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thanks Anthony!  I do agree it all comes down to content.  I'm going to have to make sure I enhance what I have a create some new fresh content that would make sense to link to.

I have simular pages. Depending on your linking stucture all pages can be even. I had a quick look at you seem to have a full menu on every page, mean that link juice will be very even thoughout site. Read this page for an explaination http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerank

Finding blogs can certainly be difficult when you've guest posted on 300+ blogs in your niche.  I wrote a YouMoz post last year about ways to find guest post opportunities - perhaps that could be of some inspiration? I also created a free tool to help generate queries to find guest post opportunities based on a variety of keywords - it sounds similar to the method you've used to find current guest post opportunities, but perhaps there are a couple query variations that you haven't tried yet - check it out here: Guest Post Opportunity Finder. Aside from that, what comes to mind is figuring out ways to post on blogs that may not be directly related to your niche - in other words, horizontal guest blogging.  For example, if you are doing SEO for a construction company, don't solely focus on construction blogs, but figure out ways to create content that can be shopped to real estate, home improvement, and green or sustainable building blogs.  Sugarrae wrote an awesome post that talks about horizontal guest blogging.

Those links are all top stories from that site, and I'm guessing they're Google News related or Schema-related (microdata / metadata / whatever you'd like to call it). I see them showing up for CNN, NYT and Fox News, but not for sites like Techcrunch or the Seattle Times, so not sure if they're easy to get or not. Here's some SEOMoz posts regarding Google News integration: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/getting-started-with-google-news http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/taking-advantage-of-google-news http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-seomoz-gained-1000s-of-visits-from-google-news Here's the Schema.org guide for news markup, this is also worth integrating if you have news content (not simply blog content): http://schema.org/NewsArticle If you plug a NYT article into the Google Snippet Tester you'll see that they're using pretty basic metadata.

Thanks, I'll see what we can do with the funny video idea if the client accepts on doin' it I will show you the result

Hey! Sorry I am a bit too late on this one, but hopefully I can help! I think I have been fair, 500 words of unqiue content with 1 anchor text link in the body, thats it. Quite fair, but not exactly enough. The thing is, that's guest blogging and for bloggers to really want your content, you need to make it blog-friendly ("viral", in a way). MyBlogGuest is no different from the whole Internet in this respect. Some topics always do well and get attention. Usually these topics get picked in no time here: Facebook Twitter Apple Google So if you want to get quick offers, consider changing the focus towards the above topics. You can easily do that almost with any niche. For example, if you are into "loans": Free iPhone Apps to Quickly Calculate Your Loans HOW TO: Use Google Shortcuts to Estimate Your Loan etc If you add some screenshots, CC-attributed images, etc, your articles will be picked in no time! I hope that helps!

No just get your 301 in place, make sure all internal links point dirctly to the domain you choose so not to get un-necessary redirects. Then your link juice should consolidate within a few weeks

It sounds like a site wide link, so I imagine its not in the main content, where the value is

If it is a press release, the most popular PR submission sites can be worthwhile. In the US, PRWeb is pretty good because news sites will see the story and republish the press release or write about it and link to your site. It helps a lot if your story is interesting. Another tip is to use a tool like Followerwonk to find journalists on Twitter in your area and then build a relationship with them. In the US we also have Help A Reporter Out http://www.helpareporter.com/ where you can list yourself or your CEO as a source so reporters can contact you if they have a specific question or need a quote from an expert in a specific area.

I played with it a little last year, but I didn't make any connections for link exchanges. It hadn't occurred to me to use it like that ... I do like to exchange with highly relevant, quality sites ... shhh, don't tell. ;D.

What seem to be some of the best article submission websites?  You've listed ezine, article base, article dashboard, etc.  but how many websites do you usually submit a single article too?  I'm trying to do some research on article submission for SEO.

Thanks Keri.  Makes sense.

Hi, Thanks for the detailed answer.  What part of Denver are you in?  Where do you play soccer, and are you familiar with our retail stores in the Denver area? Yes, I am interested in hearing about your blogging rates.  Please email me at jamesr at soccerstop.com.  We may be able to work something out... Thanks James

Thanks for letting us know, and that's great to hear!

What you're doing is great if you have the content to back it up, especially if you're in a niche market. Make sure your infographics are of the highest quality possible. There are so many infographics out there that you really need to make yours stand out to have it picked up. You should also be doing some link baiting for all of these articles and press releases you're doing. Writing a random article or press release just to get you a link can only help you so much. If the article or press release is getting tons of views and comments from different IP addresses, you'll find yourself in a good spot.

Great advice, much appreciated. Luckily we do have quite decent traffic already and so I can see good scope for improvement already.

Based on the site names, my impression is the links offer no value. I looked at the first site and it is a free directory. I looked at the last site and it seems to be a below average blog. These links are unlikely to add any value to your site. On the negative side, these links will increase your DA giving you the impression they have value, and it makes any link analysis of your site more difficult because you need to sort through all these extra links. A couple link tests you can perform to consider their value: Ask yourself what if Google did not exist. Would the link have any value? Will this link offer any direct traffic at all? Can anyone get this link? If a competitor looks at your site and sees you have a link from coukdirectory.com, and then they can acquire the same link in 5 minutes, the link likely has no value at all. The links you want are the ones which need to be earned. When you read a great SEOmoz article about a SEO topic and then you tweet it, share it or link to it THAT is the type of link which has value.