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I site I've been working on has been up since early January. The domain was not new, but no site or links existed prior. Link building finished 2 months ago. There are about 80 fairly high quality links mostly from unique domains, and the site has been doing well with search engines for some time.

OSE lists only 24 of these domains (for all pages on the root domain). OSE stats hardly changed in the last update so here's my question: when will OSE data reflect the current reality?

That's what I thought, but I wanted an experienced opinion. I had a ranking drop after adding some directory links and was looking for a cause

I realize that links from low quality directories aren't of much value. Having said that, can doing this kind of linking actually penalize a site?

I need to redirect a windows-hosted domain with permanent (301) redirects so as to preserve most of the link juice.

I would be using asp page-level redirects, as there are only about 50 relevant pages.

Are these as effective as linux-based 301 redirects in conserving link juice?

I'm trying to get a page ranked for a niche phrase. There are a few established players in the industry but no competition for this phrase beyond that.

Open site explorer reports that main competitor for the phrase this page points to has 538 links but they are all internal with no extermal links. DA is 45 and PA is 25

My client has25 links for the phrase this page points to from 10 unique external domains in addition to internal links. Domain is only 3 months old. DA is 20 and PA is 30.

Right now I'm buried in back pages and feel I should be higher. Should my strategy be to build trust and authority or concentrate on more keyword specific links?

My client has an existing domain, domain A. They recently purchased and absorbed another company with their own domain, domain B.

For marketing purposes company B will be rebranded as company A. They want to redirect domain B to domain A.

The problem is that company B has by far the more visible domain, with 4x the number of inbound links.

If I redirect domain B to domain A, what will happen to these links? I'm thinking their value will be lost.

I did slack off the link pace, waiting to see what would happen when it was digested but thought itmight stay up there as the phrase I'm competing for is quite niche oriented.

For the most part, yes.

Yes, some directory links  but they were there before the drop. No paid content, no duplicate content, no canonicalization issues.

I have been working on a domain for site which has only been up for a few months. I have mainly been working on building trust and authority for the site, with only a few links to my keyword phrases, which I was saving for the end, and concentrating on good quality non-spammy type links.

It was progressing nicely until last weekend when I went from the first page on Google to the 3rd and 4th pages.

Was there some kind of update?

Actually no, but before the redesign if you did go there there were a bunch of links in the footer. One of them was about link building and had several sub categories.

Used to be a section on link building before the redesign. Where did it go?