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If you see your rankings dropping, chances are you have some backlinks working against you. I wouldn't go hog wild and disavow everything, as the link profile could have some spots that help you. I can't be specific without looking at it.

The best thing you can do, in my opinion, is spread the good news about the new site and redesign, and not "build" links from it, but "earn" links. Share your awesome new content and get people to like it so much that you earn some new traffic and links. You are on the right track by learning how to do it right (versus the old, shoddy SEO company that didn't do much good), but now you have to put the work in and do it right.

There are plenty of good methods that work for getting you some good, organic, quality traffic that will help your SERPs. If you feel you are over your head, there are plenty of people on here that would be more than willing to help you out.

My opinion, the page speed doesn't effect ranking. It does effect what happens after they are on your site. Waiting for a website to load can be a huge turnoff, so optimizing for pagespeed is important not for rankings, for conversions.

I'll just accept that the previous link building that was done was crap and the links are too deep.

I get that there are some bad links or links from too deep into some sites, but I've even seen some links with not much value show up on OSE, such as the bookmarking one that is credited.  Also, then OSE doesn't show links from larger directories such as Yellowbook, Yellowpages, Facebook, Angies List, etc? If you think that the other 73 root domains and links are just too deep, and this is a case of the previous link builder building links that are so bad that OSE won't consider them, then I can accept that. I was / am just worried that there wasn't something more technical going on, like something being flagged from Google.

A lot of these links are all over 1 year old, and not many have even been made in the last 60 days. I quickly listed a few big name sites, a source related and a random forum post one.

http://www.yellowbook.com/profile/spine-and-sports-chiropractic_1820959785.html

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Spine-Sports-Chiropractic/122260357799431

http://www.yellowpages.com/saint-paul-mn/mip/spine-sports-chiropractic-22853231

http://www.angieslist.com/companylist/us/mn/roseville/spine-sport-chiropractic-reviews-2098534.aspx

http://www.findhealthpros.com/index.php?cmd=show&id=2081

http://www.scsuhockey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1611&start=45

It should have been mentioned right away, but Google Webmasters Tools shows 80 linking root domains, and OSE shows 7. I understand that linking from good sources is the best and should be the only technique, and believe me there are a few good links in there. I am just confused to why OSE only shows 7 vs. the 80 in Google Webmaster Tools.

In the Pro account, it shows it as an error, but when looking at the live version, it redirects like it should. Must have been a hiccup in the crawl

Okay, I get that a link from the portfolio would not carry much weight. Understood. People aren't going to search for Roseville Chiropractor, find the portfolio and think "Eureka!"

I wasn't expecting this link to be anything big at all, it was just an example of a bunch of links that never got picked up by OSE. Maybe that was a bad example, and I should have chose a link from a directory that never got picked up by OSE.

I'll accept the answer that if it potentially carries little to no weight, OSE will not consider it. I was under the impression that if a site that has at least a little page authority has its pages crawled, then the backlinks would be indexed. I know the backlink wouldn't offer much value in this case, just was looking for more of a technical answer to why.

Thank you. It never surfaced until this week. I'll throw a redirect. Thanks

I've had what has ended up being a nightmare SEO campaign. We have sunk a ton of time into link building for the site and saw little to no traction. Just as a test, I have the site on our portfolio as a site we designed years ago. The link to the site is old. Somehow, this link does not show up on OSE, and it seems to get no credit.

http://www.happydogwebproductions.com/item/spine-and-sports.html

The backlink, and troubled campaign is www.spineandsportschiro.com

There should be a few more links too that aren't getting picked up, especially the ones I have noticed using Whitespark local citation tool. Has Google got picky with all of this? How come this site seems to be getting no credit?

Is this a bug or something that needs to be addressed? If so, just use a redirect?

Thank you Ann. Didn't expect to get a response from you personally, but what a nice touch. Your detailed response really cleared some things up for me.

I am hiring a content writer for my blog posts, and I will make sure he goes off of the checklist. I am hoping that this works out well, and now I feel I have a more clear understanding of your site's functionality. Thank you for your quick response

I saw the post

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/4-valuable-link-building-services

and saw that MyBlogGuest seems like a good link building service, so I signed up. It really is confusing though, it almost makes me think I have to install WP Blogs on my sites which primarily run in Joomla, so linking directly to the blog is not an option.

Okay, fine, so I'll just skip the part about putting in offers on other people's posts. I really signed up for the link building part of it anyways.

So, now, I just write content in the site-used article generator? Then, go in and offer it manually to people? Doesn't really strike me as some super powerful method of linkbuilding, but there's a good chance I'm missing something.

If this is the case, I'd assume I'd have to write content that is relevant to the site that I am trying to build links for, and then place links back to that site, so basically I want my posts on competitors sites and that will help out with backlinks and authority?

It's really confusing. I just want to have my content writer write good content and get links from it, and this method just confuses me. I'd appreciate any insight from anyone who has used that service or can recommend something easier or better.