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Yes and anything to do with WordPress link cloaking and redirects the must have plug-in is 'Pretty Link Pro'. It provides super easy link management and handy analytics on every outbound link you create. I've been using it for years and it's great.

I agree with EGOL here. I would look at it more from the usability standpoint and if it provides value for the user. I am not too fond of them so I never recommend them, but that's really up to you and if it appeals to your audience. You can test with VWO or Optimizely and see the engagement based on the data collected and go from there. Hope this helps - good luck!

FWIW, I think you executed appropriately. I would have redirected 1 -> 3 and 2 -> 3 just as you did. It is going to take a while for the authority to catch up to the new (#3) domain and I would expect a lot of that authority coming from 2 -> 3 since 1 -> 2 has had a lot of time for its authority to pass to the #2 domain.

Hi, I personally would disavow it, especially if you under some sort of penalty. The site has an ok DA but with 7,000 links pointing to your site it could look unnatural. Kind Regards

Thanks for the great answer, Ray. We have been adding a note at the bottom of the post that it's been updated. I think we'll take your advice and give it a bigger call out at the top.

Here is the best answer to your question. Dr. Pete did a great job rating this article. http://moz.com/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many More info here http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/understanding-site-architecture-with-xenu-and-excel/ http://www.searchenginesbook.com/absolutelinks.html Thomas

Thanks for your answer, Tom. (great name!) Will do.

Thanks, Ruth. I think I'll do this -- double check to make sure authorship is correct (which is, quite frankly, not easy to do!) and just take it easy on the links I put back to my site in any upcoming HuffPo columns. I appreciate the helpful feedback!

No reconsideration requests are needed for Panda.  It is algorithmic. Good luck.

Hello Tom, Five or six years ago this may have been a problem, but I seriously doubt it is right now. The text is clearly visible to humans and bots and you are not doing anything malicious. The div with the text appears over the image and it views fine in text and full mode when looking at Google's cache of the page. Though both Pedram and Donford have answered your initial question well, I could not officially "endorse" them because I don't advocate keyword density ranges and do not agree that a manual review of the site would result in you being subject to any kind of penalty. Write naturally for the topic at hand, focusing content on the correct keywords and topics with the goal of being helpful to the reader. Don't worry about manual checks for this because it will be obvious to the person looking at the site that nothing fishy is going on. Good luck!

props to Matt! He nailed it.