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Hi Eric, Are the links to your own website within the blog post followed? Is your guest blog post indexed by Google? Is the Blog that you posted your article on ranking for it's own brand terms (i.e. not penalised)? If you can answer yes to these three questions then there is a very high chance that PageRank (or link juice if you prefer) will be passed from the guest post to your site, how much that moves the needle is subjective. As Tom advises it is much better to try to aim your guest post efforts at sites that has an audience: When I am qualifying sites for guest post opportunities then I will check the following: 1. Their articles receive a large number of social shares 2. They have a large RSS subscriber base or email list 3. The blog posts receive comments There is a good post by James Agate on this topic over on the Moz blog Ideally you want to be posting on places that your customers will hang out however they maybe direct competitors and it will be impossible to secure an opportunity. For my clients I make sure the blog’s topic is relevant to the company’s (brand) readership/customers. I make sure the blog content is in line with the buyer personas outlined and their marketing journey, this does not necessarily mean that they are within the same niche but could be in a complimentary niche. These guest posting opportunities will probably be a little tougher to secure but the extra effort will be worth it in terms of links, social shares and referral traffic.

You can also link your webmaster and analytics accounts together. Hopefully they'll make all the data visible in analytics in an easy to use manner.

Here is my go-to from the good folks at seomoz: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-build-an-advanced-keyword-analysis-report-in-excel

Punit, I think its showing because IP canonicalization. Your site's IP 50.63.177.37 does not redirect to your site's comparebroker.com. So Google is treating ip address as different site. This could cause duplicate content problems if a search engine indexes your site under both its IP and domain name. Solution: Consider using a 301 re-write rule in your .htaccess file so that your site's IP points to your domain name. It can also be solved through by putting canonical URL. Thanks to woorank.com for online tool. Please Check here : http://www.woorank.com/en/www/comparebroker.com

Hi Punit. If you get anyone answering answering your question with a concrete number, be suspicious.  There are just too many variable factors in ranking to give you any kind of concrete number answer to your question. For example. say you are a newer site competing against an older site and you gain a great PR5 inbound link...Well, say your competitor gains a PR7 inbound link the same day. Guess what? You are still behind. You see, it's not just about what your are doing. iI's about what your competitors are doing at the same time. Ok. So that might leave you feeling a bit hopeless. Don't despair! What makes you different from your competitors? Who could you pursue to ear na link from that your competitors most likely couldnt' get? Bammo. That's who you need to pursue. And, IMHO, forget the PageRank. Go after well-written, relevant sites, regardless of PR. Why? Because that's where your people (you know, the people who are most likely to love your site and its products), that's where they are most likely hanging out. Create relationships with THEM and then you got something. I hope this is helpful! Dana

One thing to keep in mind when doling out this kind of advice is that time isnt free. If the cost to do a one off payment on a link is far less than the hourly cost * the number of hours it takes to develop great content, make a new friend and of course the fail rate on that sort of outreach (which is super duper high if you've spent any time doing it) then saying it'll save money is kind of actually not true at all. Not advocating buying links perse but yeah time isnt free.

Hi There Check out a blog post here on SEOmoz entitled "Face-off - 4 Ways to De-personalize Google" Adding  &pws=0  to the end of the search query URL in the address bar should do it for you (without having to log out of your Google account). Regards Simon

Hello, 1. Choose the Google domain: .com / .co.uk / .au and so on. If you are redirected type /ncr at the end of the address. 2. Search for something, then look at Show search tools - left of the screen. 3. At All Results you will have an option called: Custom Location 4. Write the city and search Ps. It's better if you delete your history before that and log out of your account. The end.

Perhaps a popular news site based an article around these keywords which led to people google searching the unpopular phrase and got you some traffic...