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I think that's a great start Samuel, so I'm just gonna expand on a few points. To increase the likelihood of the user/brand following you, you need to offer them value and be relevant to their interests.  There's a few obvious ways you can do this - tweet things about their industry, even directly @mention them as well with questions.  Another way would be to get in front of them - start appearing on the websites they visit. You can attempt to do this with Tweet Archivist.  Currently still free, so be quick.  Enter this search term - filter:links from:TWITTERHANDLE - with twitter handle obviously being the person you want to target.  This will bring up a list of tweets from that person that contained links.  If you visit the top URLs tab, you may be able to see certain domains popping up more frequently.  Therefore, it would be safe to assume that the user/brand enjoy reading things from that website.  If you could become a writer there, you could impress the target. In addition, while I would use followerwonk to find prospects, I wouldn't use twitter straight away to approach them.  I'd actually use Google+.  We're all longing for more reasons to use Google+, but it is very much underused (and not as oversaturated as Twitter) at this moment in time.  Therefore, your outreach and/or message is more likely to be picked up and responded to there - as it gives us an excuse to use Google+! These are just some ideas to help you on your way.  I'd definitely read through Richard Baxter's slideshare on SEOGadget's method of acquiring links too, as I believe there are a few takeouts from there. Hope this helps!

I have seen this issue before and it turned out the tracking code had been accidentally placed on 2 different sites. Is there any possibility this could have happened? Can I also suggest you give people a bit of a warning that this site is adult in nature and definitely not safe for work! Andy

Can you encourage the sites you guest post on to add authorship markup so that you can benefit from your work as the author? Our WordPress plugin AuthorSure works on multi-author sites.  Try getting them to add it? That is assuming you are guest posting on WordPress sites.

Hi Charles, I have to disagree if the phrase "direct impact" means higher rankings. Here's why.... I buy Facebook Likes through Facebook ads. Matt Cutts wouldn't allow people to "buy" their way to #1 based off social signals. Same thing with Tweets. However, if you mean "direct impact" as being getting more referral traffic to a site, then yes it can help pushing people from Facebook to a site.

MOST of your links should be internal pages...especially if you run a site with a lot of pages. Take a blog with 150 posts. What are the odds that 90% of his links point to his (or her) homepage? There's no hard and fast rule about what percentage of homepage vs. internal links you should have...but I try to have less than 50% of my links pointing to my homepage.

Hey Samuel, Multiple links from one site can help with rankings: If you are targeting different keywords (anchor texts) with each post, you can improve your rankings for different keywords with multiple posts on the same blog. As posts get older and are pushed off the homepage into the archives, their link value diminishes. Getting a fresh link up on the homepage can thus boost your rankings even if you wrote for that blog previously in the past. So getting multiple guest posts on the same blog can still be beneficial. Also getting multiple posts on the same blog may be more beneficial than getting posts from different blogs if there is a disparity in domain authority. Getting multiple links from the New York Times is better than having links from 10 random blogs.

Hi Samuel, If you want your image to show up on your guest posts, you just have to add the same code you added on your site on your guest post.  Most of the time you might have to contact the webmaster or owner of the site to add it for you.  Once they added to code, you will also have to log into your Google+ account and add those website/blog to the "Contributor" section like you did for your website. Hope this answers your question.

If the same article is published on many different websites and it has multiple text links pointing at a website and that website has lots of other articles that are published on many different websites with multiple text links pointing back... then the site runs a risk if being hit with a Panda problem. It does not matter if you call it a guest post or article syndication or something else, and the links don't necessarily need to be devalued.   The content could have been written by Mark Twain or a Pulitzer Prize winner... its the pattern that causes the problem.

Glad to help, Samuel!

Google will only have a problem with these pages because they are low quality and duplicate content. If they are in your main navigation and serving the user the same content as the bots then they aren't doorway pages. They are just a weak attempt at trying to gain local long tail search traffic, excuse me if i sound less than tactful. I think they can result in a panda penalty and I wouldn't continue building these out. Also the URLs are keyword stuffed: http://www.top-10-dating-reviews.com/category/bbw-dating/lincolnshire-bbw-dating/cleethorpes-lincolnshire-bbw-dating/ better would be: http://www.top-10-dating-reviews.com/bbw/lincolnshire/cleethorpes I would look at better optimization of SEO too. For instance in your title tag you don't need "Top 10 dating reviews" it's the name of your URL and you're wasting title tag space, you're missing the Linconshire location keyword in title tag, Adult I think need to be in there and probably even escorts should be a main keyword for your site. People looking for escorts might be willing to sign up for adult dating sites, it's online sex encounters, close to the same thing. Existing: <title>BBW Dating Cleethorpes | Top 10 Dating Reviews</title> Better: <title>BBW Dating in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire UK | Adult Dating and Escorts</title> Also location needs to be in content (maybe google maps of the area or some location info on the page) Good luck, feel free to thumbs up if it helped you out.

Are you using category description for anything? If not, you can write title you want in category description, and then use %category_description% in title.

Having a lot of links in your navigation isn't a big issue.  Just understand that the more categories & pages you have, the more links you will need for them to rank well.  So you are really setting yourself up for a big link building project getting relevant backlinks for all those pages.  But from a site architecture standpoint, there is nothing wrong with the way you are setting it up.

I'm currently using SEO category updater plugin. I have about 10 posts per category showing snippets of each not the full page. If I write a new title, and description for each page, about around 50 words of text would that be enough for google to identify the page as being unique? The problem is I have hundreds of categories so it could be very time consuming.

The domain authority doesn't count for much here, as anyone can set up a blog on a blogspot subdomain. Seems to me the best way to check the value of those backlinks is looking at the blogs that link to you: Are they well-written, up-to date and authoritative? Are they topically connected to your own site? Then they probably count for something. Also, have a look at the backlinks of those blogs - if those are valuable, the blogs' links are probably good for you too.

Hi Samuel I checked his backlink profile, he is on no. 2 for Search term "f--k buddy" & he is getting links from unique 27 domains. I see his backlinks too, backlinks are not so good.. I think the reason why his ranking is not drop or are on no.2 is because of his domain name & the domain age (Created Date : 1st May 2006).. Hope this helps.

You could certainly do with more content on the page. Problem is you want to maybe try to direct with your content that is currently above the fold. Also the format of the page is always an issue. Pushing down your dynamic content would probably never be seen by a user and Google will be able to read that with your bounce rates, time on website and overall clicking action from users once they land. The key to good on-page seo is starting with the usability of the page first. This will help you to ensure your website content is perfectly balanced and higher up on the page to show importance. Also include some H3s and break up your subjects and offer more brief but engaging content. Currently only have 63 words. So you might want to push for 300+ words and keep your keyword density at 3%. Just divide how many times you use the keyword phrase online dating by the amount of words to determine if you are at best seo practice. Your Title Tag has 37/60 characters max; this okay, might want to see if bump up a tad with something really organic or slogan with your keyword as far to the right of the title tag as possible Your Meta Description 138/154 this is a descent range; just include a click to action. This is what will help users engage your website from the SERP results. Also try to offer something you can deliver so your click-to-action and on page conversion does not result into an immediate bounce. HEADLINES and delivery is vital here! Your Meta Keyword 2/10 max. You can use 5 to 10 different keywords in this tag. Although this does not have much significance anymore; it can't hurt. Use each keyword once! Hope this helps a bit.

I agree with Keri, Which is more valuable... cheers from 20 drunks or endorsement by the Pope? I might blog on the Pope's site but the time spent doing it for the 20 drunks would be better spent on my own site.

Maybe they will eventually fix the algo... who knows?!

Thanks for the links - very helpful!