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In my opinion this would depend on whether or not your going after this as your primary keyword.  I co-own a site that sells custom t-shirts.  The phrase "custom t-shirts" has always driven the most volume and conversion so we optimize our homepage for it.  If your website is a camera shop and you are launching into iPhone repair or something like that I would be more inclined to link it down to the subpage.  So in my opinion if this is one of the top 2 or 3 keywords you are targeting I would go root domain.  If it is something less than that I would break it down to the subdomain where you can add better supporting content.

Hi Stephen, I'm in Budapest, Hungary right now and have some connections in Serbia too. Let's continue in PM! Thanks

You're not missing anything. People link to useful or fun content. Unfortunately, I honestly can't think of any reason why I would want to link to a real estate article.That being said, I'm almost positive that I'm not alone. The power is not in the links and guest spots. It's in your site content. I have sites that rank for very competitive keywords and some of them don't even have links in the double digits. Content is king. Whatever the topic of your site is, you need to figure out what advantage a person would have coming to you instead of a competitor and capitalize on that. If you have the best closing rates, draw attention to that. Have more properties than anyone else? Scream it.  Can you always get a deal closed when someone has bad credit? Tell them. Offer more information on the topic than what someone else does. Services to use, tips on what to look for when looking at homes, how to negotiate the best pricing, etc. And keep the focus on location (i.e. Oxford). Going too broad in the real estate realm is way too competitive for an individual agent to keep up with. Between building out your content and remaining vigilant in your article writing, real estate blog contributions, and staying active in the social realm (Facebook, Twitter), it will eventually sift out, but it's not a magic pill. It does take time. But because you're frustrated is a good sign. It means it's almost about to pay off. That's typically when it happens is when you're standing crying in a corner with a handful of hair.

Thanks for the replies! It was simply the www subdomain throwing things off. Now, I've got a clear picture of the link profile for these competitors. Thanks again for helping out!

Yes, those links will still pass most of the juice. Matt Cutts has said in one of his videos that doing a 301 redirect passes almost all of the link juice, a very tiny bit is lost, which is not a concern. No need to worry

Hello Hardik, First of all, SEO is not an instant win. There are many things you can do to get a head start, however the off page factors, such as inlinks will take time to build. I'd recommend reading the SEO Beginners Guide http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo before proceeding too much further. Exact domain match names will perform better in some cases, currently, however you should focus on building a good brand name, which doesn't have to be relevant. This is much better for future customers, and the potential future for SEO. Sign up to a few forums, answer some helpful questions, write some reviews, and some blog posts in the hope of getting some links. In the short term, concentrate on on page factors, such as title tags, keyword density in the copy, image alt tags, and the internal linking structure. I hope this helps!

Is it an internal blog ? What I mean to ask is if the blog is something like blog.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com/blog or is it yourblog.com linking to yourdomain.com ? Is it hosted on the same IP as your main website ? What you are blogging, is it unique, quality/fresh content ? If yes, I wouldn't worry too much about anchor text links as long as you are not pushing for the same keyword link from each and every post. So if article1 is talking about Red widgets and linking to the Red widgets page and then article2 is talking about Blue Widgets and linking to the Blue Widgets, it's fine. Just make sure you have other natural links coming to your website/blog from other places as well...specially the kinds that build themselves (people loving your content and linking to you). I hope this helps.

Yeah i had seen a lot of spam links so i started new content and removed all those pages leaving 404. Thanks a lot buddy this really helped.

No it has no relevance at all. Majority of the time people that want to link their sites together, they are under the same host. With the whole same host or IP and linking one another not coming up as a problem, it should be noted that it won't hurt you in any way. But things could easily change or there might be variables we don't know. If you want to play it safe, just make the links one way and not reciprocal.

Thanks for using my site also I have always had a hard time with "content" because no one uses my site for content, they use them for my forms (just like you :)) I consider myself a "tools" based website. The way I figured was that people care more about my form than anything else, so putting that form on every page will make it easier for users to get what they need. That was my reason for adding the form to almost every page. Fluff? Yeah totally fluff lol - Good ideas I will make some of those changes Call to action - with trying to keep a form on every page could I make the call to action scroll down and place the form at the bottom of the page? or you think just have one main page with the form?

Thank you Irving for your response. I actually ended up calling the company who is responsible for the bad listings. Surprisingly enough they said they would remove them! Now I just have to wait and see if they actually do.

Yes, I would do so right away. DA and relatedness of a site is much more important then pagerank. You "could" use PR as a top level measure, but I would not suggest using PR as the only measure. You are definitely looking at the right information and I would change the strategy right away. I hope this helps.

I agree with Irving completely. I would also like to add: 1. Do your frequently link out the way you did for this website ? Do you link out to other websites that are useful to your website visitors ? 2. Similarly, the website that is linking to you with those 2 links, does every post on their website/blog have 1-2 outgoing links ? If not, then you are good. Does that make sense ?

Does anyone have a list of websites that BMR was sending articles too? We have a Outsource SEO company that i think is using some kind of automated link building software. Im afraid the links they have built have been seen as spam and has caused our rankings to drop. I just want to make sure they werent using BMR and we are being penalized for it

Thanks for a quick reply, I made a mistake in my previous post. The domain names that I was referring to were itsupportla.net and itsupportla.com ...