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Forgive me if I've lost my way here though Im interested in links out from a site rather than back links. Im sure there is a bing tool? Im interested in finding out where a site links to and the number of sites it links to and therefore just how much this might weaken a link if you were to attain one on that page. For example if you find a blog which is very relevant to your business and you can see a link passing good relevant juice. If you can then see which sites that blog links out to then you can write 'You link to ..... and we're similar to them so perhaps we can have a link too? Also a number of sites they link out to might help you decide whether the site would pass as much link juice as on a superrficial review looking at just PA/DA and/or OSE?

I am interested in how the number of outbound links from a page linking to me might affect how much link juice is passed to me? As regards variables youre quite right I just wanted to keep that out of the calculation.

As regards 'opportunity' perhaps its more appropriate to see this Q as to help decide which site you should put your efforts into getting a link from. If a great site with PA/DA of 70/80 has 50 obls on the page youre likely to gain a link would you be better going after a  link on a site of PA/DA of 35/40 with only 10 obls on the page?

Agreed, though in the event that you are position 4 or 5 it might be worth testing? as many of the general public are less sensitive to CAPS than more web savvy folk. Otherwise, you're not aware of any negative effect in terms of google ranking factors

Following on from earlier Q, what do you all use to count links out from a page. I believe there is a bing tool which does this, though rather than a list of sites a simple number would be ideal?

I am interested in your thoughts on the effect of number of outbound links (obls) on link juice passed? ie If a page linking to you has a high number of obls, how do you compute the effect of these obls and relative negative effect on linkjuice.

In the event that there are three sites on which you have been offered the opportunity of a link

Site A  PA 30 DA50      Obls on page 10

Site B  PA 40 DA50      Obls on page 15

Site C  PA 50 DA50      Obls on page 20

How would you appraise each of these prospective page links (ignoring anchor text, relevancy, etc which will be constant)

Is there a rule of thumb on how to compare the linkjuice passed from a site relative to its PA and the number of obls? Is it as simple as page with 10 obls passes 10x juice of page with 100 obls?

It often the case that a page of serps will show up very similar title tags eg  Cheap Widgets | Widgetsrus.com format, written partly for humans and partly for SEO.. Although against Googles best practice and indeed a violation of their adwords policy would using in CAPS in title tags reduce ranking (whilst increasing visibility and CTR)?

Meta Descriptions provide google with the text snippet shown in organic results therefore important.

Meta Keywords are no longer a ranking factor and in fact can be a disadvantage as they can give you competitors easy access to your keyword list therefore not only unimportant but a bad idea.

I would suggest that you keep the number of outbound links per page on blog as low as possible as each additional link reduces effect of others. Also, I wouldn't link more than once per page to your site, irrespective of differing anchor text, context, etc. You should pick the most up to date blogs and of course also use your MozBar to measure PA of these pages. That said, the process you describe is not the most natural link building process

It is recommended that you have no more than 100 links per page. Have you run the SEO Crawler across your site. This will give you a report including advice on number of links. In cases where there appear to be too many then it will flag that up. More importantly it will report other more important errors or omissions.

I dont thin youre doing much wrong, though get the SEOmoz report and you will know better...

"is it possible to give  +1 multiple times ?"

Not to the same page, from the same Google account, no.

The validity of PA and DA is something which must be of great interest to us all. I have recently looked at a spammy page with PR3 but PA of 72? Another aspect of Link Quality is relevancy, which cant be incorporated in to a metric, as relevancy only exists when the backlink has been built.. That would be interesting if a tool could look at a back link and incorporate relevancy in to an Authority metric. All in all PA/DA has been very useful and I look forward to future refinements.

Yes, an event is someone clicking your Google +1 button. The 'Off' and 'On' refers to the fact that you can change your mind and revoke your plus one by clicking the button again (it's an on/off toggle). A unique event is like a unique visitor in Google Analytics; it means that two different people have clicked your +1 button (rather than coming from the same Google account).

So, as I understand it, your data shows that two separate people have clicked your +1 a total of 7 times (someone trying to give more than one +1 by clicking it multiple times perhaps? :). What actually happened was that between the two people they cancelled their plus one 3 times and gave it 4 times, giving you a total of one +1 overall.

You could also make better use of your title tag. You're gaining little SEO in the repetition of stamp 3x in tag.

I would also advise a design of the homepage, because, even if you do manage to attain good position your bounce rate will be remain high. The page is not what it could be and is costing you £££s

Its worth considering the organic CTR of your result, the title tag should eye catching. It is often worth looking at the format and style of your title tag in relation to the title tags of results above and below you in serps. If they are all the same and indeed even if  well optimised for SEO, it might be worth considering doing some testing ie can you change your title tag format to catch the browsers without affecting your position. If they are all 65 chars then you can win with shorter tag perhaps a tag with your freephone number etc...

In the case of 1. Would we not be as well building these new links directly to our main site? My theory is that if we acquire links to our old site, lets say to page widgets.com/shoecleaner then use anchor text on that page 'shoecleaner' then we will have relevancy built into the  link juice passed( by it flowing through a relevant page on the old domain). This juice would be better than if we simply 301'd??

We're an ecommerce site and  we have a second, older domain with  a better keyword match URL than our main domain (I know, you may be wondering why we didn't use it, but that's beside the point now). It currently ranks fairly poorly as there's very few links pointing to it. However, the exact match URL means it has some value, if we were to build a few links to it.

What would you do with it:

1. 301 product/category pages to current site's equivalent page
2. Link product/category pages to current site's equivalent page
3. Not bother using it at all
4. Something else

It just seems a real grey area.

I think you may have hit the nail on the head there...;)

Sorry to butt into the conversation again though your comment;

I don't engage in black hat tactics. I'm Dir of Search Marketing for a lead generation company and so must protect our properties from such attacks.

Are you suggesting that  not engaging in black hat tactics protects you from black hat attacks. A sort of Do no Evil and no Evil will be done onto you?

(I do understand that competitors in a vertical can get upset if a competitor indulges in a lot of black hat seo to leapfrog them, then a tit for tat situation can evolve and descend)

As this is a tactic often used by black hat SEO, how can Google know when to penalise?

I'm interested in how you will acquire the .edu.

As to how much more valuable, if all other things equal, ie anchor text, context, landing page, etc, etc then I would have though a PA 80 .edu vs PA 40.com spam might be 40x value? Guesstimation