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Old question now, but interesting none the less and currently marked as unanswered. As tomcraig86 says there is much more to it than relying on the KD score, but I tend to go by the rough guide of :

• Sub 30 - pretty easy.
• 30 - 35 fairly easy with good on page and some quality anchored links.
• 35 - 40 - starting to take a bit more effort, air tight on-site SEO required as well as good link profile.
• 40 - 50 domain authority counts much more, without it will take longer to rank although I have done this with minimal off-site efforts before.
• 50+ All about resources. Onsite SEO needs to be totally nailed, including internal linking/ topic modelling etc. a strong & diverse link profile with good social signals and ... time.

This is just from my experience of ranking for keywords in conjunction with output from this awesome tool. Been doing SEO for some time, but only using the keyword difficulty tool for about 12 months.

Hi Harry

have seen these guys advertised recently: http://infographicdesignteam.com/ The site gives you an idea of cost ($399 and up) and they have done some pretty awesome infographics recently that you may well recognize. Not used them yet, but thinking about it and looking for alternatives that I will post.

Cheers

Simon

Hi Yannis

I am sure there is (a few options discussed here: http://www.seomoz.org/q/what-are-the-best-seo-tools-out-there)  but my question would be why do reciprocal linking?

Generally it is a tactic that has no SEO value these days, with search engines recognizing both links, and essentially cancelling them out. If one party is a huge high authority site (CNN/BBC etc.) then the smaller receiving party will benefit, but in most cases where sites are of similar authority levels, there really isn't much point to reciprocal linking.

Regards

Simon

Hi folks

Hope someone may be able to help wit this conundrum:

A client site runs on old tech (IIS6) and has circa 300,000 pages indexed in Google. Most pages are dynamic with a horrible URL structure such as

http://www.domain.com/search/results.aspx?ida=19191&idb=56&idc=2888

and I have been trying to implement rewrites + redirects to get clean URLs and remove some of the duplication that exists, using the IIRF Isapi filter: http://iirf.codeplex.com/

I manage to get a large sample of URLS re-writing and redirecting (on a staging version of the site), but the site then slows to  crawl. To imple,ent all URLs woudl be 10x the volume of config. I am starting to wonder if there is a better way:

1. Upgrade to Win 2008 / IIS 7 and use the better URL rewrite functionality included?
2. Rebuild the site entirely (preferably on PHP with a decent URL structure)
3. Accept that the URLS can't be made friendly on a site this size and focus on other aspects
4. Persevere with the IIRF filter config, and hope that the config loads into memory and the site runs at a reasonable speed when live

None of the options are great as they either involve lots of work/cost of they involve keeping a site which performs well but could do so much better, with poor URLs.

Any thoughts from the great minds in the SEOmoz community appreciated!

Cheers

Simon