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Thanks for the quick feedback! I will not be going down that road. I appreciate the help.

Hi there, thanks for your question! To answer your question directly, Moz would be crawling your old URLs because it is able to find them using internal links and/or your sitemap. You can verify that Moz is crawling your old URLs --  and even see where they are finding them -- using Moz Analytics. To do this, log into into your Moz Analytics dashboard and go to the Crawl Diagnostics report, located under Search in the LH nav. The Crawl Diagnostics report will list the URLs of pages Moz has identified as duplicate content on the High Priorities tab, and how many internal and external links each of those pages has. To see the URL Moz crawled to find a specific page listed here,  download the CSV file from this tab and look at the column labeled "Referrer". Please let me know if this answers your question or not, thanks! Christy

Thanks but please tell me as you said forum signature links are not good , guest blogging is not good then how should we go to make backlinks? Do you have a way like making web 2.0 and build teir 2 backlinks to it??? or any other method???

Thanks for your help everyone, you have answered my question very thoroughly!

Thanks guys, very helpful advice.

Hi, I'm replying you point by point. 1>You must take backlink point to https domain because currently you are using SSL. 2>Yes as you mentioned that you have used 301 redirect so link equity pass to https domain with very negligible loss in link juice but you should take link on https domain because you are using SSL now. 3>Yes of course that is why people use 301 redirect so link equity can pass from old URL to new URL. Hope this helps. Thanks

Hey, thanks for getting back in contact. Yeah, we were contemplating doing that. It does seem to be further diluting the emphasis on people making a purchase however which was our real concern - If someone does a search for a DX4050 printer then it seems relevant to just yield a list of products rather than loads of additional content that is unrelated to their purchase. I guess pretty much anything we do is going to potentially detract from the user experience in the name of giving the possibility of people linking to us. Making something that is truly relevant and natural while at the same time adding to the user experience and attracting the possibility of external links would appear to be the challenge!

You should find an equilibrum here. Best option is to have some powerful keywords on the link anchor, or in this case as the image ALT. Having these kind of external links is really valuable. But not over-optimize it and use the same text in every external site linking you, as normal user behaviour is to link using your brand.

Hi I agree with Lesley. there is a whole hypocrisy around this matter. I have had the opportunity to purchase articles related to our website from so many Bloggers, even for the biggest blogs such as Techcrunch, Mashable, Forbes... it seems that everything has a price nowadays and that a lot of your competitors might already be using these techniques. I think that if the blog and the article are relevant, you should consider it.

Note of caution: I wouldn't put these links in the footer, sidebar or anywhere else which will mean the links would be present on every page of the site. A sudden rise in the quantity of sitewide links could set off alarm bells for search engines.

Hey Gary, The Google stance is that anything paid like what you outlined in #2 and #3 should have nofollowed links on it. It's the same story for giving free stuff to bloggers in exchange for reviews. The official stance can be found here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en. The reality is that there are still plenty of people getting away with this behind closed doors. The ones that are subtle about it can likely keep doing it for a long time with low risk. The ones that are blatantly doing it are much more at risk for being penalized or losing the value of those links, however I haven't seen many public stories of paid link penalties for awhile. If you choose to do this, do so with the understanding that it carries some risk, and your competitors are going to be happy to report you to the webspam team if you make it obvious that you're doing it.

Hi Frank, Don't rush to disavow or worry about these links as Google will look at the types of sites where you are featured. On the other hand of course, the links will appear on very reputable sites, as these are regular media sites This is what matters in cases like this. The sites are reputable and that is a big plus. If you had an article spammed across 50 random blogs, then it might be a different story. Without seeing everything for myself, it's a little hard to say with 100% certainty, but from what you said, it sounds OK. -Andy

Thanks you all for your anserws, i've learnt a lot

Thanks you all. Useful insights for my linkbuilding strategy!

Very insightful anserws, thanks!

Hi Charles! When were these redirects put in place? It's very possible OSE just hasn't seen them yet.

I've learnt a lot. Thank you all for the aswers!

Thank you for your answer Gary.

Cool, Many thanks Andy I will check out Buzzsumo to thanks again Pete

One additional point on disavowing, when looking at sites, don't automatically disavow a single bad link as a page - if you think that there is a chance you could see a link from a site you never want a link from, disavow at a domain level. Leave page-level disavows for those links where you might just not be happy with what you have this time. -Andy