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    • Personnel_Concept
      Personnel_Concept last edited by

      I worked on around 15 EMDs and all of them have similar template but different content. They are all two KW EMDs.

      Now I did KW research and changed Title tags and Did around 10- 15 links for them in and they all reacted very well to link building except one site.

      I did the link building for this site in 3 batches- 7 links in first 10 days, then another 7 in next 10 days and another 7 links after 7 days.

      Site's ranking decreased with each link building.

      Then I removed the low quality links recently. Now What do you guys suggest should I again do link building?? (though everytime I did link building site lost rankings as mentioned earlier)

      or

      WHAT IS THE NEXT STRATEGY AFTER REMOVING BAD LINKS? START LINKING AGAIN, WAIT FOR SOMETIME ?

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      • GeorgeAndrews
        GeorgeAndrews last edited by

        What kind of link building are you doing? Good links shouldn't be the cause of decreased rankings. Also, are you using exact match keyword phrases in your links? This can contribute to lower rankings if all your links are exact match keywords (even if your domain name is an EMD).

        If you are just buying links, my suggestion is to stop. If you need some suggestions for good ways to build links I say start here with a post from Jon Cooper: http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-strategies.

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        • Personnel_Concept
          Personnel_Concept @GeorgeAndrews last edited by

          nope I am not using KWs for link building. I know it should be a good mix of KWs, brand name, URL and general words.

          Also I made some directory submissions links but like I said I removed them now recently.

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          • MoosaHemani
            MoosaHemani @Personnel_Concept last edited by

            I think George’s question is still valid what kind of link building are you performing... i mean if you are up to forum profile links, directories, blog comments then it is fairly possible but if you are really up to quality link building then this is not a normal scenario and should be analyzed properly...

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            • Personnel_Concept
              Personnel_Concept @Personnel_Concept last edited by

              yeah you're right. I take good care of quality link building normally but in this particular case, I was experimenting a bit (some of the other similar sites reacted well to same links) but this one didn't.

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