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Hey Man, Its a Great start and from the metrics you have shown Looks like a Very Good backlink. hey, Why not help the community by explaining how do you get this backlink ? I hope you wont mind Thanks

Hi Adam I strongly advise you take a look at this article http://searchengineland.com/matt-cutts-stick-a-fork-in-it-guest-blogging-is-done-182147 Create good content and start to share using social media, forums. This will bring people back to you website or maybe not if the content is boring. Create a good tile  "How to fix a pipe with your eyes closed" with good meaningful info. Also if you need more industry specific specialists who will have an interest in the content you post, visit followerswonk. Hope this helps?

I would approach directory link building, as with any other form of linking, as a way to attract new traffic to your site.  Pursue a link opportunity, not because it will provide link juice to your site, but rather, drive an engaged consumer who will ultimately convert.  The goal is all about getting more traffic to your site, not to rank on Google/Bing, right? I manage 5 national brands with over 900 locations across the US.  Our link profile is heavily weighted on directories that are both popular and industry specific.  This helps drive a very large amount of visitors to our pages that ultimately become a lead.  We don't go after a directory listing unless it will deliver a visitor who will fill out a form or call.  otherwise, what's the point?

Just sent you the info to the Gmail ! Thanks again for the support !

Thank you both for your responses. The css class comment totally makes sense. I'm surprised that the comments are nofollows... seems like an oversight!

You're welcome Emily. Moz has a list of recommended companies here: http://moz.com/article/recommended

Did you see any lost in traffic in your site lately? You should be very careful removing link many of those links might be actually helping your ranks. If you don't have any penalty or traffic decrease I think is better use of your time to keep building good links.

Being solidly on page 2 and 3 after only 14 months means you are doing great. I have sites that are 5 and 7 years old that still show up on page 2 for some of the keyword phrases we target. PPC can be a powerful way to cover the gap until you get on page 1.  It all really depends on what your market is. Some high competition areas (like weight loss, or payday loans) are outrageously expensive. Other areas (like garden tools) are fairly cheap. I find it profitable for some of my items, but not for all. After running campaigns for a while, pause the losers and let the winners run. If your area is not highly competitive, you can do a lot of PPC for the cost of a $100 link... Can you share your URL so we can make more accurate comments?

It looks like the site has been penalized pretty heavily. I wouldn't want to be there if I were you. Pop it into http://www.semrush.com/ and witness the horror.

You could go about changing some of them but I'd focus on your external links.  I'd also take a look at Cyrus Shepard's recent post on keywords and instead of applying your resulting Step 7 list to your keyword choices (although you could very effectively use it as such), use your resulting concepts as a starting place for your back link research, as any sites that were relevant to the concepts you end up with in that list would be ideal back link candidates. Also, keep in mind that in your niche, a high DA isn't a prerequisite for being a link opportunity, so long as it's a quality site with a few quality back links and no/few spammy links.

Do the blog links help to answer or provide further information on the question? If so I'd say it isn't a problem as long as it isn't done to excess. 100s of links from one website sounds like a lot so you should be careful depending on what quality and quantity of external links you have elsewhere. Yahoo Answers links are nofollow so you won't be getting much (if any) link juice from them.

There is no hard and fast rule on maximum number of outbound links a page can/should have or at what at number they begin to lower the value of the page they're on. If all the links on a page are well curated and relevant to the topic of the page or of the site, then having your link on that page too is not going to hurt you. However, as with most things in SEO, there is a "scale" factor,and if all your back links are coming from pages with hundreds or thousands of links, you''re likely to run into problems. As for the value of such a link--think of the total value that a link from a page can provide as water in a bucket and the more pagerank or authority a page has, the bigger the bucket and the more water is able to fit into it. Now divide that water up by the number of out bound links--the fewer number of links, the more value each passes, the greater the number of links, the less value each one can pass on, until the value becomes so diluted that each one is worth next to nothing.

Thanks for the response. Do you feel checking new links discovered weekly is a bit overkill?

Do make sure you use the canonical URL in your links, however. You don't want to be linking to several different versions of the same URL.

Hi Anthony Kurt's answer was pretty dead on (thanks Kurt!). Just want to add some more detail about the disavow specifically. We've been told by John Muller in some of his Google Hangouts (he works on the webmaster tools team) that the disavow can take up to 6 months to fully take effect. This is because Google has to have crawled all the domains/pages in the disavow file, based upon their own crawl schedule (having nothing to do with when you submit the file). As they crawl the disavowed URLs, they then add a nofollow basically on those links. Sounds like you're doing the right things! I would also think about being sure to try to get traffic from other places in the meantime, even paid. I have heard John also suggest that you can start testing page quality with PPC traffic. I also believe evidence of other traffic sources, especially social, will help any site recover much more quickly.

Maybe I'm not understanding your question correctly but I think a keyword density tool is what you're looking for such as this one from SEO Book: http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword-density/

Oh, I didn't realize how thin the linking site was.  I was picturing some design sites I'm aware of that have detailed write-ups with examples.  Analysis of your page is fine, a link among a sea of links I would shy away from.

Thanks Joel and Richard for your answers. You make me wondering whether my strategy is good. Here is the strategy : I have a website about proofreading service in wordpress. I have other domains whose name are my critical keywords. I was planning to copy/paste my main website on the secondary sites and obviously to change the content to avoid duplicate content (but wordpress template and design will be exactly the same on all the sites). Once this is done I was planning to link the websites together. Is there any risk of being classified ''black hat'' by Google ? Thanks a lot, Dan

It's hard to say what to do without knowing the size of your site's backlink profile, but here is my best shot given the information you've provided. If you are currently ranking #2, I would not get rid of any backlinks at the moment, unless they are 100% against Google's TOS (paid, hidden, etc). However, I would also be really focused on acquiring more relevant and natural links to make sure your overall backlink profile looks solid and should survive future algorithms/inspections. As your backlink profile gets stronger, consider removing poor backlinks gradually for increased SERP stability. Don't worry about Moztrust. It's just a metric, and not one used by Google.

Thank you to you both! The only reason why I am looking into directories is to get backlinks, I don't think people would be actually looking for me in them. So you guys don't recommend directories as part of backlinks strategy? Thank you so much!