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Or maybe they sent some flowers to Matt Cutts - Sorry that was terrible humour

As far as I understand it Interflora was removed from Google organic search results on February 20th.

I guess no one knows for sure why they were delisted other than Google but I have heard theories such as giving flower bribes to bloggers in return for links How sweet - and placing paid follow links inside advertorials within local newspaper sites.

Whatever the reason for their de listing it seemed Google must have wanted to send out a strong message since even a branded search wasn't ranking.

Fast forward 13 days to today and I now see Interflora ranking not only for their brand but also for flower delivery London etc etc...

How is it possible that they managed to get back in the SERPs so quickly? Is it normal to get a penalty and be back up and running at position 1 in less than 2 weeks? Is that normal for a penalty?

I was under the impression that being caught gaming Google to the extent where they delisted you was something far more serious and had much longer term repercussions?

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Thank you Dr Pete, very exciting news indeed!!

The latest SEOmoz search ranking factors report I seem to find is dated 2011 http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors - any plans for an updated version at all?

Thanks. i'll be doing the Harlem shake when I get my first piece of link bait picked up

Tom and Robert, thanks for your replies guys. I like the idea of looking into using Google display network to serve up my own ads for YouTube videos embedded on my  site instead of competitors ads. Not sure if this is actually possible but will be looking into.

I am running a site in WordPress and would like to know if there is a way to block competitor ads from appearing for the videos I embed to my site? (the videos are not owned or controlled by me, just embeds).

Thanks..

Hi Takeshi... Shipping containers and luxury car hire are the two main areas for me right now. Yes Reddit has thrown up some good content ideas in these areas!  Thanks.and if you or anyone else knows any more I am all ears.

Since looking around for popular content discovery tools I came across a review about a tool called PostRank which seemed ideal until I learned Google had bought it and shut it down already

So far I have been using Google reader and Topsy to discover popular content in my niches but I am guessing there are a whole bunch of other tools out there that may work even better - please do let me know your favourites!

Gosh..thank you very much for all this. Super helpful info!

Recently set up some profile links on high domain authority sites like Twellow and Manta - could I get some opinions on whether these links typically get indexed and pass value please?

Also any tips on how to find profile links that do pass value?

and thanks for the reply/

Ok I see, I do have a few links going to it so I guess it's just a delay on OSE.

I have seen that a competitor has a link from Pinterest as does the site I am promoting but the competitors page authority on their Pinterest page is 51 versus mine at just 1. Have checked the backlinks to their Pinterest page and there are 156 sitewide links all from the competitors own domain which has DA of 17. Their Pinterest page wasn't published that long ago, has 2 followers and just a handful of pins.

Could I get some help to understand what could be the cause of this higher page authority please?

Another I found is http://expireddomains.net which has a nice filter

Another is http://justdropped.com

Thanks for your reply Brian - good to know.

Just came across a post written back in 2011 that speaks about using a 'link pinger' to bring attention to the link and expedite the process of Google recognizing the link. Is this something that still works today? If so are there recommended tools?

Awesome! thanks Takeshi