Welcome to the Q&A Forum

Hi 
I have quite a lot of 4xx errors on our site. The 4xx occurred because I cleaned poor URLs that had commas etc in them so its the old URLs that now 4xx. There are no links to the URLs that 4xx.

What is the best way of rectifying this issue of my own making?!

Thanks
Gavin

Thanks EGOL

I think I have a better understanding of where I stand now.

Thanks again

Good question EGOL!

I have only just taken on the job of looking after our SEO and am leaning towards stopping our linkbuilder and adding the budget to our SEO company.

A more pragmatic answer would be that our linkbuilder is based overseas and doesnt cost as much as our SEO company would for linkbuilding.

My worry was that when our SEO company used a scare story re the linkbuilder's links they were pitching for business rather than providing solid info.

Thanks

Hi Donnie

Thanks for your answer. That makes a lot of sense. I was thinking it might have been our SEO agency using some scare tactics!

Thanks again

Gavin

Dear all

After talking with our company's SEO company they have advised that a link builder we employ to post artciles is posting on sites which will have negative page rankings / equity and which Penguin will penalise.

These are the sites our link builder is posting on:

wordpress.com
weebly.com
blogger.com
livejournal.com
tumblr.com
squidoo.com
blog.com

Ouir SEO company have advised we ask our link builder to stop posting articles to these sites as Penguin will penalise us because of it.

Do you agree?

Thanks

Gavin

Thanks Mat

Thats exactly the result I'm after. I'll give this a go and try.

Thanks

Thanks Micah

I'd be happy to take that idea forward, however would have trouble convincing my CEO!

Cheers

Gavin

Hi guys

My company CEO is concerned that when her name is googled pictures of a glamour model appear in the image results area.

The glamour model shares a second name with our CEO and this is why the model's images are appearing.

I have been asked to rectify this situation.

My CEO has a linked in page and twitter account which are underused but no personal page on our company website.

I was thinking of buying the url for the CEO's name and optimizing a small site for her name with bio etc and links to twitter, lined in etc. Would this be the best strategy?

Thanks

Gavin