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  • bigrat95


    Hi, I got a website that have a lot of information on job posting. The domain name will be new but i just want to redirect all of the old single job pages (around 300 pages). To the new domain pages but keep the old domain because it's already been indexed by google. The design will change but the content will kinda be the same. Is this a good approach? Does google will see this has a 301 permanent redirect and will penalized my website? Thanks alot

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  • bigrat95


    Hi, I would like to know what are the things to check when Disavow backlinks? Should we disavow all the low PR and DA backlinks ex: disavow all the backlinks under 4PR? Thanks alot !

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  • bigrat95


    Hi, Is there a way to create a High quality "backlink directory" without beeing penalized by google? I want to class alot  of backlink byt type on a website to help people with their backlinks creations strategy. thanks alot Olivier

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  • snetface


    So I have a couple 3 year old projects I left intact for the last 2 years. Lately I tried to revigorate them. I started to build links to pages that used to be in Google top ten, but the more links I build, the more I lose out on traffic. The main keywords stay around the same position, I suppose the loss in appearances and traffic that can be seen in webmaster tools is mainly due to long tails I do not check the rankings for. I want to ask you guys if anybody have experienced similar data? I suppose it might be due to the exact anchor tags that I have used 3 years ago, so I already started removing those to see if it has a positive effect. I wanted to ask you, maybe somebody has experienced the same and already knows the reason and a solution for this phenomenon?

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  • MountainMedia


    Hey fellow Mozzers,
    I was performing a link audit for a client and came across a link linking to a deep page for our client with the link being anchored to a targeted keyword. It's a freelance article that is well written and deals with our client's industry but indirectly. The page has no PR but decent PA and DA. My question is, is there the possibility that Penguin would consider it spammy? The link is located in the author tagline at the bottom of the article. Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks!

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  • wseabrook


    Hello all. I've been having intense conversations with an experienced SEO, who has told me that the only way to get consistent links to your website, and to build you business through the web is through blogger outreach, and then paying the bloggers to put your appropriate content on their high Page Ranking website. To me, this may well be right. But it sounds dull as anything. Any thoughts? William

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  • Sandra_h


    Hey all, I’ve been following Moz Q&A for quite a few years. As we now are fighting with some huge problems, I think it is time to write my first post. Our French website http://bit.ly/1l0efCC has been struggling with the Google’s Pinguin and Panda algos for years now. At last we were hit by Panda on May this year. Over the last weeks we made several changes, both onpage and offpage. Unfortunately none of this has shown any impact yet. I therefor would be very grateful for any help you can provide. A recommendation for a good agency with much experience in SEO on the French market would also be very helpful. Our onpage problems and what we did so far: Overoptimization: During our analysis we realized that our site is strongly overoptimized. We therefor: Altered the titles and descriptions of all seo pages to make them more unique and less stuffed with keywords Changed the urls of our landing pages Changed our internal anchor texts Content quality: Some of our landing pages contain only little unique content and the text quality is low. To improve our content quality, we Made new, fresh, longer and much better texts for a few hundred pages We set up additional landing pages for relevant keywords with unique content We moved our blog from a subdomain to a folder Irrelevant content: Our system creates many pages with irrelevant content. To reduce the irrelevant pages indexed by Google, we aggregated our customer feedback pages and set up canonicals on thousands of pages for single customer feedbacks that refer to the aggregated pages. What we did offpage: We invested weeks to analyze each and every backlink to our site and in the end we had to remove a huge amount of these links. All this doesn’t seem to be enough though. There are some other things we are working on right now, but we are running out of ideas: We want to gather all pages (that can be indexed) and compare them to the pages that have had organic traffic in the past 3 month at all, to identify more useless pages. We then will remove, deindex or revise them. We are still doing content improvements on our existing pages The structure of our rendered site is different to the source text structure. We placed the most seo relevant parts of the page on top in the source code and then moved them around on the rendered page via css. Do you think this might give a spam signal to Google? We try to improve our design. But as we need to do a bunch of A/B tests before we can relaunch our site, this will take some time. We will change our internal link structure to have less links on every page and have a stronger thematically connection between them. I’m looking forward for your tips and ideas! Regards, Sandra

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  • Brover


    Hi guys, Can anybody tell me if adding a backlink in Google plus comments achieve anything?

