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Hi John,

Why cant you add Google webmaster tools? if you do you may be able to use the disavow tools for these back linking pages that do not exists anymore. Here's a good read on the disavow tool and when/how to use it: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-disavow-tool-take-a-deep-breath

Hope this helps.

Hi Vikas,

Article submissions can be done but they require some strategy. If you are guest blogging you can use a site like myblogguest.com to find relevant niche related blogs that you can offer your articles to. This site is not free but can work in some niches.

You can post to squidoo.com ezines and other article sites but they don't hold the same value they used to. Read more.

Here is an effective method. Look for niche related blogs that are active and network within the niche. Once you can show a good amount of value by studying and innovating content, you will be able to post and earn real links.

Lastly my favorite method is to network**^** but place the articles on your own site. Gain bookmarks, Social media mentions, and the indexed content on your own domain.

Hope this helps.

Should we use 'disavow' if we dramatically dropped serps after Oct 5th, but did not receive a warning?

Not necessarily, here is a good read on who should use this tool: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-disavow-tool-take-a-deep-breath

HI Ian,

The page www.short-hairstyles.com/~wwwshor exists and is a duplicated page. You can no index the page in you robot.txt file or you can add a canonical tag to www.short-hairstyles.com. Last option is to do a 301 redirect.

If the content that exists on the page is identical then yes, it is duplicate content and may negatively impact your site. You can set up a canonical tag to one page and let the search engines know that the content is pulling from one place.

However, if you are optimizing these pages and building links to them the canonical will not be a good solution. If these pages are targeting keywords you will need to build unique content for each page.

From my understanding the onsite work is only 30% of the pie. To ensure that your onsite is good you can use the SEOmoz on page report card.

If the On page data is good all that's left is who is linking to you, how relevant are they, and how authoratative are they?

The onpage content that you were ranking for may have built natural links. People may have referenced it which helped you get results.

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Hi Punit,

It all depends:

Does this site have a clean link profile?

Is the site providing good content?

Do they give any value?

Will the users of this site find your site helpful?

If yes then do it. If not don't.

Why?

Google wants to rank sites that earn their keep

Google wants to show value

Google wants you to find results efficiently

I hope this helps : )