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What tools and signals do you use to determine if a link is quality or not?

How can you tell if a link is going to hurt your ranking?

We have been contacting some webmasters for building links, but a lot of them will only do banner ads on there site.

Is having a keyword rich alt tag on the banner ad and a do follow link to our site just as good?

Would like to hear your thoughts and l experiences in trying to leverage these banner ads to help in seo ranking.

Thank you in advance for your input!

Is there a free/cheap self hosting video site? Can't afford wistia, but want to do it for the seo benefits

I have a client with a lot of 404 errors from Web Master Tools, and i have to go through and check each of the links because

• Some redirect to the correct page
• Some redirect to another url but its a 404 error
• Some are just 404 errors

Does anyone know of a tool where i can dump all of the urls and it will tell me

• If the url is redirected, and to where
• if the page is a 404 or other error

Any tips or suggestions will be really appreciated!

Thanks SEO Moz'rs

I have a client with a htaccess file that is a total mess!

What are the best practices to organize all the re-directs, and make it more manageable in the future.

Any resources would be appreciated.

What happens if you go back and change old 301 re-directs?

So instead of it re-directing  from A to B then C, we write a new redirect for A to C.

What does Google see this as next time it crawls the site?

Thanks Ryan,

Great Answer and illustration!

A follow up questions, what happens if you go back and change the old 301 re-directs?

So instead of it re-directing  from A to B then C, we write a new redirect for A to C.

Is this better? if so why?

I have a client who has done a lot of link building, and just migrated his site from an old platform to a more seo friendly one, but now he is moving pages on the new site.

Old Site --> (301 re-direct) --> New Site --> (301 re-direct) --> Changed Page -->(301 re-direct) Changed page again, etc

All his changes are making a lot of etra work for me every month and I feel he is wasting a lot of link juice,

How Would you explain to the client why they shouldn't be using several re-directs?

What can I do to make sure that they keep as much link juice as possible?

We've been doing a lot of building and work on just  one category page, but when i try to put it in the campaign it won't let me do any url that has a sub folder like  www.mainsite.com/keyword-page.

I can only do www.mainsite.com, and when i select the other campaign options like root domain or sub folder, roger pops up with an error.

Is anyone else having this problem?

I know some of the basic factors to rank better on Google Places, but I'm looking to see where the priority is and if there are negative factors?