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You have exactly the same content as a million other lyrics websites, so why should Google be interested in your PR0, PA18, DA2 website?
I think your doing pretty good with 15000 pages indexed via site:http://lyricstatus.com
I think what you need is a USP, not technical seo responses
A few years ago I did the worlds first MA in Social Media in Birmingham, UK. I know they went through a lot of effort to get something so new accepted and as the first batch we were really test subjects 
http://www.bcu.ac.uk/courses/social-media You might get hold of Dave Harte if you want some input.
I generally do a 2 hour lecture on SEO to students of the University's media school each year - they do a lot of web based stuff and accept they need to have a marketing compenent
Yep, I dont think its a penalty as such, its just what happens when you disappear from the rankings - maybe they wait for re spidreing of the whole site to return traffic. I have worked with 2 large sites that have this happen a few times and recovery takes a few weeks to get back to pre-downtime levels (where downtime is significant 1- 3 days)
I thought of recommending that Oleg, but often the people in a niche may also be ranking on the basis of spam, or may not yet have been caught.
If you have well known brands in a niche, then I think that is OK, otherwise I think the megabrands that have no need for linkbuilding are better signals to follow
Hi RyanWas me I think. It wasn't an article, but a comment on another post or in QA. I had a look but can't find it eitherBasically, I used Spin2submit before and after Panda and saw the massive difference. OSE found only 5 links pointing back, and only 1 of those was followedCheersStephen
and take "oak furniture" out of your homepage heading and meta description 
I normally use SEOmoz and a bit of SEMrush but I dont really know much outside of those two. Im looking to do a review of the big, trustworthy ones - along the lines of
I heard good things about Raven Tools and Web CEO. Ive seen mention of SEOpowersuite on this forum but the site looks spammy as hell
Anyone have a view on those 5 tools or any others in a similar vein? Or any other top line criteria I should be looking at?
Cheers
Stephen
You are likely getting your links from really low quality places then. Get links from better places
If you want bespoke SEO software, email frank@orchidbox.com Hes a programmer and SEO here in London and I use a lot of his private tools. It wont be $70 a month tho....
Ryan are you using the client's email address? Seems it may get a better response rate
Widgets are a long established staple of linkbuilding. Go ahead, it works
However, your competitors wont use anything with your logo on it and its tough to stop them removing your code links.
If you want your competitors to use it, best bet is to sidestep the entire issue and make a brand new, neutral site that promotes the widget. Then link back to yourself from that site (or sites)
Haha, yeah I just had a look. 27 is a bit over the top!
Having said that, I don't know if you are being penalized for that. It scertainly looks spammy to the naked eye.
Cut the extreme repetitions, especially in the lists (footer, article lists) and monitor your rankings. If rankings go up, you probably had too many and cutting was good. If you have no movement, then the keyword density does not have much effect at all
Would appreciate a post back letting us know what you did and what effect it had
Cheers
Stephen
If you build really crappy spammy websites, then you should worry about getting links from them
Generally web designers or developers putting links back to their own sites on sites someone else paid them to build is seen as pretty amateur and a dick move generally
Also have a Google for optimising pdfs for search, i know there are number of ways & options
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/how-to-optimize-pdf-documents-for-search
http://searchengineland.com/eleven-tips-for-optimizing-pdfs-for-search-engines-12156
Only the number of links. Stick the original 2 urls into Open Site Explorer and see if they have links pointing to them that could flow through that 301
If they don't have links pointing to them,t hen they are unlikely to be the cause of the rankings
I have not seen any incidences of a Penguin penalty where internal links played any part. Nothing in either of Google's link penalty notices make mention or inference of internal links playing any part
S
I wouldn't panic or submit a reconsideration request, but going forward I would make sure I am only building good, branded links from sites with pr3 and up.
If you have paid for any links in the past, I would quietly get those removed
Hi Domenic
How many are sitewides? What is the ratio of single domain to domain links vs sitewide to domain
Which of the two letters did you get? the crap links links discounted message or the you are penalised message for crap links message?
What links are Google Webmaster Tools reporting? That should be your best indicator of what Google thinks
S