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No problem Luke - it is hard to judge whether your pages are keyword stuffed without some examples such as what are you page titles, headings and even an example of content (paragraph or two)? Do you think they look natural or do you think that you have included your keyword too many times - more than is really necessary? Even with an in your face approach you can reduce keyword stuffing I think..

Hi Francisco, Thanks for your response.  The sitemaps have been submitted to Bing at the same time as when we submitted to Google.   In BWT, it shows all 60,000 links as submitted, however it only shows 99 URL's as indexed.  I have recently tried increasing the crawl rate in BWT as well.  BWT also has an area to submit URL's that have been updated however they have a limit on how many you can submit per day/month.  Normally I would attribute it to Bing just updating slower, but this site has been around for a few years and has indexed tremendously on Google with number 1 rankings on hundreds of keyword searches. Does this help narrow our issue down?   What else can we do with Bing that we have not already done?  Yahoo has the same issue, which I assume is do to the merger.  Thanks.

I can't get into specifics with the URLs, but one of my coworkers did 2 of the niche plus packages (ran around $300) and had good results.  He jumped from 13th to 7th and I think 12th to 5th for phrases that averaged around 3500 monthly searches at  $5-6/click.  That was the only change he made during the 6 weeks he ordered the package, and has sustained the rankings for 5+ months with minimal changes ever since. Another person had a site go from 25 to 15 for a phrase that gets 9000 searches at $5.40 a click. Granted these are only three cases and I can't show you the on page or strength of the other links they have had, or even the competitors.  But I think it shows that it could help in some cases.

I would definitely make sure you look at what Google is saying https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/methods/gaJSApiBasicConfiguration#gat.GA_Tracker._setSiteSpeedSampleRate your Google analytics code is the newest version "asynchronous tracking code" it does make a difference in speed. If you want to track your websites loading speed from certain areas or get a general idea of what you can do to speed it up I strongly recommend http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ or http://www.uptrends.com/aspx/free-html-site-page-load-check-tool.aspx  both will allow you to check the sites load time from different areas in the United States and the world. If you want to have your site load faster than it does now and you're using Word press I would recommend a different host somebody like WPengine.com or http://page.ly/ if you are using any other form of website you can use a content delivery network somebody like http://www.akamai.com/ does a great job I also use http://www.limelight.com/website-application-acceleration/   for a more complete look at your website load speed and analytics I would recommend Adobe's Omniture http://www.omniture.com/en/  they are more expensive obviously then the free suite from Google however I believe you will see that you do get what you pay for. I also want to bring up Kiss metrics analytics they are only $30 a month and will allow you to track the speed of particular individuals here is a bit of information on the subject from their blog http://blog.kissmetrics.com/speed-is-a-killer/  as well as their main page you can sign up for a free month trial https://www.kissmetrics.com/new_feature Here is Googles advice on what to do _setSiteSpeedSampleRate() _setSiteSpeedSampleRate(sampleRate) Defines a new sample set size for Site Speed data collection. By default, a fixed 1% sampling of your site visitors make up the data pool from which the Site Speed metrics are derived. If you have a relatively small number of daily visitors to your site, such as 100,000 or fewer, you might want to adjust the sampling to a larger rate. This will provide increased granularity for page load time and other Site Speed metrics. (See Site Speed in the Help Center for details about the Site Speed reports.) The _setSiteSpeedSampleRate() method must be called prior to _trackPageview() in order to be effective. Analytics restricts Site Speed collection hits for a single property to the greater of 1% of visitors or 10K hits per day in order to ensure an equitable distribution of system resources for this feature. Note: We strongly encourage sites with greater than 1 million hits per day to keep their sample selection set to the default 1% rate. Adjusting the sample size to a larger number will not increase your sample size. Async Snippet (recommended) _gaq.push(['_setSiteSpeedSampleRate', 5]); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); <a class="exw-control exw-expanded">▾</a> Traditional (ga.js) Snippet pageTracker._setSiteSpeedSampleRate(5); pageTracker._trackPageview(); parameters _Number_ sampleRate Value between 0 - 100 to define the percentage of visitors to your site that will be measured for Site Speed purposes. For example, a value of 5 sets the Site Speed collection sample to 5%. I hope I was of help to you and wish you luck with this. Sincerely, Thomas Zickell QuiZick Internet Marketing

