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Do you have XML sitemaps?  If not this is a great way to measure what is being indexed by Google.  Make sure you create multiple sitemaps based on your categories so you can track exactly which pages are not being indexed.

Minify css, use shorthand, avoid  @import, old unsupported css code.

Since I'm not sure what kind of warning you are getting, it is really tough to answer your question.

Here is a great css tool: http://www.minifycss.com/css-compressor/

and you can Validate it here: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Again, it all depends on the error. There are css errors that hurt performance of the site.

Definitely.

The error could be a broken url (404) not found, or maybe a redirected url (301 or 302) redirect.

It is really hard to diagnose unless we know the exact warnings you are getting.

It all depends on the warning.  What are they?

I treat every warning or error as a priority since if a tool can find them, so can Google.

You need to look at the pages like a spider would.  Here is a great tool to check and view the server response.  In this case, you will need to go to your developers and allow them to look at this as well.

http://tools.seobook.com/server-header-checker/

Plus today's blog post discusses Rich Snippets. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/a-visual-guide-to-rich-snippets

schema.org is becoming the standard.

Here is a great post from SEOmoz: Schema.org - Why Your'e Behind if You're Not Using It...

Do to the fact that Google's PageRank (PR) is updated so randomly, I believe that is why many people use other Metrics such as SEOmoz's Page Authority (PA) and Domain Authority (DA) to really track a sites progress.

PR is just a number we show to clients when they ask, but focus on PA and DA and explain to the clients why these numbers are much more important.  These are updated monthly and are pretty much inline with Google's algorithms.

Yes, Google Webmaster Tools. Under "Diagnostics", select "Fetch as Googlebot".  This will show you exactly how Google sees your page.

Rand has a great post here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/buying-links-is-shallow-buying-blogs-now-thats-a-strategy

Our goal is to focus on Quality, but we will take what we can.

For design purposes I never used it.  Maybe a few times.  Only for SEO I've really used it.

The code that you don't care about Google seeing first is what you put down on the bottom and absolute position it to the top so the website still looks the same.

Absolute Positioning will allow you to create a div at the bottom of the page, but display it at the top using css.

for example to have div2 display about div1, it would look like this in the code.

Google sees first.
People see first

css code:

#div1 {width:900px;height:500px}
#div2 {position:absolute;top:-15px;width:900px;height:100px}

I know it's not a very good example of code, but you should get the idea enough to start testing your layout.  Also, go ahead and use this for testing. http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_position_absolute

Sorry for the delay, I was in Mexico on vacation.

Did you get your answer or would you like me to explain more?

Besides SEOmoz, I would recommend Majestic SEO http://www.majesticseo.com/

I would wait and see what OSE says on their next update on the 29th.  It looks like OSE crawls those sites, so either they don't crawl deep enough (as deep as Google does), or your links are newer and just not updated yet.

As for a reliable crawl tool, I believe OSE is great, but here is a nice post on a few other international tool. (based on OSE data)

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-backlinks-tool

I agree with Alan 100%.  There are some great options you can do with IIS rewrites.

Google's crawler has a separate larger database, crawl rate ect, than OSE.

OSE indexes monthly where as Google's index is updated more often than that.

In short, OSE is just a different "snapshot" of the net then Google's much larger database of the web

If you use 301 redirects you shouldn't lose any results.

Use absolute positioning to arrange the content in the order you want Search Engines to see first.

I had that issue once and it was based on the order of the Google code in the html.  I can't remember the exact order we had it in or the fix, but change the order of your scripts and that should fix it.

I would also be extremely careful on what you are using right now to build your links.  If you are a new site it isn't a good idea to start off with a bunch of garbage links coming in.  Focus on building quality links, not quantity.

Here is another Q&A today about link building with some great example of the best ways of doing so.

http://www.seomoz.org/q/new-linkbuilding-if-networks-are-useless-and-i-need-high-volume-through-a-1-man-team-what-s-the-best-option

It looks like you purchased a link building package.  I would wait on their reports to see where the links actually are, and personally check them to see.

Inbound links aren't going to show instantly.  Everything has to be indexed, so it will take months before you start seeing numbers (if any based on the sites they are on).

For example, SEOmoz starts their crawl and like search engines takes time crawling many sites.  So even if their report came out today, and you and new links last week, they might have actually crawled the sites your links are on 3 weeks ago.

