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look at this site. They blog, a lot. It's probably getting them the most leads/sales since the content gets passed and linked to alot. So yes, I would highly suggest that you start your own site and do it there. Then start promoting it

youll have a hard time getting a substantial number of video sites to make it "work"

If you see the low quality ones, you either cant get a link or it will just go down within the year due to bandwidth spam problems.

If it's good ones, you usually cant submit your niche due to strict rules.

Just consider it as part of your overall SEO. Dont just rely on it. The referral traffic you get, the link you get (for variation and trust) and other benefits will always be good for long term seo related ROI. If you do seo on the video page you'll get traffic in the long run and if you put it on your site (self hosted) you can also rank that hence taking another spot.

no need to use one. Google is already well equipped to find these links on it's own

Yes, I've tried that as well as 14 other "indexing tools" so I know how they work, what happens behind it, index % and stuff like that.

If you plan to spam a lot, and want your links indexed, you just let Google find them.

If you plan to use it for white hat seo, you dont even have to because if you ARE doing white hat, the site is probably already good enough to get their content indexed in a few seconds.

Google has come a long way in terms of power.

I suggest making sure if that is really your problem.

Fix the minor details, alt tags, remove your meta keywords, fix your sitemap

Dropping to Top 20 doesn't really look like a penalty, more like there are other pages that are better than you.

Take a look at your webmaster tools first for problems and fix those.

Check your keyword average rankings in there and look at your impressions on when you dropped

I also suggest looking your links...its a mix of Russian and sape links

I have like 8 shared servers with them.

It depends a lot on how bad the people you share with are. LOL

I have faster ones and slower ones. It really depends.

I would suggest cloud hosting with rackspace. Account is pay only for what you use

WP engine is also good as well as wiredtree.

here's from my personal experience since you already used the disavow tool

Try to explain what you did, why it's bad and why it's not going to happen again

Tell them that you made a mistake, and that you added more links to the disavow tool (include even clean looking web 2.0 properties and article directories. Basically, once you use the disavow tool, you have to have a mindset that you are starting over, treat it like you are starting over with a new site.

You dont usually get it in the first try.

On your second try: maybe

On your third: very likely

I've done a lot of cleanups the past year so that's my take

Hello Umer

I would suggest that you not rely on other people to analyse your site and come up with a link plan for you.

You are here on moz for a reason and that is to learn. There are blog posts daily about it, you can go to blogs that focus on link building to learn strategies.

Fellow mozzers could only help you so much.

Keri mentioned a great link to start with. Search for Paddy Moogan posts. Jon Cooper, Jason Acidre and others have their own blogs that talk about link acquisition strategies and stuff like that.

You can search in http://inbound.org and find gems in there, as well as in Twitter.

You can create your own plan, just remember to not over use your anchors.

I could see that you really want to rank for those words but resist the temptation of just hammering the same keywords over and over. Use your brand as part of your anchor texts.

Continue to build each month without just thinking about the next directory you can submit to.