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Awesome! Thanks so much

Try ahrefs and majestic they have the most link data.  Webmaster tools doesn't provide all your link data and it's the same with moz, they have a smaller database of links (but have more and better features than ahrefs and majestic).

Great thanks guys!

These are my outreach tools, though some might not call them that name, but they keep my work in daily contact with thousands of  people who are interested in my industry. ** A news page on my website where I post links to industry news stories on other websites and any new content that is posted on my own site.  This page is visited by about a thousand people per day. ** An RSS feed of the links to news stories described above that goes out via Feedburner to a few thousand people. ** A Feedburner email list of several thousand subscribers who want to receive the list of story links described above. I am not an outreach kind of person.  I don't want to schmooze people.  Instead I just do my best to post what people want, and allow them to opt in for a daily RSS, or email, or visit to my news page.  You will not get this overnight.  But if you are dedicated to featuring everyone in your industry who is doing something good, lots of people will want to hear this stuff.  Then, when you publish something new.... BAM... it goes out to your whole tribe and they share it with other people for you. Once people see you doing this, a few of them will send you great stuff to feature.  That will make your job easier. So, instead of schmoozing people and sending your stuff out to Mailchimp and all of these other services, build something good on your own site and let other people promote your stuff for you.

Yea, sorry I misspoke there. What I meant is that I was thinking of reaching out to these various sources and asking them to link to our site where it was mentioned in the article. I was just concerned whether links from many very similar (or duplicate) articles would do more harm than good. I think I go my answer, which is that it probably won't build much positive benefit, and there is a risk of negative effects, so I will avoid this tactic.

This may help: http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2360254/is-that-directory-link-unnatural I often see people going crazy disavowing directory links that are actually good, valid citations.  When trying to decide whether a directory is good, I'll ask the following questions: -Is there any chance I'd get some clients to me from this directory? -Would I still want a link here if nofollowed? -Is this a valid industry directory or just one that is set up to link out? -Does the directory allow you to control your anchor text? (That's usually a bad sign)

Some ezine article links are indeed followed.  This can cause problems, because some websites can have, say 9 nofollowed links from ezine article pages and then the 10th is followed.  As such, many people miss those. That's great that your article marketing didn't hurt you, but this is exactly the type of link that can hurt others in the eyes of Penguin. Adam, it's good that you got the articles removed.  You may also want to do a search for the text of these articles in case someone has taken them and republished them as these will be unnatural links too. If you do find additional article links that you can't get removed, just disavow them.  Make sure you do so at the domain level.

Hi Eslam. A link via an image is perfectly acceptable especially if they're natural links. Some sites will tend to have an abundance of these if they're things like images sharing sites, online comics, meme generators, etc. And many of these sites do perfectly well with a high percentage of image links. The bigger concern is that the site isn't spammy, see Moz's new tool that's part of OSE: http://moz.com/blog/spam-score-mozs-new-metric-to-measure-penalization-risk and http://moz.com/blog/understanding-and-applying-mozs-spam-score-metric-whiteboard-friday Cheers!

Hey Lewis, If they'd used your infographic without credit or attributed credit elsewhere then you'd absolutely be within your rights to ask for attribution. However in this instance as they've given you the appropriate credit there's nothing you can do (whether the link is no-followed or not). Whilst clearly a followed link would be great I'd strongly advise that you don't pursue this aggressively. You've not said whether or not they routinely no-follow all outbound links on the site but this may just be their policy. Moreover you really don't want to end up upsetting or alienating what could be a great contact in the future. This is still definitely a win

No, 302 redirect do not pass link juice. See: http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection

Finally an answer, thank you! ** I have seen Google promote app indexing and deep linking on their site, but it looks like the app developer needs to do something to take advantage of it. https://developers.google.com/app-indexing/** This caught my eyes. I am developing an app for my site, and I will have this link in mind. Thanks Anthony Good day,

Thanks for the replies everyone. I think I'll continue buying up "important" domains in foreign countries but ignore and let some of these expire that are vanity/not-used. I definitely agree on the mis-spelling issue, I have bunch of domains that cover a mis-spelling. In our Analytics one of the top ten queries is a mis-spelling of the company name.

Your opinion is reassuring. Thanks.

What did the reviewer do?   First, this is a person who has a lot of knowledge about me and my websites from doing work on them several times over a period of several years.  I told the person to review the entire site and give me a list of the things that they would do if the website belonged to them.  I offered access to analytics and would answer any questions. I got back a big "to do list" that would significantly improve the site and require lots of work.  Doing the tasks on the list cost many times more than the review.  My problems have been solved but I am still working on the list because the list will improve the site.

Hi Margaret, You should read this review on the Moz spam tool written by Marie Haynes, who is quite knowledgeable on link removal & spammy links. Basically, the tool can be useful, when used in combination with other tools and with manually reviewing the links themselves. So don't take decisions only based on the score of the tool - Ryan made some valuable points on how to determine if a link is spammy. You should also read this post by Marie on how to identify unnatural links. Based on these elements, you can make a decision whether or not to disavow these links. rgds, Dirk

Hi Guys I apologise for not responding sooner. Attached are "most" of our keywords we are ranking for (for individual pages) since launching in Feb this year. We're now starting to execute a marketing plan that will contribute to earning links. Hopefully this will begin to rank our more "competitive" keywords. Have you guys worked with many start ups? How quickly were they able to rank for non competitive/competitive keywords? Would really like to hear from you regarding your experiences, to ensure I get everything right from the get go. Thanks. Gary ANwsHlZ.png

Hi Charles. Good ideas already. I'd also look for partnerships and promotions around green certification (several sites feature these in relation to their energy uses) with manufactures, stores, repair shops, pretty much anyone dealing with e-waste. If they could be labeled as e-waste neutral via your process that'd be something they would want to brag about. The link back to you would then display their certification. Cheers!

Brendan's advice is pertinent if your are specifically buying a link, but there is a huge caveat to this information. It is not uncommon for other services such as Yahoo Local, or lead generating resources to provide a service of which includes a link to your website. In these cases you're not actually buying a link but a service. Google has indeed cracked down on directory type listing websites because they really offer no value to anybody on the web. However when services are attached, such as lead generation, technical advice, consulting etc.. often times a link to your site is part of the service and shouldn't be lumped into calling it a purchased link.. per-say. Hope this makes sense, Don

Note: This question was asked a second time at http://moz.com/community/q/self-linking-2.