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Some people need to rip other peoples building down so they can be the tallest, others just choose to build a bigger building.  I am to to Seomoz and to seo for that matter, but when I hear someone ripping someone else it's a total red flag!  They do this because of their own insecurities and has nothing to do with Seomoz.  I love paying the 99 bucks a month for this site, what is the cost of learning all this stuff on your own, well it's alot more than 99 bucks per month.

I wouldn't.. private link networks are becoming more public by the day as Google improves their algo... Rethink your strategy & look at social media & other types of link building (e.g. create some compelling content)

You can find the SEOMoz helpdesk here: http://seomoz.zendesk.com/home There's a menu option to submit a request there too.

I really don't think I should be pointing fingers here.

Market Samurai's keyword research is just a front-end to the google keyword tool. I must admit. I do like the ability in MS to keep the keyword research together, but find myself more often than not using Google's tool directly. I don't find MS's way of assessing the competitiveness of keywords too useful. It's all very nice knowing how many pages are being displayed in the SERPS or have keywords in their title tag, but this doesn't tell you how easy it's going to be to get your page into a competitive position. This is where I find SEOmoz's keyword difficulty tool incredibly valuable. I prefer having SEOmoz collect my ranking/traffic data automatically over having to manually update MS. SEOMoz give you a lot - on-page analysis, social reports, link analysis etc, but it really does depend on what you need and what your budget is, My advice would be to try both and see which one helps you achieve your goals as quickly and easily as possible. Based on the benefits I have directly experienced, and the added value I've been able to provide my customers, I would choose SEOMoz. Hope this helps.

Adult SEO is in fact very different from what we call mainstream SEO. But it's not true that the only way to rank adult sites is through black hat techniques. Many of the methods used are similar to those used in mainstream, there's just fewer linking resources available for adult websites. This video offers a summary of the primary differences between adult and mainstream SEO: http://www.adultseotraining.com/training/81-adult-training-video/116-the-difference-between-adult-and-mainstream-seo As Sarah mentioned, it's important to have a good network in adult, it's through them that you will be able to best negotiate links, marketing promotions and content partnerships. Adarsh approached it the right way by targeting tubes. Another way you can expand on the exposure you get from them is to apply for content partner accounts. With partner accounts you can submit watermarked videos that also display a link along with a full description below each video. And with the thousands of adult tubes offering content partner accounts it is a great white hat method of building links. I know I came to this blog post late, but if anyone wants to chat about adult SEO I'm always around, I've worked in this industry for over 12 years and run Adult SEO Training in addition to working with adult clients. It's a challenging industry for sure, but the community is small and a lot of fun to work in.