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Don't worry about it. The "too many links" message is based on Google's suggestion to have less than 100 links per-page. Obviously site-maps are going to be an exception to this rule, and with good reason. You are fine.

If the content is on the same topic (for example, a page about dogs to a page about dogs) than you should 301 it. It sounds like you are still ranking so Google has not penalized your old page and therefore it still has valuable link-juice.

Do not 301 the page If your new page is on an unrelated topic (for example, a page about dogs and a page about real-estate.)

Unless a page can give value to a searcher (not just an existing customer) it shouldn't be in Google's search index.

Sometimes I like to go back to the basics. Remember that search engines exist to help people find information that they WANT to find. Realistically, people are not going to want to find every page on your websites in SERPS.I suggest you ask yourself this question; does this page offer information that someone would actually want to search for, and make your decision accordingly.

p.s. Having said all of that, I'll answer your question. The answer is yes, having thin pages on your site can hurt your domain. If your pages offer value to searchers, I suggest you improve them instead of remove them, but if they don't offer value to searchers don't waste your time, and just no-index them.

As the owner of a design firm/SEO agency, I feel justified saying that designers need to grow up a little bit and stop making excuses (imho.) It is not that hard to make a high quality site that includes both text and images. Photographers do it all the time (like this.)

Put information on your site that visitors will actually enjoy reading. Talk about what kind of materials the clothes were made from. You can describe the stitch patterns, the designer, what famous people have worn your clothes (if any) suggestions of how to accessorize the item with other products from your store...etc.

Obviously, you should find tactful and organic ways of including that information. In closing, I'd like to point out that sites without textual content rarely out-rank their competitors. Even PR 7-10 sites like Facebook & Pinterest are not able to rank for pictures without text.

To be honest, I think Google re-evaluates domain transfers when the who is  changes. I've seen some domain transfers help SEO, and some seem irrelevant. If you purchase a domain make sure it has high-quality links from sites that have an actual followings (look at the site's social interaction and comment participation.) If your new site sends qualified visitors to you, than it is worth it.

To be safe, just buy the new domain, set up 301 redirects, and then contact the sites that link to you and tell them that you've re-launched your website on a new domain. Ask the site owners update their link.

Just took the survey.

Option 1. Put text at the bottom of the page that says "updated on..." (example)

Option 2. Update your page and resubmit it to google through GWMT.

Option 3. Regularly update your page and Google will figure it out on their own.

The simple answer: example.com/glasses will rank. If you build high-quality links to that page, and optimize it for glasses that page will probably out-rank your homepage for the phrase glasses.

Obviously, if your home page is optimized for the same phrase, that page might rank as well. Sometimes when there are two pages on a site that rank for the same phrase, Google will show both pages in the SERPS next to each other.

Urls should be no more than 3 subfolders deep (example.com/subfolder or example.com/subfolder1/subfolder2.)

It should also be mentioned that you can customize your wordpress URL structure, so you do not necessarily need to have the extra category slug.

There is a lot more to be said about this topic, but instead of filling up this answer, I'm just going to point you to this article by Dr. Pete. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/should-i-change-my-urls-for-seo

-Cheers

Hey Downunder SEO.

First, make sure the articles are posted on high-quality websites. The web is crawled in order of PR from highest to lowest. Low quality sites probably are _not _going to hep your link profile anyway.

Second, make sure the articles are all unique content. If you send the same article to multiple sites, Google may not index all of them. Matt Cutts has publicly said Google is against using article marketing to build links.

Third, make sure the websites you posted the articles on are accessible to search engines. Check their robots.txt to confirm that the pages are not blocked. (you can use the SEOmoz bar to easily check this or you can visit for http://domain.com/robots.txt)

Fourth, read this blog post (it's on our blog, so this is self-promotion.)

This is a HUGE question, and honestly you should probably get some SEO consultation from someone who is familiar with ecommerce URL architecture. Having said that, you can look at some other sites that are doing a good job. Take a look at REI and Zappos.

Keep in mind that you should design for humans first and search engines second. If having a site-wide navigation link for your categories is going to help you sell more shoes, and help your customers find what they are looking for than you should do it. It's easier to make a website that was built for UX more SEO friendly.

We customized Post Ratings for WordPress on one of our projects.

You can check out the plugin here http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-ratings/screenshots/ 

Let me be the first to set your mind to rest. This isn't something that you need to worry about.

Instead of worrying about which one to use for SEO, make your choice based on your development limitations. Posts and Pages have different limitations and built in funcinalities (for Wordpress) but not for SEO. All of that being said, if you can customize, or hire someone to customize your theme for you, there are not any limitations. For example, the home page of our website pulls in excerpts from posts marked "services" and displays them in the "service" section of our home page.

Experiment: I did an experiment on a new domain with only a small amount of authority. At the time, I only had a few links pointing to my domain, and the site was 1.5 months old. I was ranking #3 for the term "redding SEO" (the city that I live in.) I used social media, friends, and family from across the country for this experiment. I asked them to search for "redding seo" and click on my site.

The Results: Within 2 days, I jumped from position 3 to position 2, and I've stayed there ever since. I didn't do any other link building, or content creation on my site over the 48 hours, so the only factor that I can contribute to my rank change is CTR.

In addition to everything that Anthony said (AKA, build relationships) you can also promote the blog article through writing other guest blog articles. I know this is going to take a lot of work, but that's what inbound marketers are good at... Hustle.

Find someone who will let you write a guest post for their site, and then fiind a way to organiclly mention your blog article in the middle of your guest post. This will help your first blog article rank higher in SERPS, and it will send more refferal traffic to your blog.

Good luck.