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    Can someone tell me whey my site has dropped ranks

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    • warren23
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      • Matt-Williamson
        Matt-Williamson last edited by

        I think it could be down to your link profile which appears to be very anchor text heavy when I ran your site through opensiteexplorer.org. Since Penguin has come about link profiles are under more scrutiny than ever and heavy use of anchor text is getting picked out as manipulation for rankings purpose (see - http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2172839/Google-Penguin-Update-Impact-of-Anchor-Text-Diversity-Link-Relevancy.

        On the 21st Nov there was another update (Panda #22) to Google that affected a small percentage of websites - http://www.seroundtable.com/category/google-updates.

        Have you had any warnings through Google Webmaster Tools?

        With Googles Algorithm ever changing I think you would find this very recent whiteboard friday helpful - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/prediction-anchor-text-is-dying-and-will-be-replaced-by-cocitation-whiteboard-friday

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        • dmccarthy
          dmccarthy last edited by

          over 95% of the links to your website include the anchor text is  "<a class="clickable title link-pivot expanded" title="See top linking pages that use this anchor text">web design manchester"... Thats a penguin penalty probably</a>

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          • warren23
            warren23 last edited by

            Thanks Guys

            So basically, I screwed up a little.  Is there a way to fix this?

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            • askshopper
              askshopper last edited by

              Add more links like click here, visit us, read about it here that sort of thing, could also use some other keyword phrases, although there is a possibility that the keywords used in your in bound links are not the issue, I see you have 41% already with other anchor text, 26 % with Web Design Manchester & the rest is split up with small percentages.

              looking at that I would be inclined to add some new keyword phrases, some one else may have a better take when looking at the percentages i have just given.

              qySy9

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              • warren23
                warren23 @askshopper last edited by

                Thanks askhopper

                I will try build some new links in using different keyphrases. what a mess I am in when i thought i was doing alright 🙂

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