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What do you expect them to say about article marketing when they are trying to sell a product which does that? If they just told the truth (their approach works for short term SEO benefits), would you buy them (Doesn't work for long term)?

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Excellent Point Casey Kluver, Building links is not like it used to be, as Casey pointed out SEOMOZ and many other sites depending on the topic can develop a ton of links and they did not even have to chase them or ask for them they just showed up, mainly because of what they do and how well they do it. No take a car dealership that maybe a bit harder to get links for than say an automotive review site with articles on hot new items for the car or truck. Maybe they have controversial topics about a manufacture and a computer issue causing car accidents.  Or you can even take Politics where someone said something that people did not agree on you may see a huge flux of push on that. I hate to say it but build good quality content and links will come, when you do build good content then you can push out teasers to others on Facebook, Google+ and such and people will then share those articles with others. Google is looking for natural link patterns so yes if you get to many links from low quality building such as link exchanges and blast blogs with spam or tons of links back in forums and directories those may not help as much as someone really saying hey check this out. I hope this helps.

In which Tab of  Bing Tools, i can view the information about  backlinks ?

I agree with Anthony. Given the choice between spammy directories and guest blog posts I would go with the blog posts. And I would be willing to do a little work to get them on the best possible blogs.

We use several tools to track our backlinks: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org http://ahrefs.com http://www.majesticseo.com

Tks Amie :))

Thanks, Russ. Fantastic insight in the article. Really helps me to think about the whole thing more clearly.

+1 for Devin's comment. There is no such thing as a domain link. If your site is like mine, most of your external links point to your home page. Therefore, your home page has more PA than a deep page on your site. You can share this existing link juice with your new page by linking from your home page (and any other page with external links) to your new page. The juice will get diluted and it's no substitute for external links, but it will give you a quick boost. If your DA is strong enough, crosslinking within your domain may help your new page outrank your competitors without any external links.

Hi Bruce, Welcome to Q&A and SEOmoz. SEOmoz is more of a place to learn about SEO than one to drop links. Have you read the Beginner's Guide to SEO yet? It's a real helpful guide, and there's a section in there specifically about linkbuilding that you might want to read at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links.

IMO Relevancy is much more important. of cause the best is to have both. but think like a search engine, they want to see wujho is recomeneding you for a subject. A relevant link in the content is hard to beat. i non relevant link in the footer is priobably worthless.

I dont think the like has its value dissolved. it is a follow link, google concern is not passing link juice, they dont want you to be able to link to someone without costing link juice,. If it is follow and it can be folowed, meaning it does not have a redirecet page blocked by robots, then it will pass link juice. see what Matt Cutts says http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmoHmfy5AcQ

Lonnie Above are good points but I think on their own wont put him up the SERPS for the keyword combination alone as it has 40-60K searches per month by some pretty established UK players. He should do them but there is a lot of additional work (aka slog) along with Aran's points above for a start

Thanks for the suggestions! Recently I was trying to convince a friend of mine that he was charging too much to list in his directory. I explained to him that if I stumbled across his directory, looking at his domain rank which was 23, I would pass on his $40 submission cost.

Hi there, visit the blog and find everything you need to know. For example: http://www.seomoz.org/article/the-professional-guide-to-link-building-2011

That's not my experience, and it's not what this data suggests: 2011 Search Engine Ranking Factors Pages don't compete in isolation of any other factors...