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Hi, I just create my site in English. Site is 7 months about, site was in Greek before but I decide to expand on the international market. I didn't start to build links yet, I need also to add some content. At moment have only a blog post. You will suggest the press release as first step? I should wait when I put more content? I can add content, links and after do a press release?  Any advice will be helpful. Thanks in Advance

Thank you Jared and Chris I appreciate your responses.

I started with guest blogging. It worked great to get some nice targeted back links but also kept you in the practice of writing. Another not well known trick that i found is that scribd.com still offers followed backlinks if your documents reach a certain number of views. Cheers - Kyle

We were on the blogroll of a site that had 7,000 odd pages but these links weren’t yet being displayed in our GWT.  We pre-emptively requested that the link was removed but 30-40 days later the now non-existent links started to be picked up and reported in GWT.  Two months later and they’re still there. It does appear there is somewhat of a staleness to the data.

If you are willing to pay, go with vBulletin. phpBB would be the best free alternative (there are plenty of mods/plugins that can make the site very SEO friendly)

Use the tools in open  site explorer, in the inbound links section( it says no follow)

Thanks for your reply Malcolm Yes, I am looking at data from OSE. When you say low quality links how do you quantify them? Is it the DA or PR? Where can I get data on the number of referring domains?

Thanks Keri, Good to know. Cheers Aidan

If the backlinks are on a page with high toolbar pagerank, I would think that they might be considered authority and crawled decently often. You may not get too many responses to this type of question here, since a lot of the focus of SEOmoz is more on earning high-quality, relevant links. Just the type of place this is. If you give us a URL or more details, we're happy to take a look at your site and give any advice.

There must be a way to include your link.. First link, category search and in the results theres a Supplier Guide - P.1 - P.7 Second link shows one of the listed suppliers from one of the pages and they have links to their site on the page. http://metals.about.com/od/manufacturedmetalsgoods/l/aametalbldgs.htm http://metals.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.heritagebuildings.com/

Hi Tung - welcome. A lot of times when you search for a keyword that exactly matches your domain, Google will show sitelinks, as long as the keyword isnt generic, even if the site is relatively new. Looks like you just got cached today.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/24/mitt-romney-airplane-windows_n_1910930.html It seems hit and miss on each article. Most flagged as "social reading" have some part of the widget, while others don't. Hmmmmm! Did a little searching around: http://mashable.com/2010/04/14/twitter-anywhere-launch/ I think this module comes from Twitter anywhere api.

That what I do. All important old urls will have and 301 redirect. I contact webmasters to change links to new urls. As far I know rel is just a recommendation to s.e. but it´s not a redirect. I prefer to have rel but change in urls must have 301 redirect to transfer link value. Hope help you Dani

I would think that those numbers could greatly vary.  Sometimes a pile of links in WMT can come from weird sources like askives.com.  If someone does a websearch on askives and your site is related to their search then all of a sudden there can be 100 new links that appear to your site and they can be gone with the next Google crawl. You really can't analyze a traffic drop properly until you've got a good amount of data...like more than a day.  

Most directories are not worth your time or money for link building purposes.  Some of them are still good for Local Search.  Most of the time you're better off using a Local Search product like ExpressUpdate, Localeze, UBL, or Axiom for these, since it's not worth your time to go and manually submit to 300+ directories.

It won't give you link juice.  It might give you traffic, but probably not a lot.  There are probably other opportunities that your time/money are better spent on.

Hi, Thanks for reply - yes, we have the 301 redirects in order. We are quite a big company, and high profiled, so we have to be aware of competitors or other people who wants to damage our brand, but then again, we also need to cut our costs :-). So the way i will proceed with this is: 1. Make sure we have the most important branded URLs, or actually all of them, so all ourdomain.everything, so that we also have www.ourdomain.xxx. 2. Go through the URLs we have, and keep the ones that give us link equity - i will test this via Site Explorer, and get rid of the ones that does not have any link equity.

I recommend that you take the time to regularly read about the developments in SEO, otherwise you'll be months behind, as you currently are. Use common sense rather than metrics to decide which links will be good for you. If it's not relevant and from a credible source, then there's little use. Here's a great video from Wil Reynolds about good link-building strategies... http://www.seomoz.org/blog/2012-mozcon-videos-are-here