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Social Media Profiles you may be able to automate, Yet forums and blogs it is very hard to automate those mediums, due to the fact people with authority sits will usually block automated comments, you really need to add a personal and unique level to these sites rather then just an automated line.

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Hi Mate, The site needs a few touch ups I can see some SEO considerations that need help. I would also advise to link all the sites up so people can cross buy products. Furthermore I would also advise on Forums and message boards where people are talking about books and this type of niche. I would also do some keyword research around this area, see what you can use to optimize the sites. Another niche idea if you are limited on money is to find other bloggers in the space and say you will make content for them if you link back to the sales site, it is a easy way to build traffic and links. I have seen some niche book sites around. Hope this helps.

thank you so much guys.. great suggestions ! the final answer is need to digg in more to get contacts and maintain a good relationship with people.. that will defiantly payback one day

Hi Jordan... Ok...Jordan thanks for your feedback and making a great suggestion. I will now give some thought to this further and see how I can use this suggestion as well. However, I am probably not using the right name for this page, probably Resource Page is a much better word since this is what I actually provide since it is not just a worthless links page, it is actually a valuable resource page that I take out time to sort and sift through the junk from the gold nuggets. Now google's objective is provide the best possible relevant results and this is why they are the best and I can help them do that then I am actually helping them provide their users a better experience and better relevant results. And if I set up a highly tight niche resource page, with well defined categories for easy navigation and discovery of resources my audience are actually looking for or may be interested in, I just helped google provide better relevant results for the surfer and my visitor to my site. He may leave my site, but I was the one that helped him or her find what they were looking for due to a highly tight category sections I have created for my audience. Now keep in mind that I am also trying to network and create a business alliance with other business owners by what I am doing, it is not just about links and ranking for me with the resource page, if I did my job right and selected the right resource link I should get some targeted traffic from them as well as they will do from me. My mistake naming it Link Partners page -- newbie at work here So now that I have clarified what the name of the page should be, and how it should be structured into a tight categorized resource page should this not help me with that networking aspect but also with the search engines since I am providing relevant content links that the visitor is actually looking for or may be interested in. My response to you question: However, think to yourself -- when is the last time you found someones "link exchange" page and read all the way down it and clicked on a link which was just what you wanted. It hasn't happened very much for me. Was the resource page well tightly categorized and limited only to maybe 50 or tops 100 links not just all rolling down the page but with actual categories - do you think that would have got some one to click on a specific category instead and roll down maybe 10 to 20 specific links they are interested since they clicked a specific category ! Now could that badge idea still be used with what I want to do ....build a highly tight niche specific category resource section...;>) Giving some thought to this idea and how this idea can be used with what I am trying to achieve...hummm....:>) What I am nervous about at times is whether google will look at my highly tight well categorized resource section as simply a link exchange and penalize me for it, I do not believe so since I did my job to select good related categorized resources for my visitors at the same time I have also applied networking principles via my resource page.

I would go with justin just from his answer seems really passionate about linkbuilding stratedgy , another thing to think about though is what is your budget?

I endorsed Russ's answer because of his technical nuances. Let me put it another way. To put it simply, the value of the link is can be diminished by the number of links on the source page. Unfortunately, there's no easy formula to calculate this. The truth is, different links have different editorial value based upon where they appear on the page. Matt Cutts has famously said to put your most important links towards the top of your content, meaning within the body of text and not in sidebars or footers. Other factors that play into determining the value of a link include the topic of the URL/Root Domain that the link is found on, mozTrust of the site, context of the link, and probably 100's of other factors. We don't know the exact formula, but if we look at the links like humans and ask ourselves "how valuable is this link?" we can usually get a pretty good estimation.

