Breadcrumbs help with navigation purposes and are there for the user experience. Personally, I feel as though they provide a greater user experience.

I would do some analysis work and put a heat map on your site. Try using hotjar they have a free subscription model that I think will come in handy. You can also see where users are clicking the most etc. Do you some research and analysis work before removing elements. Also, Google is not going to de-index pages just because you remove bread crumbs so you have no worries there.

Personally after looking at your attachment I would remove the entire far right column and widen all the other elements. You already have the "click here" button and everything else seems a bit redundant.

It is a nightmare sometimes. I've done a few audits and found everything from important blocked resources to important landing pages that are only accessible in a pdf format.

Your welcome. Let me know if there are any additional questions you may have. Feel free to shoot me a message.

Well, there are a lot of SEO issues in the higher ed space I've seen. Since that would not be considered a "publicly facing department" I would imagine that would be overkill. My rule of thumb generally is if it provides good user experience go for it.

When I run the local search I see two verified listing for 'Ashbury University' with different addresses I would consolidate those first. Also, according to Google's guidelines 'Publicly-facing departments that operate as distinct entities should have their own page.' As long as the name is different from that of the main campus you will be fine. Keep the other buildings listings open.

I think this is a unique issue I think there might be a few different ways of handling it. I am assuming those buildings have different addresses and specific functions. The first option you can claim those local listing etc in local directories and properly fill out the local information accordingly. Or the second option would be to just maintain one listing for the school overall.

I would use Moz's local search tool and see how you already appear in the listings. Personally, I would lean towards having one local listing for the campus and if you have separate sister campuses I would claim those as well.

Since Google can crawl them I am inclined to say yes however, I would imagine that it would not count as much as other types of backlinks. It certainly would not hurt to ask users if they found your content useful to drop a link back from their website as well.

I think quality links should be taken into consideration more heavily over quantity. A few quality backlinks would be a lot more beneficial than a vast amount of poor backlinks.

Don't try to quantify how much focus on the quality while building strategic marketing relationships and you will be fine.

I say go for it and test it to see what sort of traction you can gain with it. Personally I wouldn't do it for a client website or anything but it would make a neat project to test out.

Not necessarily, it depends on how you look at it. His specific site brings value to others looking to optimize and learn SEO. You can apply those same techniques to a blog on a subject you feel passionate about to test out some of his techniques.

At first glance, he seems like a sketchy affiliate marketer. However, I could be wrong. If you want to find out if he is legit you could always purchase a domain and try out some of his techniques and see how they work and if Google destroy's your new site.

Could be a fun experiment.

Duluth trading co has some good examples of product level page content. However there isnt a lot of category level content on most pages. But I think they have some good examples and ideas anyone can borrow from.