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If I would be at your place I would have use the verity of anchor text instead of just one anchor text that is Nike… why not change to set the verity of key phrases like Nike Shoes, Nike with area name, Nike with country name and other that go fit with your website. Try to get links from different and unique domains instead of getting multiple links from the same domain and this will help you… The kind of decrease sometimes is just the result of fluctuation so check before you actually start implementing massive links on the page. The idea to run a small promotional activity that is relevant to your category can also help! #justsaying hope this helps!

Hi, Thanks a lot that must be it Dan

You can definitely set www.yoursite.com/blog to redirect (as a 301) to Blogspot. However, your domain is not getting the SEO benefits from your blog by having it on Blogspot. Yes, you can put rich anchor text links, but it's safe to say that Google's smart enough to figure out that you own both your domain and the Blogspot blog. The best use you could get out the blog would be for link-bait articles, in the hope that people would then circle back to your e-commerce site.

I want to improve my rank on .com because i think i think searches there are just as relevant. The only people that search for barneklær are norwegian speaking weather it is on .no or .com. Will it help med to get more links from .no website ?

Yep, 5k more - if it is important to you to be sure, you could run some ads and look at the number of impressions.

4 of 5 top ranking sites on google.com are truely 'more international' then we are so that might be the reason. So i need more links from non-norwegian / us-based sites to improve my rankings on google.com?

Easy double check is to use Chrome - open a Chrome session and then do CTRL+SHIFT+N - opens Chrome in "incognito" mode... "You've gone incognito. Pages you view in this window won't appear in your browser history or search history, and they won't leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you closeall open incognito windows. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be preserved, however." You can also add the "Google Global" extension (FF & Chrome)... Google Global extension for Google Chrome - version 1.0 This extension allows you to get Google search results from different countries, regions, cities and US zip codes To download the latest version, please visit the extension page Hope that helps...

Oh absolutely - not only blogs. I am starting to struggle though to come up with ideas as to which places to "aquire" links from. There are tons of catalogues but i am afraid to just add 10 of them at a time also.

OK... it sounds like you are learning a lot.  There is value in that. Good luck!

Will you get any relevant traffic from the link? Does it look like a good place to get a link? Is the content worthwhile? What other sites do they link to? How many? Are they good quality? Will they place your link whatever it is if you 'donate' or will they only link to related websites? Is there an editorial decision to be made? Is the link nofollow or is there a chance they might make it nofollow in future? Do you have any guarantee that the site/link will remain there in the near/distant future? I don't think I would do it but they are a few things to take into consideration. Here's a WBF I just found but haven't watched yet: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-we-bought-links-and-it-worked and there will be useful stuff here: http://www.seomoz.org/pages/search_results?q=paid+links I should probably have opened the post with this, but here is Google's stance on paid links: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66736

Thanks, I will have to try it out as well.

Well the main article should be on its own page with its own value, so that could gain some steam if it is linked to or picked up by other blogs as reference. I think in the end it depends on how good the content is, if its good content then it should stay relevant and help your website.

No problem

you can check the crawling date of any page by clicking on the 'cached' link in SERP or through Google toolbar.

ohh yeah do us all a favour and keep it whitehat or at least grey.. don't join the dark side

It is recommended that you have no more than 100 links per page. Have you run the SEO Crawler across your site. This will give you a report including advice on number of links. In cases where there appear to be too many then it will flag that up. More importantly it will report other more important errors or omissions. I dont thin youre doing much wrong, though get the SEOmoz report and you will know better...

Should i worry about this or will simply the otherone overcome it in time ? You have properly 301 redirected the non-www version of your page to the www version so it will fix itself in time. Your site has a very low DA so Google may only visit you once/month. If you would like to resolve the issue faster you can log into Google Webmaster Tools and set the preferred version of your site as "www". It is not necessary to make this change if you properly redirected your site, but the results would update faster.

Does personalization does not come into picture when  viewing results in Ad Preview Tool ?

Yes - I believe your blog would look less-biased if it linked out to other useful websites.  Some people will say you should "nofollow" those external links so you don't "bleed" your page rank, but I don't think that is beneficial in today's SEO. That said - try to avoid to any overtly commercial sites that might run competitor advertisements through programs like Adsense.  It's a bad habit for blogs to just link to the first site they find through Google searches.  It's always better to link to a known brand like NY Times than a low-quality eHow.com type site. If you have other pages other than your homepage, I would link to the most relevant piece of content you have based on the the context.  You don't want to just link to your homepage in each blogpost.  The more specific and descriptive you are, the better.

Alan, Thanks for feedback. I ve written a mail to my website provider today. Most of what you are suggesting isnt available for me to change unfortunately. I think what you are suggesting will solve my problem fast.