I wish I had an easy answer.  There are a bunch of great posts by SEOmoz on Linkbuilding.

http://www.seomoz.org/pages/search_results?q=linkbuilding

A few I have bookmarked:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/10-extraordinary-examples-of-effective-link-bait

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-power-of-using-lists-for-link-building

http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/outsource-link-building-like-a-small-seo-company

It doesn't matter for SEO, but I would recommend using www since you may have sub-domains in the future.

OK, I see.  So basically they are only using Vimeo to host the video.  Not sure if I know what to do in that case.

But we you still have a couple of different options.

1. Host and embed the video directly on the site. (There are tons of flash video scripts out there)

2. Host the video with another provider like http://wistia.com or http://www.brightcove.com/en/  (They allow many more options for embedding and sitemaps.)

Here is a great example:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/video-sitemap-guide-for-vimeo-and-youtube

The Raw video file location will be the Vimeo location.

There are going to be a couple of different fields for you to fill out.  You use the actual link to the video on Vimeo, but also in the sitemap tell which page the video resides on.

<loc>http://site.com/example_landing_page.html</loc>

video:content_lochttp://site.com/example_video1.wmv</video:content_loc>

<video:description>The Example Video</video:description>

The next Linkscape update is on February 29th.

http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/25141119/Linkscape%20Schedule

It may have been on the calendar for an earlier date, but they often change.

That will work, but don't try to game it too much.  I optimized a site where there was a ton of account info before any of the content.  So I used Absolute Positioning and moved all of that content to the bottom of the page, (but still displayed correctly).  This allowed the most valuable content and links to be crawled first.

Not sure if I would try to move content about the nav.

Your most important links will be in order of appearance to search engines.

What is yexts listings?

It all depends on the directory.  Some are good, some are bad.

I would probably not focus too much on directories but more importantly on related sites or blogs.

No they won't hurt you, but setup redirects for them.

First, I wouldn't even look at Google PageRank.  Google isn't consistent with updates, and it isn't a good measurement tool.  Focus on SEOmoz's Page Authority and Domain Authority.  This will give you much more insights to what is going on.

And with looking at metrics on www.opensiteexplorer.org, you only have 302 links coming in and a Page Authority of 48 (out of 100) and Domain Authority of 39.  Looks like your overall domain doesn't have a very good Linkscape which is why you have low PA and DA, and maybe why your Google PageRank is still low.

Your Domain MozTrust and MozRank are very low as well.  Looks like you should investigate the quality and types of links you have coming in, and focus on building quality relative links.

I would follow the urls that GWT say are bad.  This will give you the answers.  Also, for all bad urls, make sure you have GWT re-crawl them."Fetch as Googlebot" and "Submit to Index" under "Diagnostics"

I guess my question is why would you have to 301 redirect from your development (staging) site to the client's live site if you had nofollow, noindex?  Google should not know about the dev site, or even be able to access it.

Sounds like in the new client site there are links going back to the development site.  (maybe rel=canonical).  Or there is a link out there linking to content you don't want found.

Google's not going to index it unless it finds it.  Just jump into Google Webmaster and remove those directories.

Remember, noindex,nofollow or robots.txt are not 100% answers.  You should make these sites password protected.

Based on the industry or competition and the value of top rankings, I would be worried that a site could implement bad link building for competitor sites along with their normal good link building practice for their website.  The goal is to get to the top spot.

If you have your sitemap.xml and have submitted it to both Google and Bing, then you should be fine.

If adding links, try to keep the links within the same category.  For example on the product page you provided, I would have links to the other 5 horse turnout blankets.

The goal with internal linking is to focus category and silo groupings.  Or if you think of each page and remember that everything on that page should be related to what you want to rank for.

And to answer your overall question, I don't believe the changes you have made would hurt you.  But really try to focus your links as groups.

As for sitemaps, if you have correctly designed your site, a sitemap really isn't necessary, so I would probably get rid of it.

There are so many factors that could play into this.  Yes and No.  I would have to take a look at an example to get you a better answer.

It would have to be a significant amount of bad links coming in.  And this would have to be an ongoing practice from the competition to do something like this.

My first impression is that I have no idea what the page is about.  But mainly, there is no guidance in what I should do next.  There is no call to action.

So what is the main purpose of this page?

What is the best way to submit all of your product pages, millions, to Google for serps?  XML, RSS, Google Product Search, etc.

These are products that are updated on a daily basis, and change often.