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What's your favorite 100% white hat link building tactic?

Well, maybe you don't want to reveal your favorite...just a good one...

The sites that were hacked were penalized, or your site was penalized?

About 160 characters or fewer: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/meta-description

Open Site Explorer will have to crawl and index the link first. The index is updated about once a month.

I would go for a single domain. That way you get to build up links and authority over time. If you use a new domain for each 6 month project, you have to start over each time with 0 links.

Adding rel=nofollow to a link won't affect your page load time.

I would not expect you to gain or lose any SEO benefit by nofollowing a link to your SSL certificate page.

Eamon,

If you can't get them to change their site to HTML only, I would setup canonical tags to tell Google that the HTML version of each page is the correct version.

~Adam

"How do I know when a site has too many links versus the number of unique cblocks?"
There is no set number or formula. You want your links to be as diverse as possible, and C-class IP blocks is one metric that matters.

"Is this the total number of unique cblocks on the web or am I using the tool wrong?"

There are many more than that. Not familiar with the tool, but it may be a limitation of the tool. It looks like it uses Yahoo backlink data, which is limited to 1,000 links.

Oh, so you want some in-house/on-site training?

I would try SEOmoz partner Distilled: http://www.distilled.co.uk/contact.html

Here are two tools that may help you:

http://www.generateit.net/mod-rewrite/

http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/mod_rewrite-rewriterule-generator.shtml

I would expect Google to discount some of the links.

Subfolder is more ideal. Seems link juice may get passed better between subfolder and domain than subdomain and domain.

Andy, getting white hat links often requires a lot of creativity and elbow grease. This webinar is a good place to start: http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/seomoz-tools-acquire-whitehat-links

I've never seen any evidence or indication that it matters what city your web hosting is in.

Well, let's look at it from an hourly perspective.

14 posts a month on twitter and facebook = maybe 3-5 hours?

3 blog posts = could be 3 hours, could be 20 hours, depending on depth and complexity

As far as hourly rates, I would expect something roughly as follows:

<$100 for small, startup, new, etc agencies
$100-200 for small to medium agencies
$200+ for larger and more established agencies

So if we budgeted 15 hours, cost might be $1,000-$3,000+

It would depend on what services and strategies were included. For example, how many blog posts per month? Do you just monitor the Facbook page or pro-actively promote it? Do you run contests or viral promotions?

Yes, that would be seen as duplicate content, since it is already published on other site(s).

So basically you're asking if Google Adwords and/or MSN Adcenter ignore stop words for the purpose of match types? I've never heard that they do, so I believe that your ad would not show in the examples you gave.

Why not add a blog to your website and focus on producing some really great content for it? This can be a great way to not only get rankings but establish yourself as an industry expert to sell your services.

There is a theory to that effect, but I've never seen any evidence that it is true.