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Google looks at these things and if they think its just to simple to get links, then they probably wont give those links much credit. Also the page will only have so much PR, so if you have 1 or a thousond links from that page, you can only get the PR it has.

Find the articles bringing in no traffic first some pf the articles might be bringing in some long tail traffic but gradually switch to the new articles when & where appropriate.

I suggest to search for such blogs manually and not submit to any blog networks - that way you keep your risk of getting caught in spam lower. Write a personal email to them if you find a potential blog and write them a custom offer, that works best. and it doesn't have to be only guestblogging. Also, get your business partners etc. to link to you. What you need is some nice variation and not all links coming from the same type of website.

Hope not been using PR WEB (Paid for servioce) my self and not seen any measurable "damage"...

If there was an "easy way" then everyone and anyone would be ranking #1 in Google...and eventually competition would be so saturated there would be no point in having a website at all! Good things come to those who work hard, stay committed to their vision, and can learn and adapt to change!

Thanks Matthew, the long tail stuff was not on my mind. But will definitely look at it, a little closer.

In case you haven't seen, most private blog networks like Build My Rank are conceding defeat themselves: http://www.buildmyrank.com/news/its-been-a-great-run There are several others that have since bit the dust, and I'm sure Google will keep deindexing anything along those lines. If you're talking about posting to any kind of a network that's used on a mass scale, I wouldn't waste your money.

I think you're really going to need to start building some external links directly to that page, the on page linking seems a bit saturated to me, links going all over the place, which will split the link juice down. If that's something that can't be changed easily or at all, then I'd definitely focus on external links from other websites, within the same industry is preferable, that uses "Freelance Copywriting" as the link anchor itself. Look at the top sites ranking for "freelance copywriting" on http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/ for some ideas.

Hi Kosta, Sadly the only way I know is to contact each website that looks spammy and ask for them to remove the link.  Sometimes getting removal isn't possible. If it's a blog network, find out who owns the blog network and ask them to remove all the links.  It looks like they have used an SEO firm to get these back links? Often blackhat SEO firms have their own blog networks, so you could get them to remove all of them, if your lucky. The other option is to just start building quality links, and just wait out the penalty. If you get enough quality links Google will see the website is trust worthy and ignore the spam. The hard part is getting quality links. Start with high quality directories, and then looks at the business supplier to see if you can get quality links from suppliers in exchange for a testimonies. Then I would move on to guessed blogging on relevant topics.  Cars should be an easy topic to find plenty of quality blogs. Contact them with a great article or idea, in exchange for a link.

I think you have to separate out a couple of issues here... First off, 250 links distributed across a site or 50 across 10 blog posts may have very little additional value than a few links on a site or 10 links on 10 blog posts. Linking root domains generally have a lot more impact than total links. If you've got 50 links on 10 posts to the same site, it's very likely some of those links are low quality (even not having any idea what the anchor text is). I'm assuming you mean inbound links all to the same site (and even the same page), though. It's really tough to talk in generalities. It depends a lot on the targeted text. If your exact-match anchor text is your brand name, or if it's product-oriented but matches your domain name, you'll get more leeway. If Apple has 10,000,000 links to "Apple, Inc.", Google won't care. If Bob's plumbing has 1,000 links and 90% of them are to "buy cheap viagra", that's going to look bad really fast. So, "excessive" can be very situational. If you're targeting one phrase over and over, most of your links are built/paid (not "natural") and that phrase is keyword-loaded without reflecting your brand, you're probably pushing too hard. Diversification is very important. I think targeting is important, to a point, but it's really easy to over-think it.

I'm not sure if it would de-index your site BUT it will definately not help. You need a balanced link profile from good authority sites with both followed and no follow links (obviously more followed). If you just have a link profile with just followed links and they are all from directory sites (which tend to have low authority - not all but most) you will risk google penalising you. I would recommend creating a balance strategy to link buidling. Posting in Blogs with a high readership and good reputation, joining a popular and well used forum and actively get involved, a hand full of directories with non spammy links, social sites, news or information sites (email them and ask for a link).... These are just a few ideas... Also you want to make sure your links are balanced and use a variety of different anchor text and not overly optimised keyword text. Google's algorithm is updated 100's of times a year so you never know when they will start penalising a certain type of link or text or tags etc... EDIT: Found something that shows a great idea for a strategy and I strongly success you read it! http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-strategies

Similar story here, got lots of sites, got warning ion 2 I least expected, was using some article blogs a while back, but only as part of a wider link profile. No penalty from warning, am hoping it's just a wake up call. Wish things were clearer, google needs to be more transparent.Fixing anything they don't like is also ridiculously difficult.

In my view, it's not a big problem to have these sites on the same server, as long as each site has unique content, and there isn't a huge amount of inter-linking between the sites. (in which case, 30 sites would sound a lot like a link network to me, which would risk all of your sites being de-indexed) What is potentially a problem is making sure each site is truly unique. This means having unique content (including navigation and in some cases, unique templates - although some would argue this is a bit extreme) You say that the sites employ the same link building methods - does this mean they all have links from the exact same sources? Again, you could be stumbling into link network territory again... or Google may choose to place less value on those links. It's a murky area, and you'll have to use your own analytics and judgement to tease the answers out of Google. I'd say your not in trouble just because of the shared IP, but my suspicion tells me your in a dangerous neighborhood. Hope this helps. Best of luck with your SEO!

This made me smile! HA

Yes. Do you have google webmaster tools installed on your website? Between GWT and Seomoz crawl, get a list of all your 404 pages and use a 301 redirect manager to redirect all the 404 pages to their new respective pages.

Here is the URL http://www.digifactor.hu/mobiltelefon.html Keyword: mobiltelefon Target: Google Hungary

If they validate their subdomain in GWT then goolge will know they are a different entity, i think with blogspot they will know this anyhow. It is my belief that same ip of c-class is not a problem unless you have a huge amount of your links from the same. Sometimes whole towns share the same c-class, very large hosting companies like discountASP host all clients on the same ip. I think common sense will tell search engines not to worry unless the numbers are huge.

We're obviously biased...so we won't say "us." Keri's message is great, but I would recommend doing the following when you're in the process of evaluating them: -check out their title tag of their own website; it always confuses me that an SEO company doesn't SEO their own website.  If you need help with evaluating other factors that might point out what they're trying to optimize for their own efforts, let us know (i.e., the h1, h2 tags, meta description, image file names, alt text, etc.) -if you need reference on pricing, here's a good recent post from Rand about costs: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-pricing-costs-of-services and another post debating/discussing the topic: http://www.seomoz.org/q/2011-sseo-pricing-costs-what-should-you-charge-how-much-should-you-pay -definitely ask for more than 3 or so case studies, if possible. -usually a quick answer is a wrong answer in our minds.  Almost every client has different needs.  We always hesitate when someone asks us "how much will it cost?" or "how long will it take?"  While we have standard pricing created because many people do ask for the pricing details right away, I would argue that each case is like taking on a new patient for a doctor.  There's a bit of history with that patient before they see the new doctor. -thus, they should be asking you guys a lot of questions.  Wouldn't you want a doctor to do that? DigiJoltMan is right for the most part, but there are also a number of firms that charge a bit more than they potentially should.  So, the reverse is true as well. Gotta run, but let us know if you need any other questions.  I think it's great you're asking here.  Good luck!

I'd agree with EGOL.  Our goal is always to get more domains. I would argue that having a domain is like having 1 fan.  Having multiple links from the same domain is like that same fan saying different things about you.  The first complement is usually the best, but after that, you know s/he's a fan and so you listen to the 2nd, 3rd and additional complements less so.