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Well, lately all competitor sites that i have been looking seems to get the majority of their links from mainly two sources: Directories and Blog Comments.

They rank well (position 1 to 5) for medium (sometimes high) competitive keywords, so I would say that this works and is something easy to execute. However, this is not probably the best way to achieve an high authority for your site.

I kinda had the same question. So i decided to just get rid of the Short Description part from my Prestashop Template, maybe that would be a good solution for you too?

I would like to recommend Prestashop. Its very stable, faster and really mature CMS for e-commerce created by French developers.

The downside is that the modules are normally really expensive (the cheaper will cost around € 30) and are generic**,** but you can easily hire freelancers to do that part of the job for you, i just didnt because im aprogrammer and was able to build my own modules.

Some points that I really like about Prestashop is: SEO Optmized, have a great cache (making pages loading speeds really fast) and is deeply integrated with ajax, making it really user friendly.

Currently im finishing a site that uses Prestashop, if you want to take a look its at http://www.ilet.com.br , not finished yet but can give you an Idea of how the CMS works.

And I wouldnt recommend Wordpress, yes, it is a great CMS and with the right plugins or templates you can have a fully operational e-commerce, however, it is not robust like Magento or Prestashop for e-commerce.

We have to keep in mind that Wordpress were built as a blog system, while others CMS like the two above were Build thinking about e-commerce. You will have much better resources (community, developers, cms) on the long run using a solution that is designed for what you want to do than trying to adapt something.

Also I read somewhere here in the forum that a www.mysite.com/keyword/ would be better than a www.mysite.com/keyword.html because it have less word, so, each one carry more value.

But what if the SEO is just a side effect of the link? Lets say, creating a plugin that let the user optinally shows or not a link to the site creator of the plugin, so now you have one less possibly bad thing to worry, after all users show the link only if they want to.

That link could also be seen as a way of the creator of the plugin promoting himself, someone could visit that site, see the plugin, like it and end up on the creators site to download a copy for him.

So today I was taking a look at http://www.seomoz.org/top500 page and saw that the AddThis page is currently at the position 19.

I think the main reason for that is because their plugin create, through javascript, linkbacks to their page where their share buttons reside. So any page with AddThis installed would easily have 4/5 linbacks to their site, creating that huge amount of linkbacks they have.

Ok, that pretty much shows that Google doesn´t care if the link is created in the HTML (on the backend) or through Javascript (frontend). But heres the catch.

If someones create a free plugin for wordpress/drupal or any other huge cms platform out there with a feature that linkbacks to the page of the creator of the plugin (thats pretty common, I know) but instead of inserting the link in the plugin source code they put it somewhere else, wich then is loaded with a javascript code (exactly how AddThis works).

This would allow the owner of the plugin to change the link showed at anytime he wants. The main reason for that would be, dont know, an URL address update for his blog or businness or something.

However that could easily be used to link to whatever tha hell the owner of the plugin wants to.

What your thoughts about this, I think this could be easily classified as White or Black hat depending on what the owners do. However, would google think the same way about it?

Sometimes i simply cant find a post I had previously commentend on when it leaves the front page. I think a filter to show you the comments you had answered would be a great addition too.

Lets say, some sites that are normally ranked high on Google could be displayed completly wrong on iPad or iPhone devices, so this different results based on wich platform the user is using would make a perfect sense.

Anyway would like to read more on the subject if anyone have any info about it.

From my experience twitter has proven to be a great tool to index new pages really fast on google, but never used it for backlinks. I think, maybe if you do get your backlink indexed the value of it would be close to none (even the profile link).

I notice that the higher the Page Rank of the page you posted the link the faster it is saw by the Search Engines. Don't know if that its true, its just my guess.

Also I recommend you to use the Yahoo Site Explorer, its the fasted tool in the web to show you the indexed links. There are several backlinks that I saw showing there in less then 24 hours after it were created but Google Webmaster Tools and the Tools here in SEOmoz normally takes longer, the Google Webmaster Tools for instance I think its pretty random to show the new links.

One reason i can think of is that what he sayed didn't make sense, after all, mentioning someone on twitter don't affect anyones SEO.

This or he knows something about Google Algo and don't want to share it with us and is now hiding that precious info

Thanks a lot by those recommendations.

I would give you some if I had found any on this range , currently the only one i knew was the JoeAnt one

The only meta that I really care about is the Description. The others i let wordpress auto manage but im thinking in getting it out (the meta keyword) since it would be a hint to my competitors on wich keywords i have been optmizing for.

Lately Ashton have been even investing in some startups so i wouldnt be surprised at all about his knowledge in SEO.

So, by that you mean that the Moz Rank would be the most aproximate measure of the real PR google have about an site?

Google algo detects when you got a sudden urge of links to your site and it raises the "SPAM" flag, normally , like in your case, the algo sent the site to the SandBox.

Whats weird when this happens is that sometimes you drop for a few days than suddenly your site is back to the top and ranking higher than before.

Other times you just sit there in sandbox forever.

So I think you did the right move, the problem is that it can take quite sometime now to get your site back to where it was before.

Just as a side note, some people argue that if you keep building the links at the same rate for sometime you can come out of the sandbox with all the links, maybe this pattern makes the algo think that your site got viral or something (wich happens quite often I imagine) but to be honest i think its more a shot in the dark.

I think maybe they do spot but its not in their best interest to just release it to the world for free

Maybe they changed their metrics? Every site im checking o google trends is showing a huge decline in the number of visitors.

For instance I tryed

Mashable

Techcrunch

Yahoo (not as big as the others but stil...)

They all have a similar graphic as the ones mentioned on this post, so if the visitors are leaving from everywhere , where are they going? To splogs? hehe

I think it depends, those do-follow comments really give a initial boost to your sites but the vast majority of those sites the comment section is not Auto Approve and the guy who is selling you this service for sure is not going to comment on all the sites, he will use some program.

Based on that maybe you would have a much better result doing it by yourself, really comment on the blog posts, adding value to the owner of the blog and, by consequence, getting a high approval rate of your comments/links.

Never had used before their toolbar but its just great, i was using the SEO Site Tools but just turned that off now