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seo for google places is done by building citations and organic local seo is done by building your brand in your local community, and earning links to your website. google ranks google places and the local organic section on local links and citations. You should be able to rank for both
As suggested in the above comment you can get to your htaccess file in yoast or you can also get to it manually on your server.
IMO The best way to earn links is by building quality content on your own site and get industry related people to link to it. I would look for the best social media outlets for your niche. You can also look for industry related blogs, interact and win.
If you no follow the link you should be fine. Googles looks at too many internal follow links on a page as an overoptimization (manipulation) attempt.
If you download the app and follow the instructions in that article you should be just fine, don't be intimated and if you have any more questions while you are setting up your Yoast account ask them here and someone will help you out 
There are several tools available to in wordpress. I use Yoast, it is a great tool. Here is a good aticle that will help you set up the tool and understand how wordpress works: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success
Sorry about that I miss read the question completely 
perhaps you can do some A/B testing on the Food Container for Dogs page**.**
The other pages that are converting well, do they look similar? do the offer anything different?
I would test the page to see if the traffic that is coming in is finding what they are looking for.
If you do take down a page you can do a 301 redirect and transfer link juice.
Hi Haviv,
If you want to find the keyword volume for a term you can use Google Adwords Keyword tool to find the volume of searches for your keyword phrases. Be sure to check the box on the left to exact.
Hope this helps.
There is no timeline, it takes time for your site to become trustworthy. Depending on the competition level and how you develop your site and market your brand will determine these results.
Hope this helps.
I would use google's keyword tool to find searches that have volume. Be sure to check the exact box on the left.
Once you have the terms use seomoz on page report card tool to target 1-2 keywords per page.
In order to rank for all of your keywords you need to earn branded links to your site. There are tons of articles in the seomoz blog which will help you achieve results.
HI loevgaard,
Solar panels are green and creating content should not be too challenging. The challenge is finding the right social media outlets or industry leading editors to help get your content visibility. IMO if your content will educate, entertain, or guide a user it is not enough.
I would use followerwonk to find real people that are in this niche, talking about it and getting social interaction. Network with them, earn their trust by reading and innovating. Once you network with the industry gurus you will be able to create the content they will want to share, or better yet link to off of your blog 
Hope this helps.
If the content that exists on the page is identical then yes, it is duplicate content and may negatively impact your site. You can set up a canonical tag to one page and let the search engines know that the content is pulling from one place.
However, if you are optimizing these pages and building links to them the canonical will not be a good solution. If these pages are targeting keywords you will need to build unique content for each page.
Hi Chanel,
Yes, many tips : )
If you are working on getting local listings on Google places you will need to build citations.
A citation is your Name Address and phone number. Every citation must match the info you placed on your Google local page.
I would recommend starting off by listing your site in good directories that have relevant categories and then earning citations from local web sites(http://searchengineland.com/where-to-get-citations-for-local-seo-105667). This will require off line work such as sponsoring something locally and getting a citation on the site.
here is a good webinar on the topic http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/you-probably-think-this-citation-source-is-about-you-dont-you
Hope this helps.
HI Chris,
This is a good question, the first thing I would do is check how competitive these terms are. If the terms are really competitive it would be better to build individual pages with unique content on each. It is best to target one-two words max per page. (esp. if the terms are competitive)
As far as anchor text (link building), I would read up on a clean link profile (Natural linking).
Hope this helps.
There is more then one way to verify..
To verify that you own a site, you have a number of options. You can:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35179
HI mGordon,
I would use the Company name which happens to be exact. During a recent update many sites were affected by what Google called a Exact Match Domain Devaluation, however I recall reading something from Dr.Pete (seomoz staff guru) that this was not the case, and more sites that had Part Match Domains were hit by the algo change. I know of a site that fell with a domain that had Company[Exact Keyword].
As long as your company name and your keyword are exact I don't think Google will not punish your site. Also if you focus primarily on earning relevant links with your contents you will indicate to Google that your site has trustworthy documents in its index.
IMO The best way to earn links is by building quality content on your own site and get industry related people to link to it. I would look for the best social media outlets for your niche. You can also look for industry related blogs, interact and win.
IMO this question is very difficult to answer. There are many different tools that may help one niche and not another. Also, there are many opinions on each tool.
Here is a great link for tools/articles that are rated by real people: http://inbound.org/tools
There are several tools available to in wordpress. I use Yoast, it is a great tool. Here is a good aticle that will help you set up the tool and understand how wordpress works: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success
Should we use 'disavow' if we dramatically dropped serps after Oct 5th, but did not receive a warning?
Not necessarily, here is a good read on who should use this tool: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-disavow-tool-take-a-deep-breath