Well, redirects has it's own specific application and should not implement at other manners that would suspect it as for manipulation. make your site with comprehensive inner page sections which is more formal for people to see.
Google introduce/encourage link buyers and users to use NoFollow tag to protect both of the site from manipulation of PR & ranking which are very prone to penalty and ban.
It's all depending on your site's traffic. Take advantage of social sites to gain more clicks and visitors, from interested guests of course, then Alexa rank will follow.
There's nothing wrong with classic html coding, as long as it makes the content of your site presented well on Google bots, on your visitors and it is light enough to load..
Domain name may give you a plus but doesn't guarantee good rankings, everything will depends on your whole optimization process. Just make sure your site will be built to gain much authority and reputation..
Good idea, just like many webmasters asking how to get PR5 or PR7 or PR9 with just link building, the point there is that those sites have awesome services. So to get noticed, be different and serve true services.
With great improvement of wordpress platform, there are glitches where spammers can easily get through and make post or edit contents. That's a nice tip there how to protect wordpress blogs.
Good tricks there but with recent Google Content Farmer update, I wonder how would those autoblogger affected for Google is sensitive with sites that just copy-paste contents.