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  • vahidafsharicom


    Hello I'm newbie on SEO and I don't know which type of backlink give me moztrust. root domain or sub page? high pagerank? high domain authority or high page authority? high domain mozrank or high page mozrank? I need your lovely answer . thanks

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  • netbuilder


    On Sep 3, we got a Manual Action by Google: unnatural links to your site Immediately we arranged to have all those links the rel="nofollow" atttributes, these were links set by our customers since we are hosting providers. We sent a reconsideration request to Google on Sep 8 and this is their answer: 
    We’ve reviewed the reconsideration requestfor xxxx and modified its status, but we still believe that content on your site or links to your site are outside our quality guidelines. No more info provided. - We double checked everything but could not find anything else that could harm us so we asked Google (in a new reconsideration request sent on Sep 11 to provide us some samples. On Sep 24 Google answers with a sample of 3 sites which contains links to us. After verification, all the external links to us have the rel="nofollow" attribute !! Today the manual action is not anymore a side-wide one but a partial one and applies to unnatural links--impact links. So it seems that we need to physically have those links removed? As well I checked https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2604772?ctx=MAC  and he does not refer at all about setting the rel="nofollow" attribute, Looks like Google wants the full monopoly on text links.

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  • Alukah.Network


    how can i know domains harming my ranking I ’ve seen a drop in rankings, Domain Authority , so I need to know sites who is linking to my domains that cause this decline.. i can use Open Site Explorer but i need to know the site that harm my ranking .. thanks

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  • danieldunn10


    Hi, we are trying to build on the number of good quality links. One idea we had is to provide testimonials for a number of suppliers websites. Which would include a link from our company name back to our site. Is there a certain level of domain authority we should only do this for? For example if a supplier only has a domain authority of 11 should we not get a back link? Many Thanks

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  • sparrowdog


    I am setting up an affiliate program using software built in to my shop already (x-cart). The links generated by the software do not have the rel="nofollow" in them. I'm assuming they should have? When looking at Amazon, there must be millions of links out there pointing back to Amazon and all those links are followed back to them for link juice. Am I missing something? Surely best practice here is to re="nofollow" so you're not seen to be manipulating Google PageRank?

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  • DemiGR


    Hey all, I am a bit stumped here so looking for some insight.  Our site was starting to rank well for many keywords, and we were getting roughly 25k visitors organically per month.  Now we are down 30% over the last thirty days, and I am trying to figure out why. This downtrend started I would say about mid August. 1. No messages in webmaster tools.
    2. Our linking building is very good, no spammy links, never black hat.  We did have someone attempt negative SEO on us back in July.  We disavowed those links as soon as we saw them. Basically all our links come from link baiting to quality content.  Many .edu links
    3. Content is good and fresh, always adding new stuff to the site. When I look in webmaster tools and look at my search queries for last thirty days, our impressions are down dramatically, but the change in average position is increasing.   Our top 25 keywords we saw 15 rise in average position, 5 fall, and 5 unchanged.  This makes me think there is just a reduction in the amount of people searching for what we offer, though maybe that's wishful thinking? Is there a way to see search volume this month vs last month? What should I be looking at here? Hoping to stop this downward trend ASAP.

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  • chris1980


    I have 683 total links in Webmaster, Moz showing 16?

