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I see multiple potential problems here.

1. This could be seen as a paid link.
2. Search engines are not fond of duplicate content, so are likely to show a result from just one of the sites.
3. The effort to make the content original enough for these different sites may be more trouble than it is worth. Quality sites likely will not be interested in posting content that is spun just enough for it to pass a Copyscape test.

There is no set number for ranking. You can have 100,000 backlinks, but if they're from sites like how to sell your house or for model airplanes, they won't help at all.

You want links from relevant sites, and you'll want to get the other sites a reason to link to you, usually in the form of good content on your site.

You can search on Quora or Reddit to see the types of questions people are asking, which will give you ideas for keywords and content.

Once you do write more content, do a review for accuracy. I took a quick look at the page for toasters made in the USA. The first toaster I looked at had a broken link. I found the correct link for that toaster and a second unit, and the Amazon description for both of them indicated they were not made in the USA.

Be sure you're not actively building links to your site from free-for-all directories, classified sites, or user profiles. If you've built them and have control over them, it's best to remove many of them.

Linking to a post about flat feet from an SEO forum (and using a nofollow attribute) is not the best way to build trust in the search engines.

You realize this site has nofollow links, right?

What about comment spam on seven-year-old posts? The links are all nofollow, FYI.

I see there's a link from the Help Hub. If you go there, there's a link to Contact Help.

And spamming lives on.

Like any links, will they be relevant?

http://faculty.cbpp.uaa.alaska.edu/afef/Principles_frm.htm

https://openjournals.wsu.edu/index.php/landescapesarchived/comment/view/912/70452

These are both EDU sites, but you couldn't pay me to have my link there.

Alhallinan, in all fairness, you said in your comment "Coming up with kick-ass content isn't the issue. We're really good at that. Its getting people to LINK to the kick ass content that is the problem. " and "But we can't get people to link to it for the life of us. We know its funny, great content, but no links in 12 months. What the heck?"

I believe EGOL was trying to address a couple of your comments in his response.

In looking at that link that you shared, my first thought was "this was written for keywords, not for the user". Specifically, "Hire SEO Expert Tip" doesn't read very naturally. Second, you'll likely have a hard time having other people in the industry link to a post that has four "tampa SEO" links for your five tips. It's obviously optimized for your terms and that talks about your company specifically. It's just not a stand-alone resource that other people would link to.

Hi! Moz can't access your Google Webmaster Tools or disavow file, so you won't see a change in DA by disavowing those links. Google will know about the change, but we won't. There's another thread asking for this feature, and we're discussing internally if anything around this is feasible, but any implementation would be a ways out right now.

If I search site:loseweight.com on Google, your site is indexed.

However, your site looks to be a duplicate of diet.com. The search engines generally frown upon duplicate content. If diet.com has been up for a long time and this copy of the site just went up, the search engines will view diet.com as the authoritative source for that content and not view loseweight.com as the authority.

Can you give us a little more background about the site and the duplication with diet.com?

There are a few of us that throw off the curve, in that we are former Moz employees so we've spent considerable time on the site, and had that "staff" banner, which made people more likely to mark what we said as Good Answer. It also made us less likely to get an answer Endorsed. Current staff and associates are not included on the leaderboard, so when someone active leaves Moz, suddenly there's a new person appearing high up. I started as an Associate with 35 Moz points, and left with about 9000. I'm sure I surprised a couple of people that paid attention to the top ten.

I don't have any insider knowledge of why SEOmoz chose Wistia, but there is some information in this post about the Top 10 Web Apps We Love. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/top-10-web-apps-we-love

Wistia is video hosting on steroids. Not only does this video hosting platform support HTML5, which makes your videos viewable on a slew of non-Flash enabled devices, but the platform is inherently designed for SEO.  Try searching Google for "Top 10 Web Apps We Love" and you'll likely see the above Wistia-hosted video that's included with this blog post. Their tracking and analytics are also the best we've seen in video hosting.  See a sample report here.

Total External Links are all of the links to the site.

External Followed Links are just those links to the site that are followed (they do not have a "nofollow" tag added to the link).

Hi Brian,

BuildMyRank has been discussed on the SEOmoz Q&A before, and usually not in the most positive manner, mainly because of the way people lean here, but some have had success. I personally have reservations about using this type of service. Here's a few links to other Q&A threads that can show you the discussion that's already taken place to help you out a little. a search on google for [site:seomoz.org buildmyrank] will show several threads.

http://www.seomoz.org/q/build-my-rank

http://www.seomoz.org/q/good-link-networks

In looking at the FAQ for BMR, I see that they randomly put your article on a site and you can have one link per 150 words, with the minimum article being 150 words. I envision sites with a bunch of very short (or very link-stuffed) posts on all kinds of subjects. That's not the type of backlink strategy I would want for my own site, I know that much.

It's easy to create .edu and .gov links to your website. Lots of places will do it for you for cheap. They'll find a guestbook that a professor set up ten years ago and forgot about, and leave a comment with a link. Along with 1,200 other comments with links that are spamming. It's real obvious to the search engines that this type of link is not credible and it's not going to help you in the long run.

What resource do you have that is of value to someone with an .edu and .gov website? Figure out what you have to offer that they would want, then contact them.

They're called mini-sitelinks, and Google decides when to display them. Here's a post from when they first debuted: http://readwrite.com/2009/04/16/google_gets_sitelink_one-liners

Thanks for pointing this out. It appears that a YouMoz post was made a year ago by someone working for Fat Joe, and is referenced at http://fatjoe.co/blogger-outreach/#buzz. To the best of my knowledge, they have no special arrangement with of us any type, and I will have our legal department reach out regarding the use of the logo on the front page.