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Thank you for your very detailed answer.

Crystal, Here is a couple of good videos from SEOmoz on Domain Authority, Page Authority and Page Rank. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-domain-trust-authority http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-whats-pagerank-got-to-do-with-it Hope they help!

let me tell all you guys from experience dont use BMR. I started SEO on a website 9 months ago, I used plenty of variety and the rankings were good, I noticed that and page getting lots of BMR links got good results very fast, so I got greedy I started to put more and more effort into BMR, as of January, I solely did BMR for the website. On Feb 25th a good an email on google webmaster about taking part in a blog network to increase my page rank. As of this weekend my website is now page 50 and I was in the top 3 keywords for Gifts, gift ideas, christmas gifts, personlised gifts. Highly competitive keywords

Hi Crystal, Mike is correct  - the Linkscape report will stay the same until there is a new crawl. Sometimes these have been coming in in as little as three or four weeks, and there is lots of effort to make this as fast as possible. Cheers

Not a problem!  If you come across any other problems, let me know, I'd love to help!

Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded the Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory updates and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices

To increase your Domain Authority, you need to build/earn/attract quality backlinks from other websites. These resources will help you get started: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links http://www.seomoz.org/blog/link-building-from-a-to-z