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I agree. You'll be notified in GWT. Forget about trying to get you site in DMOZ. Submit it and forget about it. I have been trying to get into DMOZ for a couple years now.

BUILD quality content on your landing page. Watch this WBF: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-new-onpage-optimization-whiteboard-friday

If you already did 301s, then build links to those pages. Check your GWT and see if they are counting it as a 404. Also submit a sitemap in GWT ASAP.

I have experience with IP Boards (invisionpower.com). Their software could be very powerful, but you will need to know some coding to be able to do certain things. I haven't used it in over 1 year, but everytime I wanted to do something basic, it seemed like I had to do coding. At the time I thought those features were something that should be standard with no coding required.

Xenforo was AWESOME. Look at their demo. You can request one and I think it's for 3 days. You can extend it too.

I work with vBulletin and they have too many security issues. I used to need to upgrade almost once per month.

If I was able to rank them in order, it would go like this:

1. Xenforo

2. vbulletin

3. IP Boards

I have never used VBSEO so I can't say anything about it.

Hope that helps.

Here are two I recommend.

BBB - Better Business Bureau - About $400. The good thing is that you can buy credibility by getting this.

Yahoo Directory - $300/yr (I think)

I agree with Boodreaux. business.com and botw are fine too. There used to be discounts on some of these.

You need to learn about the SEO Tools available here in SEOmoz. Put every URL you can in here and tweak until you get an A.

http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization/new

Edit: Watch this: http://www.seomoz.org/dp/welcome-webinars

SCREAMING FROG!!!! (can you hear me scream?)

Costs about $200 i think.

Daniel, thanks for asking this question. I don't personally know any decent ones so I will be building a link building department soon. I really hope someone puts a decent company here.

One of the things I have done (which has worked) was article spinning. I wrote a bunch original content and had a Philippine company spin it for me. I don't really recommend it if someone is just starting out. I can PM yu the information.

What about these guys that Rand recommends? http://www.seomoz.org/article/recommended#link-building

I agree with Ben.

I also believe that those new products should be somewhat relevant to your domain easywatering.co.uk and/or your business. DOn't be spamming just to try and land business.

I don't think anything will happen. You're conversion rate may drop because 20K images will now be available in image search. I remember once I started ranking for the keyword: car. I saw a big increase in organic, but a drop in conversions. Try to be careful how you label your images. Also, make annotation in GA so you can compare before and after.

Here are my 2 cents. Yes they can work and "yes" I did it years ago and I did not get caught. I don't do it anymore. Here is the real reason I don't do it. Currently there are about 15 employees. "IF" I would have gamed the algorithm 1 year ago, then today there would have been 5 people laid off. I don't want my client to lay off anybody especially since many of them have kids and a mortgage.

This is the same reason I don't run Google Adwords to the max. Let's say that I get 20,000 unique visits per month coming from Adwords. If I am maxed out on acquiring traffic, then any decrease would mean downsizing. There are only so many people searching Google/Yahoo/Bing for keywords.

Instead I would want my traffic to be consistent and reliable so everybody can keep their jobs; including me.

www.domainname.com/category/subcategory

ALL THE WAY! You want to be crawled from the top down.

We don't have a clue what the issue would be. You may want to see if you are using an SEO plugin for titles. Sometimes what happens with plugins is that the software is upgraded and then the plugin doesn't work. If it TITLES used to work and now they don't (nothing changed), then we have no idea. I suspect there was some change in your code.

Just make sure you have a nice site that's updated. If you are talking about www.shiftins.com, then it looks okay to me. Make sure there are no 404s or anything like that.

BTW, I think BBB is better than Yahoo Directory since BBB gives more credibility. Get both if you can afford it.

I wouldn't worry about those videos. Just hire some 18 year-old skater to shoot a real video and bump these guys off the SERPS. I don't see anything negative about the videos. They are just boring. All I see is some dork recording his steering wheel racing a 4-cyclider Civic thinking it's fast. Don't loose sleep over this.

My 2 cents:

POV = Privately Owned Vehicle. Change the acronym in the logo so we aren't guessing watch POV means.

You'll get a high bounce rate from Android users like me!

Your clients don't understand the value of BBB. I use the BBB on nearly every page of my site to lend credibility. In addition, I use it in the SERPs to show credibility. A+ BBB Rating!

if you are talking about article spinning, it can still work. In fact, I have a friend who did it and rankings haven't gone down in 10 months. But the website I am talking about is an authority website and has been around for many years with a good link profile.

If your site is new, I would forget about it and use the money to buy credibility with a company like the BBB.

Watch Matt Cutts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5xP-pTmlpY

I don't think a 301 would help out your situation. If I were in your situation, I would go through GWT and contact all the shady sites to remove the links. Also, I would build kick ass content ASAP to offset grey hat marketing. If you need to buy some authority, get a membership at BBB.org and your local chamber of commerce. Real companies have these memberships anyway, spammer don't.

You should read Ryan Kent's (the #1 guy on SEOMOZ) post about Identifying Link Penalties. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/identifying-link-penalties-in-2012

I market on Craigslist. Shhhhh don't tell anyone....

Yes, it's a Nofollow.

I agree here with Sanket, I don't think Health is totally unrelated. Perhaps heakth is too broad, but maybe health insurance or healthy life.

Take a look at your Google Analytics and see what people are typing in to find your site. That may give you a place to start. Also use Google Insights. Look at the bottom of this page: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=pharmacy%20schools&cmpt=q  Under "search Terms" IMHO these are related keywords.

Focus on what's best for your customer. Make your title tags readable and don't keyword stuff because that will confuse people when they read your titles.

I use exact match but I try to combine it with other exact match to create something readable or optimize for two keywords at once.

[car shipping] + [instant auto quote] = Car Shipping | Get an Instant Auto Quote for any 2 zip codes.

Try something like that.