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My Opinion: Change to longer branded username for consistent brand identity. If you brand properly they will remember your name anyway, regardless of how long it is.

Personally I have done this for clients and had great success.

Hope that helps

in my experience, ALL paid links should be no-folow. Also they may have penalized you for having all the same few keywords. A good link building strategy Must look natural to Google. Otherwise it's just a matter of time before you get penalized.

Sorry this happened to you, i feel your pain!

article directories aren't as effective since the major panda update a while ago.

social bookmarking has its place, just like anything else. Do not bookmark from hundreds or thousands of low quality, PR 0 social bookmarking sites. It;s unnatural and Google will know what you are doing. Instead focus on fewer, high quality social bookmarks. Major social bookmarking sites help you get crawled and indexed faster, as long as you do it naturally

I agree with donford, A few is ok as long as they are relevant and it looks natural. I would never recommend it from directories.

If you or your friend have 2 websites, do a tri-link instead. i.e. you link to his from site 1, he/she links to your 2nd site

I agree, outsourcing link building is tough. I highly recommend NOT using overseas providers.

If you do use a reputable company (send me a PM I know some), and ask for a detailed strategy on how their will do their link building, why they will employ that strategy,  and other important, specific details.

Most people end up with spammy  blog comments or directory links...not worth the money.

Hey everyone,

I'm doing an adwords campaign and was wondering if I can use the keyword "Facebook" in Google Adwords Ads?

Thank you!

I think it depends more on the quality of the blog, domain age, links pointing to it, etc. If its a wordpress or blogspot blog that was obviously put up a week ago just to make one blogpost for a link then it will have little or no authority. However there are some great, high ranking blogs from blogspot and wordpress that have been around a long time, and a link in a guest post from those would help quite a bit. I would say it matters more how trustworthy the site is, not so much where its hosted.

Having said that, if two sites had the same ranking factors, same domain age, same links, etc. and one was hosted privately and the other on wordpress, I would think they would give the edge to the privately hosted one. I would think otherwise it wouldn't have much of an effect at all.

Thanks Joel, that helped