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    It appears that no matter what I do, my website is not picking up traffic. What can I do?

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    • ts24group
      ts24group last edited by

      I have tried everything,  followed everything by the book...yet nothing is happening. I I yet have to try PPC, but I am sure that by now the website is healthy since I have spent from January to the current date fixing every sort of warning and errors. While I have worked on link building strategies(only submitting links to directories for the moment) However the website is dead. What should I do? Is this due to a Google penalty?

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      • KempRugeLawGroup
        KempRugeLawGroup last edited by

        What's your website?

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        • ts24group
          ts24group last edited by

          Hi there,

          the website is http://www.translationservices24.com. I'm the current online marketing manager, however I suspect  that the previous manager used some bad bulky black SEO practice which led to the drop in ranking since no matter what I do the website is just going down. In the last few days we had only an average of 50 visitors per day, and  On the 22nd of May, there was a vertical drop of all main keywords, some of them are not even ranking anymore. I have been reading about the latest Google updates, and acted as such, I have deleted bad content, and fix all the warnings and errors but every week there seem to be a new problem and mean while the website is just keeping on going down. Is there a particular reason? Thanks

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          • Mike_Davis
            Mike_Davis last edited by

            I want you to look at your anchor texts:

            <a>http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/anchors?site=www.translationservices24.com%2F</a>

            95% of your anchor text is Translation Services or some various of it.  Additionally your site is on link farms and directories.  You aren't ranking well because your link profile is as dirty as a Tijuana hooker.  Sorry!

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            • Carla_Dawson
              Carla_Dawson last edited by

              Kiran,

              I suggest you use the disavow tool wisely. Matt Cutts did a video recently on how to use the disavow tool. Here are two videos that will help

              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=393nmCYFRtA

              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX5K741AlWg

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              • ts24group
                ts24group last edited by

                Thanks a lot for the answers guys. By the way, do you know if there is a practical solution to get rid of those back links from robot.txt?

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