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  • Ham1979


    Can anyone recommend a service to build quality links to our site and work with us on a content strategy, preferably UK based? We have recently recovered from a link penalty and whilst this has been removed we now need to re-build a quality bank link profile. I've looked into the Moz recommendations but not many seem to be based in the UK or if that doesn't matter then I'd be interested to know people's experience. Basically, since the penalty we've become very nervous about link building even though we didn't necessarily create the problem! As a small team we've looked to outsource this and have looked at VA's but not confident the links they will achieve will be of good quality

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  • mtwelves


    I'm in the process of setting up a new site for a client, moving them over to WordPress from Joomla. They've got 50ish blog posts on their old site, but none of them have accumulated any external links. Is it worth it to copy them over to the new site for the sake of retaining all that content, or better just to start from scratch?

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  • tiffany1103


    I have been working with my site for some time.  Sadly, I am moving lower and lower in ranking.  I am wondering if I should just transfer my site to a new URL (this time including keywords).  I don't understand the whole disavow link thing.  I hired someone about 2 years ago, when I lost my ranking due to malicious software.  Well, it turns out that, she submitted my link to weird sites that I don't even know what they are.  It is like sites with thousands of websites just listed.  Things have never been half of what they were and I am really just growing frustrated. I understand that having an a URL for awhile is helpful, but I appear to have lost many of my good linking sites. Any thoughts?

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  • Wayne76


    Friends, am ready to launch an infographic campaign for a client and received an email from a resource I consider very reliable that said, "don't include an embed code on the webpage that is hosting the graphic. That's being seen as bad practice by Google these days." I responded with, "Say what?" Can anyone confirm or deny that affixing embed code to an "infographic page" is indeed vile? Thanks!

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  • mgane


    Quick background: My parents run a travel company and have seen their google ranks drop dramatically in the last few years (usual story: they employed an SEO agency, saw good results to begin with, and then a massive decline in their rankings post-Penguin). Over the last few months I've been working to remove as many of the spam links pointing to their site as I can. However, as I've been doing so, our keyword rankings have been declining even further, not improving. This time last year we were bottom of page 1 for one keyword, then we suddenly dropped to page 5 around Nov with the Penguin update, and now, since I started cleaning up our backlinks, we're no longer in the first 20 pages - we've vanished. Similar situation for other keywords (though not as dramatic) I've been pretty careful to only delete links that are clearly spam (article directories, forum signatures, spam comments on blogs with a keyword-rich username linking to our domain etc). It may be that some of these links were still helping us, but I'd be surprised - they were pretty obvious cases of spam. My question: Is it normal to see this sort of decline at the start of a clean-up campaign? Does google see a sudden decline in the number of links, spam or otherwise, as suspicious? I've devoted weeks already to trying to work on the problems affecting my parent's website, and the situation just seems to be getting worse and worse! Do websites ever recover from a severe Penguin hit?

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  • EdBen


    Hi I have been trying to get a article to rank on the term: "help your child do well in school" in the Google UK. Now I was doing okay the article went from 43rd to 17th. Until I got mentioned in the huffington post. Then my result disappeared from the listings and the huffington appeared in 35th position. The article I'm trying to rank is: http://www.schoolguide.co.uk/blog/10-proven-ways-to-help-your-child-do-well-at-school The Huffington posts is: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/emilyjane-clark/five-things-that-will-not_b_5693827.html It's really annoying because this is the type of link building I thought Google really wants. Does anyone know why this would happen and any suggestions of how to proceed?

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  • Sequelmed


    Sometime back my site was penalized due to unnatural artificial and deceptive links. Then we got removed the penalty  by uploading file in Disavow Tool. Bad links are decreasing gradually now . What i am concerned to ask is that: 1: For how long i should wait till Google removes all the requested bad links 2:Second, i believe there are still many bad links that I dont want to keep. How to remove them now onward? Should we send Google a reconsideration request for removing the remaining bad links (site has been recovered already and no more under penalty banner) Tanveer

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  • Sequelmed


    1- Are there steps to find quality natural links related to my industry? Or say 2- What processes i need to follow to reach out to quality and natural links? Tanveer

