I was looking for great blog posts about the things that were discussed in the recent SES and found a post at seoroundtable.

Here are some of the important points.

From Debra Mastaler:

avoid directories hosting excessive search engine ads (takes away from your listing). Check pages for no-follow and robots.txt. Steer clear of directories with a lot of site wides. Look for directories with RSS feeds.

She also talked about getting links from MySpace, YouTube, and Flickr. Each of these sites allow clean HTML links in the profiles.

Hmm...I'm seeing user profile spamming?

From Greg Boser:

He recommends to identify competitors in your industry first, select the top 5 and then reverse engineer their links trying to find out where they are getting their links.

Well, this is a standard in my SEO bag of tricks. Check out the inbound links using Yahoo (linkdomain:www.yourdomain.com) or some other inbound link seo tool. My idea is, if these people exchange links with my competitor, then they could probably do the same with my site.