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Yes : )

You can add the SEOmoz tool bar. http://www.seomoz.org/seo-toolbar

This will show you DA (domain authority) PA (Page Authority) and it has many other options for your research.

Then it is a followed link and will pass the link juice.

As long as the link has a "DO Follow" attribute it will pass link juice. If you do not want to pass link juice use the "no follow" attribute. In other words. However usually affiliate links do not pass the link juice only direct.

Do a who.is search on the blog and it will show you any name/email associated with this account. Once you have the email kindly request a link removal.

My favorite is Wordpress with the Yoast plugin. here is an article to help you set it up for best SEO results: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success

Actually no. I checked and both sites are in google.com the .ie and the .co.uk

I don't know if this will be considered duplicate content. However the fact that google automatically detects this in their webmaster tools makes me think that this will most likely be ok he way it is.

Step one research:

Are there any similar contests out there? What does your contest offer that other don't?

How much time will it take the user to do the work/enter the contest?

Step two outreach:

Who are the social leaders in or related to your niche?

Can you get them involved?

What are they currently talking about?

Are they friendly? geeky? Can you make them you friends and have them share your contest? Maybe get them involved...

Step three Tracking:

Can you test this out before launching it to see how users interact?

How did the user find this contest? Can you find more users from this same source or related source?

Google Analytics?

Step four Social Media:

Can you create videos for the contest using you tube? http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/dominating-youtube-search-and-related-videos-results-case-study

What will drive people on facebook/twitter to enter the contest?

Is this something worth investing in facebook/twitter adds?

No because Google already knows that this site is the same for two different Google search engines. A good test to ensure that this is not looking like duplicate content is by taking some content from one of the sites (that is exact on both sites) and pasting it into Google.ie to see if it is duplicated.   If both sites come up then it may look like duplication. However i'm not 100% sure about this.

I deleted it myself.. Sorry I deleted after I reread the question : )

I found this article it should help:http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-guide-international-versions-of-websites

If they offer 10 services I would use this URL: domain.com/lawn-mowing.html however you may want to link to it from a services page (domain.com/services.html ---> domain.com/lawn-mowing.html) here is a good WBF on internal linking : http://www.seomoz.org/blog/smarter-internal-linking-whiteboard-friday

It depends,

Doing a 301 will transfer the search engine/user from Page A to Page B which is fine. However, if Page B and Page C have a similar URL structure like the first example you gave I would recommend using a canonical tag.

I would recommend using a canonical tag in any case, to let the search engine spider know which page you want it to crawl. If the content/URL is very similar on two pages or more I would highly recommend it to avoid duplication.

Did you do a 301 redirect from one site to the other?

Many directory sites were affected by penguin..http://www.seomoz.org/blog/web-directory-submission-danger

Google is good, however can they detect a proxy?

First look at the link profile of the site you are linking to here OSE Once you do a search click on the Anchor Text tab and see how the links are pointing in. Google wants your links to look natural: 50-70% branded/URL and 30-50% linking with diversity/exact anchor text (the keywords you are after)...

Yes I agree, If you cannot get all the features with a dedicated CMS as Rand suggests a static site without a CMS is better.

Hi Krista,

If the old data is useful to users I would update all of it. If the old data is useless to the users I would create good new data and optimize the newer posts.

Now when you say optimize... are you referring to just adding links to the existing content? If so.. I would also be careful having a bunch of links pop up all at once will not look natural : ) If all your doing is adding some links I would not do it all at once... Space it out, maybe do 1-3 a day..

Their are many CMS platforms available...It all depends on how you plan on using your site: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/choosing-the-right-cms-platform-for-your-website-from-an-seo-perspective

Oh yes and this SEOmoz article really breaks it down: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/building-links-with-video-content