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Building links to your links is a fairly legitimate tactic, however only once you've almost exhausted the links you can get. It really is almost end game stuff.

As you'll be building links for people in related fields, you'll almost certainly be better off putting those links into your own site from other sources, as a rich linking domain profile is a big authority metric.

If you have a lot of low quality links, it could be that you'll not see any movement in the SERPs, you should focus on building quality links or creating quality content rather than start doing SEO for other people's sites

You almost certainly want to define it one way or the other at some point.

Yes, you'll lose a little bit of power through the redirects once you've done them, but at least afterwards you can be sure all the links are going to point to the right place.

Are you better having 90+% to one or 50% to each is the question

Yeah, it probably will continue to give you skewed results in any of these kinds of tools, not really a way around it that I can think of.

I guess you'll need to put more credence into page authority metrics rather than full domain authority when working out a strategy.

Well, you're probably going to have to take the hit at some point, so might as well do the redirects sooner rather than later.

Doing a 301 redirect from the (presumably) old urls to the new you will lose some of the link juice (and I come down on the high end of the spectrum and say you lose 10%, others say less).

You'll also take a bit of a ranking hit while Google indexes the new URLs and repositions you. I've seen this take about 3 - 4 weeks, though could be longer. To aid here make sure and submit a new sitemap as soon as you're done.

Also, while you shouldn't pay attention to such things, remember that your toolbar PR is URL specific, so when you change them you will have all PR0 pages. These should come back after the next update, but they are few and far between. The background PR calculations will still be taking place and should steady themselves long before the toolbar is updated.

As for having to change the URLs, is there a possibility of rewriting them in apache? e.g. is the form site/page?parameter=category¶meter=pagename

So ultimately, yes you will take a bit of a knock, but overall it probably needs done and if you build from it then you should be able to recover and improve much more easily.

1. Probably going to need the website.

2. When did this happen? If it was the end of February do you think this could have effected you? - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-farmer-update-analysis-of-winners-vs-losers - (check the links at the top for an explanation of what it is)

Best to get in touch with them directly - http://www.seomoz.org/about/contact

customerservice@seomoz.org should get your email to the right people (as I don't know who best to contact about tools)

Alternatively you could use the helpdesk - http://seomoz.zendesk.com/home

Hmm, I wonder how the OSE calculates these sort of subdomains then in terms of DA.

Although, I can't get anywhere near the same number of links to show up in OSE. I get 24M links from 39 domains (that's 39 for uk.com, 20 for the site you linked to, although maybe that's for the awards pages only and the www is different again with 459 domains.).

What page is giving you the 153,000 linking domains?

Why do you think that's wrong?

Is your PR 8+? I know you have about twice as many linking domains than Wikipedia (according to OSE) but that's not all that contributes to authority

I wonder if I could dynamically insert alt text based on page title into the logo...

BRB, spamming search engines

Do all the pages need to be https or just some of them? I'm not a huge fan of working with all https sites, but appreciate sometimes it's necessary.

Some things you may want to look at - http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/solving-duplicate-content-issues-with-http-and-https

As with any redirect you're losing some juice, but if it needs to be done it should just be the same as a normal redirect. This should be safe:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

I never see many top sites using https exclusively, even paypal has it's http version in the SERPs (though redirects you to the https immediately) because nobody links to the https version. Well, not nobody, but you get what I mean, nobody immediately thinks to put that 's' in there so there's lots of links to the http version.

Both are fine to use though.

I am ashamed to say I spam the heck out of my alt tags because it works

I used to write wonderfully descriptive alt text for accessibility and a different title text, now they're both just the same keyword.

I am a bad man

I've never considered leaving alt text blank if I have multiple pictures as I've seen more than one image rank (image search) from alt text/file name/caption. I do tend to have the first image on the page as the main keyword though.

What do you do about logo alt text?

The Wibiya toolbar is just a bit of js right?

I guess it would depend if Google could execute it then. If not, then it's effectively invisible to them. If so you're adding a bunch of links to your social sites which would add to the total number of outbound links as well as providing a link back to wibiya (not that you have a huge number of links on the site anyway).

I put your site into - http://www.yellowpipe.com/yis/tools/lynx/lynx_viewer.php - which shows you what a bot would see (though Googlebot is smarter) and it can't see the bar, so it doesn't seem as if the links are counting and as it providing a decent experience for your users I'd maybe keep it

That said this guy had a problem with it - http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=473aa11ee158916f&hl=en - so just monitor things carefully.

Thumbs up and helpful answers always appreciated

Site last cached 2nd March

Your site is indexed.

Header's returning 200 codes.

Site can be crawled fine, Xenu finds about 27 pages.

Lynxviewer gets through the page alright.

Only thing I can think of is that robots.txt looks needlessly complicated but should be alright, I would consider stripping it all out and re-running the test, if you get the same error then it's not that, if it is then narrow down what it could be.

If no joy, let me know and I'll have another look.

As people have said Keyword Density isn't really a thing. You do want to have the keywords you're targeting on the page, but you don't need to have every third word as a keyword

Here's some links to help you digest why keyword density isn't something to worry about:

Myths that persist (YOUmoz) - http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/seo-myths-that-persist-keyword-density

Opinions on SEO Myths - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/some-opinions-on-the-seo-myths-realities-fight

Beginners guide part 9 - http://guides.seomoz.org/chapter-9-myths-and-misconceptions-about-search-engines

The fact they all have myth in them should give you an idea about how much credence it's given these days

Hi Joel,

you might want to consider reading questions more carefully before you reply.

This has nothing to do with removing links but building an distributing a theme with links in it!

Yes, definitely.

Otherwise you could have a duplicate content problem on all your sites and really it keeps things a lot neater.

Don't forget to change the URL in the .htaccess file though to the site it's going on, lol.

If we helped marking a post as answering your question or a thumbs up is always appreciated

If you put a base64 obfuscated link in the footer of your WordPress then I'll hunt you down and gut you like a fish ಠ_ಠ

The problem with those footer links is that they look spammy to both users and to search engines. Your theme could end up on all manner of sites with links to things they're irrelevant too, even if you try and skin the theme to be relevant.

Ultimately it's no longer a good way of building links, not least of all because people have such a huge choice of themes now even exceptional ones don't find many homes. Plus, even if you make a condition of using the theme, a lot of people are going to remove them.

As Riggz said it would only really not look bad if you were a design company, but it's been abused so much in the past I would think that they're almost entirely discounted by search engines.

The php header redirect above would have worked, but much better sorting it in .htaccess as you're doing

Leave the addhandlers in, even if your site isn't using them it may be there for a reason.

The layout you have above should be fine, but test the site as soon as you make the changes to see if anything has broken!

So you're set up in My Client Center and will be shutting down his existing campaign? If so, then you should be alright

If you're just making another account for him then you're breaking the ToS - http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=8759