Hello everybody!

Wow, what a great response. Thank you all for your feedback! Everyone had a lot of great ideas. Hopefully you'll share a few more once I give a clearer overview of my situation.

Just so you know, anything mentioned in this post is meant aggressively. Sometimes when I ask questions or make statements people think I'm disagreeing with them, so please don't take it that way. I'm just making sure I'm properly informed.

A few more details about bodyempire.com:

Problem 1: Authority Links
My site is four/five years old. I do have inbound links from other sites throughout the world, however they're not from authority sites (PR5+). Excluding direct competitors, very few authority sites exist in the tattoo, body jewelry industry.

JANNA12203 I thought my site would be penalized for having inbound links from unrelated sites (fashion sites, bikers sites, etc.)? I've been told that having links from sites that aren't directly related to my keywords, etc will hurt my rankings (SEMPO Certification). I could be misinformed, has anyone else been told that?

Problem 2: Getting Around the NoFollow Tag
In addition to requesting links from sites in related industries (bikers, etc) I also tried the social media (myspace, facebook) & blogging route (leaving comments on sites with the following keywords: body jewelry, tattoo supplies). That worked well until the infamous nofollow tag was introduced a few years ago. Has anyone figured out a way to receive back links from legitimate comments. I tried to plug a few in this post, however I doubt it will help since the links are from a web development site.

Thanks again!