After reading this on the SEOMoz blog, I've decided to try some guest posting to gain some backlinks for our real estate site.  I have a few questions for those of you who do this regularly:

1. If the site you are posting on allows up to 3 links in the signature box, do you generally use them all?  My gut instinct is that one anchor texted link would give me the most bang for my buck.

3.  How much attention do you pay to PR or DA?  If a site is PR1 but relevant to your niche would you spend the time to write the article?

4. What negatives have you found when writing guest posts?

Thanks!

I will often post photos that I have taken to my Facebook page (either personal or my fan page).  Sometimes these can get lots of likes.

I got thinking that perhaps I host these photos on my site (i.e. www.example.com/images/photo1.jpg) and then share that "page" on Facebook.  That way any of the likes would be counted towards my site.

What do you guys think?

You've got a great attitude Bill!  A while back I asked some peers for feedback on my website and they gently told me a few areas where it just didn't look professional.  I ended up doing a site redesign and ended up tripling my traffic after a few months.  It pays to be humble!

No solutions here, but just a few thoughts.  When I visit this page my first thought is, "Oh this is one of those sales letter pages that just exists to make me buy an ebook.  I'm probably going to get trapped by javascript when I hit the back button."  Personally I think this style of page may have worked well a few years ago, but it's become abused by too many people.

With that being said, I think bounce rate is a metric that's hard to compare.  My top performing site has a bounce rate of 89%.  This is because people visit the page, get the info they want and then move on.  I've decreased it a bit by enticing users with tools they can use and similar pages they can visit.  But I don't think my bounce rate will ever be 50% or lower.

If I had your site I may consider trying some A/B testing with totally different kinds of designs and see what attracts and keeps the visitors best.

I don't believe there is a penalty.  However, It's widely believed that only the first link to each page will count as far as link juice goes.  So, if you have three links on the page that go to the same site make sure that the first one has the anchor text that you desire to rank for.

Almost every piece of text on my sites is within some kind of div.  There's nothing wrong with using divs at all!

However, if you were trying to hide the text within a div for manipulative purposes then this would be against Google TOS.