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Hey Joe, So, as you correctly identify, the YouTube algorithm does appear to be somewhat less sophisticated than the main Google algorithm in terms of spam detection and often times, if you buy loads of links to your videos - you can get them ranking well. Ultimately, I don't think it really matters where you go to buy these links. The PageRank of those links also wont matter a great deal. At such a scale, one low quality link comment spam link will be more or less as good as another and you're clearly taking the risk in knowledge of a potential penalty. So, i'm afraid I can't recommend you any companies to do this, but hopefully I can give you some other tips which would help with your YouTube optimisation and may help mitigate against some of the risks you will be taking. Hotspots After running numerous tests, we've discovered that the viewing metrics of your videos make a huge different to their ability to rank. YouTube hotspots (see here for details - http://www.distilled.net/blog/social-media/youtube/youtube-insight-film-critic-reviews-for-your-video-now-included/) give a really comprehensive overview of how individuals behave when watching your video and if you can find a way to scale improving the responses here - it should really improve rankings. Quantity 4000 videos is an awful lot. Given the scale, I imagine that they're extremely low quality, or duplicate content targeting different keywords. I would really recommend that you consider reducing the quantity here, as the more you scale this process, the easier it is going to be for Google to pick up and then give you a spamming penalty. Channel Whatever you do, don't buy tons of low quality links out to 4000 videos coming off the same channel - this will set off alarms very quickly and sooner or later, the channel will be devalued. Hope that's helpful - but please do be aware of the risk you're taking here! I fully expect your videos to get a penalty if you buy links to all 4000. You may get away with it for a bit, but please carefully consider whether the cost will really be worth the results. Cheers, Phil

Maybe I'll try a bit less stuffing, but would rather have the value of the key words in the search. Does anyone know if Google still gives search vale for the terms it leaves out? I will try a small test to see what happens. Thanks

Domain Authority should be a slightly better measurement of a domain's ability to get a page ranked (e.g. all other things being equal, a page on a DA 70 site should outrank that same page on a DA 60 site). Domain mozRank is a rougher algorithm, based solely on the links pointing to the domain and how important those are (it's just PageRank on the domain link graph). DA actually takes DmR into account in its machine learning system.

Thanks.

I'm beginning to agree with you, I have acquired many links in the past that carry little weight in the metrics. Then I did a lot of comments on do follow related newspapers like WSJ and Huffington post, and my DA took a nice boast from all the new decent root domains connecting to my site.

Thanks, i will see what I can come up with, in the meantime I'll make sure any links to press releases or squidoo, and the like will be clean....

I was afraid I needed  dedicated ips, had that before then switched, we switch back. It may be impossible to have separate names and addresses, can you let let know what source I can go to to get the latest on this. Things are too critical to risk based on any opinion, including mine. Thanks for responding again.

I can afford both, so both it will be. Thanks a lot.

Great content bla bla bla, aren't some of you people sick and tired of giving your silly little text book answers all of the time, yes you do need a site that has great content and yes it is a mandatory requirement if one is to succeed online, but why is it that when someone asks a direct question such as "Is Linkvana good yes or no!" do people side step it and go on a long spat about how they perform link building. Most of the people in this community say they know a lot about SEO and go around as Goody two Shoes preaching the same lines over and over again! What we need to realise is that services such as Linkvana or Build My Rank would not still exist if they did not work. I use both and have done so for a considerable amount of time, they are a vital part of my SEO efforts but are by no means the only two elements. If one has the desire to generate revenue online via SEO one must speculate in order to accumulate.

