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I would also recommend http://trunk.ly/ and http://www.yelp.com/

Ross Hudgens' blog seems very informative.  Thanks for letting us know.

Here are my top 10 blogs to follow:

1. http://searchenginewatch.com/ - Search Engine Watch
2. http://searchengineland.com/ - Search Engine Land
3. http://www.seomoz.org/blog - SEOmoz
4. http://www.seomoz.org/ugc - SEOmoz Users
5. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/ - Google
6. http://mattcutts.com/blog/ - Matt Cutts
7. http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/ - VWO, Great A/B Testing Blog
8. http://conversationmarketing.com/ - Ian Lurie
9. http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/ - Bruce Clay
10. http://www.seobook.com/blog - SEO Book

Yes, there are many, but I find it easy to setup RSS feeds into my Outlook and skim through them like emails.

So which is better for SEO, Tweets or ReTweets?

We have a tweet button on our blog which seems to work pretty good.  But I have noticed a few sites that instead of tweeting, they have a ReTweet button where you are actually ReTweeting an original tweet.

Any thoughts?

Keeping the same look and feel, the easiest way to integrate the H1 into the design would be in the "Define your Brand" section, add the h1 tag into the text on the left, and use css to design it so it looks similar.

I don't believe so.

I would investigate your "Link to Root Ratio" based on Anchor Text.  You want a very low ratio, between 1 and 2.  So for each Anchor Text phrase, you will have a certain amount of Root Domains with an amount of Links.  Dived the links by the domains and you will have your ratio.

Example:
colorado springs realtors = Anchor Text
221 = Root Domains
1664 = Amount of links from those domains
Link  to Root Ratio: 7.5 for that Anchor Text "colorado springs realtors" (Way too High)

You want to spread out your key phrases, pages being linked to, and remember that Google knows how natural links will look for the anchor text.

The overall goal is to have many links coming from many different urls, from many different cblocks, with many different anchor text variations.

This most likely is one of many factors.

Google Webmaster Tools => Site Configuration => Crawler Access => Remove URL (tab)

The best way to do this is to have a separate domain, not subdomains, for each country.  And if you use the Country's ccTLD you can have the same content without being penalized. (make sure there are little difference such as currency, etc.)  I would also Geotarget each domain accordingly.

Yes, so many 404's is bad, but it all depends on how long Google has seen them.  If too many you may find yourself in Google's 3 month ranking hole.  First you should set up a 301 and try to redirect as many as possible to relevant pages.

Second, use Google Webmaster Tools and start removing the bad urls from their index.

Might be a lot of work right now, but you have to clean them up asap.

I would keep the title clean and focus on the main "apple", the one that has the most search traffic.  But then focus the site on the other variations or types.  Focus on the content, anchor text links to the page, h1 & h2 tags, etc.

SEOmoz's Title Tag - Best Practices for SEO: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/title-tag

Carlos,

There is a great thread you should read about this topic: http://www.seomoz.org/q/can-you-push-too-many-urls-via-sitemaps

As for me, I would recommend creating multiple XML sitemaps where you can track which urls are bing indexed and to also control the submission quantity.  You don't want to publish a ton of urls at one time.  For the urls that aren't in Google's index, I would no index them for now and slowly submit a small group on a monthly basis, along with different XML sitemaps for tracking.

You have to think as if you were Google, is the content you're submitting valuable and new information?  There is no way that 1 million new pages is so valuable or new that isn't already out there.  A nice steady submission stream will give you the best results in the long run.

I hope this helps.

What we decided to do was a process for each deletion along with setting up a 301 redirect for any missing or incorrect bio to our Bio's home page.

First, we will remove the bio from the XML sitemap and resubmit the sitemaps.

Second, we wait a couple of days then delete the actual bio page from our site.

So far this seems to be going alright.

I would rather delete the page, but I just hate having Google/Bing seeing 404s for a while.  I would redirect but don't want to duplicate content pages.

What is the best SEO practice for deleting pages?  We have a section in our website with Employee bios, and when the employee leaves we need to remove their page.

How should we do this?