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I was doing some competitive link research and one of the sites I was looking at has links in multiple Google Directories of other countries. By that I mean a listing in:

• www.google.pl
• www.google.hu
• www.google.pt
• www.google.co.nz
• www.google.ie
• www.google.com.sg
• www.google.vg
• and a few others

It seemed kind of odd because the site getting these links is a ranch in Oregon. Here is the Open Site Explorer info.

I'm a bit of a noob so I've never seen this before. Are these kinds of links worth pursuing? If so, how did they get these multiple listings?

Thanks for the insight guys. I'll give them a go.

I'm looking to move 5 of my sites from Hostgator's shared servers to Media Temple's dedicated virtual servers. Anyone have experience with (mt)?

I'm planning on adding a few more sites this year and several things they offer are attractive to me:

• A (virtually) dedicated environment: Faster websites, better user experience, plus I like having some control over my site's resources
• Scalability: I can add more resources easily (although not super cheap)
• Unique control panels for each site: More control for my tech savvy clients.
• Unique IPs for $1 a month: More linkjuice between my related sites.

$50/month is a big jump from my $12/month Hostgator account but I'm thinking it will be worth it.

Am I on the right track or is this a fool's errand?

We are currently building a brand new site that should launch in the next 6 to 8 months. Obviously we have zero backlinks, zero mentions anywhere, etc.

My plan is to set up a landing page with contact info, links to social network, mailing list signup, the usual. I'll be doing keyword research and gathering leads for potential links but should i start and active linkbuilding campaign?

What kind of SEO work would you recommend while the site is in development?

Yes they did. Thanks for reminding me about it Keri!

So I did a site analysis over at Majestic SEO and it told me that I have 100 Referring IP addresses and 92 are Class C subnets. What does this mean? Are they good, bad or irrelevant?

My client has a fishing report that is published weekly on his blog. Would it be wise to syndicate that content on these other services with backlinks baked into each one?

Any thoughts?