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Hi there guys and Girls, I am a newbie to the seo world but learning quickly. Unhappy with seo services offered for startups I have taken on the role myself for my website.  I think so much of what can be learnt online here I can implement myself with a few hours of work each week. So my dilemma! I have lots of ideas of for content which i know will be valuable and I was considering outsourcing just for link building (the long haul work) The trouble is I am wary of who to use and if such service is out there? I have tried searching on o'desk and freelancer etc but I guess i am too frightened of spammy links or postings on irrelevant sites. I guess initially I am looking for someone who can help my link building campaign whilst I build up my own blogging contacts etc.  Does anyone know if these types of services exist? and if any are recommended for small companies? Thanks Michelle

Hey everyone, So i have a site which I had previous seo work on over the years, none of which was successful for me.  Now that I have taken over the seo work, I am analyzing my old links  I have a certain amount of links from what I would see are "crappy" seo sites and I wondered if I need to try and remove them.  Here are a few examples. http://seorankingsresult.com/what-to-consider-when-shopping-for-electricians-tools/ http://seoservicepackages.com/tag/electricians-tools/ How do I check if google has penalized me for these links and should I start removing them? ThanksMichelle

Hi everyone, I am starting my link building campaign after parting with many an SEO company.  I have been able to establish some links which I have used my targeted keywords as anchor text.  I have also linked these to the relevant product pages on my site.  I am now however, wondering if I should have link them just to my main domain name?  My site only has a rank of 21 so I just wondered if I should at the start be building keyword links to the main domain? I am also building branded links to the main domain as well as doing keyword linking too. Thanks Michelle

Hey guys, The site i am working on is not necessarily in a totally niche market, however when I analyze the links that the competitors have for our target keywords all that I see is pr releases, article submissions and predominately directory listings.  I am still learning SEO so bare with me, but I was going to start my campaign trying to guest blog and provide good content on well ranked sites.  I was hoping my competitors link building campaigns would give me an insight as to where to go? I am now wondering if I am taking the right route. A little re-assurance would go a long way 🙂

Hi there, I have a site www.nut-job.com and I am currently getting more traffic from the USA than uk.  Is there anyway of not getting listed in the USA and telling google that the site is a UK site?

Hi everyone, I have a site, which I have re-built on a temporary domain, so that my main ecommerce site can still run..  I have noticed that google has already crawled my temporary domain. The only problem is I now want to transfer the new site back onto its proper domain (www.ourbrand.com).  I have changed some of the URL structures of the new site so realize I will need to do re-directs relating to the same domain, but will google get confused that another domain used to have my new website on? I don't plan on using the old temporary domain again and wondered if I need to tell google in some way it was used just to build my site on? Michelle