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  • Healeyman


    I am in a middle of a blogger outreach project  and had  many blogs respond  that are   wordpress and blogger  etc  hosted ( sub-domain )  type blogs  like http://xxxxxx.blogspot.com/ Is  there any value in my website getting a link on these blogs and  how do evaluate there value to me  in SEO metrics. Cheers Paul;

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  • HireSpace


    Hi guys - I am struggling to understand why I have a Page Authority of 1 (!) for most of my key product landing pages. All of them are linked to directly from the Homepage, which has PA 46 and DA 40. Many of them are also linked to from high ranking external sites. Less valuable pages on the site, with far fewer links, seem to have much higher PA. For some reason these just don't seem to be registering the link juice which is flowing to them. In fact, OSE doesn't seem to register any links for them - perhaps this is the biggest clue? I am at a bit of a loss. Some of these pages still rank highly for relevant keywords on Google. But something clearly isn't quite right. Has anyone experienced similar?

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  • AutoEurope


    Hello I know that , in theory, a No Follow link should not be dangerous in any cause. My question is: Can a No Follow Press Release harm you? I watched the Matt Cutts Video about and was pretty clear that the answer is NO. I also read (Google Source) that all press releases should be no follow and with no rich anchor text. We agree till here, right? But what if the press release if part of a link network, bad quality or simply you have many many press releases from one of these PR networks? In this situation, the no follow link is still "safe" or do you think there is some danger? Im doing some "cleaning" and I would like to know your opinion about. Many Thanks for your help

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  • chrissmithps


    Without sounding like an idiot, what are the best ways in adding good quality back links. There are websites out there such as Click Submit but from experience they just link from weird URL's and the links are in comments. In an ideal world starting up my own Blogs and building up a good domain authority would work best but the customer would like some back links adding by next week. Using local directories wouldn't really work for their business so if anyone has any idea's I would love to hear them.

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  • MarkAse


    Hope everyone is having a nice Labor Day! We're a family owned wine club startup and have been handling SEO in house since things didn't go well with a previous SEO company (and sure we've done plenty of bad stuff along the way as well). In any case, we're writing a blog, including video entries etc.  I've been handling basic email outreach about posts (ie if I write a winery profile, asking the winery to link to it) but don't really have time to handle more significant outreach than that. Can anyone make some suggestions about where to hire someone for an outreach job like this? It would undoubtedly be part time and Elance didn't give us anyone we were comfortable with. Thanks in advance!

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  • Firestarter-SEO


    After combing over several competitor sites I have found many if not the majority of their links are from directories. I am curious to know if individuals/companies/seos etc. still use directories, if so what are some of the favorites?

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  • PAC3135


    Some brand partners are using their short links to link back to our site (like bit.ly but they have their own). They have a high domain authority and trust so we want that link back to be read by Google. When I downloaded all inbound links from Moz, this brand's site was not listed, making me worried that the inbound link isn't being seen or considered! Haven't been able to find any info on this...

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  • recreoviral


    Good day I've tried to contact most the recommended seo companies MOZ has but loads of them are mostly for MID-LARGE business and are out of my budget I have a monthly budget of 750-1,500 USD The niche is related not competitive and should be easy to rank, stoped doing seo 11 months ago and still rank 4-8th for the keywords im interested in anybody knows any good company for my budget? thanks a lot

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  • RBenedict


    I created a manual for a popular piece of equipment and placed it, as a PDF-file, on my website. The PDF contains a clickable link to the root domain of my website. Other websites have downloaded the PDF and put it on their own website, hosting it themselves. Since Google indexes PDFs, does the link in the PDF count as a regular 'link' from an external website, and does it have comparable value? Can't find any thoughts or studies about this anywhere.

