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I personally think it would be best to use /template.  Or in the case of specific templates, shorten the full phrase to /intake-template/ and then take advantage of the Title tag, H1s and other on-page content to target the keywords you are looking for.  With the second scenario you are relying too much on the URL for your keywords and this may send a spammy signal - especially if combined with other optimization efforts.

I think you are mistaking "SEO" websites with "overly optimized" websites.  Just because you have a link from an SEO based website - like SEOMoz, doesn't mean you are overly optimizing your site.  SEOMoz is a high authority site and the link would be beneficial - of course relevance between the linking site and your site plays a part.

So to clarify - they are going to check your backlink profile to look for signals such as a large amount of competitive keyword anchor text from a variety of sites, a lot of backlinks from sites in  spaces that have nothing to do with yours, paid links, etc.

The 100 links thing is more of a general recommendation than a "rule" .  The answer could be different from site to site.  Back in the day,  this was a limit of 100 links crawled per page because Google put a cap on how much they would crawl in order to save some bandwidth.

In current times, this is more about how much domain authority your site has.  If you have a lot of links, those are all going to be leeching your PR and they will all get less "juice" as the amount that flows over will keep getting divided.

Sites like Amazon and Zappos have a lot of authority and PR, therefore this is not as big of an issue to them.

Okay, I took a look at the plugin Ben recommended, and took another look at the SH404SEF one.  The free one Ben recommended (http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/sef/1063) looks like it can help out with some duplicate content - but what I recommend doing is getting the SH404SEF here http://anything-digital.com/sh404sef/features.html because it allows for setting up canonical tags and also gives you the option to add the rel=next feature to your paginated pages, which is one of your problem areas.

One thing I noticed though is that it specifically states it "automatically adds canonical tags to non-html pages" - so that means it will apply it automatically to Joomla's defaul pdf view, etc.  While this is helpful, it may not solve the full issue of your duplicate pages with the undefined and "/%5C%22/" issue.

It does however state that it "removes duplicate URLs" - how it identifies and removes these, I am not sure.  You may want to try it out because it is useful for other optimization tasks - or contact the owner for more information.

If the tool doesn't recognize and remove the duplicate pages caused by /undefined/ and "/%5C%22/" then you should disallow crawling of these in your robots.txt file.  While you are in your robots.txt file you should remove the /images/ because you want those to be crawled - Joomla adds that in by default.

Because a lot of these pages have already been crawled, you should do a 301 on the duplicate pages to their matching page.  This sounds like it will be a long process - this may be aided by the sh404sef plugin - not sure.

I just want to also add that I am in no way affiliated with any of these plugins.

I am not a lawyer, so this should not be construed as legal advice

I am fairly positive that would violate copyright laws, intellectual property laws, and possibly and right of publicity.  You would need to get permission from the creators of the TV shows/commercials to use the clips.  You should consult with a lawyer/attorney to be safe. Many will offer free consultations.  Some things may be protected by the Parody law.

If you do go ahead with this, I would also suggest purchasing liability insurance first to ensure you are protected should anyone sue you.

I suggest checking out some of these videos from Reel SEO about legal issues when creating videos

http://www.youtube.com/legalvideoguys

I would read this post for more information: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/schema-examples

The post discusses how Google used to support 3 different styles of Markup but with the creation of Schema.org, decided to only use that going forward.  Any websites with existing markup would be okay though.

Google also mentioned (noted in the article above) that you should avoid mixing different types of markup formats on the same page as it can confuse their parsers.

Well, everyone might define "quality" different - so I would hate to say "yea that's TOTALLY fiine" but then find out that quality backlinks meant 300 press releases to you

What are you going to be doing to earn the backlinks?

For paginated pages, I recommend using the rel=next and rel=prev tags.  Here is more info:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/03/video-about-pagination-with-relnext-and.html

I see you have noodp in the title tags, and as you said it has been there awhile, so I would assume that would have been updated by now.  It could just be taking a particularly long time to update.

Another guess is that it may be due to the main site's title at rickcase.com.  The title is 145 characters long:

Rick Case Automotive Group | Leading auto dealers for Acura, Audi, Honda, Hyundai, Mazda and Mitsubishi models at Ohio, Georgia and South Florida

It also includes the word Honda.  Occasionally Google will rewrite titles based on what they feel is more relevant.

Here is a post on SEOMoz about Google changing long title tags:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/long-title-tags

Here is also a short post on Webmaster world:

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/023139.html

I haven't used any of these services or tools, but I took a look at what you listed.

Removeem is more of a link management tool that lets you note who you've contacted and what the status is.  That seems really useful if you don't want to keep track of all this another way, such as Excel.

I am personally a bit hesitant to use "link removal services" but that's just me.

I also haven't had a chance to watch this yet - bookmarked it for when I have time.  It is a webinar from SEOGadget about link removal.  SEOGadget really knows their stuff so I am sure you will find some valuable advice in here.

https://seogadget.co.uk/adventures-in-link-removal-slides-and-webinar-recording/

I looked at your backlink profile in OSE.  You have the anchor text "belize" linked from a large amount of domains and with a very high amount of links.  The domains linking with just the anchor text "Belize" take up nearly 23% of your link profile from linking domains.  The amount of links coming to your site with the single keyword "belize" take up about 35% of your total incoming links.   This is just for "Belize" and not the other various you have such as "Belize online" etc.

This is my person post-panda opinion, but I think this is likely to raise red flags with Google.  It may look "over-optimized".  I don't think submitting a site reconsideration requests would help - in fact, I fear it will only hurt as now Google will be reviewing all this information manually.

Second:

Your primary keyword is "belize" which is highly competitive.  You may want to focus on something like "Belize Vacations" or "Belize Travel"

I just want to verify:

Have you ever ranked for the single term "belize" in the US?

Are you experiencing a decline in visits from other keywords which have historically performed well?

So you own both domains I assume, since you can edit the Sepperro one?  I would just make this one link on the homepage, footer links won't help much, especially being sitewide - or no-following the footer, as you said, would accomplish that as well.

Are both sites on the same IP?

A common practice is to provide a page for affiliates to access that has unique content, images, banners, etc for affiliates to use.  This can be anything from descriptions, to blog posts.  Affiliates are pretty busy and appreciate short-cuts, so providing that information to them makes their job easier, and prevents you from the possibility of any duplicate content penalties.

By broad do you mean more long-tail search terms?  This is pretty normal, especially if the exact keywords are in a competitive space.

Will the content be in a different language? If so I would recommend the sub-directory.  If not, the TLD.  Personal preference, Google has said you could use either - but I can see a lot of duplicate content issues if the sub-directory is in the same language.

Sites that are new are not as trusted, and have a more difficult time ranking for exact terms.  As your site gains authority you should start seeing some additional traffic for more specific terms - depending on your site's level of optimization, industry and keywords you are targeting.   Traffic will always be a mix of brand, long tail, and more exact KWs though.