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I am not a website programmer and all of our websites are in Wordpress. I never change the coding on the backend. Is this a necessity if one wants to use Open Graph?

We have this - http://www.youtube.com/user/dahnyoga

In our link profile, I'm not seeing any links from You Tube back to us.

When I use Open Site Explorer to look at our competitor's link profile, I notice that Gaiam.com is getting lots of valuable links from their videos on Youtube. We have a lot of videos on Youtube as well and are not receiving links back. What is the secret? Our website address is fully shown in the profile and we seem to match them - what are we missing?

Thanks

In sifting through these two sites, I have also discovered one other thing. I checked their ISP neighborhoods and looked at shared domains to see how they were indexing. So far, almost all sites in the same neighborhood are not indexing. Could a bad ISP neighborhood by default bring your domain down?

We have hundreds of random bad links that have been added to our sites across the board that nobody in our company paid for. Two of our domains have been penalized and three of our sites have pages that have been penalized.

Our sites are established with quality content. One was built in 2007, the other in 2008. We pay writers to contribute quality and unique content. We just can't figure out a) Why the sites were pulled out of Google indexing suddenly after operating well for years b) Where the spike in links came from.

Thanks

It appears nobody in our company purchased links, which makes me wonder if somebody who is out to sabotage us purchased really bad links so that our sites would become penalized. How does one track who would do this to you and how do you stop it?

We have no reason to purchase links as we pay lots of writers to provide quality content for us. This is very frustrating.

Thanks - I will have IT look into that. Can't imagine why the sites would stop working out of the blue when they have been functioning well for the past few years.

Hi;

We had been working on quality links when an employee decided to secretly speed matters up it appears. Every single one of our sites has had a spike in links, but so far only the two have been penalized completely from Google. On other blogs, we had a huge drop in keyword rankings. Trying to figure out the randomness of penalties.

We had RSS feeds put into all of our blogs that point to each other, is it possible this is creating the spike in links? Or would that show a consistent link increase.

Hmmm, I see what you are looking at. Thanks for the heads up on that tool. Somebody else in the company must have purchased links without telling the rest of us. I noticed it happened to some of our other sites as well and they were penalized by Google.

How does one fix this?