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if your brand name is your domain name then you should already rank for that. don't build links while trying to recover from a penalty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=393nmCYFRtA

search pages are usually intentionally blocked from getting indexed to avoid spamming googles index. so if tyou are doing that, then it doesn't matter how you are linking.

Excellent sir.

We will know pretty soon how everything shakes out once people start reporting back, but my suggestion would be that if you have a site that is not penalized you should NOT use this tool as an effort to try and clean up any spammy back links and clean up your good-to-bad backlink ratio. The reason is, this is a tool to be used as a last effort in trying to come back from a penalty when there are some links you tried to remove but simply cannot.

Sending this report will put eyeballs on your site and bring unnecessary attention to your site. Why ask Google to review your backlink profile and look at the nastiest links pointing to your site if your site is currently healthy.

An exception to this rule I think would be if you notice you are clearly under a negative SEO attack. Then it would make sense to be proactive.

Brand new site, how long have you seen that in the top result. A lot of times when a new site emerges Google temporarily does a "hello world" ranking and for a short period of time gives the site good rankings, then it goes away.

The site is of course junk, maybe they are redirecting some other sites to this URL. I don't see any backlinking going on yet.

Welcome aboard!

Content needs to be unique especially if you want to rank.

How many pages are we talking about, I would suggest you get the content re-written by someone if it's not a ton of pages.

It all has to do with quality, nothing to do with speed.

Google won't punish a site for going viral, but they will punish a site for manipulative link building in an effort to manipulate ranking positions.

I'll give you a direct answer. No. Directory submission sites are no longer relevant due to search engines, and they are seen by Google as nothing more than sites designed to sell links and pass PR.

Smart link builders stopped this activity years ago. There are only a small handful of directory sites like yahoo that are worth submitting. 99% of them are not.

If you find a directory site that is in your niche and nofollows your link then it might make sense to get listed as a possible traffic driver.

It takes a lot to get your site removed from Google index, the easiest way is to be hacked then your site gets banned until you remove those links.

What would most likely happen with directory submissions is that the keywords you are targeting get suppressed in the rankings, you go from page one to page 50 for example and your traffic drops. Google emilas you a letter in WMT saying they detected unnatural link building and then you spend all sorts of time trying to get your links removed and disavowing and resubmitting for reconsideration.

Directory sites are dead, if you're going to do link building it needs to be one offs to individual sites who have never sold links, not on sites who's sole business is to sell links.

Heck no. Those types of links can get his site penalized.

If your rankings returned you're probably OK but I would at very least look at the biggest offenders with the highest number of links pointing to you and contact those guys first. Also make sure you changed all of the passwords and updated and security issues to make sure it doesn't get hacked again the same way.

Also, since it's one letter you have to craft you can just use it for all of the emails.I'd follow up at least once though a week later just to remind them.

a) visit the site

b) get the email address and webmasters email

c) paste the letter and shoot out the email

I bet I could do that in one day. it's probably worth it if they're spamming links to you, but it really depends on how important the site is to you. If your companies livelihood depends on the sites health then I would say do it.

The good news is the links don't have any of your real keyword phrases in them so you're probably OK even if you do nothing.

My first suggestion is to breathe and relax.

I don't see rockymountainfurniture.com ranking for "outdoor furniture" perhaps you are seeing personalized results?

The homepage is a parked page even. http://rockymountainfurniture.com/

Short and sweet - something like this:

Hi,

I am the SEO at mysite.com and I noticed your site was hacked! If you look in the source code of your homepage you can see hidden links to pharma sites in your source code. This can definitely result in your site being completely banned in Google.

I'm telling you this because our site was already banned, and we lost a lot of traffic as a result of this hack. You might want to take a look at your site as well and remove the code. Maybe you already know about your site being hacked, if so you can disregard this email. Thanks, Irving

Any link building company is being flagged by Google these days. If you're doing link building it needs to be independent and one offs and not share the same profile as other paid linking customers which is what you would get with a link building company.

crappy links indeed, however the reason is probably because they are greatly varying the anchor texts.

for example: buy air conditioning units from Aircon247

if they were using "air conditioning units" over and over again they would get penalized for that but they are smart enough to know to create long tail variations that still contain the exact match "air conditioning units"

that being said, they still may get dinged. Google.co.uk competition is less than google.com competition too so it's much easier to rank in the UK. Hope this info helps.

yes, i would look at the site and get it to be a homepage only link instead of sitewide. i am assuming the link is sitewide and all the same anchor texts with this suggestion.

You cannot get a site out of a penalty from redirecting the banned or penalized site to a new domain. If you're only looking to link images to the unpenalized site you're probably fine if you nofollow them since image links don't push rank. Keep the alt tag off of them so you're not suggesting any semantics. To be really safe if done properly you could javascript them.

I think it's a decent idea because thew privacy policy page is usually linked to from the global footer so usually this page accrues decent PR if the site has PR. Also there are usually very few outgoing links on a privacy page, and it's only a link on that one page and not sitewide which is good.

Definitely disavow them if you can't get the webmasters to cooperate. Article directory links are bad enough as is, scraped and reposted articles are worse.

I definitely agree, it's relevant and they will probably pass a lot of PR sine the privacy page is usually all text and limited outgoing links.

Easy answer. Keep the original page and create two new pages properly addressing each target which will be more effective, write unique content for each, don't 301 and don't canonical to one url (canonical each to it's own page)