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Matt,

You are right, there is erratic behavior of SERPS in co.uk. We have a website which ranks in first page for a competitive keyword, for 3 days it ranks in top 5 and for the next 3 days it ranks in 15th position and it comes back again.

I was also checking ranking for another US based website in .com, but to my surprise I saw huge number of co.uk websites in first page.

I know I'm not a expert but it feels kind of weird when I see the SERPS.

Thanks for the reply, I think I would stop the link building as of now and start learning about the link building from SEOMoz beginners guide. But from your opinion where do you think I can start my link building?

Hi,

I'm new to SEO and learning fast. Myself joined together with my friends have set up a string of websites each for different products to sell online. To start with we have finalized keywords, optimized the on-page using the on-page analysis tool and right now about to start working on link building.

For the first month we have planned to do around 20 bookmarking, 3 articles each to 15 article directories, 30 directory submissions (priority to niche based), business page listing in hot frog etc, 3 articles each submitted to 10 web 2.0 properties, 1 press release to 15 pres release sites, some Q&A links and few blog comments, 10 video submission and 1 guest blogging.

We have also completed setting up facebook fan page and twitter account and active in them too. For anchor text diversity we will be using keywords only in links from article submission and web 2.0. For links from other methods, the anchor text will be either website name or website url. And we will be targeting 4 keywords per website (2 keywords for home page and 2 for 2 sub-pages). The difficulty level of the keywords range from 40% to 60%. Now, I have few questions which I believe the experts over here can help.

1. For the first month we have planned the above link building, but hpw build links from different websites in coming month?

2. For web 2.0 properties we can keep adding articles to the same blog we have created or we need to create separate set of web 2.0 properties for each month.

3. Are we missing any link building methods or strategy? If so, can you please tell me the method?

I know some of the questions might be silly, but being a beginner it would be a great help to know the answer for these questions from this community.

Thanks,

Sridhar