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    • MickEdwards
      MickEdwards last edited by

      I'm working on a site that has had some real bad technical issues over a period of time.  We have carefully resolved all of them, rinsed through, rechecked for issues and so forth.

      Organic traffic started to move slightly up but has now taken a real backward step.

      Taking a look at the link profile which has not really been worked on at all we have a mass of Central Index derived links coming through from sites such as gethampshire, heathrowpages and so on.  Within each of these directories the business is listed under pages for areas it doesn't belong in, so for example in gethampshire it is listed under printers in Warwick or printers in Surbiton.

      The end result is that 65% and quickly growing anchor text is 'website' - 90% dofollow.  They are now coming through like popcorn.

      My instinct is to remove these listings from the profile.  Has anyone else had this kind of issue with Central Index?

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      • MickEdwards
        MickEdwards last edited by

        To make matters worse I can't remove any listings because I can't login to Central Index because the whole process is being managed by Moz Local.  I think i'll also talk to support over this.

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