigned the YouTube Channel pages in the last couple of months.