have you already know that sitemap for search engine and for search users are different? or there a two sitemap, one is for search engine which in the form of XML and another one is for your users which is usually in the for of HTML.
here's the link; http://www.doheth.co.uk/info/list-of-web-sites-with-high-page-rank.php, If you want to see more website with at least pr9. you can also use this as your good resources...
Website it should be analyze to its internal (On-page optimization) and external (Off-page optimization) aspect and make a list of the problem and the steps or move that you will do. hope you get my point...
Yes it will, that would be a good advantages for site since you had a thousand pages to crawl by the SE robots and it make easy to robots to crawl your pages.
Having a millions pages also get hard for robots to crawl all those pages better thing to do is to make a way on how robot will easily crawl your pages and theres a lot option you ca use.
what SE would you want to place? in Google just got to their customized SE... here's the link; http://www.google.com/coop/cse/, then explore you self to learn it...
don't make a blog as your way for another promotional ads into your site instead make a blog that something useful and informative to your visitors which would create a good reputation to your site. Then eventually the ROI will be created on that strategy... i hope you get my point...
I think it will depend to the owner of the site but if am the owner i would not allow any advertiser to see some of the important details of my site...
For me the best way to promote a site is by making an article which very useful to your users then eventually they realize how prominent your site is...
Nope! the only difference is that how they will feature or long your site in those directories. For SE theres no advantage if your site listed in paid directories... natural way are much better and most like by SEs...
how about the directory submission... and it would also a big factor if you could listed your site to DMOZ but its not easy as other directory. so try to read their rules on submission...
Yes! i agree and another theres a lot of free tools where you can use without spending money... and you can get on top by using natural or pure organic method...