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You have to keep working at adding valuable content, and providing a great user experience.
At the same time you should never be satisfied with your backlink profile. Keep working on building them - but stick to high quality, relevant, and non-spammy links.
They are hard to get, but worth the time.
I would redirect all variations to www.abc.com as well as REL=Canonical back to www.abc.com. This should solve you issues.
It is because the MOZ crawl didn't pick up that pinterest page.
One thing I would recommend - on http://www.chicfamilytravels.com/: Your link to "follow me on Pinterest" which goes to http://www.pinterest.com/ChicFamily+/ is a dead link. Update it to the correct link http://www.pinterest.com/ChicFamily/
Hope that helps.
I agree with Jesse - this would cause major red flags to go up at google.
My pleasure! 
Exactly - as Keri explained, they try to crawl the most valuable links.
By linking to the correct pinterest page, you will signal to MOZ (and google) that your Pinterest profile is worth crawling/indexing, and it will gain more page authority as well.
I agree with Ron. I would not trade links with any random site, especially not one with SEO in the URL.
I would focus on the Page Title, and Duplicate Content stuff first.
The description tag won't hurt or help your ranking, it will just have an effect on your CTR.
Once you go through the Title & Content, start remedying the # of links.
Hope that helps.
Look in OSE: Showing only _rel=nofollow _links from external pages to pages on this root domain:
It shows only 17 no-follow external links to pages on your site.
Wow - I have received an email like that recently, and was surprised that the person emailing me would want to take his link down - but now it all makes sense. It was a competitor all along!
Talk about Negative/black-hat tactics!
From my experience these two systems update at different speeds, so it is possible to see errors on one platform but not the other. I would first go by MOZ and then check GWT. In both cases however, if a crawl error occurs it should be examined whether it is on either one.
Can you give an example where it adds your URL as plain text to the code of the page?
I don't think leaving Disqus comments will harm, or benefit, your site SEO wise. I would feel free to comment as you would naturally, while not trying to comment unnecessarily for SEO benefits.
It will depend on your industry and what type of customers you are looking to target. If making the site responsive will cause a strong influx of traffic to the website (i.e. if many of your users are from a mobile device), it may be worth the move. It is important to remember that SEO is a marathon and not a sprint. The long term results of changing your website may be worth the sacrifice of a short lived top ranking.
Whenever the topic of possibly sacrificing current position for future growth potential arises, you must first evaluate how beneficial can a move like this be? Will it attract a market that has been neglected up until now? and if it does drop in rankings how will that affect revenue and are you in the right position to regain your spot on top?
Two important things to remember in preparation of a change like this is:
1. Make backups of your site as insurance.
2. Try to gain as many quality links and boost your social media presence as much as possible before the change. This will help regain the top spot if it does hurt the ranking.
Hope this helped!
The Yoast SEO plugin is the way to go, as jStrong and Vadim have mentioned.
I have seen proof that white hat SEO leads to rankings.
I have not seen proof that Social Signals alone will lead to rankings. I agree with EGOL - you should focus your attention on the quality of the content, and possibly more white-hat link building, rather than going ALL-IN on social.
As a link builder - I would not pay attention to dofollow vs. nofollow ratios. Just go and try to get the best links you can, whether followed or no-followed.
As far as the anchors - I would personally allow the anchors to be as natural as possible, so when you ask for a link to a page from a webmaster, don't even include what you would like the anchor to be - just let them pick naturally.
First of all, when I search for "fur elise violin and piano sheet music" your pages come up TWICE on page one - results number 6, and 7.
The Viola page comes in at #6, and the Violin at #7.
I would rather have two results rather than one - so consider yourself lucky. (I'm not sure if this is coming up like this on your SERP page, but regardless - your results are personalized for you - I would check www.startpage.com - and I'll bet you see the "real" results (#7 & #8)
One thing that stands out to me about your Viola page which may be why it is beating you Volin page:
It includes "Scorch" files, which the other page does not
Hope this helps
Agree with Lynn and KempRuge. Hard to give feedback without more info.
Also, someone who I follow for this type of stuff is Gary Vaynerchuk - follow him on FB/twitter and check out his website. http://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/
He is unbelievable.
His mindset and advice will surely help you figure out your social media strategy.
Wow - nice graph! Where is that data from?
I would add text based content to give your readers, and google, more info about the landing page.
While having your desired keywords throughout your webpage is an effective tool for helping SE results, it is by no means the only factor. Some have even suggested that as time passes, Google will continue to diminish the importance of parts of this strategy.
Even if it is not considered stuffing there are well over 200 factors that go into Google's algorithm. The loss in rankings can be caused by a number of potential issues. For example, poor quality links or other potential issues with the website may be hurting your results. It is difficult to determine the exact reasons without seeing your website. Another possibility is your competitors are utilizing more effective strategies in their marketing efforts to target those keywords, that is helping their website performance.
I have not heard of one - but if you find one please share with us! I would love to take a look
I think the time frame will be different for every site - I believe mostly dependent on how often google crawls your site. The more authority you have (and the faster google crawls), the quicker they will update.
Why don't you cancel your brand new account, and upgrade you old account - and create the campaigns in the old account.
The debate between UX and SEO has always been a pressing concern within the internet marketing community. While years ago these two factors were considered separate, as time passes the industry has realized that these two are not independent from one another but should work together.
That being said, I am always an advocate of launching a website as soon as it is ready. Of course this is only the case if all of the duplicate content, low-quality links and SEO black hat strategies have been removed. If any of these factors are present it can have a negative impact on site performance and where possible should be removed.
Like mentioned below, how long the website has been up can have an influence on ranking as well as other factors that you can be receiving credit for by not postponing the launch. In addition, SEO is a continuous effort that is never completely done, therefore I would recommend launching the website and then implementing your changes.
One method I've found successful is to leverage what is being discussed on different social media platforms. Through using Google Plus and what is trending on twitter (as well as others), you can discover relevant topics relating to your industry and utilize those topics to create content that is more likely to be shared or visited. See what other companies within your industry are having success posting as an idea.