There has to be a way to see all links pointing to your site... Actually, there is not. Any tool which provides a report of links to your site has to collect the data somehow. The most common means is to crawl the internet, collecting data on each page that is encountered. There are very few organizations which have sufficient resources to crawl billions of web pages and process the data in a timely manner. Google is by far the most efficient. Even so, web pages can be blocked by various methods: the page could be on a member-only part of the site which requires a username and password to view. Such a page cannot be discovered by crawlers. the page could be tagged with noindex, nofollow to where the link is not discovered. It can also be blocked with robots.txt the link may be presented in an iframe, flash or other means which the crawler does not capture. the page may be buried so deeply on a site, or on an island page, where the crawler does not ever reach it. In the above cases, a link to your site may exist but not be found. An excellent means to capture undiscovered links is using Google Analytics to determine the source of any traffic. This method can help you discover links to your site which otherwise were not discovered via a crawler. If a link does exist but is not captured by OSE and is not sending you any traffic, the link likely has no value at all.

An intresting thing to know would be if the site has already got several inbound links. If not I would definately start up with rewriting the urls with the aimed keywords and redirecting the old ones to the new ones. This is a hard work for sure, but has its beneftis. The actual linkbuilding startegy is another question and it is different in each ad every case depending on the subject of your site. You should try directory listings, blogs and forums to start up.

There are all sorts of directories, followed comments, etc where you can nab links quickly. It's debatable if they will provide any benefit for you. Instead, spend some time creating a relationship with an influential site in your niche. Getting one good link from them is going to be more valuable than all the quick links you're going to get.

Thanks John. I appreciate your time

Hi Big Zee, You might want to give Buzzstream a shot. Their tool is working great in my opinion to keep track fo the links your team is building. You can add a site (via their "toolbar addon") and assign somebody to it who is responsible for the linkpartner. So before you would like to contact a specific Web site you can check within Buzzstream if the Web site could already be found within Buzzstream. This will also tell you if the specific  Web site is already linking to your Web site. We are working for two years with their tool and with the growing size of our team it's very useful. We never contact a link which is in Buzzstream twice. I know Raventools also got something related to Buzzstream, so yo might want to check them out too. Hope this helps!

Thanks Keri, nice resource. I guess the main issue now will be to sit down with legal department and hear what they have to say...

Ya, wasn't too sure it would greatly benefit this specific page that I'm trying to rank -- but I imagine it will be an overall good thing for the site.

Thanks to all ...:) James...you lost me -- are you saying that 40% should be the primary main keyword anchor text used to point to page then the other 60% is for varying the link with long tail phrases or other terms so that the remaining 60% different terms are being used to so that is does not like manipulation by SE's ? Thanks

So if I add my site to this same directories, press release sites plus I keep adding fresh blog post I will be ok????? You do not want to copy your competitors, you want to beat them. Based on the information you shared it is likely your competitors have many low quality back links which you do not want. You want to earn quality back links. You need people who independently choose to link to you because they like your content. You don't want links because you spammed a blog, paid for them or otherwise manipulated the system. Those links often do not offer any value at all, or are caught later and devalued leading to site owners to ask "why did my site lose it's rankings?" Fresh blog articles are good IF they target useful keywords AND the content is exceptionally well written. Fresh alone is definitely not good enough. How this online shops rank for so many keywords for every subdomain if they dont have any content on this subdomains? In order to possibly guess we would need the name of the site and the keywords they rank for. Then an analysis would need to be performed of the site, it's links, the keywords and so forth. If you wish to better understand SEO, I strongly recommend reading the Beginner's Guide to SEO. It is a short, outstanding booklet with a lot of accurate and helpful information.

I think it depends on the scope - CLF works great for some, but not always at large scale (as Philipp said). I'd try it, though, and then look at OSE + Excel. You can dump a lot of OSE data to Excel, where you can do some pretty powerful stuff. Stephen had a good post a few months ago here on the blog: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/competitor-analysis-for-linkbuilding-a-guide-for-people-who-hate-linkbuilding I'd check out Rand's WBF from the same month, too: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/competitive-link-analysis-tips-whiteboard-friday There's no completely automated way to do this well, and it's probably best not to leave it completely to the tools.

Thanks for your insightful answer. Can you give me your Twitter handler so, I can follow you...

I've used SEO Spyglass to go this in the past when I've wanted to collect a vast number of backlinks.