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Be smart about it, as long as it is relevant for the user and genuinely gives them related information to other subject matter on the site. Having said that , it is mentioned that Google can index upto a 100 links on a page. More info on this link: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/an-internal-link-juice-tool-14969

Take a look at this site that does quite a lot of internal linking and is ranking at the top for all "office space for rent" and "office space for lease" geo targeted keywords  (www.loopnet.com)

To answer point 2 , if you have a 400 word article having 1 to 2 internal links in that sounds like a good balance.

Hi Bob,

Link analysis for a competitor's site is a very solid tactic for finding linking opportunities in our opinion. You can find a lot of relevant links by utilizing this strategy and use it for your site's benefit. Although DA is important, analyze lower DA links and question their relevance for your site. If the relevancy is high, then i would suggest going ahead and adding your site to it as well.

Couple of resources below to assist you with your query:

Link Analysis Page - Moz

31 Link Building Tactics Discovered from Competitive Analysis

Cheers,

SEO5..

Hi Rob,

A good post on this link by Guy Kawasaki on this topic.

Cheers,

In my opinion, i don't think you will derive a lot of SEO benefit from hosting the yahoo answers. You are better off building your own Q&A database . It is definitely more work and time consuming however there can be a lot of benefit in investing time and resources in this.

There is an old post referring to Q&A as a strategy that you can access here.

It is not recommended to add the no follow attribute on those pages because it might be treated as scupting and harm the site. Typically only have pages behind an admin login not indexed using the "no follow" for obvious reasons. (you dont want those URL's Indexed by google and the info pubicly available without logging in.

More details in the posts below:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-internet-marketing-discussion-forum/416493-no-follow-about-us-contact-us.html

Hi John,

A quick check of your backlinks IN OSE shows some other questionnable links like submityoursite.org , freeadddirectory.com, addurlshopping.com, txtlinks.com

Did you submit them for non inclusion as well. Perhaps Google is referring to those links not the relevant ones.

Cheers,

SEO5..

Barry had an interesting post on this topic basically stating that paid ads do influence organic ranks .Link

(http://www.seroundtable.com/google-organic-paid-study-14942.html)

Good Question Luis,

Suggested Process below:

• Get a list of all your backlinks
• Make a list of all the known bad neighborhoods. You might have to research SEO blogs for this info
• Compare that with your list of backlinks
• You can also manually check any site to see if it is indexed in Google or not to confirm it's negative impact.

Here is a link to a useful post to get you started

Hi Alex,

If you have an idea of what keywords you would like to check the ranking for, then there are a couple of tools you can start using. Advanced Web Ranking has a thirty-day free trial and can handle large amounts of search volume with consistent accuracy and over 2000 search engines. This is used as an external tool and can be set to update automatically. As well, Bright Local offers a similar tool with many of the same functions, although only ten keywords can be calculated per ranking run in the free trial version.

If you do not know which keywords your site could be ranking for, trying using the Google Adwords Keyword Tool to help generate some likely ideas. As stated previously, your site could be ranking any number of unlikely, worthless keywords, and you want to measure the ones which matter.

David, we've tried SEO campaigns with and without business.com links and it did not make much difference in the results. I will however tell you that their PPC offering works. We have run quite a few campaigns for our clients in the franchising vertical with very good results. The cost per acquisition is quite lower than adwords.

lol , that's always fun , all the best..

Yep, you're on the right track with your thought process. Google will try and give credit to the original source of the content.

My suggestion based on a $300 budget would be to run a promo/contest where the client gives away something valued at $300 to the respondents. This has a better chance of going viral , generating buzz and quality backlinks as opposed to the directory route.

Go Daddy allows you to host mutiple sites in the same account, Google will treat them as separate domains unless you have a link that connects both the domains.

Here's a link to a very good post explaining this in details:

http://ivetetecedor.com/51/use-one-godaddy-hosting-account-multiple-sites

Max, i'd give it a couple of weeks more. If they are still under review, you're better off deleting them and starting over.

Hi Bob,

Sent you a PM with details.

it's essentially the same however if you go through go daddy's reseller service they have a specialized dashboard to assist you. More info below:

http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/reseller-hosting.aspx

they also have a nice comparative chart however i would suggest double checking the pricing with hostgator and blue host as they keep updating it:

http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/reseller-hosting.aspx

Citations are essentially sources where your company is mentioned typically with your address.

More info on this Link

You can use the help of companies like Customer Lobby and White Spark to research citations that can be used for your site.

David Mihm in his post here ranks the top factors that influence the local rankings.

Matt Cutts confirmed that Google has a "parked domain detector" that filters out parked domains thereby eliminating any SEO benefits. Matt Cutts Video link 

How valuable is the site traffic to you. If you monetize the site traffic well then you should definitely invest in creating unique content for the site. You could have avoided these issues if you had used the rel canonical tag to identify the source of the content. It also matters on how much of the content is duplicated . If it's only a small percentage then it should make that much of a difference.

Based on the info provided and the fact that you have already been hit with google's updates, you should invest in creating unique content. Along with content also create unique meta tags for the pages as well as encourage user interaction on the game pages with reviews /comments.