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This "practices" does not work. There were several experiments published, that lead to this conclusion.

Google always takes the first alt / anchor text, no matter if it is nofollow / dofollow.

A workaround is to switch the positions in the source code. (first the textlink and than the imagelink). In most cases this is possible (css -> float) without changing the "optical" order on the page.

Yes. We load all of this data:

• keyword difficulty score
• traffic estimates
• cpc

in a spreadsheet, calculate a weighted score with min/max-caps and sort all keyphrases by this score. And voila ... we have a todo

Don't care for your competition. Don't care for the new fancy SEO stuff. Don't care for tricks or the "easy way".

Just do your homework. (site architecture, crawlability, quality links & content)

Here at SEOmoz that means:

1. Kill all the errors in "Crawl Diagnostics"

2. Bring all your keywords to an "Grade A" in On-page

3. Be the peer group leader in "Link Analysis"

Three simple steps ... easy as 1..2..3. Not really

Yes! In the past I have always tried to work around such issues. But in the last few months I have made good experiences in contacting product developers. And in most cases, they react and improve their software. Have a nice day. Sunny regards from Germany, Sebastian

You have to ask yourself, if there are enough searches for "XY size z"?

If not -> I would collect the link power in one page per product.

But as you say, it is bad, if the listed size is out of stock. But is it not possible, that the visitor can chose his size in a pull down menu?

If you can not change the "size" on the product page, you do allready have a problem.

Imagine me, searching for "product XY" and landing on "XS" instead of my size (L). I am lost

Internal duplicate content can hurt your rankings. You waste link power on the copies, that should promote the original.

If your software generates variations, i would insert a rel=canical pointing from all those variations to the orginial.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

We do excactly that. We have a wordpress installation with 50+ niche blogs and another with 5 magazines. It has many advantages, to use the same codebase. And even to use the same theme as we do on:

http://www.naanoo.com
http://www.techboom.de
http://www.stylingqueens.de

because, every step towards better usability, crawlability etc. helps all your sites.

If all you sites are conform with the Google guidelines i don't see any problems doing so. Our experience with it is good.

PS: 5. Would be -> do SEO for the best converting keys

I do not know a tool, that predicts conversion rates. But if you see, that a competitor is doing heavy link-building on a page / key, it is very likely, that it is converting well

You could try this just with Open Site Explorer here at SEOMOZ. Check the domain of a competitor -> click on "top pages". You will see the most linked to pages.

Check the titles of those pages and with a high probability you will have his top converting keywords.

We used W3 Total Cache for about 2 years. But there was a problem with recent versions of this plugin.

The cache is cleared every time, we posted something new.

We have 100.000+ posts in our WP-database. And each time (100+ times a day) we published something, it cleared all our cache objects. (at least in disk-caching mode -> no matter, what settings we used)

So we switched to Quick Cache. This plugin is way simplier. But it does the job for us.

PS: As we are Germans, we use Sistrix, Searchmetrics, WISE for discovering the keywords of our competitors. I have no suggestion for the us/uk-market. But I hope SEOmoz will offer a keyword tool in the future

We have a 4-step-process for keyword-discovery:

1. we do a brainstorming session and collect all keywords, that come to our minds
2. we create an adwords campain an run all these keywords / phrases in broad match
3. we keep only those combinations, that convert well
4. we use "spy tools" to collect our competitors keywords / phases and restart with them at 2.

Yes, that works in some cases. I have heart

Since the April 2011 Google is very strict with their guidelines. They started to drop news source, that mainly publish new agency content.

Do you have unique written news?

That is a thing, I monitor for my own sites also! Combined with web analytics this delivers strong potential for SEO

Yes!

1. Go to http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/

2. enter the URL of the competitor

3. click the "top pages" tab

Voila!

Nightly regards from Germany

Sebastian

Yes, that is, what I do after each update. But it would be nice, if the software does it for me. Thats why I asked, if I have overlooked something.

Do you know, where I can make feature request?

Thank you for your reply. I have checked this report.

But it seems to display only the data from the last update. No historical data or historical chart.

I would like to see the development of a domain over time. (like in majestic, searchmetrics or sistrix)

Is there a funktion / tool, that displays domain data like:

Domain Authority
Domain MozRank
Domain MozTrust
No. of Links
No. of linking Domains

historical?