A lot of people use nofollow to cut down on Spam and avoid linking out to bad neighbourhoods. While this is a good idea for big and trusted sites it's a terrible idea for average joe's forum or blog. The correct way to run a startup blog or forum is to allow comments and signatures but to...
Not necessarily, if you're in a sector where 15 competitors are I wouldn't really call it a niche anymore. Also it becomes a popularity contest which 5-7 get chosen.
They do that to throw people off so you don't enter this debate of how many keywords can I stuff my page title with. The best thing you can do is make your title RELEVANT to what the page is about. Make it something direct and useful and that people will want to click on. If you need an example...
Out of the ones that you have mentioned the best would be
Social Bookmarking for short term traffic.
But to answer your question better, you always need a combination of these not just any 1.
The whole point of BH is to get sites up faster and easier than WH by trying to find loopholes in the SE algos. Otherwise what would be the point of BH?
#1 is semi correct.
#2 is wrong. Where your host is makes no difference to google unless you're doing something blackhat related in which case having 50 sites hosted in china linking to each other mayh hurt you.
#3 I'm not sure what you mean. There are little differences between the way .co.uk...
A common problem is lack of accurate information as to what really works in SEO. Some people think they know what works when in reality they don't. There is a lot of information out there that is either erronous or given more weight than it should have.
Forums as the vast majority of blogs are either nofollow or don't allow you to use keywords in your comments.
Directory Submission (only to high PR valuable ones).
Social bookmarking (it's easy and only a few sites are valuable)
You missed
nofollow - links that have a rel="nofollow" tag that tell the search engines to ignore and thus not pass pagerank or any value to that link
dofollow - link that do not have a rel="nofollow" tag and thus pass full link value to the page they link to.
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