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Agreed, the best links are the ones that are hardest to go after. Find high authority blogs in your niche, and reach out to them personally.

There is no 404 though, the page is there just not in the results

Sure can. I do hosting. about to set up in new premises. What sort of site is it? http://thatsit.com.au/

I've worked with a guy who was absolutely sure his site will do great if he purchased enough links. The month he decided to get rid of the service he do 9 links for 1800$. It turned out he paid that amount on a monthly basis for over 6 months. I went back though the email reports he got from the company. Every now and then there seemed to be a couple fo good links and a couple of nofollowed one, just to add color to it. The really bad part was the amount of links he got from blogs made up from content sharing articles, already housing 100+ links to external site. Just another good example that is always a good idea to stay clear of such services.

It's important to stick with one or the other. We changed from www to non www and saw a drop in our SERPS that lasted about 3 weeks. Google was still showing www on our home page only, the rest were non www. We found that all of our pages linked back to www.page/index. We just fixed that a few days ago and I'm guessing google will figure it out in a week or two.

High PR alone does not mean much, so don't waste your time. Evidence for this is the fact that you can buy expired high-PR domains, and they will give no juice. mozMetrics (PA & DA) are far more telling. To build up your credibility, it all boils down to 1) original content and 2) how well you are able to distribute this content on the net.

Traffic Travis has a nice  and easy to use free windows app that does what you want (for low volumes). http://www.traffictravis.com/  you'd be better off using a proxy service with it though.

Do you know of any resource that will support this As the linking page changes over time (# and authority of links to the page, outbound links on the page), the amount of "link juice" it passes will change also. I have read reaserch on google only passing the anchor text once , so even if you change it wont. But nothing on the passing of "link juice" over time