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Sorry one other thing. Links would come from sites with no more 100 pages each so few major sites with high DA.

Vich, SEO is an all round issue - both link bait (which will attract links) and link building (you actively pursuing links). To get you off the ground I'd recommend some of the latter. Look at writing a couple of informative articles, creating some strong profiles on 'web 2.0' sites link Hub Pages and Squidoo. Reply to this if you need some advice, I don't mind giving you some more suggestions

Okay, right you are then, just trying to help buddy. As far as I am aware there is no compelling reason to not use the href='#' tag and this will not be diluting link juice anywhere as # is not a page. Marcus

Like you say... It's best to get links from pages with a high domain and page authority. In my opinion, Domain authority is much more important. The fact that a page has a page authority of 0  does not necessarily mean it is not a important. It's just that links to it might not have been discovered by SEOmoz yet and therefore the page will not have a page authority attributed to it. Therefore take into consideration the age of a page. You should be looking at MOZrank and MOZtrust attributes too. I think these will give more insight into the quality of the page/website. Hope this helps.

It depends. Neither look that wonderful to me. You need to measure it Use a site that has a once off cost, where you can pay for a single press release and see the effect it has on your incoming links and keyword positions. S

To see it on SEOMoz you will have to wait for the SEOMoz crawler to crawl your site and index it. For the link to have any impact will depend on when and how often Google crawls your site. However it may take more than one high authority link to make a difference to your site so you should keep on working on it and by the time you visaully see an improvement you will know that you have done more work since then which will consolidate your position. Part of SEO is about patience

I wonder if there is a minimum number of external links you should have. I have many scoring articles that do not contain any outbound link. I think your site in total should have outbound links but not specifically per article. Or else I should not be able to rank at all.

No you will not get peanlized for that amount do not worry just try and make the anchors different and natural =).. google will only take action if you have 3,000,000 links for example from 1 domain and 5 links from 5 domains in a space of 1 week and all the anchor texts are the same i.e. "SEO Consultant" on 3 million pages from 1 domain lol.. you can also look at domains linking in Google Webmaster tools Regards

You can use the search line on Google: site:www.example.com This will tell you what Google has indexed on the site. If you are looking for a specific sub-folder, then use: site:www.example.com/forum Hope that helps.

"How do I know when a site has too many links versus the number of unique cblocks?" There is no set number or formula. You want your links to be as diverse as possible, and C-class IP blocks is one metric that matters. "Is this the total number of unique cblocks on the web or am I using the tool wrong?" There are many more than that. Not familiar with the tool, but it may be a limitation of the tool. It looks like it uses Yahoo backlink data, which is limited to 1,000 links.

Jean, The more important question is how relevant a directory or association site is to the market your trying to target?  Inbound link profiles require you have links coming from sites and directories that have a variety of performance indicators, from relatively low up to as high as you can obtain. If that association is quite appropriate to your site's purpose and intent, not only do you get the benefit of relevance relationships, you can also potentially get people clicking through to your site from your listing there.  Highly relevant people.  Which itself is both good for business and a strong signal to search engines that it's a valuable link, and your site is important.

the higher the DA number the better, right?

Daniel If the site in question is indexed at Google under the https method rather than http, then yes, it should provide the same value as an http indexed site.  a quick inurl: https; check just now brought back over 1.6 billion pages.  Random checks of various keyword rankings for queries that contain a mix of http: and https: brought back a number of them where https: sites ranked higher than http: sites, including some with site links and multiple entries as well. Also, I've got a couple financial institution clients who use https: and haven't seen any more difficulty ranking them through typical SEO methods.  Which just reinforces that belief.  If anyone here has had differing experiences I'd like to hear about it as well of course...

I can say this much, I have had a link to my college football blog on my linkedin profile for a long time. In GWT it does not show linkedin as a domain that links to me. In OSE it does not show linkedin as a domain that links to me. So my guess is either they are unable to crawl or find the links in my profile, the links are nofollow, or they simply aren't passing any link juice. Just checked, there are a few links to my public profile and it is http and not https, so it is being crawled and is indexed. The links are not nofollowed. Seems the links aren't passing and juice.

Oh - and one last suggestion - just above the two addresses in the bottom area of all pages, have a statement about how you serve Brevard and Collier counties.  So something like "The Musil Law Firm has been serving Brevard and Collier counties since XXXX".  And have a similar but unique statement to that on your home, About and Contact pages directly in the main content area of each.

I need to disagree with Alex.  If you examine the impact the Google Panda/Farmer update had, you'll see that sites like Squidoo and HubPages took major hits and lost significant ranking.  Why? Because so much content on those sites was considered low quality or of insignificant value to Google.  So why would you want to go after links from such places? If you've got a team of people working on a multitude of inbound link efforts, it might be a different story, but if you're not relying on a team of people to do the work, I would suggest your time is much more valuable than focusing on what are now low quality / questionable links.  Especially when we're now talking about what Alex suggests in "spinning" the articles.  To get spinning right, you really need to know what you're doing otherwise you are more likely to cause harm than do good. It's much better to consider finding places to write UNIQUE articles you can get posted to high quality sites - guest blogging.   Sites like MyBlogGuest.com can get you started along that path.  Getting just one guest article that has one or two links pointing to the appropriate most relevant page on your site, where the article is posted to a site where your target market visits, can be worth dozens or hundreds of spun articles spit out to places like Squidoo or Hubpages.

Mike's suggestion about understanding what the current value is for that site and all it's individual pages.  If there had been significant value at one time and it's dropped off, you'll need to rebuild it all over again.  Also, if you're buying old domains and replacing the content with all different content, you're essentially starting from scratch. Domain names by themselves won't provide enough value to make it worthwhile without all that new from-scratch work, and just using them for redirects is definitely not a quality SEO tactic in 2011.

I'll build on what Mike said in that comment links are less valuable than they used to be due to the proliferation of this as a spam tactic.  And I expect they'll become even less valued as time marches on.  For the most part the value is weak at best nowadays, and requires a lot more time and effort to get right given the attention this type of link has garnered from Google due to the spam issue.