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Having the "SEO" in your title is pretty much a requirement.

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I can't answer that accurately without knowing A) What page on the sites you linked link back to your site site. B) What your website is about (theme, category etc.).

I've found AdWords data to be much more accurate personally.

To the OP, I'd say export to excel and do it that way. Try using some different filters.

You're lucky you got a manual penalty and not an algorithmic one. When you get a manual penalty you get to use the disavow tool, say your sorry, and come back. Don't hesitate to use the disavow tool since you got the manual letter.

We go with "Web Marketing Specialist" or "Web Marketing Strategist." Some of the other agencies around here go with "Digital Marketing Associate." I like ours better.

Yes, insert the links into the power point. Why are you so concerned with the number of links?

Without seeing the site it's a little hard to answer.

"and how many per month?"

Don't think that way.That's not how it works. Keep your blog going strong and then promote. Pictures and images will be big for you. Try to get them from your customers (pay them a little). Run a contest - Submit your pictures for a chance to win!

Something like that.

Hmm, well Slideshare, Scribd and Pinterest are the best for direct / leads and sales. LinkedIn can be a lead generator if you join some groups and watch the discussions. Facebook is a brand awareness tool and hardly anything else.

That's not a good way to define a goal. Your goal needs to specific, time-bound, achievable and measurable. You need to define your goal before picking a channel or else it's easy to get lost.

Nice link. Thanks for that.

Are they doing some of the things we mention in our 4 D process? If not, ask them why.

If it's B2C Facebook would probably be a good bet. Though, something tells me people will want to keep their medical lives private. Are you sure you want to be on social media at all. What's your goal? Direct leads / sales? Brand awareness?

Not that I know of. Nope. Looks like Ian may have made something according to this post:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/machine-learning-and-link-spam-my-brush-with-insanity

But I think he took it down due to the false positives. he might put it back up in the future though.

One of my sites with 200+ pages of unique quality content had 12 backlinks on all pages combined and it got slapped by Penguin. If they don't manually recover the site your chances of recovery are slim.

Well that's your problem. If you can't get them all taken down use the Disavow tool. Show Google that you tried your hardest to get them taken down manually though.

Not sure. Did you ever file a reconsideration request after getting the unnatural link warning?

Because it sounds like you were hit by every penalty Google has come out with. Contrary to popular belief, there is no threshold. You probably won't find the bottleneck and come bouncing back to the top as you once were... it doesn't work that way... unless you're a big brand like WPMU.org, JC Penny, Overstock etc. and get massive publicity over this.

After any penalty, algorithmic or manual, you're put on sort of a 'probationary' period. You'll get the tools you need to survive, but don't expect to get a decent job after being locked up... or in this case, bring in the big bucks again.

At some point a guru is going to come on this thread and tell you "don't loose hope" "you can come back if you make quality content and links!!"

I'm here to tell you to consider cutting your losses. Google isn't playing around anymore.

Try out AdWords again. Be creative with it. Mess around with the display network and exact match long-tail keywords.

Sounds like you have a LOT of cleaning up to do if you want to rank organically. You know this it seems. Honestly, I'd focus on paid search and do organic on the side. You've got a site that is converting and has been converting for a while - why not try out a stable source of traffic and see what sort of return you can get that way?

One of my websites had 12 backlinks when it was hit by Penguin. I didn't spend more than 5 minutes trying to fix it.... just sold it and moved on (told the buyer about the penalty of course). That is another option for you to consider....