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Something that meets all of the following criteria:

• Transparent/Honest/Genuine (not insulting my intelligence with obvious blags)
• WIIFM (Offers me something of value, clearly defined and not a load of baloney)
• Personalized enough that research has obviously been carried out about our company (so not generic)
• An apology for contacting out of the blue along with an unsubscribe/removal from list option for is I'm unhappy about it
• Something simple, clear, straight to the point immediately as I don't have time to read lots of rubbish
• Nothing with offers or sales pitches of any kind of products or services
• Nothing from a throw-away email address, spoofed domain, or a domain that has an unfinished template site
• Nothing with an irrelevant subject purposely trying to deceive me into opening it

With that lot covered it wouldn't get deleted instantly

The check list is below:

1. Don't worry about PR

That's it

Honestly, don't think about building up page rank, think about your business objectives and goals, then create strategies based upon them... no strategy would include building up Page Rank, and Page Rank really doesn't mean a lot anyway so there's no purpose that a campaign in building up PR can serve really.

It would be a combination of them all.

How much traffic, how competitive, how high conversion rates are.

You need to put a value on each.

You can get an idea of conversion rates (a rough idea) from looking at the CPC... if the costs are high, it's because they convert well

Same, give it two weeks and it'll probably be back with a vengeance... if not then I have no idea. I do wonder what in the algo could cause that and whether it would something something put in intentionally. If it's a side effect of something, what could be the purpose of that something. Oh dark and mysterious Google, why do you play with our minds this way.

NoFollowing internal links won't save you any link juice... Rand did a WBF on it here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-how-do-we-plug-the-nofollow-leak

You're far better off going broad to narrow with your menu and trying to incorporate the pages those hundreds of links go to into categories and sub-categories, so try to combine what those pages are about in the main nav and then give options to go into more detail once users are within the category area (not of the main nav).

/sigh... never mind then, I'll leave you to figure it all out for yourself.

Wow that's a big, bold move! I don't know how to answer it but if I were you I'd wait until you get a few, nice and comprehensive answers on here before doing anything to drastic. Either that or use a private Q&A question to SEOmoz staff if you have any points spare to do so. With such a large change, you want to ensure you're doing it right.

I'll be interested to see the answers you get for this.

"I post to learn and want to hear other opinions when I am wrong"

Love it! Same here!

For me, the best way to learn is from getting something wrong and then having that pointed it. Which is probably the main reason I love this forum so much. So many people with sooo much knowledge and experience that way surpasses what I know, so submersing myself into that can only result in more knowledge for me

It's like they say, the best way to get better is to be around the best... this is clearly that place, and I've been getting better since being in here.

The questions being the wrong type don't bother me, especially as I know I was asking those same questions not long ago... and still do of-course, as the answers are still important to know. I am just curious about how it is that SEO has such a smokescreen as to what is important, and why it always starts off at that same place for everybody before they figure out the rest of it. I think Alan answered that perfectly with the phenomena being due to the influx of SEO's and the volume of "fundamentals only" resources out there.

This is probably going to sound a bit strange but I'd like it if I could "opt out" of the 200 MozPoints in a month giving a free months worth of membership. The reason being that I am enjoying using the forum but feel like every time I click on a thumbs up for my stuff to get MozPoints, it's like I'm trying to take advantage of the offer... when in actual fact I have no interest in that.

Don't get me wrong, I want MozPoints because I want an SEOmoz t-shirt lol, and maybe one day I'll get to find out what the "something really special" is (I don't want to have one of whatever it is, I just want to know what it is.... the curiosity is killing me!)

Anyway, what I'm saying is that I would feel more free to use the forums without having this kind of uncomfortable feeling that it may look like I'm just in it for the points to skimp on cash lol.

I use the service, I love the service, and so I am happy to pay for the service... not only that but the forums are part of the benefit of the service, so I'd rather not worry that every comment I make may look like I'm doing it for reasons of greed, rather than reasons of interest.

So, can we have a thing where we opt out?

