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Also don't forget that these tools aren't perfect; they won't always show every single last link. For example, I have a followed link from SEOmoz here that I have yet to see show up on my OSE link profile. (been about 3-4 weeks.)

Point being, if you see the link on the site and can confirm it's followed - rest assured it's passing you juice no matter what spiders recognize.

well you can find out how it's been indexed by typing in your domain. For example, if your domain is www.whoopsee.com then google "whoopsee" and see what it returns.

Regardless, this doesn't matter. What you NEED to do is simply do a redirect. Choose one, www or non-www. I prefer www but others prefer other things. It is not going to hurt you if you perform this redirect right this second, no matter what Google has indexed. If you do NOT perform the redirect... THAT is what will hurt your site.

So.. don't delay and don't worry! You will find that things will improve. Keep this in mind - performing a 301 redirect will pass link juice. Meaning if you point domain.com - www.domain.com then all previous links pointing to domain.com will pass juice to the new permanent redirected www.domain.com

Does this make sense?

Long story short - Your site will not be worsened by this redirect. It will be benefited. Because right now, Google sees them as two different sites and they are competing against eachother and link juice is split between them. Join like Voltron and move forward!

In your AdWords account, don't forget to use the Keyword Tool.

It isn't the end-all be-all, but it will definitely get you on the right path.

P.S. I looked up your site and I just want to add a bit of criticism from a user's standpoint (please take it in the spirit in which it is intended.): All your graphics on that front page banner are... blurry. Get 'em high-res if you can cause it hurt my eyes to look at and I'm sure I won't be the only one bothered by that. Not trying to be a jerk, just trying to be helpful.

Yes it definitely matters.

You're using Wordpress? You need an SEO plugin to help with these issues. Look into installing Yoast. It should clean up your duplicate content issues. Google it + duplicates for more info. I personally don't use Wordpress much but do have a small amount of experience with it and Yoast.

Good luck!

Won't really influence your DA. I'd worry less about that number and more about whether it is good for the user's experience.

Yeah they are absolutely confused, but good on you for taking time out of your busy schedule to try to help out somebody with a Google penalty! This person is clearly a bit misinformed, but it still makes me happy to know that webmasters like you exist!

That said, please don't let your friends send messed up link removal requests like these with incorrect URLs and such. That will just make it harder for all of us in the future. And that is my Public Service Announcement for the day.

Fair enough! If there are conflicting opinions, I'll be surprised. Google has said since about 2008 or 09 that they are parsing Javascript functionality. Something about creating virtual link structures for spiders, blah blah but that's irrelevant really.

Anyway, good luck!

Well I'm assuming this code is modified and isn't live anywhere as it's kind of a mess and I don't mean formatting-wise. That said, clearly your question is mainly on the div onClick functionality and whether or not that passes link juice.

To my knowledge, so long as the href is in place you will be fine. Google parses Javascript functionality pretty well and this is one of the simpler JS functions around.

So my answer is: yes.

Yikes..

Look, don't take this the wrong way, but from my understanding your site is pretty much the type of site Google wants to rid the net of. And I think many of us would say, "rightfully so." There may be a few here who disagree with me... maybe. And I'm sure we will all have the utmost respect for you as a person.

But to come on here and ask how you can make $2000 per month by boosting your spam site is pretty much against everything we are doing here. I doubt anybody will tell you "oh just go ahead and do this and you'll be making 2 grand per no problem.."

I mean... really?

In short, I'm thinking this is the wrong place for this.

Assuming the content is high quality and relevant, it's perfectly fine. If you are writing an article about financial bookkeeping on a hip hop blog... maybe a bad idea. But if it seems relevant and you actually think readership of the blog in question will find value in the article, then absolutely! Go for it!

This is interesting, thanks for posting it. The more cases like these we as an SEO community hear about the more we learn on how to approach and deal with them.

At the moment I don't have any advice but I have a question -

Can you expand on the part where you "showed that everything you could do was done?" As in, did you take screenshots, list domains, post email text, spreadsheets, etc...? I'm wondering what exactly you gave Google in your reconsideration packet that they were simply not satisfied with.

Thanks and sorry to hear about all of this stress. It's not fun, I know.

Mike is right on. You just need to get back to work building links and content. (or the other way around)

You can 301 if you want. Won't be much of a point because yes, it will pass the "bad rankings.." although I'm not sure that's what's going on here. 301 passes link juice, meaning good and bad. It's simply informing the world that "hey, this page lives over here now so carry on." If you want to truly start over, you must do just that.

Yes, reach out to the natural links and inform them. You can do so in a way that is enticing to a webmaster. Don't forget, you're asking them to do work for you. Make it seem worth their while. Be polite and phrase it in a way like "hey just so you know that link is now broken. In order to improve functionality and user experience you may want to change the link to ______."

That way there's a motivator for them.

Hope we've been helpful.

p.s. I like how you posted this to "Behavior & Demographics."

tee-hee

ha! Congrats! You just earned yourself a followed link. All in a day's work!

Nope. Just do as you are doing - email the webmasters and keep track of all these emails where they are demanding money from you. Take screenshots and include them in your reconsideration request. Use Google's Disavow tool in the very end, but only after you've made an effort.

Google wants to see that you have made an effort to clean up these links and that you are able to identify what spam is and which links should not exist in your profile. So success or no, keep track and you will eventually get where you need to be.

Your assumption is correct. The disallows you listed are directories, not pages. Therefore, anything within the Plugins folder will be disallowed, same with the cache and themes folder.

So you may have multiple files (and I'm sure you do) within each of those folders.

I don't think your company is too small at all. Revenue under 2 million?! Please and thank you!

Goodness.. Are SEO firms truly that busy right now? Or is it laziness? What's goin on here, people?!

I don't have any suggestions to offer you at the moment, but I'm baffled that you are having this much trouble. You are willing to pay for a service... that should be all it takes! I work in SEO for a company, not an SEO company. Therefore I can't help you. But if I were freelance or working for a marketing consultant I would have replied to your email within an hour of receiving it!

What in the world is going on...! Good luck to you. I think posting your query here was a good move, ultimately. At least no harm can come of it.

Interesting. Keep us posted, will you Eblan? I'm curious to know how this works out.

Yeah Crusader is right on. I think the answer to your question, in a nutshell, is "no probably not and why would you want to?"

The thing is, the ranking for the unrelated page won't beat out the blog post where your link juice is originating from for multiple reasons, but mainly because it isn't as relevant. The blog post is more relevant. But it accomplishes what you want just the same. In the blog post, you explain why they need this CRM tool for fitness management and that's where your conversion takes place. The fitness management crowd isn't clicking your CRM link no matter where it's ranked, most likely. If they were searching for a CRM tool they would probably google "CRM tool." See?

So I think that you actually WANT your blog post to rank better and be the page the user lands on regardless. In this scenario, Google's functionality exists a certain way because they have figured out the best way to get the end user to their desired content. In this case, it will always view your blog post as more desirable content for that search string.

Hope we were helpful. I think you'll do just fine.