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As Ryan suggests you still want to FOLLOW rather than giving the bots a dead end as I notice your heading suggests no-follow.

Hi Michael, that would be a nice addition to Moz Analytics! You can request new features like this, check the status of feature requests, and upvote other subscribers' requests at https://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-Moz-Feature-Requests.

Thank you, I did not think it would have been an issue either but the customer did not like seeing that on the report and wanted it fixed. I will look into how to setup a robots.txt file to take care of this. Michael

Moz Local is a standalone product, and the price doesn't change with whether or not you have a Moz Pro account.

Yes, that is what I am doing now but like to have it automated using triggers like explained at http://www.aleydasolis.com/en/search-engine-optimization/seo-dashboard-google-docs-seomoz-analytics/.

Hi Michael, I think that in your case there should be no big difference between the two implementations. It all depends on how it's structured and linked together, because, as you said, now Google tends to treat subdomains exactly the same as internal links. (Regarding this statement I must say that I've seen websites reacting in different ways and not always following what Google is telling us) Of course in both cases you would definitely improve the domain authority, while you would have to work on linking well the blog with the website sections in order to pass link juice to the right pages.

It appears that the site www.wilsonevergreens.com has all of the strengths in place but cannot get past the 'plateau' for ranking for 'christmas wreaths. Are you sure?  I think that the competitors have you outgunned, have better content and have superior optimization. Not bashing... just sayin'. If you buy a keyword domain and put your same site with same assets on it you will still be getting your butt whipped. You would still have the same problem. I say improve your current site and forget about the microsite.  Attracting traffic to a microsite to hope that they click off to your main site and hope that they buy something there is like trying to kill a rabbit with a ricochet.  Forget that and just shoot the damn rabbit! Your site appears on page four for "christmas wreaths" with the index page ranking.  Although your wreath's page is better optimized than the homepage it is not your best ranking page for that query because it is a weak page.   Your homepage is more powerful than your wreath's page but it is poorly optimized for "christmas wreaths". If I owned your site my short-term attack  would be to reoptimize my homepage... load it with christmas wreaths... and use it to attack the  "christmas wreaths" SERPs.  That might improve your rankings but I am still confident that your site will not have the mojo to make the first page.....  so my long-term attack would be to produce incredible, fantastic,  asskicking, best-on-the-web content in the christmas wreath theme, get it on my site and promote it with the hope of attracting a lot of very high quality links. "christmas wreaths" is not the easiest SERPs to win and there are a number of fantastic sites above you.  Do not think that you have an easy battle in front of you. If you want to win in these SERPs you will need to develop an attitude. You will need to exert yourself and improve your site so that it will convince everyone everywhere that you are The Man in the christmas wreath business.  If your attitude is for anything less then you are not going to win.  Keep in mind that at least a few people above you and a few people below you are excited, hungry and aggressive about doing the same thing.  So be sure that you set your goals above what is already out there. If you think that you are The Man in the christmas wreath business then you might be able to do this... but keep in mind that it will not be easy. Good luck!

Just average articles with a link pointing back. The blogs/websites pointing to these article have very low rank though.