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And this is what I see on the oldest domain in the world: http://symbolics.com/ ??? I hate what internet has become.

I'm guessing they must have some pretty authorative links to over-rule the fact that their link profile is like that.

Thanks! I've got one in place Example: http://www.tvsphoto.com/ga I fairly sure its set up correctly 

Seeing Hayneedle sites back in the SERPs today.  Looks like they removed the heavy crosslinking. Strange that they seem to be at full previous rankings.  Maybe this is old data? I would have expected them to have lost some power without cross linking or something else devalued.

Thanks Barry, I sorta thought that would be the case, but wasn't a 100% sure

lol.... Good story, Steve.  Thanks for sharing it. I got a message from a professor who asked why we didn't have an article on Subject XYZ because it was so important, etc. etc. etc. (just reading his rant I could tell that he knew his stuff......  So I asked him to write one and got a great piece of content.

Your domain strength is pretty high, so on your home page and top pages, those navigational links are going to be fine, but you could nofollow the bulk of them on the individual blog pages. You already have the tweet and facebook like buttons that are getting use, but you might be able to add some easy to copy & paste code, similar to a badge, to try and boost inbound links (http://www.seomoz.org/dp/badges). Also, since you have so much content you could try getting a Polyvore-like feature added to your site that helps people make a collage from the different wedding details they like. (http://www.polyvore.com/). I didn't dig too deeply so these are just off-the-cuff examples, but hopefully enough to spark some ideas for you.

winner, winner, chicken dinner. Interesting article. Anyone have experience testing these? Bing/Yahoo can definitely be worth it to my sites & clients if the keywords are broad enough. I've also noticed how my Google & bing/yahoo results only have loose correlation. Interesting to see if I can boost bing w/o trashing G results

Hey Domaon, This happened to me once and I was furious.  I would contact the publisher and show them this article. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/ Basically it explains that the site gains no additional PR to it's other links by  nofollowing your links.   Who knows maybe they'll chance their stance on nofollowing links to use submitted articles. That said there are good reasons why a link can have a nofollow attached to it.  However, if you contributed an article to an ezine that selectively publishes user submitted content you deserve a "dofollow" link.

It sounds like your best bet is going to be digging up some analytics from your old site, finding common URL patterns, and redirecting them more thoroughly via rewrite rules.  A clever use of sorting in a spreadsheet can make this task go by much quicker, and if you have some key pages on the new site where you feel entire clusters of old pages can redirect that will help too as you're not redirecting one to one.  It would also help to tag the new site's applicable pages with rel=canonical. Lastly, you can apply a nocache tag to the pages on your old site, althugh they should be flushing out fairly soon. Those are the general recs.  There is a certain amount of time involved in the process, and it's not a strict number of days/hours/minutes. Oh, for your 404 page (http://www.structural.net/;flkajhsdlfg) I'd recommend making it a lot more functional, especially since you're expecting a lot of 404 traffic in this current process.  Check out Apple's for an example (http://www.apple.com/lkjsfdawe) and this blog post for more ideas: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/personalizing-your-404-error-pages (an oldie, but goodie.)

A fair few of our clients don't use PPC at all... they tend to be the smaller businesses and they just don't have the budget for both. Of course they would do better with both but they do pretty good with just organic. But yeah, I do get disillusioned at times too... not about the PPC side of things but when random, inexplicable and seemingly illogical stuff happens. Actually, disillusioned probably isn't the right word for me, I'd say more like upset and rageful lol.

What I do, is to check the link structure of my competitors. Get a list of their backlinks and their anchor texts. Diversification of anchor text got quiet important nowadays. This allows you to see which anchors are used and in which ratio. Then I check the link list for structure. Often you can easily see where the basic links like directories social networks etc come from and where the real juicy links are comming from. Once you know the structure of your competitor you can easily build links in a similar structure or adjust this strategy according to your needs. But the best trick is to deliver content the users are starving for. Once you did this. They will spread links all over the internet. Another good way is to start a linkbait and offer something bloggers love Please excuse my english as I am German native and have to do some phone calls beside writing ;D

lol I expected to have to search harder than that but just goes to show how common a problem it must be (not that it's a problem for you by the sounds of things lol): http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=&q=local+listings+merged&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGLL_en-GBGB403GB403&ie=UTF-8

Hi Elias! Unfortunately, we don't have rank tracking in Google mobile and I'm not sure of any other company that does.  I'll pass the message along to our team, though, and we'll see what we can do to add that functionality down the line. Also, did you know we have a feature request forum? It's a great place to share your ideas. Other people can vote on them and it will help us determine priorities. You should check it out: http://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums Thanks again for letting us know!

Thanks for the input. For the company I'm working for we're doing a new blog and I plan on linking back to certain pages of the main site that are relevant to the blogpost.

Yes, the listing may lose the ranking if those 100 backlinks are from worthy sites.

Check out my post here as I'm sure the problem is the same. http://www.seomoz.org/q/juicy-link-finder-doesn-t-support-hebrew-utf8-input