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Casey from SEOmoz responded to this question in another thread with the following: "That article was out of date and replaced by a chapter in our Beginners Guide to SEO", which is the link below that Gyi quoted.

Really both. On the one hand, the value of building many links on the same domain diminishes as the number of links on that domain increases. However, in my experience, this doesn't start happening until you're talking a lot of links (think footer links & blog roll links). Going after the new domain will increase the domain diversity of your back link profile, which is really important. Also, are we assuming that both domains are of equal authority? My advice would be to continue spending time building links on domain #1 and start investing time into the more difficult domain #2.

I took a quick look at that video, and can tell you we've all been on the receiving end of auto-generated link requests where the sender has obviously never looked at the site. Matt Cutts and Danny Sullivan have fun on occasion when they write about these types of requests. Lots of red flags go off when looking at this site, especially the guarantee about top rankings. No, I don't have any personal experience with this site, but in general this type of thing is something to avoid.

BBC, USA Today not much in terms of traffic but good for DA

Be careful with outsourcing link building, but as far as it goes find websites or blogs that more or less on the same keyword. Try to negotiate with them about the link, maybe they will want to write about some of your products for free just because they like it. Check out the link I got. http://www.gamesradar.com/wii/super-mario-galaxy-2/news/new-diamond-encrusted-mario-pendants-and-the-holiday-deal-of-a-lifetime/a-2010112215148406037/g-2009060210524839056 Also read this post: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/link-building-london-absolutely-remarkable

Two posts on the SEOmoz blog might help you further, the first is about the actual value that a DMOZ placement has these days, and the second one describes a way to get listed: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/getting-a-link-from-dmoz-isnt-worth-what-it-once-was http://www.seomoz.org/blog/want-to-get-listed-in-dmoz-become-an-editor

Pages authority is determined by the number of pages linking to that page and the the authority of that linking page. Or are you looking for the actual math behind this determination?

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You should get all the url of the old site with Xenu's Link Sleuth, then create a PHP array of oldUrl => newUrl and put it in your redirect script. So you have in the htaccess : RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/home/newscontent.asp RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=([0-9]+) RewriteRule ^(.*)$ redirect.php?id=%1 [L] In the redirect.php file, you have : $redirect = array("/home/newscontent.asp?id=1133" => "/name-of-the-article"); // 800 times (for all url) if(isset($redirect[$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']])) {     header("Status: 301 Moved Permanently", false, 301);     header("Location: http://www.mydomain.com/".$redirect[$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']]);     exit(); } // Send a 404 if you don't have a redirect

+1 to the above. It was a good model when it launched, but now just too cluttered to be of any real significance.

try this http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/structure-a-navigation/site-links/4010

It would depend on two things. 1. did they received your email? 2. Did they even bother opening and reading your email at all? If you're able to satisfy the ones above then chances are you are almost 50% in having a good link.

2. I believe you mean subdomains on wordpress.com, which are free. Wordpress.org is where you can download the Wordpress software and self-host the site.

Most SEOs don't call people to acquire links although I know someone who has good success by calling the decision maker and asking for a link. I think it requires good phone sales skills which is generally not a strength of most SEOs. If you are comfortable calling people I would recommend trying it and measuring the results against your other efforts.

I guess you can be thankful for the one you managed to get : )

What do you mean by (3) it doesn't reveal your underlying platform? I don't think URL structure would be of much concern here, especially if you where experienced in exploiting websites? Maybe I'm wrong, not to sure what you are referring too. In regards to you leaning towards this one, surely posting it as a directory /hotdogs/ implies that it is that, a directory and not a just a page about hotdogs? I'm digging a bit to deep into this, as I'm sure it won't make that much of a difference, but I'm just saying, it seems more logical to have it .php or .html

Check out the SEOmoz Juicy Link Finder! There are some example emails online, (just search online).

Great advice Rishi

I cant find an infographic on this for you. Essentially every SEO will go about this differently. If I remember there are some template emails on this site?? To get blog and forum links, obviously you just need to comment or sing up and post... Getting guest posts posted you need to build a relationship with the blog owner. If you're looking for a quick win you could try distributing a few articles to ezines such as http://ezinearticles.com/ Tom