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I would firstly check the competitions for that term. What they are doing, where to they get their "juice" from. And only then start thinking about a strategy how to out-rank them. Good luck! Istvan

Hi Andrew, I'm a little confused by the question. Are you talking about a specific tool or report? I suspect you might be talking about the On-Page reports, meaning, how do you grade a specific keyword on a specific URL. If this is the case, this guide might help: https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/20034412-on-page-reports 1. Hit Report Card at the top of the On-page summary. 2. Choose your Keyword you want to grade. The keyword must already be included in your   campaign. Select Manage Keywords if you need to add keywords. 3. Enter the URL of the page you would like to grade. 4. Hit Grade My On-Page Optimization to generate your report. If you meant something else, please add a response and I'll try to answer the best I can.

Keep in mind that Open Site Explorer updates about once a month, so it can be a two month delay before you see your links in OSE. The next update is due February 29th. OSE also doesn't crawl all of the web, so if you have a DMOZ link that's ten levels down, it just may not be crawled. Hope this helps!

That's what I figured. Thanks for your opinion.

nope, nothing has changed in the page itself, we submitted a couple of articles and exchanged some links and the ranking went up to 10. After a week the ranking went back to 20... I don't think I can't disclose the website, but what makes you think that the one you mentioned was the website in question? it sounds  bit dodge...

Thanks guys. Some great info!

Hey Donnie, Yes, from a pure link building standpoint commenting on blogs is worthless (in most cases). However, the best way to get links is to have other bloggers notice you. There is no better way to be noticed than by commenting on blogs. The owner needs to approve the comment and more often than not they visit your site to see what you're all about before approving. So, no those links with your name as the anchor text pass no juice to your site but, the potential of another blogger's link will. If the blogger shows up at your site and sees interesting content, he will link. NOTE: Be sure that your comments are thoughtful and they add to the conversation. Another Note: Yes, people do click on your link, if and only if, you are commenting in a thoughtful and interesting way.

I probably will add a page for our presence in the community that is a good idea.  My wife is a teacher so I am always getting talked into providing raffle prizes and donating to this or that. For now though I would love to increase our presence in organic search results outside of our main service city.  I am curious what are some white hat methods of building links that don't cost a fortune.  It seems like there must be something I can do that will produce something pr2-3 that would help substantially. So far the best I have come up with are relevant forum comments that were on pr 1 pages.   I have written some articles but they never seem to do well.

A waste of time. Write some thing really good about your subject matter, either host it on your site and attract links, or find a good place blog to guest post it that allows links back to your site. (not a article posting site, they are useless)

Great article on a closely related topic at SearchEngineLand last week: http://searchengineland.com/understanding-ranking-lag-time-for-new-links-110518

The quickest way to do this is using the "Top Pages" report in Open Site Explorer. Simply enter the root domain of the site you want to research, hit "search" then navigate to the Top Pages tab. This will show you the number of lining root domains to each internal page. Here's a screenshot: https://skitch.com/cyrusshepard/8baj7/open-site-explorer +1 For Doug's answer. You can download the standard Inbound Link report from OSE. Make sure to filter for "external" links to "all links on the root domain" (or subdomain) Open your report in a spreadsheet, The "Target URL" column will show all the URLs on the domain with an external link pointing to them. Here's another screenshot: https://skitch.com/cyrusshepard/8bakm/microsoft-excel Hope this helps. Best of luck with your SEO!

1. Create an article. 2. Rewrite it manually 2-3 times. 3. Spin it manually, so you would have 9 versions of the same article. 4. Put the original article on your website. 5. Manually submit the other 8 copies to different sites with links back to your website.

But you can ask yourself if the link needs to be there at all... (Does every page need to link to your privacy policy, terms and conditions etc...)

Ciao Eyepaq, Thank you very much for your help. This is very useful for my next steps. E bravo per il tuo Italiano. Grazie, Maria

Thank you Ann. Didn't expect to get a response from you personally, but what a nice touch. Your detailed response really cleared some things up for me. I am hiring a content writer for my blog posts, and I will make sure he goes off of the checklist. I am hoping that this works out well, and now I feel I have a more clear understanding of your site's functionality. Thank you for your quick response

I would link to my site that is more relevant to the content of the site I link from. If not, I think I would not even link ! Also make sure to use a good Anchor relevant to your landing page.