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If you are going to make barberhartford your domain then yes, by all means 301 the old site, page by page to the new - in other words, do not simply redirect each page to the home page ... once that is done most of the link juice will pass to the barrberhartford domain,  but the wise move is to have the old links changed, wherever possible, to the new domain.

The email address is not important SEOwise, and I don't know what NAP means, but I strongly believe it is very important for branding to use your domain name. However, I also feel that it's fine to use a name such as DixieCutters as the 'print' and promotional domain name; whatever people will best remember.

That  might depend on whether the company name has brand recognition - and whether you are trying too build it; but in the age of social media, I would tend to favor a real name of someone who works or owns for the company.

What I do believe I know about link position is that the first link on a page has more value than the second, etc. The principle upon which Google's "link popularity / PageRank" algo was based on the 'random surfer model. So a link that is more likely to be clicked is more valuable. This is not to say that Google's PR algo has not evolved, but I am sure this principle is still in significant play.

I think most professional SEOs would also agree that footer links have less value than other links - though I am less certain of that than my first point.

I think Matt Cutts would say, try to think like the user. Is your visitor less likely to find and click on the link than if it were near the social media buttons? If so, it is likely to get less traffic.

Not all links can be the first link, but I would be sure to have any important link be "above the fold" and barring that, with a feature that would be likely to attract the eye of the user.

Hope that helps.

To your second question: . Would it be a good idea to add the word "yoga" to each term: "Yoga Mats, Yoga Bolsters, Yoga Gear and Yoga Accessories"

I just asked a similar question on whether a city name should be repeated in the title tag. You might want to review the responses: http://www.seomoz.org/q/effect-of-repeating-keyword-in-title-effective-or-diluting/.

FWIW.

My two cents on #1: I would rather work on optimizing your bolster page as a landing page by building internal and external links to that page than optimize the home page for bolster.

I know there are SEOs who will disagree with me, but I don't think duplicate content is quite the issue some people think it is. Yes, there is, perhaps, some dilution of internal link juice, but there is not a negative filter in Google's algorithm that counts against you if you have duplicate pages.

That said, would it work for you to use anchors on one page with a named anchor for the video for one URL and another for the photos?

I am  not sure what you are asking, but let me try ...

Let's take your home page and the "target page."  I would not use the page you specified above as that doesn't have the targeted content. Instead I would use

http://www.in2town.co.uk/news/soap-gossip which could be developed as an excellent landing page for the terms you identified.

On your home page, you might have a line that reads: Want the latest news about your favorite stars; check out our posts on <start link="">celebrity news <end link="">and soap gossip.</end></start>

Elsewhere on your site I would link to the target page with similar content and links, only you might use 'soap gossip' as the anchor text. Some SEOs believe that the content around the link has 'juice" as well ... so you don't necessarily have to use the trageted terms as anchor text.

Does that help?

Internal linking is an effective factor in SEO. Using your targeted phrase as anchor text in a contextually linked content from a strong page(s) is part of that strategy. Navigation links with the targeted phrase are also useful.

You might find this SEOmoz post  helpful: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/getting-seo-value-from-your-affiliate-links.

Just in case you don't already have enough feedback: No, don't do it! The h1 is not the most powerful onpage element .. I think the title tag gets that award -- but it can be a useful factor. It should be written for the user - think newspaper headlines!

And just as each page should have distinct content, and a distinct tile, meta description, etc, so it should have a distinct, effective, h1 tag.

Google's blog post indicates it may very well be able to follow a link: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improved-flash-indexing.html.

It's true that you cannot use the NF attribute to funnel PageRank in Google - if you want to read a little more indepth on the topic, this 2009 post by Google's Matt Cutts is fo value: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/.

I would 301 all the pages; it's "best practice," IMO.. The old pages had juice just from the fact that they existed; ie. inbound links aren't the only value you want to preserve. And, as ASR points out, best to avoid the 404s. The redirects are not just for the PageRank, but to allow search engines to easily reindex the content.