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Thank you for your very detailed answer.

I have heard pros and cons on directories forever, just wanted to check in to see what everyone is saying about them currently.

Everything I have done has been by me, but since the site is almost 13 years old, I am not sure anymore. -lol

I actually rank quite well,  I just don't know what I did to do it. -lol so I can make it better and get some of my other sites to rank too.

Thanks I suspected it didn't have a huge impact on performance.

Any suggestions on improving MozTrust and domain authority?

So in addition to blog posts, what other links can I try to obtain that will make Google happy and increase rank?

Do they really have a lot of value on how a site performs on Google? What is the best way to raise your PR Rank?

Thanks for the comments, I appreciate other points of view, you bring to light things that I haven't considered. I do alot of guest posting as well I find those links really valuable especially when I am lucky enough to be on high PR sites as a guest post.

You have brought to light all of my concerns with it. But when Google knocks them out so to speak, and your site falls because of the DE-valued links is that really that bad because now you are probably back where you started?

What are your thoughts on using a service like Build My Rank for backlinks?

Yes it does thank you. When I run the campaign it says I have two on some pages and I need to remove them. ( I am using WordPress so I assume this was an automatic tag it added - odd) So I will try and remove it and see what happens at next crawl. THANKS

Do you do any guest blogging to obtain links, I have found this to be effective for link building and it has increased my search engine results.

What is Canonical URL Tag?

Thanks for the comments, I appreciate other points of view, you bring to light things that I haven't considered. I do alot of guest posting as well I find those links really valuable especially when I am lucky enough to be on high PR sites as a guest post.