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For the last few days a sidebar has been showing up on OSE and as a result I cannot see the social information on URLs, can someone fix this?

Thanks for your help doug, looking into that now

Update: Problem fixed and site is indexed, I owe you one

Hi people, I have been working on this new website for a month now and it has still not been indexed, here is a link: http://bit.ly/HNgzKG

Can any of you spot anything wrong with it?

I have tried submitting and also submitted an xml sitemap but still no joy.

Hi Jesse, thanks for the response, don't mind the harshness at all. I have all the data about URLs and the steps i took in a normal email but am not sure about how to attach it. What would be the best way and how to I do it?

Just about to send a reconsideration request to Google for my site: seoco.co.uk and would like your input.  I was going to include information about each URL I found and the steps I have taken but there is not room. What do you think of this:

“Hi guys, i got an unnatural links message from you back in February and since then my website rankings have fallen dramatically. I spoke to someone at SEOmoz and they said that my website probably got penalised for directory links so I have gone out and tried to get rid of all the low quality ones that I am responsible for and some that I am not.

Altogether I was able to identify about 218 low quality directory links. I attempted to contact every one of the directory owners twice over a two week period and I was able to get about 68 removed. I have used the disavow tool to devalue the rest.

Trying to get rid of all of those bad links was hard work and I have definitely learned my lesson. Rest assured I will not be submitting to anymore directories in the future.

Please can you give me another chance?

If my site still violates the guidelines please could you point out some of the bad links that are still there?”

What do you think? Can you think of anything else I should say?

Dave

and thanks for the good advice, I never looked at it that way

NP

Hi Marie, I hear most of what you are saying and will try removing some of the worst directory links, but I don't understand what you mean when you say the infographic links could be penalized - none of those links were paid for, I submitted to a few free infographic blogs and the rest are 100% natural

My URL is: http://bit.ly/hBJAG4

Just been hit with an unnatural imbound links penalty and don't know what to do. I haven't done any link building work for the last 3 years other then creating an infographic at Christmas that was incredibly popular: http://bit.ly/14lao4G

I have 0 paid links and I have never spammed a blog or forum.

The only thing I can think of is back in 2006/2007 I was directory crazy - I got listed in all of the (what I thought at the time) were good quality paid directories - could this have come back to haunt me?

Why do you think I have just been penalized now when these directory links have been there for years?

Should I start getting rid of the directory links? - they did cost me a lot of cash.

Can any of you spot any other links that could be seen as unnatural?

Thanks to anyone who can help in advance

I setup a wordpress blog about 6 months ago called Infographic Directory on this URL:

http://infographicdirectory.wordpress.com

and less then a week after I set it up I was #1 on Google for infographic directory and my posts were ranking reasonably well.

Because the blog was quite successful and got nearly quarter of a million visitors in the first few months I decided to take it a bit more seriously and purchased a proper domain name:

http://infographic-directory.com

I set up a proper 301 redirect about 6 weeks ago but my rankings are still terrible - worst then ever. I am getting outranked on Google for infographic directory by my Crunchbase.com listing for the blog name: infographic directory and my blog posts are not showing up in the rankings at all.

Should I just be patient or do you think I might have been hit with a penalty or something?

How come this blog post of mine which got lots of links has not been picked up by Open Site Explorer:

http://infographicdirectory.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/the-internet-a-decade-later/

I need fresh data

has there been a delay?

URL?

thanks keri, looking forward to it.

I doubt that those links are the reason you are being penalised, Google generally goes after text links, a few image links here and there will probably not do you any harm.

Hi guys, when will open site explorer update next?