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I am about to start adding some serious content to my site in hopes of providing more info to my visitors and to build organic traffic. I am looking for the best structure and places to put my inbound links.

My website is tradethink.com and we specialize in trading systems for the commodities markets. I am going to be adding content about the particular commodities markets we follow; gold, soybeans, crude oil, etc.

From my research I see it is best to place as many inbound links as possible to the content pages. On the other hand I see that it is important for the site to be user friendly and not have to much link clutter on the home page.

I have a few options. Lets use "gold trading" instance.

1. Have individual links on the home page and most other internal pages that link directly to tradethink.com/gold-trading.html (lots of link clutter, but best SEO?).

Problem is that I am doing this for like thirty pages and would have an additional thirty links on all of my pages. A possible work around is to place these individual links at the bottom of my pages.

2.  Have home page and other internal pages link to tradethink.com/trading/ (just 1 link to add to each page), with the individual link still going to tradethink.com/gold-trading.html.

Here I am adding a folder "/trading/" to place all of the links in, but when you click on the link inside the trading folder it goes to tradethink.com/gold-trading.html and bypasses the /trading/ folder to get better SEO, shorter url?

3.  Have home page and other internal pages link to /trading/, with the individual link going to /trading /gold-trading.html

This seems the proper way, but am I giving up link juice by going to trading/gold-trading.html vs #2 above going direct to /gold-trading

Any advise/questions appreciated.

You mentioned several good sources, I would check out SpyFu.com too.

I too was wondering the logistics of the update. Thanks for the info.

I too am wondering on the best link structure, hopefully some experienced folks can chime in. I have a lot of new content I am putting together for my site tradethink.com  (please review if you like). I am tossed between placing links to the new content pages directly from the home page or creating a sub folder. One of my competitors places direct links in the footer and has a low DA, but ranks #1 for many of the same terms. I don't want to mess up by placing a sub if it will hurt.

Bonus points, that's cute. Best way to get a point is to do this.

I too am wondering about the benefits of link building. I suppose it has to do with the quality of links and where the site is in the process. If it is a newer site, the perhaps a link building strategy can help. If it is a site that has already done extensive link building, then perhaps it could be detrimental. There seems to be a grey area here and it just depends.

I too am looking for someone to do link building. I have heard mention on these boards of Paul and Angela's back links and then did a Google search for a term that P&A ranked very high and came across a company called SEOlace. I went to their "SEOlace" site and checked out some testimonials and then the particular clients PA and DA numbers to see if they were decent. The sites that used SEOlace appeared to have good DA, at least so far as their testimonial sites. Any members that could provide feedback or sources would be appreciated.

I am sure many members especially the newer of us could use some guidance. I have learned a lot from SEOmoz and know I need to be blogging and doing social to really build up some links. I think a lot of us who recently started never got the chance to build up links pre Panda and are perhaps at a slight disadvantage if we can't accelerate our links in some fashion in addition to blogging and social as our competitors have thousands or tens of thousands of links ahead o f us.

I have been researching the use of Press releases as well. Seems that there is not a lot of juice to be gained for the expense. The advice by Keith seems good. I like the IG concept and am learning more and more about their potential, seems like a badge with much more distributional potential due to the embedded content.