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I'm afraid, there's no "good" software to "build" links.  Yes, some of them if used smartly may work and work quite well.  But all you're doing is bidding time until Google decides one day that they are going further devalue links that are low quality, non-editorial, and obviously manipulative.

So you have a choice. Either you adopt a strategy of EARNING LINKS rather than "BUILDING" them.  Or you use software and other tactics to artificially inflate your rankings for what will be likely short term gains.

I suggest looking at the graphic at the end of this post:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/white-hat-seo-it-fing-works-12421

And spend a few weeks going through these posts:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/category/4

You won't regret it.

Try using 'broken' link building.

There's several guides and posts here on Seomoz.  Just search.

Basically, you scan through the list of links, and you'll probably find a few broken or 404 pages.  Point those out and also recommend the addition of new resources, including your own.  It works extremely well, and you don't come across as the typical emailer that the webmaster probably encounters everyday.

Round off that strategy with a regular guest posts, link bait and other content marketing ...and you're solid.

Even with proper rel=canonicals in place, there's still an issue of having multiple urls and having links and social signals go to two different urls with the same content rather than just one url.

I'd pick a single URL for all content.  Mobile visitors should received optimized pages via responsive or adaptive design.   I do it via user-agent detection, and I serve optimized versions to either desktops, tablets or phones using the 'same url'.

5 years old, but still true.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-wisdom-folly-of-directory-link-building

Looks like he's already implemented many changes since this question was posted.  At the time, he was running just Supercache, now he's got W3TC, MaxCDN and he seems to have optimized some of the images.

Definitely agree with aiming for 1Mb or less per page, though.

He has a wordpress.com site.  How is he going to install plugins?

A 301 redirect is available as an upgrade.   $12 per year.

http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/

You'll need it if you want to ensure your site continues ranking after you switch to a new self hosted domain.

Before you do the 301, you need to do a Tools > Export on the old site and then Tools > Import on the new site and be sure to tick download attachments.

Good luck.

Pingdom says your page is 5.5mb big.  But it loads pretty quick for me.

You can do alot better.  Here's my recommendations.

1.  Optimize your images before uploading.  I would recommend the WP-Smushit plugin which does it on the fly, but lately the yahoo api hasn't been working.

2.  Switch the W3 Total Cache.  It does the same thing as Super cache, but there's some additional goodies.

3.  Using W3TC, you should enable minify and combine for all the css and js.   The plugin allows you to combine all your css and js in two files (from both your theme and other plugins).

4.  Consider using a CDN.  Again W3TC makes it easy.  I use amazon cloudfront, and it's amazingly cheap.  Essentially, you keep your current hosting, but actually serve all css, js, and images from the CDN.  It makes an enormous difference.

The current data is from around the middle of April.

They're rolling out another update today that should take us into May at least.

Well bing doesn't crawl and index as much as google ...maybe they're even blocking Bingbot.  It's not unheard of.

Some blackhats/greyhats make it a point to block Mozbot, Majestic and other crawlers from their private networks.   That prevents links from appearing in competitive reports.

So try using Bing's Link Explorer given that they usually allow Bingbot and Googlebot to crawl.

I created a similar structure for this site.  There's 4 info categories.  I enabled 'categories' for pages and assigned each "landing page" to one of those categories.  Under the hood those "landing pages" are actually a child of one of 4 parent pages, which never get shown because the categories take precedence over pages.

Then sub-pages are created which do not have categories but have a parent which is a landing page.  From there it's just a matter using wp_list_pages to ensure subpages are linked to each other and their parent landing page..

Wordpress is really flexible, you can also look into creating a custom post type that has both hierarchy and archive capability, which is basically what I did above.

You can setup all Landing Pages as "pages".

Then use WordPress Menus to set which ones are drop down by dragging and dropping them into indented positions.

I use Excel formulas, the SEOtools plugin for excel and the SEOmoz API.  There's  a guide on setting it up along with example template some where.

Works great for checking multiple domains.

Others might have a better suggestion.

I'm working on an infographic and I need a way to analyse the followers of about 25 to 50 industry twitter accounts to figure what type of people their followers are.

twittersheep.com used to do exactly this, look at the profile description area of twitter and produce a tag cloud of a given twitter account's followers based on terms from their profile fields.  But they are no longer online.

Anyone know of another service that does this ?  Or can think of another way to get this data.

I'm listed in those two.  They both have editorial staff. I think they are safe to use.  Also listed in Yahoo Directory, BOTW, business.com, goguides.  Have been trying to get listed in DMOZ, but my competitor is the editor

In addition to directories, look for general and niche reference sites/desks.

