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http://www.seomoz.org/q/multiple-domain-names-pointing-at-one-website

Let me give you a real world example of the relevancy of links

In my niche it is semi competitive with tons of revenue from Adsense. Users in my niche tend to use tools for help and use them over and over again which in turn increase the page views exponentially.

The top website in my niche which dominates almost every keyword has a total of 123 linking root domains and 7,683 links back to their site. In looking at the top keyword for my niche the second place website has 41 linking root domains and 238 total links back to their site.

That is a huge difference...

It only proves that relevancy is more powerful than anything else. If anything study the top 10 in your niche and pick the ones with the lowest linking root domains and total links. Then study their back link profile with a fine tooth and comb. Try and obtain those links and I'm sure you will see results.

1 301 Redirect = Good

To many could be bad

Fire Bad Too  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr0poacTxp8

If I am the founding father please promote my article

Are you referring to making edits to their website for SEO purposes?

If so most companies will outline in a Doc what they need to do and you leave it up to them to get those tasks done.

No point in doing all the work

I agree with Chenzo, post Panda and Penguin make sure your site shows that you are the man in the subject/service and convince others they should go to your site.

Making a site, adding keywords and SEO and sitting waiting for something to start happening doesn't work anymore

Why not change it to the way Google is displaying it? Maybe they like that better

Stay away from article directories IMO.