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Hi roberthseo,

It seems like sometimes it can take OSE 2-3 index updates before some links are included in the index.

But since your profile is from April, I would guess it is because your profile link may be to buried on CrunchBase for the OSE crawler to find. Build a few links to your profile page and it will show up in the next update or two.

Focus on building your clients great content and you can achieve fast quality links, other than that there is no one single way to build good quality links fast.

Also, what is "fast" in your book? A week? A month?

Depending on how example.com is redirected to example.com/default.html you may be losing some "power" through the redirect.

A easy fix would be to simply make your example.com/default.html act as though its example.com through .htaccess

It depends, as a backlink can serve many different purposes aside from just "helping SEO".

You dont list the domain authority, whats the DA of each link?

Rich,

How old are those links? OSE updates roughly once a month, and its said it can take up to 2 index periods for your links to show up, if they are relatively new, this is the reason for this. You can check the linkscape update schedule here.

I know it can be frustrating for newer sites, you want to see the are showing up, but be patient. When they do show up in OSE the data you get is better than any other service we use.

We try to get 3-4 per month per client - each "outreacher" has about 3-4 clients they work on actively. We found that its also easier to hire & train professional writers/social media people to do this job, not only can they create good relationships through good email and status writing, but they can also write the content for the blogs itself.

We use WordPress + Shopplugin (newest version)

Typically I use /sitemap.xml

I dont think it matters what you call it, as long as its submitted to Google webmaster tools.

Check out sitemaps.org for more info on how to create a quality sitemap

Hi Cindy,

You can install the plugin on your current setup, and it should work, if by chance it doesnt work, you can download the older versions here which are supported in 2.9.1

This plugin allows you to 301 redirect from anywhere on your site to any external link you want

You could refresh your sitemap, then re-submit it to Google webmaster tools. This usually works for us

Is the old site in WordPress? Try Simple 301 Redirects or a similar plugin to 301 individual pages/posts.

Hiding text through CSS is against Google's TOS. So basically it can be classified as "black hat".

Your H1 should tell your users what your page is about, if you have to hide it for whatever reason, there may be something wrong with your design.

Could very well be in the functions.php file also. If you want you can shoot me an email(listed in my profile) with the functions.php & header.php file - I should have time to take a look for you today at some point and at least point you in the right direction.

Its hard to say if that alone is causing your ranking drop (72 is alot!), but Google certainly isnt going to reward you for having an abundance of 404 pages on your site. Thats just like telling them "I dont care about my pages or website" - There is an error on your website and its not fixed.

I would say the best thing to do at this point is to keep on 301'ing them or rebuilding content on those pages if possible and see what happens.

There are many blog posts on this subject, I would list them all here but it seems Google has most of them on page 1.

It usually takes a couple of updates to refresh some URL's. OSE is only updated like once a month, so because its there today, doesn't mean it will be there tomorrow.

It sounds to me like you hit a gold mine perhaps with all of those broken links. Google search "broken link building" to take advantage.

Hi,

It looks like the meta description isnt 100% duplicated, the YOAST version has another sentence than the other description.

I would check the header.php file located in your theme, (or from the WordPress dashboard go toAppearance>Editor>header.php) Try to find the meta description and canonical url in that file and just erase them. Dont worry this wont erase the YOAST settings or tags (as that is pulled in through the wp_head hook).

Once your in your code, if your not sure on what to edit, post a screenshot of your header.php file here

Hi!

It may very well be a direct correlation of your previously mentioned link building methods. You mentioned guest blogging - this is one of the best ways to build links if done to reputable sites, so that might not be the cause..

Could you go into more detail on some of the other techniques they used? How many links, how long of a period they were build, and perhaps a live example of something they did? We should be able to tell based off of that info.

Thanks,

Casey

If your going to be linking out to your own Facebook or other social pages, there is no reason why you should nofollow these links! Your linking to a reputable domain that has your own content on it. In my opinion do not nofollow these links.

What do you mean by "website checker" and "score" ? There are soooo many things to "check" on a website, did you have anything in particular you wanted users to check, or just overall onsite seo?

Are you thinking of a user just entering a URL and a keyword much like the SEOmoz onsite report card?

"The Loop is used by WordPress to display each of your posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each of the posts to be displayed on the current page and formats them according to how they match specified criteria within The Loop tags."

http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop

Its basically the code that displays the list of posts in your category & tag pages.