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Thanks Chris, this looks interesting!

Hi,

We are in the process of switching from *.net to *.com and I am looking for some resources on this.

Any suggestions?

Thanks for the information, did you see any benefits for SEO?

Does anyone know more information about this directory? Is it a good quality directory that I should pay to get listed on?

The anchor text is for the whole site. The home page is not the only page I am seeing crazy rankings for. The site name is http://plasticplace.net.

Thanks so much for taking a look!

I noticed that Moz uses Webengage on their new Moz analytics. I can't help but love it but I'm wondering what are the main differences between qualaroo and webengage?

Why did they choose webengage?

Even though it's there for linking purposes only?

Thanks for responding.

The other links in the footer are not in the main navigation bar on our site (Terms of service, wholesalers, about us...). But the links that we will be putting into the about us paragraph are for specific best selling products we want our users to buy that are part of our main navigation funnel.

Take a look at this site: http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/ it's a very nice site but the paragraph close to the footer comes across as a bit spammy. This is something the development team is interested in. Is this considered going against best practices?

For our new site we created a simple navigational footer. The development team wants to put a short "About Us" paragraph with relevant links to our products or services.

I know putting footer links for the search engines is a big no-no, but is this different because it's meant for the users convenience?

This is an image of our unfinished footer: https://www.diigo.com/item/image/3vpdp/jihw Are there any other changes  we should implement?

Thanks!

Thanks for the great answers! This is very helpful for me.

I just checked this morning and it looks fine for me. Hope the same for you!

Thanks for easing my worries

I was trying to look at my Google webmaster tools to see the sites that are linking to me. I got a message saying there is "No Data Available". Here is a snapshot: https://www.diigo.com/item/image/3vpdp/xihj

It worked fine last week, anyone know how this happened?

Your 100% correct that I should remove as much poison links as possible.

Google doesn't recommend using the disavow tool if you didn't receive a spam warning. Additionally google wants you to try to remove the actual link from the web itself. This would be a huge job to do if I'm not completely sure what is actually causing the fluctuations.

I should do it as soon as I can but I first need to ascertain that this is indeed causing the volatile rankings.

I sent you a PM

While I agree with you that there are some links I should get rid of, I don't think the ranking fluctuations have to do with back links because then I would have probably saw changes to my rankings on the days of the updates.

Please correct me if this isn't the case.

It's actually not bad, here's a snapshot of the anchor text: http://awesomescreenshot.com/01f1k00j2f

I check the google wmt weekly. I have never seen a link warning yet. Additionally all the rank fluctuations didn't happen when there was google updates, which would have been a sign of a penalty.

In the past the company had an Indian SEO company posting links to our sites on really spammy sites. I tried to contact some of the sites but I couldn't get them removed and I am hesitant about using the disavow tool.

I sent you a PM with the domain.

I need your help. My rankings have been on a wild roller coaster ride since I started optimizing the site with standard on page optimization changes. (No keyword stuffing or over-optimization...) I have only made positive changes for the content on the page; I created unique descriptions for every product. I redirected some urls that weren’t readable into a more user- friendly format.

I am only doing completely organic link building, really.

Yet for some weird reason the rankings initially rose and then steeply fell and ever since have went back up to the top and right back to not in the top 50 results.

Just to give you an example this is a graph of one of our main keywords: https://www.diigo.com/item/image/3vpdp/gd2q

This is another keyword that we admittedly never were in the top 5 results but usually we were in the top 20. Check out the wild fluctuations. If it wasn't the main keyword we were going after, I would probably laugh. https://www.diigo.com/item/image/3vpdp/rcy9

I asked an expert he said he think it might be from a major issue with internal competition. The keywords that seem to fluctuate the most, have numerous landing pages that compete for the same keyword.

Since we sell the same object in many many different sizes, thicknesses and colors it only makes sense that we have the same keyword on many pages.

I would love someone that is an expert in this area to have a look at the site and give actionable advice so I can stop the craziness.

Do you have any suggestions?

Do you have anyone that you’d refer for this type of job/consulting?