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Ever since panda 2.5 hit - the sites prweb says got picked up i cant find in google !!!

I made a test and it seems that yes, the links from pdf count for ranking. The test is on my Romanian blog http://seogan.ro/link-building-pdf-urile-o-sursa-de-linkuri-test You can find an English translation here: http://www.seogan.com/pdf-link-building Hope it helps.

Thanks for your help on this question Ryan, irvingw and Gianluca. Being that I am still an SEO newbie, looking back at my original question, redirect probably wasn't the correct word to use and my example could have been clearer and more concise, my apologies (still learning). There's nothing black hat going on here, so no worries; but thanks for the words of warning. The links being discussed are from sites like Wikipedia, and other public profile pages. We're making sure that those public pages point to the correct URL. And since Company B was acquired by Company A, those public profile URL's should no longer point to www.CompanyB.com. They should all be pointing to www.CompanyA.com, instead.

It's not blackhat SEO, and it's very common to create separate domains for the means of SEO. You can even use the same IP address (so you don't actually need a new host or new IP) and the benefit is still there. While it does help if the domains are hosted at separate locations, it isn't necessary. Any of the articles that do belong on your company blog should be on your company blog. Everything else can go on the secondary domains. Just be sure that you develop the domains as you would your flagship website: with quality and attention to detail. Otherwise they serve no purpose other than for your SEO (no value to visitors) and they could be considered as grey/black-hat SEO. Your secondary domains also become guinea pigs. You can test new services or link building ideas on them, and if they lose their rank, it certainly isn't good but it's not going to hurt your main domain. It's a layer of abstraction that will both protect your main website's SEO and allow you to start building case studies. Personally I like to get whoisguard to mask the registrant of the domain, separate them all on different servers, and try to make them as unique as possible. (Tough in a specific industry, though..) I'd recommend you did the same. Let me know if you have questions about this! Cheers.

When your terms of service require that you get written permission to link to them.. Steph, I'd suggest reading the SEOmoz Beginner's Guide to SEO to get a good background on SEO. It'll help you judge if people are feeding you a line or they know what they're talking about.

It's still viable. In regard to your points If you were to include a large footer on tons of pages with little content that would not be good, but a small footer repeated on pages with a lot of content is fine. Also, supposedly Google looks at common code globally on pages and strips it away from the equation (boilerplate) They still follow the links and pass PR but just don't take the external template stuff into major consideration. So your main content section is mostly what is being graded to determine rankings. Well Google likes anchor text within content, so if it fits what you are doing, then within content is better, but a list will not hurt. If you have MANY items it gets very sloppy looking, so in that case I would suggest using  jquery like this site does, this way you can get all of the links on the page in a SEO friendly way, ensuring they will all get spidered and pass PR without making a bad visual/user experience with tons of links on the bottom of the page.You can see when you click on a section in the footer it then expands to show the links for that section, very elegant. http://www.healthgrades.com/

Is that page ranking or is that page indexed? Because sometimes can happen you have a link in a page that Google has not indexed (that happens in case of directories, sometimes). Then, with the Mozbar, check the metrics of that page and of its domain. mozRank value corresponds almost to the real PR of the page and DomainRank and DomainTrust metrics can tell you if it is an authoritative site. If the metrics are good at least on a domain level, then be happy, because you have obtained naturally a link from a new unique domain name which has good/excellent domain metrics that helps yours domain metrics as well (especially the domainTrust one). This is the case of being linked in an internal article of the New York Times, for instance.

Much respect to Steve Jobs, but I definitely salivated when I saw it too, for a moment.  Quite possibly the most powerful link in the entire world - although it's presence will be short-lived, undoubtedly.

I had used it extensively on our company blog to search for related images and for tag suggestions. But I had to uninstall it because I felt that I was not getting any usable related images and some how I also felt it was slowing down my admin panel. I also intended to use it for cross linking but it did not really help me in that aspect.

Does it matter that this site has a DA of 72 with 5K plus domains linking in, and the majority of advertisers have big advertising budgets?  We're much smaller than most advertisers on the site, but all the advertisers are real sites that sell real products with healthy volume. That said, I understand the purpose of the Google policy.  It's just a shame in cases like this, because we are linked from their home page and that link juice just vanishes into the ether. Best, Christopher

I just recently realized Google was indexing both www and non-www.  I changed the settings in Google WM Tools and put in the 301 redirect to www.  That was a couple weeks ago.  Google is still showing non-www even though www has a higher PR.  About how long will it take for Google to switch over to www, or is there something else I may need to correct? Best, Christopher

Of course it is a factor to take into consideration but certainly never the only one.

This is a great tool, it will show you not only the sites they are linking to, but the sites that the sites they are linking to are linking to, if that makes sense.lol This has false negatives, like "sussex" gets flagged for "sex" so you need to read between the lines, but it's extremely valuable to tell at a glance if the site you are interested in getting a link from is linking to bad places such as adult, meds or casino sites. http://www.bad-neighborhood.com/text-link-tool.htm

Also take a look at incoming links in Google Webmaster Tools, you can export that as well. usually when someone tries to attack your site they use adult links, so these are pretty easy to identify due to the site names.

Having looked into this further, does the following code deliver? ErrorDocument 404 http://www.mydomain.com/ I am unsure, given your comment - "You must explicitly code 301 in your redirect or it is 302 by default and 302 redirects won't pass link juice like 301's will." Regards

Did you find any there? What did you do to find designers at their website?