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We found 5pm a bit unfriendly to use, ended up with cohuman which is much easier and integrates with gdocs. It isn't as good as 5pm at the high level for project overview. None of the team likes base camp though we have to use it for one of our clients.

Thank you Spencer.  I try to answer where I can. Good luck with your site!

I don't but into this. IT'S ALL A SCAM. Bait-and-switch I tell ya', bait-and-switch. . . .;) lol jk

Hi Spencer - I think there's some awkward phrasing combined with the challenge of parsing the true meaning/intent of your question on this one. I'll do my best to answer what I think you're asking. A shortened link, by default, does not lose its ability to pass link juice, PageRank, trust metrics, anchor text signals or anything else an engine might associate with a link. If it did, all these years, our TinyURL links (which existed long before any social stuff) and all those 301 redirects (which are essentially how shortened URLs function) would have failed. Clearly, they didn't, nor do bit.ly, j.mp, t.co, etc. type links today. If you're asking if, by placing a shortened URL on a normal webpage and linking to it, the target of the 301 redirect loses out compared to a direct link, the answer is no. If you're asking whether nofollowed links in Twitter tweets or profiles that contain shortened URLs (or that exist elsewhere in the social web and may not be followed or even crawlable by engines) lose value, the answer is "it depends," but also "probably." All that said, at one point in time, a Google representative did note that 301 redirects and rel=canonical tags do lose a small amount of the PageRank they pass to another page compared to a non-redirect/canonical. We're of the strong opinion this is between 1-10% of the PageRank value, though we also suspect that other link signals, many of which are often more important than PageRank nowadays, are unaffected. This is my opinion only, and we can't know for sure whether Google still puts this slight dampening on redirects/canonicals. Hope that helps!

Managing one domain is much easier. But there are some benefits to having exact match domains. Do you want  to run a lot of stop and go short sprints, or one steady marathon?

Hi Keri. You're right! I am not a professional in the matter and I am trying to catch up little by little. Thanks for your advice!

I'd have to agree with this more! 301 to the category, that way once a new article/post/page/job etc appears under that article page, it will instantly have a boost from the PA/DA passed

Yes, you can add tags like I do to sort out business vs personal ones!

where is that little button next to my crawl warnings that lets me open urls, or explore links to that url using OSE?

I've learnt a lot. Thank you all for the aswers!