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The 20 Links A Day link building service has now been launched. Offering subscribers 600 one-way quality links per month, this is set to become the world’s most powerful organic linking network, with capacities constantly being expanded. Worked via a clean, intuitive central interface with automatic distribution, this one finally takes the headache out of link building!

Finally, finally, our 20 Links A Day link building service is - almost - out of beta and scheduled to launch this week. It’ll allow you to post articles across a vast network of publication platforms at a rate of 20 per day, giving you a total of 600 quality inbound links per month.

Here are two cool Windows client based applications that will sit in your tray and alert you whenever your Digg or Propeller stories get voted or commented upon.

Social networking sites are a dime a dozen these days. This one, however, seems to have adopted a slightly more intelligent approach and, contrary to Digg, Reddit, and others SEO isn’t a shunned taboo word. Whether it will actually succeed, remains to be seen but for the serious SEO it certainly seems worth a try.

Here’s a free service that alerts you when your web sites are about to go popular on Digg and del.icio.us so you can prepare for the onslaught of traffic, gauge your social networks link building campaigns, and more.

As search engines have come to rely more and more on inlinks rather than on-site factors, they’ve become a lot smarter in determining artificial linking patterns, too. Meaning that you can’t reasonably expect any success in competitive niches if you’re still relying on your 1990s linking techniques

Wiep Knol has released the results of his survey on link value factors as seen by a slew of well known professional SEOs such as Eric Ward, Aaron Wall, Jim Boykin, Barry Schwartz, Peter da Vanzo and Joost de Valk, not to forget the ever helpful Michael Martinez as well as relatively new but highly competent and well-regarded names such as Hamlet Batista and lots of others. What’s interesting about the results isn’t merely the overall metrics - it’s the individual comments on various questions such as the perceived linkjuice power of .edu and .gov domains, the value of anchor texts, linking sites’ topicality, authority status, and more

Isn’t it funny how prophecies have a knack of coming true sometimes? One month ago we did a cartoon taking a shot at Google’s hypocritical FUD tactics regarding paid links by fantasizing about what a pair of hardnosed mobsters would do to take advantage of this positively silly state of affairs. Now, it seems that a high profile company like Shopzilla has actually started to pay for link removal!

If you’ve fallen for the prevailing view that a social networking setup like Twitter is of no practical use unless you’re an exhibitionist attention whore, perhaps, think again. There’s actually a lot more to it, provided you’re prepared to venture on untrodden ground.

Here’s a “Link Building 101 in 2 Minutes” video that will save you tons of time and money.

Quite a few blogs haven’t yet implemented the dreaded “nofollow” tag on comment links. While comments on these blogs will pass link juice nicely, there’s a snag: How are you going to find them? This ultra cheap software cuts it down to a single-click action

Seeing that these networks have evolved into major traffic and link juice pumps, more often than not surpassing the traditional search engines by a long shot, they’re a mainstay of SEO 2007+ now. Here’s an interview on how to game these networks effectively.

Search industry watchdogs have noticed an ongoing radical slashing of many (former) darlings’ PR values. It’s happening across the board and has hit a slew of previously high PR rated sites. Is this a consequence of Google’s clamping down on link sellers? Not everyone seems to think so.

Unabashed by the ongoing, FUD dominated discussion concerning paid links as fueled by the Google self-declared Noevilers, this crowd has blithely launched a new link building service with a twist: Rather than pay through the nose on a monthly basis, as is customary, you’re only set back by one-time fees for any PR1-PR5 link.

What with the ongoing FUD tactics pursued by Google & Co. trashing paid links and junking up the industry forums and blogs with all the buzz this creates, out comes - entirely expectably - a super duper tool claiming to have mastered the technology to detect said paid links. So can they? Well, if so, here’s some very revealing stuff - and remember you read it here first!