This page has dropped could really do with some advice please

[dashesndots]

Hi Everyone,
Quite a few pages on this site have dropped since the penguin 2.0 update.  Unfortunately the backlinks seo has been done by a third party and I think the pages in question are sufferering from anchor text over optimisation but could really do with some opinions on this.

I had quite a few backlinks from my own site to this site so i have removed them and I have also had a look at a directory site that was showing up and have requested removal.

Is there anything else that is affecting this page - I have tweaked the content today and I get a ranking of A on the on page optimiser.

http://www.cheapsnapframes.co.uk/pavement-signs.html

Any help would be so much appreciated!

Tracy

[AndieF]

Hi Tracy,

Looking at sites linking to that page it looks like there's sites such as http://pavementsigns.bravesites.com/ which may have previously been helping you out, but now may be detrimental. That 'bravesites' site in particular has lots of spammy sites linking to it.

Those sites/pages look as if they're created with the sole purpose of making a link back to your main website and so I would consider this to be spammy behaviour, Google likely does too. I think you've gotten yourself into a 'bad neighbourhood'.

Take a look into Google Webmaster Tools to see if Google's warning you about anything here. It may be wise to shut down those pages if you have direct control of them, or disavowing the links if you can't directly influence it.

Also consider whether your competitors are starting to do better SEO recently. This may not actually be a technical issue, but more of a "other people are beating you at the game" kind of thing.

I hope that's food for thought!

• Andrew

[dashesndots]

Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the advice on this.  I will find out where this came from.  No warnings in google webmaster tools and the site is showing up as healthy but this site has taken a serious knock and drop of traffic since the 23rd May.

Thanks for the advice Andrew much appreciated.

Tracy