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Thankyou for your replies- will carry on plodding on as I am!

They have double the number of linking root domains as me.  Just to clarify (am a beginner!) that you can have lots of links from one website but only one counts as from a  linking root domain?

I'm a complete beginner so probably not much use me replying but I did find that when Networked blogs posted my blog posts to Facebook they did show up as a duplicate content warning, so guessing it's not a good thing? Will be interested to see others responses.

Looking at my competitors link results on OSE some of them have 30,000 links to their websites. They are top rank on google whereas I am page 2.  I know its quality over quantity but am I ever going to compete with that number of links? Is it worth getting some low value links just to bump up numbers while continuing getting good links? thanks for any advice!

Thankyou all for your replies, some great ideas...love the florist one! Will do some investigation. also the gift widget but wouldnt know how to even start doing that!

By this i dont mean paying for links as such...I mean the people that advertise on websites like Fiverr saying they will get you links to your site from edu/gov domains...or angela/paul style links etc.

I'm doing all the proper link building stuff like blogging/guest blogs/articles etc etc but am up against competitiors with thousands of links...Is this a way to 'catch up' or should it be avoided.

I'm new to all of this so be gentle lol...grateful for any replies