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The tabs are a method to display information that is in the page. Google see's all the information...it's not an seo problem...in fact it's a way of not overwhelming a user with too much information.

The webpage is in no way thin due to tabs (seo-wise)

If you need to check this view the source of the page all the information is there

I agree, they probably also use more tools than openexplorer to get a more comprehensive set of links etc.

It's all about time, access to the tools and the ability to infer patterns and reason from the data the tools give you.

Overall I think they are reasonably priced if they do what they say they will do to a high level. There are also several seomoz members who do the same (although I do not know what their fee would be).

I've been thinking too. Would be nice to have an answer....I thought it was because I had not linked my google adwords account to seomoz so it couldn't accurately query it via that however I can't find anywhere to add it.

Yep....that would be it...99.99% backlink profile 1 word and 1 other backlink that also contains the word insurance

If they are your client's business partners ask them to link to your site in a more natural way such as using the web address

Check in the report which is the referring page (the one with the link on)

When you're logged into the campaign, head over to the crawl diagnostics page.  Here you should see a drop down where you can choose csv and export.  Once this is downloaded, all you need to do is sort the column for error type and scroll over for the referrer.

View your source and you can find the link.

I'm not sure all those 1400 keywords at the bottom of the page is a good idea (covering every town I can think of in the UK)

When you say penguin update...which one? What date as penguin has had several updates so you need to be sure?

A lot of people "legitimately" over-optimised in bound anchor text as there was no penalty for it. In your case you have no site-wide links (from memory) that you can cull in one go and make a big difference in one go.

I think you need a full site audit first to identify the date that the penalty took place and then make a strategy to part grow yourself out of the penalty and part identify high affecting anchor texts but low value links and get them removed.

I can't remember when looking at your site several days ago if most links go to your homepage or deep pages. If they go to pages other than your homepage (and the penalty is confirmed as an over-optimisation penalty) then you could let those pages 404 and remake them elsewhere on the site.

There are plenty of people, myself included, who could work with you on this and I think Marcus has mentioned that he also does site audits and from reading on this is Marie also has experience of identifying penalties and taking corrective action. You may already have enough knowledge and experience to do this yourself but if not I think the first port of call would be a site audit and identification of the penalty.

Hi Dianne,

Sorry I should have explained more. Reading back my answer seemed short and without context.

When you that you had got the page to where you wanted it I wanted to say that the page is going to hold you back in its current state. There is no way to optimise for 1400 words and the method you use is frowned upon by google and if it's ranking for you now could cause a penalty in the future.

The best way to do it is to optimise this page for a few (2-6 depending upon the content) related keywords and make new pages written exclusively for the other keywords. That way you have control over more of the important seo onsite techniques such as matching url and page titles, h1 tags. It's not possible to do those for 1400 words.

So you might find that it will take forever to do 1400 keywords but my question is do you really need 1400 towns and cities? I'd hazard a guess that 98% of those will never bring you traffic. Use google keyword tool to estimate which ones will bring you more than others. If you have a budget run a payperclick campaign to double check these findings but it's unlikely that someone in solihull will write "gastric band hypnosis in solihull" it's just not worth trying to optimise the page for the one person that will search that specific every other year.

I hope this is a better explanation.

Sadly yes. It wont work for large industries however I've seen many smaller niches with the top10 powered by these.

I think I understand the question. Seomoz is able to analyse your page relative to a supplied keyword and score it along with showing you improvements that can be made. It's under Research tools at the top of your screen and called on-page optimisation/on page analysis.

Yes. Sam was able to confirm for me that the programmers have a 48 hour crawl cache so to repeat crawls with a 2 day delay to get fresh results.

Run a manual crawl using seomoz crawl tool and look at the referring url. The check the page source of that page for the duplicate url.

If the changes happened 16th/17th like you said I would wait to see if they are part of the latest google update which is looking like it's half way through.

openexplorer takes 1-3 months to show links but google responds within days so it could be that you have a really powerful link or two recently added.

Keep watching the serps but in the meantime make the most of the position.

Without you divulging anything else about what you did then it's a guessing games and all the guesses are "could be's"

The crawler has a 48 hour cache so you can trigger manual re-crawls via the research tool but you have to leave 2 days before each one.

I've had a few sites that block the crawler (which obeys strictly the robots.txt). I've had this also with wordpress development sites that are "discourage search engines" box ticked.

Check the robots.txt and header in the page to make sure you are not blocking crawlers and if not put a ticket request in with seomoz and they will quickly look in to it.

Brian

Try using Ahrefs or seospyglass which often show up more. No tool will show them all so you might need to use several.

On all those examples the same anchor text is used. Maybe you have overused the anchor text and it has fallen foul of a penalty?

Keep building but use some naked url links and brand name links to the same page or if you have good relationships with some of those sites ask to edit it to link from the company name not from the keyword rich anchor.

Note: I've only looked at the three samples above and have not looked at the backlinks for the site in question.

http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/recovery-from-google-penguin-tips-from-the-trenches is a seomoz article with some good information.

First you need to work out if you are suffering from a penalty and if so which type of penalty as it's not just penguin that can give you a penalty. You most likely need some professional help however if you want to try and pin point exactly when your traffic dropped in your analytics and cross reference it to http://www.seomoz.org/google-algorithm-change you will have an idea which is affecting you (or several)

Then you'll need to take corrective measures and wait until the next update to see if google has lifted the penalty.

ps. You've done a perfect panda below with 4 duplicate replies to Barry's post.

You need to keep your wordpress and plugins up to date as they can get in through vulnerabilities.

It could also be a server attack has gained access to the database or htacess check these (especially the database for unknown users) for changes and odd things.

It's happened a couple of times to me and I'm quite handy at these types of things but if your not very techie you might need some proper help as if you leave it open for them to come back in you'll be back to square one.

Once you are clean you need to set up some type of scheduled backup onsite and offsite so that you can easily roll back to previous states if required.

If you need professional help my systems admin also freelances and I can pass on his details.

If it's just for google you can have multiple sitemaps listed with them.

If you want a standalone tool to crawl your whole site http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/standalone-google-sitemap-generator.html can work on a cron to crawl your whole site each day (as long as the wordpress is not a subdomain of the main site)