You will be just fine if you remove your feed.

With the death of Google Reader and the lack of Feedburner support, I wouldn't be surprised if Google got rid of Feedburner down the road.

The canonical tag is unnecessary if you don't have problems with URL variations (tracking parameters, session ids, etc). Don't just think about external links though, if your own CMS or internal linking structure links to the same pages in different ways, the canonical tag can be a patch while you work on a development fix.

All that being said, I'm a fan of having it on every page.

Hey Dan,

In this case, I would not exclude crawling via robots.txt. Perhaps later after you have verified the URLs are out of the index.

Just because Google can't crawl a page, doesn't mean they won't keep it in the index. Excluding crawling will not get a page out of the index.

Add the NOINDEX, FOLLOW tag you listed above and give it some time.

Use GWT if it's urgent or the information is sensitive.

Ideally when creating a new staging area, you'd want to exclude crawling via robots.txt.

Add the NoIndex tag to the head of your pages to get them removed from the SERPs. Make sure the page is still crawlable though, as if you exclude it in robots.txt first and then NoIndex it, Google won't be able to see the new NoIndex tag.

If there are not a lot of pages to remove, you can request page removal within Google Webmaster Tools.

Hi Stephanie-

If the copy is just basic 'About the Company' blurbs or paragraphs, I would be fine with it.

If LinkedIn has duplicate versions of entire blog posts that have potential to get shares, links and rank, I would remove them from LinkedIn.

Do some simple search queries for phrases from the content. Are you being outranked by LinkedIn?

How much copy is duplicated between the two pages sites and how important are these pages potential acquisition of organic traffic  are the two main questions I would be thinking about.

Hi Mahai-

If you are writing reviews on your website, I would focus on making them the most comprehensive reviews available online of each product you are reviewing. A well-written, thought-out, balanced review with great pictures will be appreciated by everyone.

If the review is positive, the company whose product is reviewed might very well link out to you. Who doesn't like linking/sharing a positive testimonial/review for their own product? Make it easy for them to link to it. Offer an embeddable badge or graphic perhaps.

Other websites looking for information about the product will also likely link to your review as well, respecting it for the well-thought out, balance review that it is.

Put the focus on the reviews. The links will come.

Here is my simplistic take:

1. Create a logical site hierarchy that works for UX. Don't worry about link juice to pages like the contact page.
2. Focus on linking to your most important (high ranking, high converting, revenue earning) pages from the home page and other high level pages.

I would advise against it.

I would stick them all in subfolders of the www version of the site. www.web.com/texas

If the domain is has an extremely high authority (80+), I would consider it due to potential to dominate the SERPs by getting the www.web version and state.web version both to rank high.