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Register on myblogguest.com and try contacting a few guest bloggers through  the forum. Their guest blogging community is pretty big, I'm sure you'll find quite a few guest bloggers that will fit your topic.

dofollowforums.org? Starting a link building campaign with building forum signature links is NOT a wise choice. If I were Google, this is where I'd start checking  for "bad links"...

Is mysite.com a static page? Google values fresh content a lot, the fact that mysite.com/blog is a continuously updates with fresh articles can be an explanation for why it ranks better in search results.

Is SEOmoz becoming a black hat tool?

SEO consultant from Romania here.

In our country "massive" link building stopped being effective about 3-6 months ago. Of course, at some searches spammy sites still show up among the TOP results... which is something I can't explain up until today. Nevertheless, bulk link building doesn't seem to have any impact on new sites. It's equal to zero and in some cases it even has negative effects.

As Mat Bennett already mentioned, the information provided by Alexa is way to impartial in order to provide any relevant information.

As for PageRank, in correlation with other metrics it's useful to find out if a website was penalized due to suspicious link schemes or link selling. For example, if a 2-3 year old website is linked through tons of good quality links, yet it has no PageRank, then there's most likely something rotten with it.

There are also a few programs that can automatically check a few things for you (headings, inbound links, metas etc). One such tool is seo-report.co.

If you ask me, the most successful fake products are books that sell the secret to happiness, money and success. Though you have to be careful and make a really weird product, or else some people might buy it.

First of all I'm curious why you want so badly to improve your Alexa rank. Alexa is deprecated, highly impartial. It calculates traffic through a toolbar only very few people have installed on their browsers. You can grow your Alexa rank (artificially) by finding masses of people who use the Alexa toolbar and ask them to access your site. Nevertheless, I don't know what good this will bring you.

Hello Vanessa,

I recently discovered a tool that might also answer your question. It's called KeySR (keywordsearchrankings.com) and it was launched a few months ago. Basically the tool crawls search engines from almost any location in the world and reveals Google search rankings as they are displayed to any user from that specific location.

Even though my answer comes a little late, I hope you'll find it useful.

Greetings,

I can only see two ways out of this dilemma:

1. You convince the site owner of the importance of having unique content and, based by the budget he offers you, you hire someone to rewrite product descriptions or just add some default paragraphs to each product. Starting a blog on the same domain and constantly updating it with fresh and unique articles might also be a good idea.

2. You try to get away from your client, before he'll get the chance to blame you for ranking droppings. People who don't understand the importance of unique content are usually the people who don't understand what proper, white hat SEO actually is. These are also the people who will probably blame you for future traffic changes and sales droppings.