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Sam, I strongly recommend you follow EGOL's advice in this case. The other suggestions are OK, but they run a distant second to EGOL's suggestion. Your site needs SEO attention before you add additional content or link building. Everyone has their own experiences and proceeds differently. I am a firm believer in taking care of your site SEO first, then adding content and link building. If you were to follow the other suggestions and add content / link build now, you are adding to a poor foundation as your site requires SEO attention. Your site is duplicated. You have a www version and a non-www version. http://habitmix.com/ and http://www.habitmix.com/ both are working URLs for your site. This is a major SEO issue as you have links built for both versions of your site. Fortunately, it is very easy to fix. There are other issues as well but this highlights my point which is you either need to be prepared to invest a lot of time learning SEO and applying it to your site, or acquire the professional services of an SEO then act upon the advice you are given. If you choose otherwise, I predict your $1000 will disappear and you wont be happy with the results. You have a great concept. Back it up with some solid SEO.

I also checked Whois records, but interestingly, the record I found using domaintools does not mention DMedia, but much more significantly for the site owner, it actually provides details of the Aussie registered company Lockstock Technology Pty Ltd  ACN 113992322. Between the contact info that Robert provided and public records for the company, I would: Attempt to contact them in person and see if you can come to a good faith agreement to resolve the issue (either get the link in place or return your payment) Failing resolution, write direct to the company, making it clear that you are in possession of sufficient information to make it possible for you to pursue them, request that you require them to resolve the issue and that the consequence of ignoring your correspondence will be that you make a complaint to Consumer Affairs Victoria and to ASIC about their business conduct. It is amazing how quickly the involvement of Consumer Affairs, or even the threat of involving them, can suddenly improve a company's customer service in this country Run a quick search to find any citation sites where they have a profile and add an accurate review. If none of that gets you a resolution then I would  chalk it up to experience and not spend any more time, effort or energy on it.

Hi Simon, If you're looking for really good link building opportunities (obviously you should be) I wouldn't look any further than the Link Moses service offered by Eric Ward. It's a paid service but for $8/month it's ridiculous value. Joost de Valk wrote a great review/recommendation of his services. I think it's fair to say that Eric's site looks pretty awful but his link building experience is second to none. I signed up just over a week ago and already have some great tips. Hope that helps, Brendan.

Cheers Himanshu I am not looking for tools to identify individual websites, i am looking for content swap platforms or communities Both ontolo and eightfold look like generic link prospecting tools, which is not quite what Im after S

Check out Tynt, use an auto-linking plugin, or periodically drop manual links within your content. That won't stop people from copying, but it will at least you links from lazy copiers.

If you go to the human-readable version of the license, the attribution states: Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Most of the time, people don't ever specify how they want to be attributed. Make it clear how you want it attributed, and you'll be helping both yourself and the end user.

Thanks Barry, actually the other problem with Xenu is that it can't really handle very large sites and this is a very large site! I will investigate XPATH and PHP, thanks

Tedious is what SEO tends to be at times. In addition, reciprocal links will do you very little good. I'd suggest making some content that people will link to. If you have a nice page that you want to link to your site, make sure you make some content that they will like specifically and you should get a nice link. Reciprocal links get very little value from Google, and are generally low quality. Mike

you can check the crawling date of any page by clicking on the 'cached' link in SERP or through Google toolbar.

If I was producing content that is a "big hit"... I would  be posting it on my own site (and nowhere else) and building links into it there.

Hi to be honest you seem to be relying on just competitive research. What about some of the following - Making great research content for your niche. Looking for bloggers in your niche, to syndicate content. Using Article syndication. Looking for health based social bookmarking websites. Facebook is good but really it has limited  SEO value just social traffic value.

For this strategy to work effectively you need to use distinct domain names. Keyword domains tend to rank well for those keywords, but it will take time to have a measurable effect.  The domains (minisites) will still need incoming links to do well - at minimum submit them to a couple of relevant directories, but the more time you can put into promoting them, the better. You should probably have localized landing pages on your main domain too, but make sure the content isn't the same as that on the keyword domains.

You should definitely watch this whiteboard friday video, it will explain a lot about Google PR. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-is-googles-pagerank-good-for-whiteboard-friday . Page authority (namned after Larry page) only rates the authority of an individual page, so alone PR does not guarantee a good link. I believe search engines combine PR and DA (among other things) to decide the value of a link. Domain Authority is harder to build than PR, so I give DA more weight then PR. There are a few reasons the numbers can be far apart. Often, homepages have higher PR then their DA. Sometimes /blog sub folders have a higher PR then DA because they have a lot of links, and social media engagement, this isn't a bad thing, but make sure the root domain isn't a spammy site. When looking for links, I would be more concerned about getting links that will send high quality customers to your site. If a site fits that criteria,and it isn't a spammy site, then their PR doesn't matter very much.

You do lose some, but I believe most of the link juice will flow if you 301 redirect the page. I'd probably do what YouON suggests and leave the page intact with useful links to elsewhere on your site.

I think if you are having 10 links to external sites on the one site if they are all related companies it should not be that bad. I would aim to have internal links on the main website first, and then externals coming second but. Other areas such as varied anchors and dup content you seem to be on top of already But in the end of the day the more links on page you have the less value internal pages will have.

Welcome to moz land! The best place to get started is the Beginner's Guide to SEO. Chapter 7 specifically deals with link building. There are also a couple fantastic articles you should look at: http://www.seomoz.org/article/the-professional-guide-to-link-building-2011 http://www.seomoz.org/blog/link-building-101-the-almost-complete-link-guide