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I will leave the others with more experience of infographics to provide feedback on your questions but the stat that interests me is the closing ratio difference between yellow pages and the internet - you had a much higher sales conversion rate using yellow pages - I wonder why?

Edit: p.s I do like the infographic concept!

Great recommendation...I have also found that one to be useful.

Thanks guys...I will take all I can get so if anyone else has any please let me know.

Could I please get some input on a list of the best SEO forums out there besides SEOmoz? (Both mainstream and non mainstream)

I noticed that the list in the link is dated 2007 - but post Penguin how many of these article sites are suitable?

Here is an article published on SEW today '10 Old SEO Methods You Shoud Stop' which references SEO article marketing http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2197044/10-Old-SEO-Methods-You-Need-to-Stop

Well thanks guys - that sounds like a resounding 'no it's not going to hurt the site'.

Thanks for your input Ryan. My concern is just the sheer volume of no follow links they have created, out of 800 links the ahrefs tool is showing 95% of them being no follow. To simple old me thats a big red flag but like you said there is a consensus that no follow dont pass juice so really not sure if we could be penalized going forward.

Thanks to sites like SEOmoz and good folks like yourselves I was able to understand enough about SEO to know that the company we outsourced the SEO to were doing at best a sloppy job.

I have seen that the link profile of site is totally unnatural in terms of factors such as relevancy and anchor text but also that around 95% of the 800 links are no follow.

My question is whether these low quality no follow links causing unnatural anchor text ratios and poor link relevancy would hurt our rankings? I am basically wondering if I have to now go and try to have all those links removed somehow to avoid any problems going forward?

No interest in spam and think $30k a month for link building is a little excessive for most SMB's.

Perhaps there are others with experience of more moderately priced white hat link building services.  For example - anyone had any experience of Page One Power?  they pop up fairly frequently on the SES speakers circuit and have 40 hour link building packages from $2500 per month - any feedback on these guys or anyone else would be good to hear.

It would be useful to get some feedback from those paying for SME/SMB website link building services re how much is a fair amount to pay and what you are getting for this.

Well thanks guys - that sounds like a resounding 'no it's not going to hurt the site'.