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Yes I know that I may have to be slightly grey hat for this.

Here is the problem with guest posts. If I build relationship with people (blog owners), then they'd know more about me. They'd know where I work and what I do. The problem comes when doing a guest post for someone else. Most bloggers I know do not allow you to post guest post linking to your clients for the purpose of SEO. There are some that do, but majority of the A listers, don't do that.

So when we have to build link for clients, it's difficult to get links from them unless we have a very good say in how the blog links out. This is best achieved by private link networks.

Of course there are other ways. But my question revolves around this idea. How viable is it to build a network of sites (Domain sites or web 2.0)

Assuming you need to build a private link network from scratch, how would you go about doing it? I am not looking for some shady tactic, but rather something that would be white hat, yet will help in our SEO efforts.

Thanks in advance.

Thank you.

Is sending email to help@seomoz.org the correct way to raise a ticket or is there some other sort of ticketing system?

Hi,

I think you did not read my question correctly (There was also an attached image to make things more clear).

Anyway, thanks for the help. My ranking has reached first page for Google.com and Google.co.uk but it's not reflected in SEOMoz campaign dashboard as the last update for me happened on 01/17/2012 and not after that.

If I am paying for SEOMoz which should automatically keep track of my rankings, why would I need another third party tool to do that for me?

I have sent a support request to help@seomoz.org. Thanks for the pointer.

I see that my rankings are not updated. Why is that so? Do we have to do something else for ranking to update or is it automatic? It's said that ranking updates every tuesday.

Also when does the next Linkscape update take place?

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I really don't think I should be pointing fingers here.

I have been seeing a trend that a lot of people are hosting contests with prices in the high end XXX  $ or low end XXXX $ as the first price.

Usually it's arranged via a number of sponsors and you'd have to link to all the sponsors using the keywords given. Some people provide a text file with everything pre formatted to make it easy.

I have seen several sites paying 50$ to be part of a contest so that they can get some link juice from participating sites. Since the prize money is huge, many people will participate and will get lot of links.

There was a person who built an entire business out of this (Not naming him. He's still doing the same thing but with a small twist).

What's your take on such strategies? Don't you think it's high time Google caught these sort of "link schemes"?

check conversion-rate-experts.com. They are one of the most reputed companies out there and they rank for almost all terms related to conversion rate optimization. That should give you an idea that you should not worry too much about URL's

What do you expect them to say about article marketing when they are trying to sell a product which does that? If they just told the truth (their approach works for short term SEO benefits), would you buy them (Doesn't work for long term)?

What is your opinion about Market Samurai tool as a SEO Tool?

I have used it and found it good for analyzing the top 10 competition, getting anchor text profiles and so on.

SEOMoz is cool, but has a lot more features. However it lacks keyword research tool.

We really cant compare the two tools in terms of pricing because the cost of the MS tool for a lifetime is what will cost SEOMoz membership for a month.

What;s your take on this?

From what I have seen, adult industry is a different industry altogether. I have done SEO for adult site without involving black hat (Getting some paid review on adult blogs, asking site owners to create videos and share on tube sites with link back to their site and so on.) Thanks for your insights!!!

I would like to know how SEOMoz community members approach adult SEO. How do you approach a project when you get one (if you do it that is).

If you dont do adult SEO, why do you not do it? Is it because it's much more difficult than normal SEO or do you not want to associate yourself with that industry?