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Yes, I thought that's what you meant ... thanks!

Could you say more about what kind of link building you plan to do? I can't imagine that you need a landing page, unless you want to track the traffic from the campaign and/or the links obtained ...  then a landing page would make sense.

The robots.txt file DOES contain

User-agent: Msnbot
Crawl-delay: 120
Disallow: /key-west-blog/*?*
Disallow: /key-west-blog/*.rss
Disallow: /key-west-blog/*feed
Disallow: /key-west-blog/*trackback
Disallow: /key-west-blog/*wp-
Disallow: /key-west-blog/*login.php
Disallow: /key-west-blog/tag/
Disallow: /key-west-blog/search/
Disallow: /key-west-blog/archives/
Disallow: /key-west-blog/category/
Disallow: /key-west-blog/2009
Disallow: /key-west-blog/2010

But you are saying I should remove the lines with noindex? 

The SEOMoz crawl tool is telling me that I have a slew of crawl errors on the blog of one domain. All are related to the MSNbot. And related to trackbacks (which we do want to block, right?) and attachments (makes sense to block those, too) ... any idea why these are crawl issues with MSNbot and not Google? My robots.txt is here: http://www.wevegotthekeys.com/robots.txt.

Thanks, MJ

I love SproutSocial, but the only other Twitter platform I've tried was Tweetdeck. I might never have looked beyond, but TD stopped working on my desktop and it wouldn't uninstall correctly ...blah blah.

I've used Sprout for a while now, and love a lot of the features. The ability to post to Facebook or not for any give post is nice ... and I like the clean up feature. Search tools are great and I find it easy to find new folks to follow.

I played with it a little last year, but I didn't make any connections for link exchanges. It hadn't occurred to me to use it like that ... I do like to exchange with highly relevant, quality sites ... shhh, don't tell. ;D.

What keywords are you already targeting?

I assume your title tag should give me a clue:

Changing Limiting Beliefs | Belief Change | Create the Life You Want | Practical Skills to get what you want"

And are you already using Google's keyword tool? If so, and you are targeting changing limiting beliefs, Google's tool offers these:

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How about 'law of attraction' and that related group of phrases?

I don't believe they have any SEO  value in Google (or elsewhere). Why would they? The Open Graph tags are used to control how a link appears in Facebook when a page is shared or liked there. So they have a value in FB, but none in search engines to the best of my knowledge.

Christopher is correct; the link juice is divided between all the links on the page whether the links have the nofollow attribute is lost. So, the suggestion that you can tell Google where to send the link juice (called PageRank sculpting) is erroneous.

You can block those pages from being crawled and indexed via your robots text, but again, it will not mean more link juice is passed to the crawled pages.

The concept of "too many links" was fostered by A Google Webmaster Guideline of some years ago that advised against more than 100 links on a page. Google warned that not all links were likely to be crawled if there were so many.

Google now says that is no longer an issue. However, that many links on a page can present an issue with usability for your site visitors and that should be your guiding light on the number  of links per page.

Bruce Clay's site is a great place to start.: https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=silo+site:bruceclay.com&pbx=1&oq=silo+site:bruceclay.com&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=11392l11854l8l12152l3l3l0l0l0l0l160l403l1.2l3l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=27bb19e28ec96caa&biw=1333&bih=624

I would not be concerned with optimizing for internal search. You want to optimize for Google, Bing and Yahoo. The Learn SEO files here on SEOMoz should give you the basics, and you might find it very helpful to use the on page analysis tool to go over the basic onsite optimization factors.

Not sure I have ever used a page number on a site, though I do see sites that use them when they have a string of say, affiliate pages ... a way to answer this question is to ask: how will it help the visitor to my site?

I have never had success in getting a link from or even an idea picked up by/through HARO. And I do think that I have offered some useful tidbits, etc, but there are a lot of others offering useful info, too.  The service is probably more effective for journalists than for SEOs or webmasters. I  am US based.

Bruce Clay's site is a great place to start.: https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=silo+site:bruceclay.com&pbx=1&oq=silo+site:bruceclay.com&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=11392l11854l8l12152l3l3l0l0l0l0l160l403l1.2l3l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=27bb19e28ec96caa&biw=1333&bih=624

No reason too worry, as others have said. I  don't advise nollow, actually - in general, I believe comments should be moderated; if they are spammy they'll never be followed because they won't be approved. But a clearly stated moderation policy that lets readers know that substantive comments are appreciate - and rewarded with a followed link - encourages good contribution, IMO.

You're on the right track - Adwords willl give you the more  reliable assessment of how often a term is actually searched. Every tool I've tried has returned different numbers.

I advise extra butter on the greens.

First of all, the position of a website is not dependent upon adding content. If the site has relevant, original content and quality incoming links, the site's position will not slip if there is no new content. Promise.

Your idea sounds great! By all means, you can ask for an email if you like ... but why not put a "top ten site" list on the home page, with your site at the top to make sure everyone is likely to see that? You can also feature NoahsDad.com on every page in some way ... in the sidebar or at the bottom. It might say: this directory sponsored by NoahsDdad.com. Something like that.

Hope that helps.

I would 301 all the pages; it's "best practice," IMO.. The old pages had juice just from the fact that they existed; ie. inbound links aren't the only value you want to preserve. And, as ASR points out, best to avoid the 404s. The redirects are not just for the PageRank, but to allow search engines to easily reindex the content.

1. Yes, that's what many SEOs believe.

2. Use both plural and singular forms in your content, internal links and strive to obtain external links with both.

3. Make sure you aren't over-optimizing (I tend in that direction sometimes and am trying to break the habit. ) and be sure to use the keywords naturally on the page near the photos.

I don't believe that there is any onpage optimization to make it more likely that Yahoo vs. Google will index posts. There are things you can do to increase crawl rate, which will  makes it more likely to have more pages indexed. For example,  you can make sure you  have resolved any duplicate content issues on  your site - archives for example, should be excluded by robots.txt (there are WP plugins to help with this, btw).

Perhaps more to the point, I believe social media -- bookmarking, Tweeting, Facebook Page links, etc. -- can increase indexing of posts. I know it works in Google, perhaps someone else can it works in  Yahoo.

Social media does have a direct impact on SEO - links in Twitter, for example, are fed to Google with Twitter's nofollow attribute removed. But the impact of a single link in Twitter is far less significant than a link from a website where is will be seen over and over. The value of a Twitter link increases, though, with the influence of the Tweeter.So, the object is, as others have said, to create a community or, circle of influence.