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A link checker such as Xenu or Screaming frog may provide you the list of outbound but won't analyse them. You may need to import them into excel and do that manually.

I think you may need to clarify your question. You can add words to the list or delete ones currently on the list. Amending a keyword or phrase sounds like it is the adding of a new one to me.

The task can be time consuming and many companies will get an intern or such like to do what I call the "donkey work" once the target sites have been identified.

For scalability email is usually better than phoning however some people may prefer the personal touch. Recent link building I have been involved with was contacting suppliers to the company I was working for and asking them to include a link to the site as the more visible the site and the more sales then the better it was for the supplier.

Another link building exercise for a different company involved contacting all business clients and asking them to host the link on pages they had set up to help their staff as the companyI was working on behalf provided client benefits that the company were offering to their staff.

With both these examples it was easy to explain in a sentence or two the benefits of the link building rather than just a speculative "please link to us" request. If you can work out what the relationship between the two sites or companies is then it may be easier to request and receive links.

I would track all this in a spreadsheet so you know who has responded positively or negatively and you can chase up those that say they will add a link if they haven't done so and also you can make sure you don't pester people who have already refused.

Hope this helps.

Just because someone uses a term such as samurai, ninja, rockstar or the like as part of their name doesn't actually make them any better or even right.

The first external link on a page has been shown in some testing to be given more weighting than remaining links but this is for external links not internal links. So in theory you want to be the first external link on a site linking to yours.

I have not come across the above suggestion as a best practice and if you check the sites of a number of big name SEO's they haven't done this and if it was a best practice you would expect them to.

This sort of approach may have worked in the past and does still work today but is less likely to work in the future as Google attempts to redcue the benefits of this spammy technique.

Poor quality articles or virtually duplicate articles spread wide across the web do nothing to add value to the user or their search engine results so Google's "boffins" will be working against this approach.

This approach may be best for the SEO company as it is a short term solution that may mean they can reach certain targets or get paid certain bonuses but it is not a technique built on the principles that will help a site rank higher for longer.

Improving on-page factors, ensuring that the sites architecture isn't working against the site, natural link building and focusing on improving content are areas that the SEO company should be looking at if they want to provide results that last.

If the categories themselves are terms that you want to compete in the SERP's for then having them is worth considering if not I would lean towards the /productname approach rather than /category/productname

It may be a bit of an effort but is it possible that you can work your way through the pages and make the content, titles and descrptions unique so that they don't get flagged as duplicate content.

This has the added advantage of having a large number of pages targeted at your various keyphrases whereas other apporaches involving 301 redirects or rel="nofollow" reduce the duplicate content issue but also reduce the number of pages on which to target keyphrases across all of these pages. If they are acorss 50 countries is there a local spin that can be put on the content so that all the relevant terms are targeted for in their regions but so that Google doesn't see 50+ versions of the same site.

It would seem that they are trying to benefit from either the adverts that they display or from the links they add to the page that isn't your content but know that they would never get any clicks if they were on a site with no content so they steal other peoples content.

I would use whois to try and get their details and ask them to stop (which it sounds like ou have done), if that fails I would try and contact their host (can often work out the company from the whois record) to get them to bring the site down.

If you are going to make the comment links follow rather than no follow then there is a good chance that you will get heavily spammed. You mention you plan to delete spam but you may have to be very viligant and check often as I have seen blogs in the past that get tons of it per day and in the end it becomes a pain in the backside for the moderator and looks bad for genuine users of the site.

It may be worth trialling it rather than committing to it if that is possible with the set up of your site so if things do get too spammy you can quickly move to a nofollow approach.

If the offer is more than you are currently earning and doesn't tie you in for too long a period other than the standard notice period then I would take the position but start thinking about your next move.What is it that will help you achieve that next step? You could also consider some freelancing (if allowed in your contract) to boost up earnings and potentiall bost your skills and experience.

There is a Webinar later this week titled "Using SEOmoz Tools to Acquire Whitehat Links" - it may be worth tuning in for that one. There is one later in the month on the future of link building too.

There is an SEO Moz Pro Webinar this week titled "Using SEOmoz Tools to Acquire Whitehat Links" so it may be worth you tuning in to this one. You can register on the webinars page http://www.seomoz.org/webinars

There are well documented advantages of keyword matched domain names and although there is talk of the advantage being diminished I would be suprised if it lost all of its advantage. As is mentioned on other responses the keyword matched domain isn't as brandable and doesn't sound as interesting.

If the site is going to be accompanied my marketing via other channels, TV, Radio, Magazines etc then a branded domain name may work better. If its traffic is to be driven purely from its performance in search engines then the keyword domain may be the route to take.

Isn't flightscomparison.com already taken? Also listing the exact domains you are considering may not be the best bet as an unscrupulous individual could register them all before you knowing you were interested and try and sell them back to you.

Hi Jon

I wasn't able to access the page. Is the password just on the homepage though? If I was you I would test some other pages as you wouldn't want some one coming into the site via a search engine result if you are trying to keep everyone locked out at the moment.

Hope this helps.

Here is an article from Danny Dover, formerly of SEO Moz which although a couple of years old I believe is still relevant as if my memory serves me correct he mentions the same process in his book which was only published a month or two ago.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-guide-how-to-properly-move-domains

Hope this helps.

Have you tried emailing help@seomoz.org

My SEO Moz Toolbar is telling me that the homepage has no links from no domains and that the domain has 24 million links from over 150 thousand domains and the Open Site Explorer isn't showing anything.

There is obviously an issue and you should definitely contact SEO Moz directly rather than just posting on the Q&A part of the site.

The australian top level domain is .com.au

Never had this problem but was recommended by Will Critchlow to use HTML encoding for special characters He said that they "tend to advise going for ASCII only" and "HTML entities should generally be fine"

So perhaps all instances should be changed to .

Hi Claudia

Your home page has both domain and page authority and has thousands of links to it.

The job scheduling page doesn't have any page authority and has no links to it as far as I can tell.

The job scheduling page has a URL of www.uc4.com/what-we-do/business-automation/job-scheduling.html where www.uc4.com/job-scheduling.html or www.uc4.com/products/job-scheduling.html would be more search engine friendly.

Just to let you know it took the homepage 150 seconds and the job scheduling page 180 seconds to load up. Please note that is seconds not milliseconds and even then the site didn't load up properly.

I've seen big name "expert seos" say that 150 links should be fine on a large site so they still think you should try and keep them at a reasonable level so 100 isn't a hard and fast rule. Like many things in SEO it is a guideline.