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It does. But there are ways around it. As long as your content distribution method degrades gracefully, there's no problem. Generally, the content I would want to lazy load are items that could be paginated, so lazy loading without javascript falls back to pagination. That's one way to deal with the issue, but generally, if you're dealing with mission-critical content, you'll always want to make sure there's a non-javascript way to access it.

If you're just lazy loading images, there's generally not an issue unless you're using javascript to insert the image into the HTML, which would just be silly.

I would tell you to ditch Flash, but there's no flash in the example you gave us. It's all good ol' fashioned Javascript/AJAX. Their site doesn't degrade very gracefully without javascript. In fact, the entire site is offensively slow and difficult to navigate.

However, I'm happy to report that without CSS or Javascript, the site loads just fine. I don't see any issue with it being indexed apart from you'll need to canonicalize your pages, and the silly URL parameters:

Example: subcontent.php?sc=our-family-tree

That would look so much better if it were: /our-family-tree

Otherwise, it's really hard to judge the SEO of a site without content, because I'm mainly looking for title tags, meta descriptions, navigational structure, anchor text, keyword usage, and so on.

http://me.graficode.com/preprod/subcontent.php?sc=our-family-tree

It's hard to tell what you mean by "java navigation". That could be a lot of different things, so I'll just say this:

Everything relevant to a particular topic on one page. A product, for example:

The pictures are all on that page, the description is on that page, and reviews are on that page, everything. You can use navigational aids like accordions, or tabs using javascript as long everything for that item is on one page. No asynchronous loading, or iframes. No mess, no fuss. It's all right there for customers or search engines to find. Masking your content to weed out search engines for customers is definitely a detrimental strategy.

Plus, why in the world can't they just include the reviews on the product page? I am confused at how that is difficult. I will NEVER use AJAX for loading mission-critical content. Even if it's just our twitter feed. I use it for sending and receiving data, and loading in components like notifications or non-critical functionality.

Bingo! The key is to delegate and use your talent where it matters.

Another quick tip. There's a blogger movement called "DoFollow Blogging" where they allow dofollow comments on their blogs. There's no real way to seek these people out well enough per niche.

However, there's a little plugin out there called "keywordluv" Searching for your niche+"keywordluv" brings up blogs with the keywordluv notice. They're almost entirely dofollow, and they're constantly hunting for good commenters. Leave something insightful and relevant to the conversation, and it'll be the easiest link you've ever gotten.

Your copywriter should be able to churn out about 1200 words an 8 hour day and manage 3 to 4 submissions a week. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Keep tabulating by the word. If you're paying more than 13 cents a word, you're paying too much.

Text broker prices are around 6-7 cents a word, but remember, your in-house copywriter is contacting bloggers, submitting articles, managing my social media, and maintaining these relationships. I value that enough to pay double.

It's not particularly important. "Blog" doesn't offer any sort of semantic importance to the content underneath. Singular and dense category landing pages are the goal with this strategy. That's more important than creating a URL distinction between your blog and static content.

Ditch "blog" in the URL entirely unless your model specifically keeps the blog under a separate directory as it currently is. Just ensure the category landing pages are syndicating content or provides some method of navigation that's relevant to the category.

Your existing model duplicates that landing page, so it's preferable to go: myurl.com/category1/mypost.html or myurl.com/blog/mypost.html.

This is really more of an accessibility and navigational issue, rather than SEO. It was big a few years ago, but I'm betting its effects will be negligible. It's just nice to have these sort of things organized, especially before you start a link building campaign where a small mistake in redirection could really hurt. I feel your time may be better spent on content strategy rather than PR sculpting.

Javascript and cookies. Some sort of modal window. Hands down. Fulfills your legal requirements, and doesn't hinder the content.