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i would ask them directly if they have options or if theres an opportunity for you to write for them or contribute and what can be done. Dont waste too much time thinking if you want the link because I think you already do Plus it's local, it wont be too strict with just 1 link.

The viral lift sometimes, it really depends on the company and what the prize is. The company I do it for has a unique product that has a pretty big following. So people organically review it as good and write blog posts about it. We have never promoted any with money per se. One thing I have found that works really really well is blogging. If there is a blogger in the market that has a lot of followers and they can be paid or given free product to make a blog post about the giveaway (along with a fb post and a tweet). Then that can work out well. We saw one balloon from 500 people entered to 3k people entered in one day because of that. I don't tend to recommend paid ads, I like the subversive paid blog post, where people do not realize it is "sponsored". I feel people tend to believe it more and have found it works out better.

Yes, linguee seems to be a quality website, apparently well regarded by Google, but I've got 37,000 backlinks from linguee domains (out of 42,000 total backlinks), and my rankings have been dropping during the last months (as the number of backlinks from linguee has been growing steadily) . Should I disavow these links? What do you think?

Hi, Guest blogging is somewhat difficult but must have activity for natural brand building process. Try http://www.blogdash.com/ and click on "Get Started For Free". This will save lot of time. Please note that it works if you are selling something online. You need to be very specific to find blogger for Cloud Services, technologies etc. Hope this will help.

I understand your concern, but if you don't think that contacting the site to have the links removed is a viable option, then disavow really is your only recourse. The only way to find out if Google will accept that as enough is to try it and see. I wouldn't obsess over this one domain, but when you file for reconsideration, it will be important to show progress in other areas. In other words, maybe you can't remove these 14K links (and will just disavow the domain), but make sure you remove some other, bad links, and show an effort somewhere. Beyond cooperation from the webmaster, your only other recourse is legal, and that's just not going to be worth the time, money, and grief, in 99% of cases. Plus, if a past SEO company did this, you don't even have much legal recourse - the 3rd-party site didn't do anything wrong.

To the best of my understanding about seo, i consider applying the best practice. If you have a choice of applying best practice by avoiding nofollow from internal links then to my view you should apply that Refer case study from Tedster on :- http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4161726.htm

Likewise.

Could I get some additional suggestions here. It was originally a Moz Associate that said to try phone calls in my industry when promoting our article.

Kyle, if you have done a domain level disavow, there's no need to do another URL by URL. We are seeing disavow take anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months to take effect. Wish I could offer better news, but it looks like you're in a hurry-up-and-wait mode.

It's possible that OSE never crawls that deeply into the directory pages of your niche--OSE doesn't get to every page on the web.  In the end, however, it's not what OSE shows, it's whether or not Google knows it's there and if Google assigns any value to it.  Essentially, a YDir link is a paid link and link juice shouldn't be expected from it.  However, you can drop the url (minus the "http://") do a site:dir.yahoo.com search for your company name and see if google's indexed that page. edit: However, you can do a google search on the url (minus the "http://") or a site:dir.yahoo.com search for your company name and see if google's indexed that page.

Hi All, I have been facing the same problem but still i have been confused so please see my thoughts below. We should be clear on @Melissa's question. 1 - He wants to know should we do the link-building on redirected domain or not. 2 - If we will do the link-building on redirected domain then what URL Google will follow and display in SERP. As he said this new website "stephenshefrinphotography.com" redirected to his old domain "shef1.com" , that means  new website domain is virtual and old one is real. If we will create the backlinks for new website in order to get good ranking and traffic that will work or not ? If it will work then what URL will come in search page stephenshefrinphotography.com or shef1.com. I am looking forward to hear from you soon. Thanks a lot in advance..

Thanks for the advice guys. I am just putting together a list of sites that I want to approach. I sent out a few test emails last night so hopefully should get some replies today!

No problem. Glad to help. Mike

I think that is exactly the right strategy - cherry pick when to use follow links

I would encourage you to step back and ask a different set of questions.... How can I become a trusted entity online? What can I do to educate, engage, or entertain those looking for my products / services? What problems am I solving, or what solutions am I offering? If you think through these - and set out to answer them, you'll get plenty of great mentions, in all the right places. Cheers, and good luck!

It is just one of the plugins you can research and possibly find more that will have filters etc. Yoast's SEO plugin has powerful features and you can follow no follow by pages, and you might have some other way of doing no-follow maybe based on categories

Thanks Chris, I think I can adapt this to what we're doing. This outreach seems like an art form. Thanks again, Bob

Thanks Chris, I removed the sidebar links which were on every page so that may have looked spammy, but have left the ones on my homepage as you say - those are only 1 link, and they're genuinely about me and what I do.

WIth reference to your question on edu & gov backlinks, it wouldn't be worth spending a lot of your effort on gaining them. Matt Cutts mentioned once in a video response that .edu & .gov backlinks do not necessarily worth more than .com links (http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2010/01/do-you-still-care-about-gov-or-edu-links.html). Besides, it is important to obtain more backlinks from sites related to your business/niche, as compared to getting backlinks from edu & gov pages which have no relation to your business/niche. It won't help much in building up your site's authority if you go for the latter.

Thanks for all of the input. I'm still scratching my head, but I think I'm going to re-direct and abandon the link if necessary. I think my problems are algorithmic so if I'm not trying to rank for that term, I'm hoping I won't have an issue. I'll keep everyone posted with the results I see. I figure I'll need to abandon that link anyway as my link profile is so much different than my competitors. Thanks!