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Just use the other seomoz tools to find links. http://www.seomoz.org/labs/link-finder/index.php http://www.seomoz.org/labs/link-intersect Its really easy to find links your competitors are already using that are working, once you have the list of links to go after the best ones by using the seomoz toolbar to find out which sites have the best authority. Hope that helps.

Article spinning pollutes the Internet with poor quality content. Google's mission is to organize the world's information. Why would Google reward sites that make their job more difficult? I would focus instead on a tactic like guest posting by creating content that people willingly publish and adds value to readers.

Thanks for the response i will just have to wait and see i guess.

good one!

I haven't decided yet which one to use; do you have any experience with any of them? More importantly, once the press release is out, you are just hoping that the page where it will be published on will have a high Page Rank? I have seen my competitors’ articles on other PR websites and the pages they are on have a high DA, above 60 but the PA is 1! I mean, if you spend a couple of hundreds of dollars, you expect at least a good backlink if this is what you are trying to get, right? this is an example: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/groundlink-launches-first-mobile-app-providing-access-to-global-network-of-private-cars-through-ios-and-android-131975958.html

Hey Keri, I tested article marketing a lot. Submitted over 200 HAND written articles (no dupes at all) to over 100 different directories. The rankings did not go up or down so I have stopped article marketing because it all seems to be in vain at this point. I wish it wasnt because I was literally hand writing these articles of 500+ words myself with 1 outgoing link on them to my site with the correct anchor text. Its really sad.

Well there's miles difference between good and great. I'd say a good 90-95% of blog posts out there (let alone guest blog posts) aren't StumbleUpon worthy - and most fall within the "good enough" range.

It's just that all our pages are given an A for on page content by seoMOZ and have always ranked very well with what I consider to be good content. When this site appeared from nowhere (and it was basically a clone of ours) I presumed and still do that they obtained these rankings purely on their links. Oh well. I just hope they are punished for this

About half of your plan is great, and the other half...not so much. If your plan is to create one article a month, it should produce a world-class article. Take a look at some of the SEOmoz articles produced by Rand, Cyrus and DrPete. Very clear information, well thought out which provide actionable and relevant information. You can't fit these articles into any of the measurements you proposed such as "300-500 words", "8-10 word headlines", "2-3 links", etc. These are not thoughts which you should have when writing the article. Those thoughts will box you or your writer in and lower the quality of the content. With respect to your suggestion of looking for hot topics in your niche, yes that is a great idea. It may be hard to actively participate in 10-20 blogs unless you have a very narrow niche and you are scanning the blogs, not reading them. For example if your site focuses weight loss, maybe you will read blogs on health, fitness, etc. and then only respond to the weight loss articles in which case I can see you being actively involved in 10+ blogs. If you take this approach be sure to remember your focus is to become a sincerely helpful member of the community. Most of your comments should focus the author, the topic, the community and not involve a link back to your site. When it is really relevant, share a link.

Nofollow links usually don't contribute to your ranking, although getting a few links from wikipedia certainly helps. The thing about nofollow links is that they belong to a "natural" linkprofile. If all your links are followed and from very good sources, google might consider these links unatural (aka. bought). if all your links are nofollowed this might be considered spammy (not for new websites, though). So get a natural mix of followed and nofollowed links. Also get some pages with you websites URL but not as link, just as text. Best thing would be to analyze the linkprofile of the sites in your industrie, erspectively your keywords. You will probably find a low percentage (5-25%) nofollowed. This would be a good target ratio to begin with. A new website usually starts very slow in link growth and usually starts with a higher percentage of nofollowed ones. EDIT: Best source for natural nofollowed links are blogs / comments in your industriy

You can find potential new backlinks to your site by monitoring all the referrers to your site. This will sometimes allow you capture links before Google actually indexes them, but it limits you only to links that actually bring traffic.

This is shady, but it probably would leave very minor footprints. It also would likely deliver you few if any quality links unless you create quality content. Good link building services come from good link building agencies. Go take a peak on the SEOMoz recommended list - http://www.seomoz.org/marketplace/companies/recommended

1. Please redirect all non-www traffic to it's www equivalent. 2. Please redirect the http://www.harrisbassett.co.uk/index.html page to the / page.

You definitely need to be getting links from other quality domains to the article. Go find tech and budgeting sites and let them know about the article. If it really is a good article you will probably have some of them mention it. Google says they use social signals and I think Bing has said the same thing but I haven't seen anything that quantifies the value of likes yet.

Thanks for this Jake I will try this technique and let you know if I have any joy Thanks again

Thanks Stephen.