With a 301 all those links will follow over to the new site.

Start over on a new domain with the same content.

It's easier to get GOOD links updated to point to your new domain, than it is to get BAD ones removed.

Go to do your Webmaster Tools and do a "Fetch as Google" on the page.  Also check for any errors while you're there.

Is it possible that you had a noindex tag on the page at least temporarily in the past?

Ok.

1.  It's a little bit of both gut feeling and more evidence.  Sometimes you can look at a site and just know that it's not a place you want to be.  Just like you can look at a dark alley and know that's not where you should be at 1am in the night.

You gather the "evidence" by answering those questions I provided.

2.  I am sure (almost positive) that a single link from yahoo dir will be better than dozens from the types of directories you're describing.   There's a reason it costs $299.  If you truly do have a quality site, then you shouldn't be quite worried about inclusion.  They are strict, but not that strict.

My thoughts are you should avoid these types of directories (especially the ones that let you in only after you link to them).

Stick with the few general ones that are worth it: Yahoo, DMOZ, Business.com and maybe BOTW.

For the niche related ones you're looking at, have a set of criteria for them to meet in order for you to consider paying them for a link.  I go by:

• Does the directory rank for its homepage keywords and related keywords?
• What's the quality of sites already in the directory ?  Do they rank ?
• Does the directory list sites which you would expect to be listed?  For example, if the directory has a "Social Media Blogs" category, you would expect "Mashable" to be listed even though the owners of mashable may not have submitted their site to it.  In order words, Does the directory add sites on its own or do they just wait on submissions?
• If there is a fee, do they make it clear that the fee is for a review and that a listing is not guaranteed?
• What types of incoming links does the directory itself have?  If they are all spammy, you should avoid it.
• There's a few others, but i forget.

Blocking it in robots.txt will work to hide it from search engines.

If you want to hide it from users or people to who type in the url, you can simply drop a blank "index.html" in the /pdf folder.

Short answer is, no they do not.

Data might used anonymously for other purposes though.  In the case of Analytics, you can turn off data sharing in your account settings.

I'm pretty sure the Webspam team at Google would have some sort of access to these as well.  But nothing that would algorithmically affect your rankings.  Like for example, access to these two might be a small part of their toolset to determine ownership of sites that engage in spammy interlinking.  Or maybe they find an offender that is so heinous that they decide they want to de-index all his sites.

Google has better ways of determining of the traits/metics of a good site.   In addition very few sites use Analytics/WMT.

As I understand it, the link equity is still spent evenly to all 10 links even if 9 of them are nofollow.

The 1 dofollow will receive its share, while the 9 nofollow will be sent it, but they won't receive the credit.

No reason not to.  It's still a legitimate way of getting links to your site.  I'd only be careful of the anchor text you suggest in your embed.  You don't want to make it too obvious or  spammy.

Don't worry about it too much.  When you guest post on the popular sites (not article directories), they are often scrapped by dozens of other sites along with your URL.

I'd only be concerned if a large percentage of your backlink profile is made up of links like that.

From following all the talk, I'm pretty sure they are working on points 2, 3 & 4.

While all that is good, I personally feel they should concentrate on updating more often first, then move towards giving those extra features.  The two month stretch between updates has been a real pain in the ass.  But I'm sure they know that.

I would cut down the sitewide links, in particular the ones on other domains you own.  I see the edublogs "main site" has a image link to wpmu.org; too lazy to check the user blogs.  Other than that, I don't see anything that would get you hit by the penguin update.

You might have better luck if you posted in the Webmaster product forums at google.

They also just release this form for people who think they've been wrongly affected.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEVxdmdRWFJRTjRoLWZVTHZkaTBQbkE6MQ&ndplr=1

When something is +1'd, it usualy gets listed on the users public profile page - which is indexable.  Buying 50 1+'s in effect created 50 backlinks ..albeit from the same domain.

Why isn't a 301 possible?  If the host doesn't have ISAPI_Rewrite, then a custom 404 that contains a 301 will work.

There would be a big impact on rankings otherwise.

Those are mini-site links.

No one will be able to tell you when you'll get the big ones.  But from the looks of it, it'll very soon for you.  I'm seeing you at positions 1 - 4 for that keyword.  I would try to acquire more links and social mentions for each those four URLs.

Edit: Very nice site btw.  Sending to my nieces

Try Ahrefs.com as well.

Very nice site.  Congrats.

Only problem is noticed with the categories is that there are duplicate titles on the numbered pages.