Hustlin Alright man, I'm lazy as sh*t so i'm just going to copy and paste my answers from PM i sent to some members, so it may be a bit erratic but your answers should be there, anything that's not clear let me know......
ok on to some answers!
1. For each new blog set up, and new articles (not posts), I create three new accounts on bookmarking demon4, then submit. Why this is okay is, is takes forrrrrrever for g*00gle to count those links, by that time you would have had a ton of juice comming from else where. While BMD is great it's not integral, it's more like a little gravy. It's great to use it for every article, and places your links are comming from to give them juice. Again as long as you don't run your homepage everytime. Home page 3 runs 3 accounts, every place you submit to to get a link (ie. ezine) bookmark run that three times and so on. People that get greedy and sit there doing run after run for one site days on end get f*cked. Doing it the way i've outlined i've had no problems, and am sure i'm not even a blip on big G's radar!
2.As far as article submitting, when i initially set up my blog i do five articles (seperate from posts and lenses and such) strictly to submit to article directories. I submit to the top 25 article sites first (do a search and you can easily find the list). Then I wait for one week and them throw my articles as is into article submitter. By the time the run is done i've usually been accepted by about 70 out of the 150 directories. I don't worry about duplicate content because i am not bum marketing. I'm simply getting backlinks so my site climbs the SERPS, but some traffic will def. come from the directories initially which is nice. Make sure to change achor texts for each article to long tails of your key word (the first article can have your main). Don't worry about if g*00gle will count them all, and this is not enough links to really alert them. Remember G is an ass when counting backlinks, so don't worry about when or how they will show up, just keep getting them. It could take months, but will pay off. After that i do an article every time i make a post. Depending how hard my competition is is how often i do it. sometimes once a month, sometimes once a week.
3.only 20 directories period, that plenty to dominate most niches eventually. Remember we're trying to dominate rare long tails first. g*00gle eventually uses it's semantic indexing and give you power for your main keyword.
4. now remember my post are veeeeery long, and i def. make sure my keyword desity is good. But because it's so long i can sprinkle alot of longtails in. The reason for this is purely based on research. Over time big G will pick up on other keywords on your site on it's own. I wrote a post on Competetion and how if no one is attacking a keyword g*0ggle is smart enough to find relevant sites based on the fact they "might" be related. so if i have a ton of longtails on my page chances are people haven't attacked them all and google will start ranking me for these terms. Once a month i check stats to see what long tails are bringing me traffic. Now i know exactly which keywords will bring me people and can attack them by making posts more related to them. FOr this i do use a stat tracking software, so you may want to do the same. This whole process eliminates guessing which keywords will work. See a little time doing proper research will go a long way, it will eliminate that hit or miss mentality.
SIR ALEX.....Hey man how's it going'.....i think most of your q's were answered in the above post, if not let me know.....also some of your q's are answered throughout this post.....i'm not, not, telling you to be a jackass.....just trying to promote researching. But if you can't find the answers let me know.....goodluck man!