Welcome to the Q&A Forum

Hi Wardy, probably I was not clear enough, sorry!

Y suscribe to your original proposal, "speed test tool" as a correct anchor,

Good luck!

Hi again Wardy,

In my opinion your url and anchor (url BroadbandSpeedTest.co.uk and "speed test tool" as an anchor text) are natural enough not to bring any problems. Do not forget to tell us how it worked!

Cheers

Hi Betty!

I will try to give you a couple of hints with my honest experience, but I believe you have answered your one question!

What do you have to lose?

A) Low CTR with high ranking?

Take a look on Title and description; maybe they are great for seo but not so great to work as bate so as to make your customer click.

Have you tried authorship? That could be a real change if you can go over the hurdles on making it work correctly. There is an excellent post about this and a "case" with troubleshooting

http://moz.com/blog/getting-authorship-to-work

On the other hand, definitely take a look of your page, creative and unique content and design,  try to show your best content or at least present your content in an attractive way, first I would try to imagine who is arriving to the query and try to fulfil his needs and doubts. Usually Infographics help and could be a good idea to make one if applicable.

B. low to medium position

Then you have the same problems but you need to improve your seo, I would make a try to on-page seo with titles, descriptions H, alt and so on... but as you know that is just to begin.

Hope it’s useful for your purposes,

Cheers from a nice sunny day in southern Spain.

Definitely agree with Robert, I find no concern on a do follow link and I also would go for a long tail alt text, telling what the tool is useful for.

Good luck and anyway you can make a try and look for your own experience which by the way we would love to hear about when you achieve some conclusions.

Cheers, today no sunny day even in southern spain... :(!

As Matt-Antonino says and the original post from Miriam Ellis you attached also says: it MUST be part of the Real Company name and consistent with the name you use in your web and off-line material.

"If your business name currently doesn't contain a product or service term, don't take a wrong turn by simply adding keywords to the business title field on your Google+ Local page or other citations. This is not allowed!"

Cheers

Hi Mark,

Yours is a really interesting point. Have a look at this post, from Ana Kravitz, which I suggest you to read, I believe you will find some of the answers you are searching for.

http://www.akravitz.com/tag-track-social-media-traffic-for-google-analytics/#comment-106132

Cheers from an almost sunny day in southern Spain.

Hi again Brad, the tool is definitely accurate, As I told you, basic, but accurate. I have tried it for years and double checked it, Maybe your manual search is not clean enough? Did you clean cache etc? Sorry maybe I am asking you very basic questions, but you never know...

Give it another try, I am sure of its accuracy...

If you want to send me in private a couple dozen of kw, I offer you to double check them so you can be sure you are using the correct setup.

Cheers

Hi Brad

Did you try cute rank

For free version just one domain available, but maybe worth the paid version, very, VERY basic but if you ar just looking for ranking... its ok.

Hope its useful for your purposes

Cheers

To see incoming links,

1. Google Webmaster Tools?

2. Also if 1) you can use www.majesticseo.com (you need to approve via GWMT so that it shows all the necessary data

3. and of course you can use opensiteexplorer.org

But, and this is a great but, Facebook, linkedin and twitter will not show you lower level links, just a general link facebook.com/ or linkedin.com/ this will only help you identify the media not the post...

You will just see in your analytics as Alex said in  "social referrals" so then to know exactly which facebook post was THE ONE which brought you traffic you should have previously, now late for past traffic but still possible for the actual one, introduced tags in your posts so as to know it came from this specific one. There is a nice post about this in Ana´s Kravitz,(like lenny but not her sister... she did an amazing work on this and is very easy to DIY.

Unfortunately if you do not suspect from which post this specific and unusual traffic could have come... then, there is very little to do about the past IMHO, maybe sombody else could give you another hint... but I doubt it. Only to be tidy enough to tag every single new post that you make and track it on analytics as Alex said.

Here the link from Ana´s blog, good luck and if you need any further help do not hesitate to ring my bell.

http://www.akravitz.com/tag-track-social-media-traffic-for-google-analytics/

Cheers from a cloudy (once in a very long while) day in usually sunny Southern Spain.

Hola Jonathan!

If all those visits are real (and you are not being hacked) I would be definitely happy, (as a matter of fact much more than happy) and prepared to jump from this hosting to a much more powerful one, even if you have to invest on doing so. That sort of viral effect is something we marketers are searching as the holy grail in the crusades… you shouldn’t reject it, on the contrary you should make good use of it.

You will profit on SEO, look it this way, you would have to invest a huge amount of money to get this relevant traffic.

Build a strong SEO on your basic set of keywords around this post, and profit on this, it will have a huge impact and payback on SEO positioning. Even though your business is local you will profit on relevant, real and viral traffic into your site, wherever this traffic comes and specially if you could transform your blog in magnet for relevant keywords.

Relevant traffic (wherever they come from) will bring you positioning, and positioning (also in Ecuador) will bring you visits (from Ecuador) & that you can transform into more clients to your local store.

If you do not know how to do this, here in Moz you will find lots of friends that will try to help you doing so…

Hasta la vista!

