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Hiding text in this manner is a perfectly acceptable UI choice, and will not negatively impact your site.

When people talk about hiding text being a negative factor, they are referring to cases where people will stuff tons of keywords into invisible divs, or have text that's the same background as the page, or other methods of presenting the search engine with different content than the user, which is basically cloaking.

Yes, I would focus on the high value pages first, then work your way from there, unless there are striking distance product pages that you think you could bump up with a bit of content.

I'm sure that's a strategy that can work over time, but it's not one that I would recommend to a client or present as a link building strategy.

Great content attracts links and improve in rankings over time. That's the way the web works. SEO is about accelerating and amplifying that process for maximum results.

Having both www and non-www versions of your site accessible is definitely a duplicate content issue, as Google looks at those as different sites. If you have access to your .htaccess file, here is the code you want to add:

Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^barefootparadisevacations.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.barefootparadisevacations.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

This will redirect non-www versions of your site to www.

That is definitely a lot of links... but have you noticed a negative SEO impact because of the pin it buttons? Having that many links isn't ideal, but it probably won't affect your site that much.

Alternatively, you can try loading some of the images via AJAX so that they aren't all displayed at once, and only load when the user scrolls down.

Google does limit the number of pages it crawls and indexes based on your PageRank. So if you don't have a lot of external links, then if you publish 10 articles a day they may not be crawled or indexed in a timely fashion. The higher the authority of your site, the more content Google will index, and sooner.

PR1 is a good minimum, but it really depends on your niche and how much resources you have to do this outreach. If you want to make sure you are only getting links from quality sites, I would do a manual review to see if the site passes the sniff test, and also run a backlink report to make sure they're not doing anything shady.

I would say use the content as is (regular text) and work on adding additional content on top of that. Most marketplaces and etailers (including Amazon) use the descriptions provided by the brands. Google understands that. The idea is to provide additional value on top of that content with things like user reviews and additional features that make your site stand out.

Try putting the following lines to your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ /$1 [L,R=301]

PRWeb is the best paid press release service I've used, and you can get a decent PR link out of it

If you're actually looking to get news coverage, go to the websites for all your local newspapers, and look for their e-mail contact for tip submissions. Write a customized press release tailored to them, and try to come up with an interesting angle that might get them to cover your story. The easier you can make it for the journalists, the more likely they'll bother to cover you.

It shouldn't affect domain authority, but could impact relevance to the keywords you're currently ranking for.

Here's a question: Do these sweepstakes have to go on the homepage? What percentage of site visitors visit the homepage? Maybe it makes more sense to have a separate landing page for the sweepstakes, with prominent graphical links from the homepage and navigation. Or use a lightbox like you said.

It's really not necessary to auto generate a meta description. They have zero SEO value.

The only thing they are used for is the text that shows up in the search results. If you don't have a meta description set, Google will just pull the text from your site that it thinks it is most relevant. If you want to override that with a custom description, that's fine and can increase CTR, but this is something you would want to do manually, not auto generate it.

Gotta disagree with this one.  Creating high quality blog content with the same keywords you are targeting on your products page can be a good strategy.  The blog post will add more content related to your keyword on your site, increasing relevancy.  It's also a lot easier to build links to a blog than a product page.

Just make sure to link from the blog post to the product page, and the product page can get a boost.  If you rank really high in Google, you could even get 2 listings for that keyword.  If for some reason the blog content outranks the product page, you can just take that same content and throw it on the product page with a canonical from the blog post.  If all else fails, you can 301 redirect it.

Sticky posts can help if they contain content that's relevant to the keywords you're targeting. It's just a way to keep content on your homepage in Wordpress, Google will still see the fresh content you are producing.

What kind of optimizing have you been doing? It could be possible that you over-optimized your anchor text for the keyword, causing your landing page to fall out of the SERPs, and Google is displaying the next relevant page on your site, which happens to be a PDF.

You'll want to add a 301 redirect to your htaccess file redirecting non-www URLs to www. This will pass the link value to www, as well as prevent potential duplicate content issues. Here is the code to use:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourdomain.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

I just went through this process. You just leave the day out, like in the example in the documentation:

https://moz.com/local/help/documentation#Hours

So if the business is not open Sat or Sun, you would just put:

2:9:00:AM:5:00:PM,3:9:00:AM:5:00:PM,4:9:00:AM:5:00:PM,5:9:00:AM:5:00:PM,6:9:00:AM:5:00:PM

Yes, suffixes matter, tenses matter, singular vs plurals matter. These are all different keywords. Search for "build" vs "building" in Google, and you will get different results. Look up the search volume in the Adwords tool, and you will see that the keywords have different search volumes.

TLDR: Yes, it matters. Choose the version that has the highest search volume or your customers tend to use the most.

You don't have any links from high authority sites. Focus on getting good links, and your PageRank will go up.

It looks like in your blog you have a block that includes a link to the trackback URL (look for the green icon):

http://www.portlandpersonalinjuryaccidentlawyer.com/blog/page/105/

You can remove this from your theme's template by editing the code in Appearance->Editor. You can probably remove the whole block that the trackback link is contained in, since it's probably not doing much for you SEO-wise.