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I agree with Kane. I would also like to add:

Whenever you have too many links of any 1 kind, it's a problem. Too Many Blog Links, Comment Links, Press Releases, Article Links, Directory Links, Contextual Links, Reviews, Guest Posts, Sponsorship Links, Infographics and so on...they are all links,  they all count...follow links...nofollow links. All of them add up. That's what is a natural link profile. But when you have too many of a kind, it's very easy for bots to detect and that's where the problem is.

Makes sense ?

It may have something to do with the fact that there's an OSE update in progress at the moment. I am sure somebody at SEOMoz here would be able to clarify.

Yes, as Ryan said, this is the nature of the internet. Just like you can write about anything, anybody, you can create a link to anybody and just to clarify, the block that Ryan is talking about is essentially that if someone linked to you, you could "technically" setup a block so anybody visiting your website from that link, would not be able to access your website..but it would still get counted as a link from that website to yours.

Nopes. The way it sounds like it's setup correctly. The message you are seeing from SEOMoz is more of a warning then an issue. I would ignore it.

Are your H1 Tags unique on every page ? You could definitely do some sort of a logic to build unique page titles and maybe descriptions as well, but trying to forward think, I would also advise you to work on custom page titles for your most important pages/keywords. As far as the tool to extract the data, you might also consider using Screaming Frog SEO Spider Tool & Crawler Software - www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/

If you were to convert 9 of the 10 total links on the page into a nofollow, the only dofollow link will get all the link juice. I hope that clearly answers your question.

Edit: It looks like this changed a while ago (mid 2009) that if nofollow is added to 9 of the 10 links, the 10 links only get 10% of the link juice instead of the 100% and the 90% essentially gets lost.

Considering the penalty issues and whether the rest of your link profile is natural or not, I actually recommend sticking with what you are thinking, 1 for YouTube and 1 for Flickr rather then distributing it onto multiple sites for now.

Depending upon the link profile, domain strength and authority of your website, you should be good between 3 days to 1 month. I have seen scenarios where a 301'd URL got replaced with no drop in rankings in as little as 3 days and on a different website, lower authority as much as 30 days. But yes, you should be back to business with the steps you have already laid down.

Best of luck

You said there's outbound link tracking. Check if those links are nofollowed as Ryan suggested. You can also check if if they are something like www.thatsite.com/redirect.php?id=1 and if the redirect.php has a noindex or www.thatsite.com/robots.txt has a disallow or something like that.

If the links are redirects via a tracking, they are not really being counted towards the linked to site's backlinks anyways, so I don't think there are any issues here.

Honestly, think kind of problem exists industry wide and if your regular link profile is good, natural enough, you should be good. However, if a relatively high percentage of links exist compared to the rest of your profile and / or if you received the un-natural link profile notice from Google, I would lay out some of those examples and tell Google exactly what happened. If you think about it, anybody could buy spammy links for their competition and hurt them. The links are essentially supposed to be discounted so that they are not helping you and definitely not hurting you. Just file a re-inclusion request if you received a notice or if you are seeing a considerable drop in rankings.

Yes, that's right. Thanks Mark for specifying that .htaccess will only work if you are Apache based.

Yes, no need to be worried. You are good. rel="external" is the XHTML valid version that informs search engine spiders that the link is external. However, using this does not open the link in a new window. target="_blank" and target="_new" does this, but is not XHTML valid. I hope that helps.

Yes, a video sitemap helps generate video SERPS but I have seen video snippets happen without any sitemaps as well. The sitemap will definitely make it easier for Google to display the snippet.

Yes, you definitely should and when you do that, make sure you do a redirect from www.website.com/index.html to www.website.com You could do that via .htaccess RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.html?\ HTTP/ RewriteRule ^(.)index.html?$ "/$1" [R=301,L]

I agree, BBB is a definite must. $400 is peanuts for that seal on your website and the trust it builds for you in a user's unconscious mind.

Edward

I think you are setup 100% correctly. You only have the canonical tag on the listing page and not on any of the other pages. Those listings are essentially duplicate content amongst multiple sites and that's a perfect use scenario of the canonical tag which support cross domain.

I think you are setup 100% right and this is how it should be.

When targeting for SEO, always look at both the exact match and broad match. Here's why: Exact match tells you how many exact match searches are there for let's say "Cheap Widgets". When you look at Broad match, it will show other keywords like Cheap Blue Widgets. So it's important to look at exact match to figure out your primary keywords and broad match to identify any secondary / variant keywords that might have been missed. I hope that helps.

If I were you, I would recommend changing it. From what I understand people/websites using your service would be linking to you. A little bit of keyword would be helpful here instead of just the numbers. However if it's too much of an effort, you can ignore it. You need to evaluate the best use of time and resources available.

I hope that helps.

Google does not support the crawl delay command directly, but you can lower your crawl priority inside Google Webmaster Central.

So you are right using it the way you are. If you have it in the robots.txt, it does not really do anything and it will show in the webmaster console as well that GWT does not support it.

Thanks Keri, good to know it's updating this week