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Once you've chosen your domain of choice as Tommy as explained by using 301 re-directs. It's probably a good idea to throw the other domain in link building occasionally. For example if you settle with http://www.footballboots.co.uk then your link building should focus around using that URL, but you should also use http://footballboots.co.uk sometimes as it helps to make your link profile look more natural. If you imagine that other people were creating natural links to your site, they're not always going to use the URL you prefer are they?

Hey! Sorry I am a bit too late on this one, but hopefully I can help! I think I have been fair, 500 words of unqiue content with 1 anchor text link in the body, thats it. Quite fair, but not exactly enough. The thing is, that's guest blogging and for bloggers to really want your content, you need to make it blog-friendly ("viral", in a way). MyBlogGuest is no different from the whole Internet in this respect. Some topics always do well and get attention. Usually these topics get picked in no time here: Facebook Twitter Apple Google So if you want to get quick offers, consider changing the focus towards the above topics. You can easily do that almost with any niche. For example, if you are into "loans": Free iPhone Apps to Quickly Calculate Your Loans HOW TO: Use Google Shortcuts to Estimate Your Loan etc If you add some screenshots, CC-attributed images, etc, your articles will be picked in no time! I hope that helps!

activitysuper, I do link building research by finding a strong competitor site: I use opensite explorer with these settings only followed links only external links You will find some pretty good links for free (or for a reasonable $ or effort) and you will also learn about what type of content and persona that site projects. Good luck.

Will do. I might do an hour of link building on the weekend just to get Google to it a bit quicker. I do rank for another EMD, which is at position 4, I built it in couple hours and did 1 hour link building, O and it has 8 affiliate links point out as well. Its been stable for months now at that position, which says to me if its an EMD and its a .co.uk, GAME ON!

Well, your first issue is having a blog only for SEO, search engines aren't that bothered if you have a blog, users might be and if users like it and link to it then search engines might care. Anyway, you're almost certainly better to focus on developing one good blog than five okay ones. If you're talking about developing a content syndication strategy, then there's a lot more to think about.

Have you tried running your target keywords through the SEOMoz 'Juicy Link Finder' tool? This will most likely drum up some prospects for you to approach about guest blogging spots. For more advanced searches have a look at the Competitive Link Research Tool and Link Acquisition Assistant. Good luck!

http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=1115997 May not catch everything I guess and this could be a good example.

Hi, I suggest feed burner. I've never read anything but I feel like it helps get your links indexed quickly since Google runs it. You can also submit your RSS to various RSS pingers. Also get your RSS set up on your Facebook pages, linkedin profile or other social media sites that have the option to pull in RSS. Good luck.

We never give content away.  Never have, and never will. If you have great content promote it heavily on your own site.  Submit it to sites such as slashdot, stumble, digg, reddit as appropriate.  Make it very easy for visitors to tweet, like and share.  Other than that I don't market my content, instead I spend that time to produce more. Links accumulate slowly at first but then once you start getting a little traffic the links arrive a bit faster. That's my experience.

mm but what if we are talking about the same page?

The advantage of guest blogging is you are exposing your site to an established audience. If you take any given topic there are going to be power users who have may receive RSS feeds from all authoritative sources and visit many sites; however, most people will have one or two favorite sites and stick with them. By adding an occasional guest blog to a site, you are presenting yourself to the site's audience. Those who find your article helpful or interesting may follow a link back to your site. That is what I consider to be the primary advantage of guest blogging. If that link is followed, then you have also diversified your link portfolio a bit as well.

I'm not an expert on this, but I know the 100 links thing doesn't matter anywhere near as much as it used to, or I'm not sure if it ever did in terms of being penalised. I think it was just a guideline that said if a page had more than 100 links, Google might not crawl them all, or PageRank might not be passed to anything over the 101st link...something like that. Google's crawling is a lot more sophisticated now, so as long as your site doesn't look like a link-farm I think you'll be fine. I haven't read it yet, but I've just found this, it looks like it'll help: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many

I agree. I very much love to build a brand and prefer that option. I have been offering SEO services and decided to brand my company, and started Vitopian.com. Vitopian is a completely made up brand. I could have chosen VitopianSEO or other options but I like my choice and if I can ever find the time to build my site (it is really just a framework at the moment with no content) then I very much look forward to building the brand. "Vitopian" is one word which I like. Two word names can work, three is too much in my opinion. I really don't like "runyoursocksoff" because it has four words. That's ok! This is your vision. I've been wrong before and you have a great opportunity to build the brand.

I agree with EGOL.  When people say that your best content belongs on your website, I always ask myself - why are you spending time creating content that isn't your best?  Whether you intend to put an article on your website or use it for a guest post opportunity, you owe it to yourself to only put your name on the best quality work you can produce.  You'll create way more opportunities for yourself down the road as you start to be seen as an expert in your niche.

This thread is over a year old. I'd actually suggest starting a new question, as it will get more visibility. Thanks!