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  • Tusk2Tail


    The content of the old blog belongs to the company, hence no issues of copied content. The options I have are: 1. Use old content as is 2.  Re-use old content in more interesting format i.e use info-graphics and the likes 3. Do not use any of the old content. Create new content

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  • danieldunn10


    Hi, we are trying to improve on the number of links to our website. A supplier has added a PDF file which is case study to their website. In the PDF it has a link to our website, will this count as a link or not? Thanks

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  • ktrout


    Hello, My company offers an annual college scholarship to Women in Business.   I have numerous colleges that have agreed to post our scholarship on their college websites.   I want to make sure I get the full value of the .edu backlink and need some advice. I have a brand new scholarship page with no authority and that's basically orphaned from the rest of the website.  This page details the application process for the scholarship.   If I were to link out to my home page, and say 3-4 other top landing pages, would this be the best way to flow some of that link juice into my site?  Or is there a better way to do this? Another thought I had was this....  I could take one of my top landing pages, www.example.com/example, and place the scholarship information on that page at the bottom, and have the school link to this: www.example.com/example#scholarship (so the scholarship info appears on top when applicants click it)--  My question here is this... becase the second URL includes an anchor, does google treat that as a different page?   Or would the pagerank flow to www.example.com/example ? Recovering from unnatural link warnings and algorthmic penalties and trying to get the best benefit out of the new, quality links I'm building.  Any advise would be appreciated! THANKS!

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  • bchilders22


    We posted a streaming video cam we own of a popular surf break in Capitola (foxxr.com/cam) and it's getting picked up by web cam directories. We have quite a bit of traffic from these cam directories, so we posted a site audit tool in on that page to generate some leads. Our website is about internet marketing. Our concern is about irrelevant link sources appearing spammy to Google. Would a web cam link do more harm than good in this case?

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  • StewMcG


    Hello all, So a sister site has contacted me about their drop in traffic, around January they created a page, (and I kid you not), with a title of "Banner Link Exchange", it took me about ten minutes to stop laughing. Around the 16th of July their traffic dropped like a stone (see image). Obviously I've had them remove the page and we've contacted the sites that they swapped links with, there are 20+). I'm going to give them a week then I'm going to disavow the links. Interestingly the brand keywords are all still at position one, but it's decimated any product and broad search links. I've had them create a blog and they're going to contact the sites they were linking with and write some proper articles. We'll clean up their backlink profile and any site issues they have. It's an ecommerce site so the projected take is down around 40% My question is are there any indications after fixing as much as possible that the traffic will return, and in what period of time? (i'm seeing conflicting ideas about this) We can't change the site domain as there's a physical store as well... the domain was first used in 1996... Cheers Stew Yz8xiS5.png

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  • Zippy-Bungle


    I've been looking at A to Z of materials trying to determine how much time it is worth spending on building a company profile and adding additional information http://www.azom.com/suppliers.aspx?SupplierID=2343 DA is 50+ and PA for a new listing seems to be 17 of so. My site currently has a DA of about 20. Once of my competitors seems to have put a lot of time into it Other than a profile you can also write articles and post news. It's worth pointing out that as a whole the sector has no useful blogs and most linkbuilding is done via directory listings. And Most companies have back links from less than 20 other root domains. Thoughts would be gratefully received

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  • renukishor


    I create backlinks at everyfay but backlinks not indexed. So, i want to know how to indexed my backlinks?? If you have any free indexed tool then please suggest me as soon as possible.

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  • astronaute


    Some blackhat websites, PBNs and other "cheaters" are using various methods to effectively block third party backlink checker bots (OSE, Ahrefs, Majestic...) : robot.txt, IP and such. A simple solution for those bots would be to mimic Google by using its user agent string for example.
    Or if not legally permitted (which I doubt) use some kind of randomness in user agent strings, urls, and IPs in order to prevent blocking. This should not be a big deal IMHO, am I missing something obvious ?

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  • netviper


    Does anyone have any experience with some link building companies on the Moz recommended list?  There are a lot of them on there so I would like to hear from you if you have used them and what type of results you got. Thanks

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  • rk1980


    Hello, I have a news portal and l am working with 3 editors, they are writing 3-5 daily unique news articles. I would like to know if whats the best link building strategy for news sites that l need to keep getting links from? What sort of sites l should find links for best link building? Please inform me. thanks.