Cheers from an incredibly nice Saturday winter morning in southern sunny, always sunny, Spain.

Hi Marie!

Yours is a professional, straight forward and thorough answer. I am more than convinced on asking for your advice and your crew´s, if we ever need to make a “big scale recovery” for any client who deserves, and is prepared to pay, for professional and experienced work in big scale recovery.

My sincere congrats, I do not see such experience in a specific subject in our everyday work!

Cheers, enjoying another sunny morning in southern Spain

C

I agree 100% with Selena...

Anyway, good luck!

Hi Jack

Believe it or not, G+ links comments with attached links are do follow...

That means someone from that G+ profile made an enormous amount of posts with links to your site via G+

You can read some more info about this here

http://moz.com/blog/google-plus-correlations

I suggest you disavowing this unnatural link by using GWMT.

Read more about disavowing here.

http://moz.com/blog/google-disavow-tool

Also should take care of other search engines as this disavowing tool will only work with google.

Hope this is useful for your purposes!

Cheers from southern Spain

Hi Emojo

I have tried having a look on your anchor text and links, but it looks impossible to understand links & anchors in Hebrew...unfortunately, I believe you will need an Israeli or Hebrew SEO native speaker to have a serious look at this complex network.

Maybe you could go a little bit further explaining this previous issue, "I got an e-mail before two weeks from Google on web master tools that indicates that outgoing links from my site that contravene the rules of Google"

Is it “link exchange” what you were doing?

I mean, your company looks sound enough not to need "strange" SEO I would focus on the safe side, tidy, good content, trying to have good links, not over optimizing, and never ever using toxic links you should position  for your natural kw in first page for Israel, without doing too much fuzz on this SEO, just “on page” SEO and your normal links to and from your clients webs. Maybe a blog to go a little bit further and that would be almost all. Also I would pay attention to Google local business and consistency of my address, both issues I cannot even guess if they are correct or not. I bet you that taking care of the basics, in your case, will be enough to take your company into first page in Israel without making such a big effort about it.

Good luck and if you want to give us a little bit more info about your penalizations... maybe we could give you some further clues.

Cheers from southern sunny Spain (even though not any more sun at 19:00 pm )

Hi again Marcus,

In this case I used majesticseo to have a quick glance, you will be able to see these links even with the free version. Remember to start slowly with new links and change your anchor + do not link only to home, build a strong net all over your site. Wish you good luck, keep me posted!

Cheers from another really sunny morning in southern Spain.

Unfortunately we usually appear to learn more from huge problems than from nice and successful experiences...

That’s the massive profit on sharing; we can profit from others experience!

Cheers

[URL]]([URL=http://imgur.com/yhmjs1P][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/yhmjs1P.jpg[/IMG][/URL])

Hi Marcus,

Have a look to 1778 backlinks coming from asooy.com they look definitely spammy... probably others, also would advise you to move cautiously with new links 100´s links per day could show spammy also with a site that previously had no backlinks except those spammy ones and also about 3000 from bradford-webdesign.co.uk which don´t either look to much of "natural" sort of links...

Maybe disavow those ones and start slowly and naturally with new links, change your anchor, and work them from different domains.

Hope you good luck from southern sunny Spain!

Hi Michael / Chris

In this case, unfortunately I have a harsh experience which makes me differ with Chris´s experience; I would definitely go forward with disavowing if you are really interested on making clear for Google that you do not value those links, even if they point to non-existing urls

A couple of years back we had a client (and still have it) with a huge hack that produced thousands of links pointing to pages of our client´s hacked domain. We even suspected of a “black hat” maneuver to make damage to our client´s SEO through this procedure.

We had a hell of a problem letting Google understand that those links where empty and pointed to a 404, even after we deleted all the content and the urls didn´t exist anymore... strange behavior still happened from time to time and until the appearance of disavow tool….unexpectedly Google re indexed those links, even that they pointed already for YEARS to nonexistent 404 urls

I would take the time and disavow if you are really interested on Google not indexing those links.

I hope you can profit from this experience.

Cheers to you both, form sunny southern Spain!

Hi Stewart! Hi L E N  Bernal!

I endorse each and every of your suggestions Stewart, except losing your time trying to remove them by asking third party, usually spammy blogs and pages to remove anything. I would go directly to GWMT as you said and remove them, then, if you have problems doing so, maybe try another way but this shouldn’t happen.

I have lost so much time doing so after a hack to a site that I wouldn’t advice to do so (unfortunately very seldom (spammy) sites would pay attention to your requests)

Good luck and let us know how it finally worked!

Cheers

Claudio

Hi Shawn124

If you are both relevant to each other, which you have described you are, and if it is reputable, which you have also said it is... I find no problem whatsoever!

Do so if you can and encourage your readers to have a look in this other blog and bring opinions to yours. You can even write about something that this other blog has written and link to him in your article, to show other points of view over the same subject. All clean and honest SEO. White hat SEO in your hands!

That is building a healthy network and I cannot find any penalty or risk on doing so. What google and anybody with two grams of brain should not do is linking to tons of unrelated blogs just to try to get some "link juice" without any common sense.

Hope it’s useful for you!

Regards

Claudio