You can get site links for subdomains as well as subfolders. This is not a problem. Look at this example https://www.google.com.au/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=iboats&oq=iboats&aq=f&aqi=g4&aql=&gs_l=hp.3..0l4.1161l2474l0l2774l6l6l0l0l0l0l581l2005l3-4j0j1l5l0.&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=1a7137b3da639030&biw=1280&bih=881

Yes, it seems like Google has penalized a bunch of sites with unnatural link profiles. Patrick Altoft has written a good post on it yesterday: http://www.branded3.com/seo/the-new-google-link-algorithm/ And both Alan and SEOclient12 are right: Do not send reconsideration request before cleaning up. Best of luck. Thomas

Hi Chris, Drop in organic results can be due to a different reason. Do the SEO audit of the website and see if it is effected by the latest changes by Google. Check out the link below http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-check-which-links-can-harm-your-sites-rankings Cheers, Preet

Likely unrelated, but another member posted problems with his site ranking just a few moments ago. http://www.seomoz.org/q/google-sand-boxed I only share this because his site also features a lot of posts on The HCG diet, which is a topic that Google doesn't like to cover, as evidenced by them not allowing PPC ads for the products. Judging from these two threads, it sounds like it might be a difficult niche to operate in and perhaps Google just recently changed the way it handles these queries. Best of luck.

I didn't mention "prev" and "next" as they are already implemented in the head tag, would you add them directly to the links as well? Also, I think Google is the only search engine that supports them at the moment.

Interesting I have been doing bits and pieces of SEO for Baidu recently, was looking for more information.

I would say so long as it says in small text on the bottom: such and such plugin brought to you by yoursite and you add the option for individuals to add a rel=nofollow (most people will forget) then it's perfectly legitimate link juice. But make sure to have something about the plugin on the page itself, otherwise you could be penalized for lack of relevency...

Great suggestion EGOL! There are generally two reasons folks see different rankings than what is reported in SEOmoz 1. Personalization and localization. SEOmoz takes great pain to remove the influence of both localization and personalization from it's rankings, but these all to easily slip into our browsers and Google's default settings when checking rankings. Make sure you check your rankings with personalization turned off (or in some sort of incognito mode) and set your location to the country wide setting (United States) http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-personalized-search 2. Universal Results - This has to do with the way rank is counted when influenced by things like sitelinks, video results, image results, blended local rankings and so on. The list of variables is long, but a full explanation can be found here: https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/20933146-universal-rankings

Hmmm... that is strange, especially if you haven't pushed any link-building to that section. Unfortunately, the duplicate content aspects are really tough to speak to without seeing the site/page. One easy spot-check I do is to take the page title of the section, let's say it's "Section Title" and search the index within your site, such as: site:example.com intitle:"Section Title" That will show you if copies are being indexed, and it's a really easy place to start.

thanks for the great explanation Alan. I hope I am able to convince my client

So here is what you need to do. Compile all this data: Export opensiteexplorer followed/301'd links to your root domain excluding internal site linking Get a list of any links you or contracted seo acquired and their respective landing pages into excel get a list of all your targeted keywords and their rankings over any dates you have (ex. I run weekly updates so I have a column for every week). Categorize all your keywords and landing pages on your site Pivot out your rankings to see if a landing page type or keyword type dropped.  If so, follow the trail and see if it correlates to any specific links you acquired or any specific anchor text you acquired. Look at your link profile and see if you are too heavy in any specific areas or if you have any links that may be deemed shady.