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Thanks for your answers Daniel & Andy But realistically isn’t it very time consuming to build quality relationships with each blog we would like to get a link from? That almost sounds like a full time job to itself. Would you say that 4-5 long time relationships with quality blogs is better that a one off “blogger competition” campaign  with 50 new backdomain links.? Thanks for your time guys

THanks for your help Andy. We are doing just that - guest blogging is a greaty way in - be it with content, infographics or whatever. Works really well for us at the moment.

I am not a developer, but I would say that if you are planning on anyone hitting your homepage to be forwarded, then this should be a perm redirect 301. Google understands these. Regards, Andy

How long could it take then till my site gets back in google because of these 2 penalized links?

omg thanks for sharing these articles. i am literally sitting here, laughing while i read them. just at the ridiculousness of it all. does everyone get a friendly letter if they are selling links or is only forbes receiving such a thing? seems like favoritism if that's the case. not cool imo. i'll go with the super squeaky clean and no-follow mine, and grumble all the way so much bad behavior out there (or people who just don't know about no-follow) that it's really tough to find high pr sites that are willing to write about you AND are following all of the no-follow rules on their content (let alone not selling text links lol)...

To add another perspective to it: I have used buidlmyrank.com. I would say that one of the only saving graces about it is that you can create your own content, submit it to them, and they will post it on a PR 1 - 4 website with a backlink to your site. So like Marcus said its great for brand new PR 0, PA 1 sites. They allow 1 backlink per 150 words. They also promote that if you want them to create content for you they can do it at $2.50 per 150 words / backlink. Needless to say the article is definitely worth just that. If you have great content post it on your own site and maybe consider hiring a copywriter to write an article about you then submit to buildmyrank. By all means please don't use this as your sole link building service as it won't get you very far in the long run. Consider high level directories like Yahoo, Best of the Web, DMOZ (good luck) and Business.com, and of course great content to get natural and earned links / citations. Enjoy

And a user's money still spends the same on the site, whether or not they came through a link that is or is not followed. Sure, would be great to have it followed, but I'd much rather have the link there and it be nofollowed than to have no link at all.

Ryan--I have to agree with you!! Check out what Starbucks did to create an April Fools caffeine buzz Great example of how social media + hillarious content combines for juicy link bait!

Right, I understand all of that, but it doesn't really answer the question.  My question is regarding anchor text that INCLUDES the keyword vs anchor text that is ONLY the keyword.  So is it OK to have a high percentage of anchor text that includes the keyword (based on numbers in OSE's anchor text "terms" instead of "phrases")?

MajesticSEO.com has a free tool that gives you new backlinks per day to your site. I'm not a subscriber so I don't know if you pay if they will tell you which backlinks they discovered.

Hey LJB, I remembered I had read about the update schedule and found this google calender Linkscape update schedule: http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/25141119/Linkscape-Schedule I believe the changes appear pretty much right after an update, but I am not really sure on that. Hope this helps!

Here's a quote by Tompt from one of my posts The last thing I read about nofollows essentially said that if you nofollow a link it doesn't boost the juice going to the rest of the page, the juice is still essentially "used". Here's theSEOmoz blog post about it. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google... It is from 2009 but one of the mozzers did link to it recenty when asked about nofollows so I would imagine it's still valid. -- Google invests millions into it's algorithm. If you're posting actual useful, relevant stuff which doesn't set off too many spam flags - It'll notice.

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This reply was very useful, because it tells me that even if it does not help me with a particular keyword, it helps us with the domain authority. They are legitimate business... So, it should be fine...