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My guiding principle in linkbuilding, especially since all the Panda/Penguin hoohaw, is that if you can automate it, Google can detect it. And they've proven they're now willing to punish/devalue it. Paul

Hi Tyler, in addition to the 2 aforementioned answers: A collection of photos from the same kitchen or bathroom over several weeks = 1 pic per day and putting them together in timeline like mentioned in this great seomoz article: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/using-timelines-to-create-great-content-and-build-links

Jane Copland did a fantastic talk on 'Golden Links' at LinkLove London this year. Her advice in this situation, like Host1 suggested, is to just email and ask, what do you have to lose? As EGOL said, you could check if they ever link out, to see if you have a hope, if not, still ask!

Robert, thank you for your reply.

Thanks for your help, but I'm not looking for the php solution to this question, my question asks "Do I get any link juice from a PHP header redirect from another site (domain)?" . And can you legitimately do a 301 from a PHP page on one domain to another domain, I read on the interweb Amazon does it for their affiliates and it works but would like some professional confirmation.

thanks for this. tried onlywire and do not like it. what i am trying to do is, when i have a news piece, i want to be able to post it to many places as possible for them to then go to the site to read the rest of the news

As mentioned you may need to wait a little while for the index to update.

Looks like a custom Google search on a domain, probably running adsense. These are just search results and are not going to help your rankings.

I'd keep the old site live and build links to it. This means you have an actual live and complete website that other sites are more likely to link to, as apposed to a coming soon page. It gives you the option to build deep links to pages on the site. You can 301 redirect if URLs change on the new site. It also means you can start link building now, not have to wait 3 months for the new site to go live. As you know there is always a delay between the start of a link building campaign, and the results. Hope this is more helpful.

To start i am not a BIG fan of directories as they sometime takes long and give little benefit to the overall project. I would recommend you investing your time on some other valuable stuff then this! But as you asked for it i can provide you one resource that have the list of legal web directories... http://www.web-directories.ws/Niche/Legal/

I was looking at the news articles they were writing. Its not like a press release but it comes from a really good source. does anyone know?

Francisco raises some excellent points.  In evaluating the risk of the link being bad -- I'd avoid sites that are filled primarily with  "guest posts" or have much (perhaps no more than 10 %) "off topic" posts and also consider how close (or far) the topics are "off topic" on the blog you're considering contributing too.   Many websites feature almost entirely guest blogged stuff but remain consistently close in the topic.   Most that accept lots of guest contributions seem to be no better than the old BMR sites (i.e., lots of off topic stuff).   I expect the day is not very far away when only the strongest sites which consist primarily of guest posts pass along much juice.   My $. 02

Just a quick note that Google has recently said they ignore links from UpDowner already.

Sorry if I misunderstood at all but here's a shot. 1. If you merged both pages I assumed you changed the url of at least one of them. Did you delete the old 'b' page? It may of had links to it that were helping you rank for it. Also, make sure the page titles are still as relevant as the old ones. 2. If the links were to page b and page b was deleted it won't really help unless you 301 it or create it  again. I see you recreated them, did you keep the original url structure or did you change it? I would make sure that you have all the pages 301'd to the new ones you want to rank. If you really were penalized you would get a notice in webmaster tools, otherwise it's just the algo change. Google also changed a lot of things in the past two months so it may have to do with that more than with the changes you made. Overall, just make sure that all your pages are redirected properly and hopefully you'll gain back those rankings. If you have any really shady links I would try to get them removed if not, it isn't a huge deal. Good luck!

It is just never cut and dry Right so, asking somebody for a review is the first half, offering free; points, merchandise, credit, discounts, or a super nice product for the best "review" contest style, would be a creative way to develop unique content and thus I would say 100% white hat. The second half, asking for a link and offering the same sort of incentives is kin to buying a link, and IMO black hat. In this sense you are trying artificially inflate your ranking by "trading" something for a link. In this case somebody linking to you is by no means saying I like this site, they are saying I like the free stuff they give. Your question coupled the two together, but I thought it best to look at each case individually. Hope it helps.

Thanks!

Root domain when setting up your campaign means all domains under domain.com If you chose root domain then reports should show data for subdomains as well