Tell Google it was the SEO co's fault. Did you give up the name of the company in the reconsideration?
Posts made by EvolveCreative
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RE: Has Anyone Heard from Google?
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RE: Do index.php extensions count as duplicate content on Joomla sites?
No worries. This can easily be fixed with a rel="canonical" tag. Just place this:
in the head section of the /index.php page. Here is a good resource:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394
If you posted your website URL I'd be happy to help you identify other canonical issues.
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RE: Has anyone noticed no change is MOzRank since February?
We have noticed this as well. Alexa.com shows a good number of backlinks if you'd like to try them out during the down time. It's free.
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RE: Any opinions about the common anchor text?
These common or 'useless' anchor texts are what search engines grew up with. Before marketers started using anchor text to manipulate search engines, "read more," "learn more" etc was fairly common. Try focusing less on anchor text and more on the proximity of words around anchor text instead.
I'm not sure how Google differentiates between the two, but then again I don't really care because I don't use anchor text to improve rankings. I let my quality content do that.
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RE: Remove Unatural Links
Yes, give it some time. About a week. When you submit a reconsideration request to Google make sure to provide PROOF that you are doing everything possible to remove the unnatural links. If it was truly the SEO firm's fault make sure to mention the name of the firm in reconsideration request.
Was the SEO Firm providing you with a report of the links they built each month? I'd go through that report and try to remove each link 1 by 1.
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RE: Why are good authority links to my site not showing?
OSE has been pretty slow for me too. Try looking up your backlinks at www.alexa.com or your webmaster tools.
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A rel="canonical" to www.homepage.com/home.aspx Hurts my Rank?
Hello,
The CMS that I use makes 3 versions of the homepage:
www.homepage.com/home.aspxBy default the CMS is set to rel=canonical all versions to the www.homepage.com/home.aspx version.
If someone were to link to a website they most likely aren't going to link to www.homepage.com/home.aspx, they'll link to www.homepage.com which makes that link juice flow through the canonical to www.homepage.com/home.aspx right? Why make that extra loop at all? Wouldn't that be splitting the juice? I know 301's loose 1-5 % juice, but not sure about canonical. I assume it works the same way?
Thanks!