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The danger of the disvow tool is that it is possible to disavow links that weren't harming your site. If you disavowed a number of decent links it could explain losing some indexation. My other thought is perhaps the deindexation is part of a penalty that you have yet to be lifted.
Did you file another reconsideration request? Sometimes, if you're lucky, they do give you some useful feedback.
Also consider:
Good luck.
Have you considered scaling the task, rewriting perhaps the top 20% of products to begin with?
It is a massive undertaking, but I think you'll find it'll be worth it.
"Overall I think they are reasonably priced..."
Based on what price?
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 It's a very outdated tactic that will likely have zero impact, or perhaps even harm your site.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.
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.
You could prioritise based on the pages that get the most impressions in search.
Sounds like a waste of money. Simply pinging search engines is not going to influence how likely they would be to index your content. It may help discovery, but you can use free tools to do that (pingoat, pingomatic), Wordpress has the function built in.
Not sure why you would want to nofollow 95% of your outgoing links, might throw up some red flags, but sounds like the plugin you are using to nofollow may not actually be working. Have you tried adding the html manually to the links?
"If you'd like to add keywords that contain multiple words (phrases), you don't need to use hyphens or any other punctuation."
Start with the SEOmoz SEO Guide - it covers most of what you are after, once you have the basics down start looking through (searching) SEOmoz blog posts to get more specific on each of the 4 areas you've outlined.
I've heard back from Market Motive directly, they claim to refresh the courses each quarter, but may add units more often than that.
Seems to be a number of Timber businesses at that address...
Regardless, 17 occurrences is going to set off some red flags.
Just trying to help you out with your query.
Good observations in regard to EMDs in general. However, if you take a look at the site in question, I think you'll agree the OP needs to do a lot of work on the site regardless of the fact that it's an EMD.
If you like wasting your money, continue.
There is no value to this service, it is exactly the type of thing (duplicate content on low quality free-for-all sites) the search engines have been working to devalue, deindex.
If you want results, focus on getting each piece of your unique content on just one high quality, related website.
Do a search on SEOmoz for content marketing, blogger outreach etc or
Have a read of these:
Honestly, that site is poorly optimised. I wouldn't be surprised if you earn an over optimisation penalty, or already have one.
There are 17 occurances of 'timber Melbourne' on the homepage.
The site is not written for humans, first sentence on the homepage, "We sell Timber Melbourne Wide. Timber Melbourne are the Melbourne Timber Specialists"
That is really bad.
Step one would be to re-write the content for humans, then revisit the on-page SEO, like titles, metas, alt tags etc. Then have a look at the UX, it's really hard to read the content on that background.
Lots of work to do here my friend, I suggest reading the SEOmoz beginners guide to SEO first though.
Good luck.
Can anyone supply feedback on the quality of Market Motive courses?
I was considering the PPC course, but am curious if there is anything beyond what can be found in the Adwords learning center?
Is the content frequently updated?I couldn't see anything regarding remarketing in the curriculum.
I have emailed them directly, but would be interested to hear feedback from any Mozzers that have taken a course.
Cheers!
I don't know how effective using an affiliate program on your ecommerce store will be, but here is some advice re CJ:
If you have any issues with an affiliate program, CJ won't mediate, they will instruct you to contact the partner directly through their built in mailing system. The times I've tried this I've never received a response.
Some programs don't allow deep linking, which means you have to send traffic the partner's home page, which is highly ineffective. This is not limited to CJ affiliate programs, but it's something to look out for when selecting partners to work with.
I personally prefer Share A Sale, but you should try them both and see what you think.
Hope that helps.
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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.