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As always in the SEO industry, there's no right answer for any particular case but I think you got a really structured approach to it. It would be great to know the results of your experiment. This could be a really good article in the seomoz community, let me know how it goes!

Well, our crawler is supposed to respect all standard robots.txt rules, so you should be good just adding them all back in as you normally would and seeing what happens. If it doesn't go through properly, I'll ask our engineers to take a look and find out what's happening!

You're right, my mistake. I'm not to sure that Schema.org has something for that type of data? Here's the full list of their supported item types: http://schema.org/docs/full.html I'm not too sure where reference data would fit in? Maybe under Thing > Intangible

Its cool, your previous questions didn't really get answered... and my answer was posted twice so above is the edited one. Whoops!

Time to put that legal knowledge to work!  Glad I could help - let me know if you have any more questions.

Traffic (and income) is now down over 55% which is really too bad.  The content is unique and highly valuable to the target market. Any advice about why would be really appreciated.