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At the start of a new SEO campaign - I make a list of bloggers and editors who will help my client along the way in his industry. I then start following these people on Twitter from my client's company account.

I wanted to know if there are SEO's who follow and interact with these bloggers/editors from their own personal account - and not necessarily form the clients account? If so, how do you manage that?

Or do people follow from both accounts?

What do you do?

Hi everyone,

I am new to SEO and in the process of building links the clean way. Any suggestions on how exactly I can find websites that are linking out to quality websites already?

I went thru most of my competitors link building strategy - and 90% of their links are  done either thru link exchange or paid links. So looking at my competitors strategy does not really help.

So I need to find websites/blogs/forums that are ready to link to me if I can show them some useful content. How do I find these websites first?

Please help!

Cheers!

Arjun

Thanks EGOL.. Point noted.. Not everyone may turn up if at all. Will let you know how this goes after the event. Cheers!

Thanks ASR! Yes, will follow your advice and keep it natural - and not put too much pressure on them or focus on links.. Thank you!

Hi everyone,

I'm relatively new to SEO, and I have a question on a link building strategy for a holiday resort I am working on.

The resort has a paintball arena and zorbing facilities at their premises. I want to use this in the link building strategy and the owners have agreed to have an open day for bloggers.

Basically the resort will invite 20 local bloggers for a day to their resort. They get to play paintball, zorbing and get to see the resort in exchange for an honest write up about their day at the resort.

I am looking at asking the bloggers to write about the event twice (Once before, and once after they visit the resort) with a minimum of 4 links to the website.

I want to know how I can identify the top bloggers? What factors should I consider while making a list of 20 bloggers, and how do I measure these factors?

Also, is this a good strategy for link building? And please feel free to add anything else you think I am missing out on, or will help in the link building.

Cheers!

Arjun

Hi Alan, They are not able to do it via the control panel - and there is no way that they will share the password for us to do it. Therefore I think we have to do it manually. Can you please check if this code is correct. I have replaced my domain.com.au to www.oberoihotels.com (as an example) in 2 places : Changed "^mydomian.com.au$" to "^oberoihotels.com$" and changed url="http://mydomain.com.au/{R:1to url="http://oberoihotels.com/{R:1 Is this correct? Therefore the new code to add to the web.config file :<system.webserver><rewrite><rules><rule name="CanonicalHostNameRule"><match url="(.*)"><conditions><add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^oberoihotels.com$" negate="true"></add></conditions><action type="Redirect" url="http://oberoihotels.com/{R:1}"></action></match></rule><rule name="LowerCaseRule" stopprocessing="true"><match url="[A-Z]" ignorecase="false"><action type="Redirect" url="{ToLower:{URL}}"><conditions><add input="{URL}" pattern="WebResource.axd" negate="true"><add input="{URL}" pattern="Scripts" negate="true"><add input="{URL}" pattern="Content" negate="true"></add></add></add></conditions></action></match></rule></rules></rewrite></system.webserver>

Thanks Alan. It's very clear what to do now. I don't have access but will speak to the people who do have access and see if it can done the way you mentioned using URL redirect from the server control panel itself.

Thank you!

Arjun

As the .htaccess file cannot be worked on, I added this php code 301 redirect if the URL does not contain a www on all the pages (small website - 10 pages) :

header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );

header( "Location: $location" );

I want to know if this is ok for SEO? Has anyone done this on a windows server? Or if you have any better methods, it would be great if you can share.

Please help.

Thanks.