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First time, I saw such a long organized list - it's just what we are looking for!  Thank you!

The other solution is to start your own personal search and you can find good quality writers. It then depends on you having your own set of guidelines and requirements that they must adhere too. amount to a copywriter.

Spot on response from WebBizIdeas! Buzzwords - here's a good little article about this from Mike Blumenthal from when this change happened: http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/03/28/google-still-supporting-kml-files-but-not-the-use-of-geo-sitemaps/ Everybody's a newbie at some point. You're doing the right thing taking steps to learn! Good luck!

None of these are tools that build the links. These are more links tools that help you identify opportunities or some of the good links you should try and get. More like a starting point.

It's a bit of a read, but I discuss a lot of on-page tag/tactics in this post, inspired by Panda: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-in-a-post-panda-world If you're launching a very large site (like an e-commerce site) with 1000s of products, then a deep knowledge of on-page SEO can be critical. For most sites, though, that grow organically, you can learn as you go. As you start to track your own content and rankings, you'll begin to see what works and what doesn't. Early on in a site's life, a lot of on-page really just comes down to solid keyword research, a sensible site architecture/structure (navigation and internal links), controlling duplicate URLs, and writing decent TITLE tags. That'll take you a long way in the beginning.

I think you're really going to need to start building some external links directly to that page, the on page linking seems a bit saturated to me, links going all over the place, which will split the link juice down. If that's something that can't be changed easily or at all, then I'd definitely focus on external links from other websites, within the same industry is preferable, that uses "Freelance Copywriting" as the link anchor itself. Look at the top sites ranking for "freelance copywriting" on http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/ for some ideas.