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Hi Ehren,

like Marie said:
there might also be a good chance that those people who are complaining about your site just simply throw their links around the Internet where ever they can...and THATs the reason why they get penatilzed.

And now the panic-mode has been engaged and I am sure you are not the only one who gets Emails from them

Either strip the URLs from the user comments via regexp-function or no-follow them

Seems they just like to go for the "Google says in their updates that Brand is important" approach; likely that they want to balance strong shorthead linkbuilding with a bunch of branded backlinks - that sometimes does work quite nice

Try to find other quality sites with the same topical relevance and post backlinks to your clients start- and major category pages: strong link signals often make Google "revaluate" the page and the first step is to re-crawl the linked site.

Maybe then it might be a nice idea to implement a website badge like "I talked to Rand"   (Like "Talk to Chuck")

In Germany people out of the SEO industry seem to love SEO contests - the latest one being to bring up the keyword “hochgeschwindigkeitsSEO” on Pos. 1 on Google until a set time (contest entry example here). There obviously is a price (newest iPhone) and a sponsor (Randolf Jorberg), but for the most part it's a contest which holds the Olympic thought: Being there just means most of it So I was wondering: are there any other countries where such contests are being held? I have not heard of any examples and I am quite curious if any other SEO communites out there have something similar going on

Hi Ryan, thanks for your answer, but maybe I have to specify my question

I wanted to know, if the number of linking C-Blocks in this Graph is related to the C-Blocks from the single domains and its subdomains, for examle Facebook.com:

the Spanish Subdomain eu-es.facebook.com has got the IP 69.63.189.11

the Dutch Subdomain nl-nl.facebook.com has got the IP 66.220.153.19.

So in this example we have two different C-Blocks for Facebook.com. Is that the meaning in this Graph?

Dear Community,

analyzing the SEOmoz Ranking Factors 2011 Study (http://www.slideshare.net/randfish/smx-munich-keynote-moz-ranking-factors), I have a question regarding slide no. 33.

What exactly does the "#of Linking C-Blocks to Page" in this Graph mean? Are this the different C-Blocks related to the Social Site´s specific Domains / Subdomains?

Thanks for your answers.