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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.

Post penguin I am of course very wary about which sites I proactively solicit links from.

Here is the scenario. Let's say for example I found a blog relevant to my business sector, had good domain authority/moz rank and noticed that they accepted guest posts. Sounds great?

Well on the surface it sounds like it would be worth reaching out to the blog owner - but what if that blog had been involved in some really shady link building practices in the past and the reality is that I could end up damaging my own site by association.

Can anyone share any useful resources such as articles or tools that will help to understand how to qualify if a sites backlink profile is shady and should be avoided as a link prospect?

Great analogy useful advice:)  thanks.

Thanks for the input cleverPhd.. I set up 301 redirects for the old site pages around 2 months ago - let's say I left things as they are, may I ask what the downside is - I mean is Google still likely to give me full credit for all those old links?

If I did get the www back on presumably it's just a few clicks in Google webmaster tools?

Thanks again.

Hey there. Sorry for the simple question but I recently redesigned a site and published with WordPress,  in the process the domain structure changed from being www. to http:// .

My question is does this change affect the value we get from links pointing to the old www. domain structure?  The reason I ask is that the old site had a domain authority of 36 with OSE and a couple of hundred links but the new site address shows as having zero domain authority and zero links. Is there some best practise I should be following to retain link value?

Hi Stuart,

Yes, i just set up a re direct so at least people would get to the home page. Certainly it needs some links but have seen other new sites with no links at least appear for brand name with no problems...thanks for pitching in.

Recently had sites homepage listing taken off first page for brand name search even though search term is not competitive. Does anyone have any ideas?