Sites Ranked Again - Post Penguin SEO Help

[veed23]

Got destroyed by Penguin because of questionable links.

I had most of the links removed and my sites have been restored for the most part  - though lower than they previously ranking for keywords.

What is the best SEO strategy to move up in rank?

Link Building strategy?

Is there a penalty for domains that have keywords in them?

[Francisco_Meza]

What is the best SEO strategy to move up in rank?

I think a sound link building campaign would be the way to go. Spend one week writing great content on your site and another week writing some great content for bloggers as a guest post. Make it useful for their audience.

[wrttnwrd]

You're going to have to think very long term. Don't expect 1-2 weeks of work to do you any good at all.

Plan out a six-month content campaign, with topics, folks you want to contact about each new piece of content, etc.

At the same time, look to your onsite SEO. Make sure you're 100% within best practices.

This will take a sustained effort. The entire reason Google's doing things like Penguin is that they want sites to offer value to searchers. So make sure your site offers lots of value, in the form of content.

[veed23]

Will google penalize me if I have multiple sites hosted under one IP address?

I have a VPS account.

Also - in terms of anchor text links its good to make a variety right rather than focus on one keyword....

[veed23]

Also - what do you suggest in terms of how I can get links thru blogs?

My sits are for sports tickets....

[wrttnwrd]

Again, content. You have to have stuff blogs want to link to.

[RankStealer]

Can I ask what do you mean by "questionable" links...I can't imagine anyone doing white hat seo would have anything that would be questionable? Can you describe these links please in terms of the type of site that they were on and any significance in anchor text and also how long did it take you to remove them?