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Is right on the money. I've tried the easy disavow tool first to no avail. Wasn't until i showed some effort and did manual requests to get as many taken down by contacting pubs and then disavowed the rest, that I got back in.

Like Jedy said, links from relevant sites. Also continuing to add unique content to build your site up to be an authority site and add some social signals is a good start! Good luck!

Great idea regarding the DA in lieu of PR! Right there in front of me and haven't utilized that. Thanks!

Google wants you to fail at SEO so you will pay them for PPC.

LOL, that puppet. There have been recent tests showing a high correlation to ranking influence. He's also said, "not provided" wasn't going to go above 10% and that negative SEO isn't possible. Lying sack of shit.

True story. Imagine the havoc on companies that sell links though as they sell them by PR and OBL.

Normally PR Toolbar updates happen every 3-4 months. There are some rumblings that it is going away. Even though many of us know that PR is not the end all in getting rankings, we still often use it as a qualifying metric when going after backlinks. Thinking mozrank would become the new go to...

PR1 is not that hard to get. It also depends on the each site backlinking to the site in question. Could be 5 very low value site's with not much link juice to give or could be 4 no value sites and one somewhat decent site driving the PR1.

LOL, that's awesome. On the other hand..."keep your friends close and your enemies closer."

Use Bing and then rape Google with black hat tactics! :)

Not too familiar with magento cms but is seems like duplicate content is a common problem. Found somewhat recent read on it that will hopefully be helpful to you in trying to resolve this problem. searchenginejournal.com/5-duplicate-content-issues-for-magento/50640/ Let us know how you resolve...

If a page that is returning a 404 has little to no value (no backlinks to it), then in most cases I won't worry about a 404 header response. BUT if a page has some backlinks, I'll 301 it to a similar page. :) Hope this helps and good luck!

I don't think link building is going away anytime soon but Google is definitely placing more weight on other "signals" as well as looking out for unnatural linking patterns. That said, if you want to compete in some competitive niches you will need some quality backlinks in addition to having...

Thanks for taking the time to explain your thoughts and method. Good stuff. I have seen first hand that traffic isn't everything. I have a site that ranks very well for a highly searched term BUT it is not a good converting term. More of a discovery term. My mistake when I first optimized for it...

It depends on the keywords they are targeting and the competition level in that geo for those kws. At those price points, it is important to convey to the client the value of long tail keywords as that is most likely what you'll be able to get some wins on sans any budget for link building...