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I would suggest sharing your tactics and results or just keeping it to yourself - not just boasting without any evidence or details, it just leads to skepticism.

You will be paying them to identify issues you could do yourself, assuming you had the time and ability. If you don't then you might need to pay someone to do that for you. But you should get a couple of quotes and get feedback on any company / service you consider.

Keep in mind they are not offering to do any of the leg work of getting low quality links removed, which is tough. You'll either need to learn how to do the outreach to get links removed, document it all, and file a reconsideration request or get someone to do those tasks as well.

If you do have the time, you should have a look through some recent SEOmoz panda/penguin guide posts and do it yourself. You'll learn a lot!

Good luck.

IMO If you want to recover from Panda, building content on crappy free-for-alls like Squidoo or Hubpages isn't the way to go.

If you're going to create some new unique content, make it awesome and post it on your own site OR create extra-awesome content and try and score a guest blog on an authority site in your niche.

Here are a couple of recent posts:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-build-and-operate-a-content-marketing-machine

http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/creating-an-editorial-calendar-for-content-marketing/

There was another really good one recently I'll try and find to share.

So gald they are gone, it was extremely outdated and most of them were junk. People were still submitting to them due to the fact that they were on an SEOmoz list!

Checkout Raven Tools, sounds like it may be a good match for what you're after. It's a suite of SEO tools, including keyword research, ranking, competitive data etc.

From their Keyword Research Tools page (http://raventools.com/internet-marketing-tools/research-assistant/

How it works

The Raven Tools Research Assistant integrates third-party data from SEMRush, SEOmoz, Google AdWords and OpenCalais and its Alchemy API. For domains, the Research Assistant automatically reports metrics for organic and paid keywords, including rank, traffic, costs and volume. For pages, the Research Assistant extracts keywords from the page’s content and sort them by semantic type. And for keywords, the Research Assistant uncovers matching and related keywords and ranking URLs.

Track data in depth elsewhere

With one click, you can add keywords or competitors you uncover in the Research Assistant to the Raven Tools Keyword Manager, Competitor Manager and/or SERP Tracker.

It may have to do with the size of the index is tool is reporting from - obviously Google has a much larger index of the web and therefor can see more links.

You could use rel="canonical" back to the original post on the recruitment company site's job listing. And/Or a link back to the recruitment company site listing, 'this ad was originally posted on x recruitment site' - if they are using RSS feeds to distribute the job ads there are Wordpress plugins that can add this automatically, such as Yoast's SEO plugin.

I'd recommend the Adwords learning center if you feel confident enough after studying you can even take the Adwords exam(s) and get certified.

410 will kill the link equity. In cases similar to yours, I have implemented a 301 to the category page of the product removed. This gives users products similar to the one they were looking for, and retains link equity.

Yes, that content is probably plastered over hundreds of crappy sites.

Step one would be to re-write the content on your site.

However, you'll still have the problem of having all those low quality UAW links.

In Open Site Explorer, filter the results by choosing **Show 'Only Nofollowed' **

It'll likely be/get flagged as a link network, it's not a good SEO practice.

You'll be better off spending the time writing awesome content for your core site and looking into guest posting opportunities.

Good luck.

If you're using tags internally to help organise content, you could just stop them from appearing on the front end of the site.

The alternative is to keep them on the front end, but to no-index the tag pages.

My initial thought was along the same lines, the legit way: Adwords, Bing Ads, Facebook etc, all of which have geographic targeting options.

You might look into getting your content published on a higher quality and higher trafficked site than most of those found on MBG. Find the authority blogs in the niche and try some manual outreach.

I vote for adding it to your existing site. This way you are continually adding new, quality content to your site and hopefully earning links in the process!

If you have it external to your existing domain, you are effectively splitting your domain authority and doubling your work in promoting two sites.

1. Can googlebot see the text?

Login in to Google Webmaster Tools, go to Health > Fetch as Google This will show you exactly what they can see.

2. Could you be penalised for it?

If it's just keyword spam, yes. Make sure the content isn't there just for bots, but is useful for visitors and you should be fine,

My advice would be not to do it. It's a very outdated tactic that will likely have zero impact, or perhaps even harm your site.

Instead you might want to look into content marketing, blogger outreach etc

Have a read of these:

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/guide-to-guest-blogging/

http://www.copypress.com/blog/outreach-specialists-bible/

Good luck.

Have used them locally (Australia) so my experience may differ from what you can expect over there.

In short, when they take over ppc management you lose all control and input into the setup / running of the account. If you or your client don't want to bid on brand keywords, too bad. A couple of clients (previous job) told us they thought they were too pushy and salesy.

Interested to hear how others have found them

I'm currently looking into solutions to help reduce ppc manual workload, such as Wordstream, Aquisio and Marin.