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    • Acorn-IS
      Acorn-IS last edited by

      I found a link to my customer's site with an over-optimized anchor text using the OpenSite Explorer tool, but when I opened the link, my customer's link is nowhere to be found.

      Here is the link Opensiteexplorer gave me:

      http://www.derbymadness.com/my-profile/demolition-derby-groups/viewgroup/12-web

      And here is my customer's link: 1896omalleyhouse.com

      The link is not on the cached version of the page either.

      Can anyone tell me how this might happen?

      Thanks!

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      • Unity
        Unity last edited by

        What's the anchor text of the over-optimized link used?

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        • KeriMorgret
          KeriMorgret last edited by

          I did a search for "french quarter" on that domain, and found a cached link at http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JBWoP_J3zQcJ:www.derbymadness.com/my-profile/demolition-derby-groups/viewbulletins%3Fgroupid%3D12+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us. Looks like the page has since been edited/removed and is nothing to worry about now.

          How it happened was that the link was there when Roger crawled, but he only crawls once a month or so, and the link was removed since the last crawl.

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          • Acorn-IS
            Acorn-IS @Unity last edited by

            It's actually gone now,  as Keri below has indicated.

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            • Acorn-IS
              Acorn-IS @KeriMorgret last edited by

              Thanks!  I did see it disappear after I posted the question.  It's good to know that Roger crawls about 30 days or so.

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