I'm assuming it wasn't targeted at just me... I certainly hope not anyway lol:

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RE: sarahudah@yahoo.com Message sent by sarah4u on Yesterday, 04:25 Hello i am sarah udah, i saw your profile to day at (seomoz.org) and became in trested in you,i will also like to know you more and i want you to send an email to my email address so i can give you my picture for you to know whom i am my email address is (sarahudah@yahoo.com) (Remeber the distance or colour does not matter but love matters alot in life) please contact me here sarahudah@yahoo.com

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It appears inbox spam knows no bounds, even on this sacred of grounds

You might be joking but I've seen comments like that haha

Such services are often easy to spot I think

Hehe, I promise I'm not making fun, I just can't resist quoting that Ken Robinson video on TED Talks whenever somebody mentions two types of people:

“There are two types of people in this world. Those who divide the world into two types, and those who do not.”

lol.

But yes, you're totally right. I didn't realize it until you mentioned it but there are some questions (certainly a tiny minority) where people just want to be told exactly where to get links, etc...

I reckon I've been guilty of that myself with some stuff though, if I'm truly honest. I think sometimes I'm just aware that others may provide a fast answer where I cannot. Not so much with SEO, but our developer guy Nick suffers that stuff from me all the time. I hate code, can't do it... so on the odd occasion when something codey comes up I think "Well I could sit here all day and figure it out by noon, or I could just ask Nick"

But then, swings and round-a-bouts, my colleagues do the same to me for SEO.

Anyway, off-topic but now that I mentioned the TED Talks I feel I have to post links in case any of you haven't seen them... some of the most incredible stuff in the existence of the web:

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html

You simply must all trust me on this and watch them, mind blowing!

I know it's bad of me not to pay much attention to them, but I don't. I'm in the UK and so are most of our clients, and Google have an even bigger market share over here so we don't really go for anything but Google... even though I know that really we should. It's a time/resource balance though.

Having said that, I do tend to find that optimizing for Google often brings up good results in the others anyway as a bi-product, which is handy

There can be massive negative effects.

1. You'll annoy a lot of blog owners, some will report you for spam

2. You'll get tonnes of worthless links from worthless blogs filled with other spammers, therefore connecting yourself to some iffy neighbourhoods

3. You'll end up with lots of links that have your same anchor text keywords in from one link type... blogs. This will look unnatural for your link profile

My view: It used to work, not so much anymore... might still work a little but there are risks, especially to your brand.

Panda seems to have diminished even more the value of low quality links, and low quality links is what you'll get with auto linking software. This brings down the benefits while the risks stay the same.

I would have thought it would be possible but not likely, I wouldn't let it deter me from using the badges... SEOmoz has badges

Yes I like the content registry idea! It would probably be necessary to pay for it as a service though, and to cover dupes that are okay maybe they could just allow dupes as long as they reference back to the source in the registry (for news, quotations, etc... where dupes can't be avoided).

That stuff is the fundamentals which still hold true in my opinion... the report card never encouraged over-optimization and the stuff within it is still relevant today in my opinion. An A Grade is certainly not over-optimized... really the whole over-optimization thing has been around for a long time it's just there's a lot of buzz about it at the moment, but when it comes down to it, it's still just the same stuff but maybe a little stricter... so as long as your not keyword stuffing, etc... or breaking any of the other old rules from back then, then you're still not breaking them now

I used to use half of them before I started spending more time on here and edging away from that stuff a year or two back, and honestly they did used to work but they really don't anymore. You have to spin content if you want anything out of them, LinkVine was the best of the bunch but their effect went down and down. I have friends that are still a little darkside lol, My understanding is that they're of even less worth now, once Panda hit... well, from what they say you might as well just go out and comment spam for all the good it'll do you.

Hmm, now this is why I don't put too much effort into measuring the numbers of incoming links. The ones that are counted in some places, aren't counted in others, and the numbers skew the value as people think in terms of quantity rather than quality... then there's the fact that they jump up and down like Madonna's pants anyway.

I tried a whole bunch of different ways before concluding we don't yet seem to be of an age where we can track them, at least not to any level of reliability or significance for taking actions on them.