Do you have a Google account with Webmaster Tools?  If not, go ahead and sign up for one (it's free!) then submit your site for reconsideration to Google.  While you're at it, make sure your XML site map is working.  You should be back on Google within a few days to a week.

It sounds like this is a short-term nofollow situation, so that shouldn't be too much of an issue.

-John

There are a couple of different approaches to take.  My personal fave is the "noindex,follow" on tag & category pages.  Having said that, I've heard of some people who have great category rankings.  That may depend on just how much duplication you have going on between the category/summary page and the actual blog post pages.

The Yoast SEO and All in One SEO plugs are great for WP by the way.

Are you trying to rank your images in Google image search?  If so, make sure the full path for each component stays the same.

As for general SEO, you're right on track.  The performance boost from the parallel loading will be one more step to help you rank!

The "See what Cerritos Nissan customers...." anchor text is pretty lengthy.  If I understand correctly, the 6 - 8 word max or less than 55-60 character rule of thumb should apply to the anchor text.  Like most other things related, keeping it in check seems to make the most sense.  If the anchor text is more descriptive this will give the link more weight.

On the shorter side of things though... How many times have we seen "click here" to download.  Is the link value "click here"... or rather is it about the page or item we're clicking to get to?

-John

Hey everyone... just seeing who's going to MozCon next month?  It would be nice to connect some usernames and faces when I get there!