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yes, this is what I choose to believe because as you know in the dynamic world of SEO, there is no such thing as ultimate answer.

No, paid links go against Google’s guidelines and your website will get deindexed for that.

Here are the few things that you can do -
1. Get your website listed in Google Places
2. Add a link back to Google Listing Page from your website
3. Get listed in some high quality local listing sites
4. Use microformat code for presenting contact information in the footer section of the website

And no idea why you are addressing the same user agents twice

User-agent: *

Disallow: /go/

# End Link Mask Generator output

User-agent: *

Disallow: /wp-admin/

Disallow: /wp-includes/

_Again I would like to say that your approach toward guest blogging is not correct. Guest blogging is not a hit and run thing. Do not be in such rush to get articles published in sites that accept guest posts. And who said that no-followed links do not add any value? You should not believe Google all the time

Take it this way. You need to treat it as a way to promote your brand. So hire the best writer and prepare a killer content or you can hire a professional graphic designer and create a killer infographic whatever it suits your purpose._

And I do not wish to play wise here. So, here is the ultimate resource:

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/9-networks-you-can-use-for-guest-blogging-and-blogger-outreach-2/50801/

_I have checked some of the posts of the Home page and I see certain patterns and this is quite predictable:

1. Most of the posts are basically complication of images already available in other sites. Though the content is unique, the images are nothing new.
2. I have found two content heavy posts in the home page and what I believe that they are guest posts. Now, guest blogging is great but what I mean to say is that you should not be too dependent on guest blogging here. You need to come up with two or three posts [I prefer content heavy posts] before_

_3. Seems like you are publishing reviews. Make sure if these reviews are paid, you should be adding no follow tag against them. Though it is the linked sites that should be penalized for this, I prefer to be safe than sorry.

I know this may sound a bit harsh. I hope you would not mind. _

Ok there has been some kind of confusion regarding my earlier statement. This was what I meant to say –  Say a site -
http://www.example.com – main service is website design and the focus is on “Web Design”
http://www.example.com/webdesign.php - service page

_Now, let us imagine for a second, we are not building any links. In that case, what I believe and I have observed that home is going to get a bit preference in the SERP.  _

_Definitely home page carries the most SEO weight. And what I believe is that chances are that home page of a website will has the maximum chances of earning links than internal pages unless you are offering some cool stuffs in the Internal pages. If you ask my opinion, I would be targeting the most competitive term in the Home page rather than an internal page. _

_There is no such tool to locate low quality links. You need to check them manually. You should not be obsessed with the PR of the website rather you should be focusing on other things like the Quality of the website, quality of the articles getting posted there, interaction, presence on social media sites etc. And of course, if you believe that your website has got penalized by search engines, you need to get rid of spammy links like low quality bookmarking sites, directories, article directories etc. _

Yeah, you are right, the Disallow tag is correct. However, if you are not feeling confident enough, you can try it in Google Webmaster Tools. Go to “Health” > “Blocked URLs”. Then make changes in the robots.txt file and test the pages.

_And there is no such thing as priority. If you blocked a page via robots and use "index, follow" as Meta tag, it will get blocked and also if you do not block the page via robots.txt but use "noindex, nofollow", it will still get blocked. _

_Again I do not like the approach. It seems like you are in a hurry to get as many links from different websites as quickly as possible. Do not treat link building that way. Take it as an attempt to gain exposure and believe me it is time consuming. For say, to get your website approved by Dmoz.org, you might have to wait for 6 to 8 months on an average. Moreover, instant approved directories are not that great as spammers mostly troll there. So, hold the horse. Prepare a list of niche and quality directories and then approach them. _

_Eternal dilemma of an SEO professional. Since you are there to build links, you have to think about building links and this is exactly where the problem creeps in. Rather take a different approach here. Think like a general user. Would you love to see your website listed in that directory? Do you believe that that the directory in question would be able to drive some traffic to your website? If the answer is yes, go ahead mate. Get your website listed there. Google or no Google, your website is going to get benefited at the end. _

Adding no follow link is great to make sure that your website does not get penalized, how if you are too worried about it, you can create a separate landing page for it and get it blocked via robots.txt file.

Here is what google says -

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356

Note that PPC (pay-per-click) advertising links that don’t pass PageRank to the buyer of the ad do not violate our guidelines. You can prevent PageRank from passing in several ways, such as:

• Adding a rel="nofollow" attribute to the <a></a><a> tag</a>
  <a>* Redirecting the links to an intermediate page that is blocked from search engines with a robots.txt file</a>

<a></a>

_Valid question as it seems. But there is no straight forward answer. If you ask any Google representative about this, he/she would suggest you flag the website. However, I have personally tried this but what it appeared to me that it never worked. It is a vicious circle. Google releases algo change > sites get panelized   > webmasters find loophole > spam sites start gaining on ranking. _

But your website is getting redirected. Have you made any changes in the .htaccess file?

_If you are running an ecommerce website, just keep the product name along with call to action. Repeating the same keywords might affect the visibility of your website adversely. For example:

<product name="">| Call to Action</product>_

Yes, just ask them to add your website in the “Contributor To” section of their Google Plus profiles and you are done. However, I would love to read this post before you make any such decision –

http://seo2.0.onreact.com/google-authorship-markup-disadvantages-everybody-ignores

Since you have said that you cannot modify the PHP code, you can use the following tag in robots.txt file to stop search engine from indexing the pages -

Disallow: /?mod=*

However, make sure that other pages are not getting blocked by it.

_Directory submissions are not waste of time. I do not see any such reason why I should not be interested in getting my website listed in Dmoz since chances are there that the listed website will be managed to drive some traffic through it. Just do not overdo this. And do not try to manipulate the algo by submitting your website is meaningless directories and with exact anchor texts. Thankfully those days are gone. _

You are simply overdoing here –

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Remove this. It looks spammy -

_Get a physical address in the UK and use microformat code to represent the Contact details. Try to get your website listed in Google Places. Try to write some blog posts concentrating on the regional interest related to your industry. I am sure about this, but if you can manage to woo some leading and UK based writers write some posts for your websites [I mean as a guest writer with their verified G+ profile] can help you gain some tractions. _

Yes I can understand the pain and frustrations of yours. Same thing happens with me when my clients show me sites that are doing all sort of spammy link building things and ranking high. It is like have fun until you get caught. What I believe is that the purpose of penguin update is to punish low quality websites that do not deserve to be on the top, but are still enjoying top ranking because of some questionable back links. So, I would rather suggest you to hold on to your patience because there is no point in making your website vulnerable to Google’s algo update.