Yes, I'm in the bridal wear business and links from the top wedding blogs are extremely difficult to get unless you're a top designer or willing to pay a lot of money to be featured.

Again, great tips! I will go and have a play right away

Thanks for your reply, Brian!
That are some great tips and I will definitely keep them in mind.

Do you have any suggestion on how to find wedding related links? Is there maybe some sort of link suggestion tool?

That is a great answer.
I had no idea that bad trust metrics could be passed on, so that clearly answers my question.

I have only joined SEOmoz 2 days ago, so I will definitely spend some time going trough the link building topics. In the meantime, is there anything to you can suggest to get me on the road a bit more? I'm in the bridal industry which is highly competitive and getting links from the top blogs is only possible if you're a top designer or if you are willing to pay a lot of money to be featured.

I agree Kenyon, I know that there is hard work involved but like I said before, it can be really frustrating to see your competitors ranking while they are clearly using these type of tricks.

Thanks for taking time to reply!

Thanks for the reply!

That is indeed what I meant. The way it is being explained is that the websites pointing at your website are 'clean' websites that have gained rank by the other websites pointing to the second tier and then all the spammy and automated links pointing to the second tier.

Like you said it did sound too good to be true, but when reading the comments on his blog and other blogs it seems that is a successful method to get your website ranking within a few months.

I try to stay away from black hat SEO as far as I can, but it is just very disheartening sometimes to see my competitors ranking their websites while clearly using black hat SEO.

I think that I have watched all the webinairs and online courses available on the web, but I still don't seem to know how and where to get links from. I know what type of links I should be getting and what type I should be avoiding, but that little luck so far.

I came across the website of Matthew Woodward about tiered link building where he explains how to do this type of link building in depth. It seems quite interesting but also a lot of work so I don't want to invest my precious time in something that will be penalised by Google in the near future.

Is there anyone that can give me some reason why I should or shouldn't do this?