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Thanks Marie,

So....if I understand correctly, I should be sure to nofollow any outgoing affilaite links. What I'm not clear about is did I get a penalty from linking from my blog and network to internal pages to my main website? Do you no follow links from your blog / network or any related site in your control?

Or...should I just drop the inbound/outbound link issue and concentrate on adding content and getting more quality links?

Thanks,

Laura

Thanks Marie,

Can you take a look at my response to Stephen above. I have gotten some insight on backlinks and outgoing links and wanted to hear your input.

Also, the drop in traffic began before I changes my website a few weeks ago.

Thanks,

Thanks Stephen for your quick response.

The drop off has been in google, but that has been the main source of my traffic.

You mentioned spammy looking backlinks. The sites you mentioned are kids fashion resources. Do they look spammy as they added me each page or something? I think its their blogroll. So I should disavow these?

I also posted this on the google webmaster forum and two issues came up:

1) big increase in backlinks since early march using this tool:

https://www.majesticseo.com/reports/site-explorer/referring-domains?folder=&q=dashinfashion.com&oq=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dashinfashion.com%2F&IndexDataSource=F

In this tool the links mainly came from network mykidsfasion.com and blog dashinfashion.blogspot.com (not sure why this happened, I did update links to new urls on new site). Does SEOMOZ have a tool to see the history of backlinks in a graph?

The increase in backlink issue brought up the recommendation to non-follow links from and to my blog and network (and main site).

Also, from external blog and network, should all of the links back to the main site be rel="nofollow". If not, is this considered spam / penguin? Or can I have one follow link from the network and blog back to the site? Can I link internal pages to my site, or do these all need to be rel="nofollow". Maybe this is what harmed my site. I had links to my internal pages on the blogroll area from my network and blog.

2) to non-follow outgoing links (affiliate or ones that look paid)

Another suggestion was to non-follow outgoing links....I run a kids fashion magazine and have pages on each designer - approx 450. Most of these links are not paid, as it is a resource for our readers. So....my question is should I rel="nofollow" most of these links, all of these links, only those that are an affiliate link? (My affiliate links will be set as redirects from an internal link).

Thanks so much!

Thanks for the quick response....I'm starting to feel like in on the way to the zoo

I also posted this on the google webmaster forum and two issues came up:

1. to non-follow outgoing links (affiliate or ones that look paid)

2. big increase in backlinks since early march using this tool:

https://www.majesticseo.com/reports/site-explorer/referring-domains?folder=&q=dashinfashion.com&oq=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dashinfashion.com%2F&IndexDataSource=F

mainly from my network and blog (not sure why this happened, I did update links to new urls on new site). Does SEOMOZ have a tool to see the history of backlinks in a graph?

3. increase in backlink issue brought up the recommendation to non-follow links from blog and network

So my big question is the non-follow outgoing link issue. I run a kids fashion magazine and have pages on each designer - approx 450. Most of these links are not paid, as it is a resource for our readers. So....my question is should rel="nofollow" most of these links, all of these links, only those that are an affiliate link? (My affiliate links will be set as redirects from an internal link).

Also, from external blog and network, should all of the links back to the main site be rel="nofollow". If not, is this considered spam / penguin?

Thanks so much!

I'm trying to figure out why my google traffic is going down...

I see that back in Feb and then March 2011 it started to drop, which I assume was pengiun.

I saw a gradual comeback in traffic until March 2012, which I assume the second drop was another pengiun update.

The decline continued gradually until I saw a big drop in October 2012 which is completely dropping off in the past month today.

I recreated my website on wordpress, improving content and removing google ads. Relaunched a few weeks ago and still see a big drop.

Any idea what happened? I only got a message from google about a large traffic drop in march 2012 and a 404 error increase recently when I launched the new site which I fixed with 301 and removing media attachment pages that were indexed that gave a 404.

Once concern is I have no idea if I have a problem with pengiun. Could I have a problem with too many links coming from my blog or soicial network? What's acceptable number of back links to not be spam? If you add pages in the blogroll is this thought of as spam with pengiun?

website: http://www.dashinfashion.com

Thanks for your help!

I can't believe it but it worked! I've been trying to fix this for days....Thanks so much for you help!

Thanks Marek, I know how to do a simple 301 redirect, which the generator creates but it doesn't work for a dynamic url : http://www.dashinfashion.com/kidsfashionnetherlands/mimpi.html?q=brand%3Amim+pi%3A&page=2&sort=relevance to http://www.dashinfashion.com/kidsfashionnetherlands/mimpi.html

Any idea how to do this with a dynamic url?

Thanks for your reply. I'm actually going to relaunch a new site and want to get rid of these duplicate pages. I don't have access to these duplicated pages to put the noindex.

Thought of doing a 301 since these pages will be eliminated with the new website. Any idea how to do a 301 for a dynamic url?

I setup the url parameter tool yesterday blocking out these pages but my concern is that when I relaunch my website I'll have lots of 404s.

I thought of also doing the 301 redirect for pages listed in google webmaster as duplicate pages but I can't figure out the right script. A simple 301 redirect won't work because its a dynamic url.

Do you know how to setup a dynamic 301? For example: http://www.dashinfashion.com/kidsfashionnetherlands/mimpi.html?q=brand%3Amim+pi%3A&page=2&sort=relevance

redirected to: http://www.dashinfashion.com/kidsfashionnetherlands/mimpi.html

Thanks!

I have a number of pages that appear as duplicate titles in google webmaster. They all have to do with a brand name query. I want to 301 these pages since I'm going to relaunch my new website on wordpress and don't want to have 404s on these pages. a simple 301 redirect doesn't work since they are dynamic urls.

here is an example:

/kidsfashionnetherlands/mimpi.html?q=brand%3Amim+pi%3A&page=2&sort=relevance

/kidsfashionnetherlands/mimpi.html?q=mim+pi&page=3&sort=relevance

/kidsfashionnetherlands/mimpi.html?q=mim+pi&page=5&sort=relevance

should all be 301 to the original page that I want to remain indexed:

/kidsfashionnetherlands/mimpi.html

I have a lot of these but for different queries. Should I do a 301 on each of them to avoid having 404s when I change my site to wordpress?

Thanks