SEO questions

I am very new to the world of web design. I have recently launched one of my first websites:
American Power Group - Home
I did quite a bit of research on how to make my site as SEO friendly as possible. I recently ran a SEO "check up" and some things came up that I had no idea how to remedy:
Robots.txt Test
Your site lacks a "robots.txt" file. This file can protect private content from appearing online, save bandwidth, and lower load on your server. A missing "robots.txt" file also generates additional errors in your apache log whenever robots request one.
Inline CSS Test
Your webpage is using 26 inline CSS properties!
Page Cache Test
It does not appear that you are caching your pages. Cached pages serve up static html and avoid potentially time consuming queries to your database. It also helps lower server load by up to 80%. Caching most visibly benefits high traffic pages that access a database, but whose content does not change on every page view. Common caching methods include Alternative PHP Cache, Quickcache, and jpcache. Caching mechanisms also typically compress HTML, further reducing page size and load time.
JS Minification Test
You have more than one JS file. Try combining them into one in order to decrease the number of HTTP requests.
CSS Minification Test
You have more than one CSS file. Try combining them into one in order to decrease the number of HTTP requests.
Can anyone explain what these are and if/how I can fix these in Muse?
Thank you!

Hi, I will try to explain,
Robots.txt
Thi sfile is used to provide instructions about their site to web robots;
At the moment your site does not have any robots.txt file, so you can create one and upload it via File upload or using FTP connection
a detailed instructions can be check here
http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html
Inline CSS
An inline style can be used if a unique style is to be applied to one single occurrence of an element.
detailed instructions can be check here
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_css.asp
Page Caching
http://www.seositecheckup.com/articles/109
JS Minification
It means removing all unnecessary characters, such as spaces, new lines, comments without affecting the functionality of the source code.
You can use Online JS compresser http://jscompress.com/
Hope this helps.

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Now on to the file name thing. Should the file names be portrait-painting-01 and so on or should they be Cattle-on-hill or what?
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The examples you cited would look like:
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alt="A%20group%20of%20cows%20grazing%20in%20pasture%20under%20moonlight."
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<img src="img/example-1.jpg" width="128" height="160" alt="example-1.jpg" />
Above is an example of how to add alt text. Dreamweaver actually loads the alt tag automatically unless you've turned it off somehow.
Either put the info in the Alt box in the properties panel, or in code view, add it between the quotes.
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Appreciate the help, seems like asking SEO questions wouldn't be appropriate here. Correct me if I'm wrong
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As always, you are such a reliable source of help! :-)
That robots.txt you mentioned...do what with that? I mean, how does that tell it "dont index the images"? For that matter, there are tons of pages on the server I don't want being indexed yet either because they are half baked for later development.
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Properly indexed

Problem in my blogg
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"Flash content has been detected on this page.
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EVERYTHING inside the [ and ] is INVISIBLE. People build entire sites in a Flash container and the wonder WHY they have pi$$ poor rankings with Google, Yahoo and Bing to name a few.
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Sorry I thought I should make this question simpler ...
Something has gone wrong with my iweb SEO tool
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would take a week.
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t does exactly the same bad thing to every page when I try and use it.
Which is?
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I have searched the web and Rage softwares site but can't
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K

Please email us and we can help you solve this problem. Please include your website URL and anymore details such as a screenshot of what the page looks like after applying your tags.
You can take a screenshot by holding down the COMMAND and SHIFT keys on your keyboard and then pressing the number 3. An image file will appear on your desktop, please send that to me. If your email client asks, select the option to send the full size, or original image file.
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