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1. It really depends on your site. I usually send it to the home page if it's a local site with 5-20 pages. 2. If the links are in the same category, the only downfall would be that pagerank is split up to your two different pages. It's good for users and crawlers though. 3. Stick to high quality directories (dir.yahoo.com, botw.org, business.com), you'll spend more, but it will be worth it. Combine them with some niche directories and natural link building and you should be ranking with little problem on a moderately competitive keyword.

Thats means on those 16 root domains, at least one of them has several 100 links to your domain. ie www.example.com might have a sidebar or footer link to you page, thus generating a link on every page of it's website to yours. If your metric includes internal link, it's also possable you have 2,000 pages on your website with a logo or footer link to the page, thus causing a lot of links from one (yours) root domain. Uisng open site explorer you should be able to see which websites are responsable for the large number of links.

thanks for answering this - makes sense.

Do guest posting - it's free content for others and nice backlink for you. Connect with people in your industry on Twitter; once they know you, it's very easy to get links from them

Really don't think that having your directory entry in bold is really going going to make much/any difference and it seems like a high price to pay for the privilege. But, it depends on how much direct traffic the directory might send your site. If it's a respected niche directory that is actually used by real people then there may be some benefit. if putting your entry in bold increases the click-through. How many other entries are in bold? Personally, I'd be sceptical that there would much value here either. (I'm not an advocate of paid directory listings in general) Might be fun to ask the directory owners to provide some click-through statistics before you part with your cash! Also think about what else you can do with the money (the opportunity cost). Could you use the money to create some great unique content? How many links would such a piece of content need to get you before you got a better return on investment than a directory listing? Hope this helps.

As stated by Tom, creating useful helpful and interesting content and adding it to your website Is the best long term strategy for link building.  Over a long period of time useful articles are highly likely to receive some links. What's often not mention is the value you gain from blog traffic. Even if no one links to your blog you will gain more traffic to your website. I've had many resulting sales due to our blog traffic. Not to mention you will be able to post your blog on blog directories (so you will at least get these links) You could also create valuable content by building tools/widgets for your industry. Infographics are great to add to your blog and are often popular to share. Other techniques you could  employ is bog commenting (although comments must be relevant and add value to the conversion). Hold a contest, you will be able to submit to contest website which will link to your contest. Donate to charity. (often tax refundable,  so if you have the budget It can be a win win for the charity and you) Here's some links to some ideas for link building. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/8-ways-to-buy-links-without-buying-links http://www.seomoz.org/blog/99-ways-to-build-links-by-giving-stuff-away-and-improve-your-brand-too-14029 http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-techniques There are heap of other techniques but you should  spend most of your time building or buying valuable content. Think of high quality content as assets. While other techniques are often just expenses.

Not all of them, sometimes you can gain follow links. It is possible from forums, profiles and other content. That is really hard work, but I have a big collection of Polish and other countries trust rank profiles with follow:-) Few examples of my links: Mozilla.org (mR -4.84, DA - 100 ) blog.onet.pl (mR - 5.62, DA - 89 PR - 6) forum.idg.pl (mR - 5.17, DA - 85 PR - 6) blog.interia.pl (mR - 5.06, DA - 83 PR - 6) and a lot of other, it is need time for sculpting only but it is handful in many projects, so this is no time lost you can try in Germany, good luck Alex

Hello Lindz1, Firstly the anchor text is widely considered by leading SEO experts as one of the most influential factors in search engine rankings.  This is supported by search engine representatives.  Why? Because the anchor text shows the search engines what the page which is being linked to is about. The fact is If there may be NO visible anchor text detract or even eliminate the link value in the search engines.

Waquid In the legal field you see it a lot. While I cannot point out any place where there is a penalty for it that I have seen I will tell you that without it I am able to add links and pass those above. The question becomes is it the links they are using or is it the content we are using, etc. that eventually moves us ahead? I will leave it to you to decide, but in the legal marketing arena I have not seen any penalty for it. To my knowledge there is no benefit.... Best.

First off, make sure to keep the 2012 url.  It has generated links that will benefit your site as a whole. Secondly, I would create the 2013 page as soon as possible, and post the movies that are supposed to come out in 2013.  Make sure to update every so often to keep it up to date.  This will allow you to start generating links to the new url.  This will then improve your site as a whole, and give you a step up for ranking high with the new page.  If you find a movie estimated for a 2014 arrival, slap up another page.

Samuel, We have found other avenues to build links that are time better spent. We do not do reciprocal linking at all and get great results for our clients. Spend your time on other things like link baiting. The quality of your links will be better and you will eventually overtake your competitor.

Thanx for the good response Harald and Robert. I agree. Logically I know Google ranks domain names, not IPs. But technically I am sure they use that data.

For a magazine not published in two years i can only say wow. I would not 301 given this data (yes, more info could change that, but I doubt it). I would look to do two things: Discover where the traffic is coming from and why and see if there is a way to captitalize on it or improve it. Then, I would institute a good linking strategy going url to url as opposed to pushing all to home page of commercial site. Make sure the anchor text is good, links come from content above the fold where possible (Don't do footer, sidebar links out of convenience, take the time). I would do around 30 to 40 links per month just because I like a slower approach and the ability to change my approach based on new info. For a good primer on anchor text, Here is a Whiteboard on anchor text from Rand Fishkin  Hope this helps you out, would love to be posted as you watch it, even if just by PM. What I do on projects like these is get a baseline using campaigns and then evaluate it weekly or monthly as I add. For a total site 301 url to url, I watch both sites and graph the result so that we learn from it. If you are up to it, and you take a road similar or somewhat different and keep all your results, you could write a blog by simply stating the question, the answers, what you did, and then the results over time. In three or four months, you would have a great piece. Best to you.

Answered. Thanx mate.

This blog post might help: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-vs-bing-correlation-analysis-of-ranking-elements