Yes i am, thanks. Which is a good reason to use tools like bookkmarking demon for links. Thanks

Hey Joe, I have read a bunch of your questions today and let me tell you, currently, you are in a bad place SEO wise. Steve, myself and many others have given you great, informative answers yet you cast them aside, and their efforts aside as it is not what you want to hear. You are looking for the 'secret of SEO link building' or the 'SEO Tool that allows you dominate the first page of google!!!!!!' - in essence, you are not looking to do things the right way, you are looking for spam tools to cheat your way to the top. Steve said it above and I have said it in another of your threads but you are not alone, many of us start out there, in the place that you are in at the moment. Looking for the easy fix, the easy win, the trick, secret or tool that will let you get to the top and you know what, long term, you are wasting your time (and ours a little). The longer you are in this game, the more white hat you become. Are you looking to do some anchor text link spam to promote some burner domains or are you looking to cheat? If you have a real business, with a future, then stop looking for these easy answers as they simply don't exist. Sure, there are strategies, and easy wins, but if your whole approach is to spend time looking for low value links then buddy, you are just wasting your own time and everyone here will tell you the same thing. No one here is going to give you success stories about such a tool as everyone here is working their asses off to do things the right way and that involves a whole lot of graft, hard work and patience. Joe - if I can give you any advice it would be to stop looking at these tools, set realistic goals and maybe start reading the link building posts on this site. There are tons of solid strategies and approaches and none of these will be a waste of your time, money or effort and certainly none of them will end up with you having to burn the site and move onto a new domain. Sorry if this comes off a bit harsh buddy, think of it as tough love from someone who has been burnt before. Cheers Marcus

Well there's the rub. Close key words... avoid an audit avoid a tax audit avoid audit all get hits from the rankings data. they bring up different pages as top ranking because different sites and pages rank differently based on the key word optimization. Now I have the experience to know that in the past a good well developed linking structure will overcome this and you actually can rank for several variations by having a good topical silo structure. I am sometimes surprised what my main page ranks for just because a term is on the page! Content dominating the page does get hits. BUT...competition is getting crazy in my industry. Sales companies are ranking and then selling the leads.I'm not just competing with similar businesses anymore. It seems like as long as I can vary the content, and i really can, because I have over 30 years in the business and more experience than anyone i know , so i can write varied content all day long! As for the page, we don't use flash or anything. Had over 100 links on many pages so some changes had to be made. Tell me more about an easier path to trend instead of doing pages for slight variations. Long term phrases don't seem to get many hits in my business. At least I don't think it's worth doing pages for till we knock off the shorter ones we have a chance of ranking for, which includes the three listed above.

Yes the new Moz Analytics does not give you the page that is conflicting like the old system. I hope they fix this soon.

Ah. Sculpting in the sense that I'm familiar with is more so a function purely of PR strength.  I think as long as you're not pushing the boundaries of contextual relevance and spam you'll be fine interlinking related silos.  In the example I provided above, if they suddenly linked to a newly created page on their website about creating an online casino account it would probably be discounted and problematic.  Same thing if they linked to an trusted neighborhood externally. Here's an excellent recap of linking in general: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/10-illustrations-on-search-engines-valuation-of-links and a highlight of linking to bad neighborhoods: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/more-on-nofollow-at-seomoz-and-how-bad-outbounds-can-impact-websites If you're internal links are all fairly similar semantically you won't be an outlier.

The holy grail of all that is analytics: http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/

I'm not sure what the deal is with blue flags and report cards, but if you have duplicate pages, you should either use the 301 redirect or the rel=canonical tag. My guess is that maybe you had a rel=canonical tag on a page that pointed to the same page, so maybe the crawling tool took that to be some kind of error? I don't know, but make sure your duplicate pages are either redirected to the original or that they use a rel=canonical tag to specify the original, and don't worry about any reports that are simply notifying you of the purpose of a canonical tag.

o.k. I already signed up for the free trial. Now sure yet how they manage them yet, or if adgooroo is better to use?

I appreciate the response, but i was looking for more than a general reply. That's why is was asking for sources. I want a good professional strategy, not a list of things found on other pages of this site. Anyone want to share their answers to the above items. It would be appreciated.

I would prefer the DVD's. But Renea said she will let me know, so thanks for all your responses.