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I came across that article when looking for an answer to this question. That is a great point though. Don't want to tell on ourselves here! Thanks a lot for your help on this!

Could you comment on what kind of updates did you made? Did you updated the Home Page, Categories, Products Page? Do you think it makes a difference? I have a B2B Commerce site so i find somewhat difficult to update and change content. Best Regards, Thanks!

Sadly, Fresh Web Mentions came up with a ton of crazy results for our site- sites that make absolutely no sense and also that don't contain mentions.

Hi Cyrus, Thank you for the response! I have taken the time to deeply review your comment. You did make some good points. 1. With reciprocal links, I'm not worried about a penalty but it would weaken the linkjuice if it went both ways. 2. I do believe bakeries will see the benefit in a advert in the guide, if only they need to place a link on their website, which is free. I would be amazed if this would been seen as buying links, let alone that Google could track offline publications. But but then again, Google never stops to amaze us :). 3. So many SEO's stress the fact that content should be something which your clients want to link too. I totally agree when your clients are consumers but not always if they are professionals. This market is way smaller and is less social vibrant. In this case I must skip my target audience and concentrate on their clients. Your tips are great. I will try to implement them!

This was a hypothetical question and I'm working on the SEO of many sites so the URL (or lack of) on my profile is irrelevant. I already know how to check back links already, thanks. I was purely wondering if suggesting the dmoz category (or any directory) to Google would help speed up the process of getting it crawled. My initial thought was that it should, but wondered if Google handled some of the high profile sites differently. I also known that it's all about the waiting game and to expect nothing over night! I guess this is a tricky question to answer. Thanks anyway.

That is exactly what we decided to do, the only thought (in my mind) is we'll working on two sites now (the switch will be approx Jan 2014) which seems a little redundant. Thanks a bunch for everyones input!

I'd buy it.

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Hi, The reality is that some of these links will have been paid for (in the form of ads, advertorials, etc). Other ways to obtain "quick links": Contact webmasters (of relevant websites) where you spot broken links. Kindly mention this and ask them to include a link to your website... they might be more willing since you helped them spot some broken links. Do some Blog post commenting on relevant Blogs. Add your site to some directories. Obviously non of the above is very clever and as mentioned before it would be more beneficial to develop a content strategy and start earning links, but in order to get things moving quickly it could help you a little already? As to software, I do like Buzzstream I must admit because it allows you to manage your outreach campaigns more efficiently. Cheers

With the resources you seem to have with "employees" writing unique and relevent content that has value to your visitors, then you should already have a fantastic & comprehensive blog to showcase on.  If you don't then you need to put your efforts into building your blog and turning the tables so it's an engaging place that people will want to comment on, link to and all the other blog benefits. Stay well away from article submission sites, as Brad says, he ignores requests full of remorse everyday.  it's organic search karma, what we do today, impacts on our future!  Don't make your future, writing to people like Brad begging for the links to be removed.  Ain't gonna happen!

you wouldn't get penalised as such, it would just take a while for them all to be indexed - it maybe more advantageous to spread them over a few days - say 1000 per day such as to even give google a chance.

Hi James, first of all you're not bothering here that's the purpose of any community I think,share experience and thoughts! about profiles I think that the way to make users interact with them is to enhance integration with social media is highly helpful. Link to their g+ and facebook profiles will help them to easily access them with their facebook login so to not haveing to register from zero with you and ease the way they'll adding content  to them.

As long as you are not building it to target exact match anchor text, I would be cool with the idea. Just a lot of times people build these widgets to get specific anchor text. Especially since those links most likely go site wide, can be a major no no

I'd like to know the answer too... Our page is an e-commerce site, and Google sometimes gives the duplicate content reports for pages that don't match, but haven't got much of unique content. Thought maybe you solved the problem?

Open Site Explorer isn't able to crawl the entire web, we only crawl about the top 25% of it. We also have a bit of a delay between when you get a link and when it shows up in the main OSE crawl. I'd suggest also verifying your site in Google Webmaster Tools and Bing's Webmaster Center. Both of those sites will show you additional links that are coming into your site that OSE hasn't caught yet.

HI Paul, I agree 100% with you, in the case you want to check external links. That's why I try to solve my errors on GWT so I can see new external errors showing up. However in this case I got confused by this sentence: _ I have been able to find and fix many of them but there are links that are coming from our home page that do not seem to exist._ I thought that he was speaking aboiut links generated inside his homepage. However if the case are external links, I recommend spry advice, but only for few links. If you have many of them you can consider to use GWT API and download all the broken links with their own linking urls. An information which google used to share before but that now is not available in GWT (at least not in mine)

Any update on 301's passing penalt to a new domain?

While I'm certainly not engaged in any form of blackhat techniques, we were severely affected by Penguin.  Needless to say, we suffered a 50% drop on April 24 and have not risen back since.  For that reason, yes, I do have link paranoia - good term I'm thinking of making another post on the subject (YouMoz) because I've finally figured out what happened.  I'm hoping this next update will catch my fix. For the record, they are not spammy but rather topical sites and directories related to Ghosts or New Age stuff.  Again, we have nothing to do with these topics. Seems like the consensus is just leave them.  There are about two dozen out of 2000 links I manually reviewed in a spreadsheet.