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I agree with Ryan for the most part. Here at SEOmoz we get so many comments for each post that if we moderated each comment, it would seriously kill the conversation. However we have a team of people who watch for spam, plus we do have moderation set up for people who have less than 25 Mozpoints and have a link in their comment. At that point one of the team members has to approve the comment, remove a spammy link or delete the comment all together. In general I'm not a fan of moderating especially if the person moderating checks comments infrequently. Nothing bothers me more than leaving a well thought out comment on someone's blog post in reply to the post itself or another comment and it taking 2 days to finally show up on the site. I wouldn't bother commenting on that blog again. There's a fine line between moderating and keeping the spam out and if you can find that you're golden. As for Facebook comments, I haven't personally implemented them on any sites but many people who use them have really loved it. Ryan linked to my post on using them and it seems like a great marketing/virality tool for sure. Facebook gives you easy moderation as well and I think it cuts back on spam quite a bit because it has to be a real user logged into Facebook in order to comment. Hope this helps!

Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded the Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices.

I am going to leave the SERP, Yellow pages etc the actual number. The places I am wanting to track are on our main corporate site and on the branch specific websites. As far as PPC vs Organic etc I want to track all traffic sources. Right now I am most interested in trying to get a better web vs non-web tracking at the branch level. This will help me show how much business the web is driving vs local paper phone books, word of mouth, etc.

Since WP is all dynamic content the canonical tag is a good thing. It tells the search engines which version is the prefered version Without looking at your report or site, I'd say your ok. Work on fixing the red and yellow if possible and necessary.

If your site is heavy on images, you can always ensure they are all correctly optimised. This will ensure minimum file size, thus quicker dowload times.

Here are two posts that may be helpful in both explaining how to set up a robots.txt for wordpress, and the thinking behind setting up which parts to exclude. http://www.cogentos.com/bloggers-guide-to-using-robotstxt-and-robots-meta-tags-to-optimise-indexing/ http://codex.wordpress.org/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_WordPress#Robots.txt_Optimization The wordpress link (second link) has a link to several other resources as well.

I use the redirection plugin for wordpress to manage this. I personally use it to take care of another site I have redirected to my current site, but don't have access to the .htaccess file, and use it to take care of pages from the old site that don't exist on this site. It has a handy 404 log you can use too, and create redirects right from the 404 list. This might work for your old URLs that were renamed.

Yes, this is correct, the anchor text for the links question "home care blog" and "in home locator" link to my agency locator page and home care blog which are targeting those terms.