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  • tiffany1103


    My site ranked in the top 3 for my keyword for many years until someone hacked into my blog in December 2012, which is a subdomain.  Google saw I had malicious malware on my domain and removed my site from being indexed (I think that is the word).  Basically, I was no longer in the search engines. My domain and products have been featured on blogs and other places for many years (2 celebrity sites for gift guides), but not many are coming up (actual links  with anchor text, not spammy links).  I even have one on a friend's site and one in a directory.  When I went to Google and put link:www.site.com  , I got 1 link.  I have seen a few, so I know they exist. Now, I am on page 3 and have not moved from this place since getting it back up in December 2012.  For all of 2013, I thought I would have to wait it out, but now, I fear that waiting it out hurt me. Is there anyway to get Google to look further back and retrieve old links? Should I submit the high ranking ones? I am just wondering if I lost all my hard work in the past.  Please advise.

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  • gavinr


    We have been generating decent online press coverage with links to our site thanks to our PR agency and I have been asked to link to the online coverage from our website in a 'press coverage' section. My question is would google consider links from our site to the online press coverage as reciprocal links? Thanks
    Gavin

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  • bizzer


    I just received a manual unnatural links penalty.  I was shocked because other than maybe five links many years ago, I've not done anything to get links.  The site is very powerful in it's own right and buying links is unnecessary.  My first thought was a competitor has done the link spamming on my behalf, any my site is very profitable and the competitors are plentiful and ruthless (i.e. steal my content and use it) since we are #1 for our search term. I took a quick look at my links (via webmaster tools) just now and yes, in the last few months there are tons of links from very bad looking sites that are I've never heard of.  It's obvious I've been purposefully hit by a competitor. (What's it called when they do this?) Does Google understand at all that this stuff goes on? Do they even care? On the eventual reconsideration request, if I say that I honestly didn't do those links, would they even believe me or even care? I have read several articles on what to do now.  But this is so important to my income stream that I don't want to screw anything up trying to fix it, and I want to get it right the first time. Every day is very expensive to me.  So, I'd like to get some recommendations on any experts that can handle this professionally and swiftly. Please let me know of anyone trustworthy that won't rip me off, and if you are such a professional yourself, please let me know. Thank you

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  • allyunit


    Hello I register to berkly forum and put my link on my signature. but this link doesn't calculate for my website? Is this page indexable? http://opensees.berkeley.edu/community/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=30350

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  • SSFCU


    This is probably going to sound like the silliest question ever, but I have to ask. Does an article that requires a subscription to read count as a backlink? Is there any difference in that type of backlink as opposed to one that doesn't require a subscription? Thanks.

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  • JuiceBoxOM


    Hi Guys I have yellowpages.com.au appearing in the link profiles for some of my clients, but not in others (even if clients without the link in their profile have had an actual link on yellowpages.com.au longer than some who do have it in their profile). My understanding is that Google MAY eventually index a nofollow link... My question is what would cause Google to actually index it?

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  • KempRugeLawGroup


    I'm aware of how most directories don't matter and/or have lost significance over the past few years, but in the legal world, it sure seems like this one does: http://www.martindale.com/ I doubt we will ever get many cases from this directory, but it would be a nice link to have...I think. The DA is 88 and the page we would be listed in is a 39. Almost all of our competitors who outrank us have this link as well. Granted, it's not the only link, but it's one I could afford to obtain. Any thoughts or experiences? ***If any of you market for attorneys, and you're outside the Tampa area (don't want to cause any professional conflicts) have you recommended this directory to your clients? Thanks, Ruben

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  • gavinr


    Hi all Our PR agency has obtained a few inbound links from the UK's Times website. This is a great website with a very high DA, however they have a pay wall. My question is does the paywall counteract the efficacy of the links into our site? It would be good to know because if they aren't having the desired effect on rankings then I'll ask our PR agency to focus their efforts on other national newsapers. Thanks
    Gavin

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