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We aren't in any sort of penalty, the site has been around close to 14 years and over time it has just picked up some crappy links. I figured it would be a good idea just to be proactive and get rid of stuff that I know is bad.

I am unsure to be honest. We had an organic traffic drop in 2012 the week of the penguin release. We launched a new site last year which killed organic so I am trying to improve our rankings. I can say confidently we have had nothing in Webmaster Tools, but maybe it has hurt traffic.

Recently we switched to https so I started using self-referential rel="canonical" on all my pages. I can't figure this out, and nobody else can either. I am on all sorts of boards, forums, groups, and nobody has ever heard of this. I just don't get it.

I am going through links and trying to figure out what to disavow. I found a domain under "Who links the Most" I wanted to see what the exact link was and I can't find it when I download all links. Why would that be?

If you try to type in just the ip address it will show up as this webpage not available. I don't know how Google has access, or why they would crawl a dns server.

That is actually my old thread. I never figured it out then either, I just know the number has almost doubled.

I never solved the problem. I made a new post to see if anything has changed. It seems strange that nobody else has ever had this problem. I looked all over Google and nothing. I just ran Screaming Frog and nothing showed up.

Just want to add that it is not my actual server but my dns server.

That is a good starting point. I have a little bit different problem though. My ip already has a 301 and it doesn't show up in site: at all. So weird.

I am showing thousands of links from my servers ip address. What would cause that?

I actually responded back with some more questions and a new person responded with this-

"I understand that you've switched your non SSL website example.com to a secured website https://www.example.com and you want to verify that version in order to use the Site Move feature.The reason you are being redirected to the dashboard is because Bing Webmaster Tools will identify your site thru the domain therefore the SSL and non-SSL version of the site is basically the same in Bing Webmaster Tool. If you already have 301 redirects set to your pages then there's no need to use the site move feature. The permanent redirect that you've placed should already be sufficient for Bing to change your site to http to https."

I have had any problems just leaving it as it is. Google on the other hand has dropped a few percentage points.

From what I have found none of my competitors are using affiliate marketing so it would be nice to get in early. I didn't think it would be free, I figured there would be some cost involved. I just talked to Hasoffers and they seemed to be pretty impressive I might give them a try.

I work for an ecommerce company and would like to setup some sort of affiliate marketing similar to Amazon.

1. If someone was referred to our site and they made a purchase we would pay out.

2. If we referred a user to someone else's page and they made a purchase we would get paid.

I looked into http://www.commissionfactory.com/ but wasn't sure if that would meet my needs. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Well that is irritating.

Last night I switched my site from http to https. Both sites are verified in Webmaster Tools but when I try to use the change of address it says-

Your account doesn't contain any sites we can use for a change of address. Add and verify the new site, then try again.

How do I fix this?

I could add my site to Google Webmaster tools with no problems, but when I try to add it in Bing webmaster tools it just redirects me to what I already have. Everything is staying the same but the switch from http to https. Anyone else experienced this?

This is what I just received back from Bing and it doesn't seem right-

I understand that you switched to the https version of your site and you're now trying to use the Site Move tool. However, in order to do this, you must verify the https version of your site first. You cannot do this because it just redirects you to the dashboard. We thank you for reporting this to us. We've investigated on this matter and can see that you're already put a redirect from the http to the https version of your site. We also checked the /BingSiteAuth.xml file and this also redirects to the https version. At this point, we suggest that you remove the current website (http version) that is verified through Bing Webmaster Tool and add your https domain. When done, use the Site Move tool.

Thoughts?

I am always trying to optimize our website and have came across adding images to the sitemap. Has anyone done this? Did it make a big difference?

How long have the items been showing an error? Webmaster tools seems to be a little slow some times. I made a small mistake in my markup that caused me to have errors. It is now been fixed but it has just slowly been declining for 3 weeks and still has quite a ways to go.

Well that says the change of address tool isn't working so that doesn't make me feel too great.

I have that part down but in the instructions to move the site Google states -

Likewise, if you verify ownership with an include file that references meta tag or uses Google Analytics to verify ownership, ensure the new CMS copy includes these as well.

It seems like I can keep the same meta tag, but I am not sure.