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There was a Google Pengiun update yesterday called Pengiun 2.0. A ton of websites were penalized and lost rankings. I saw this this morning with a few of my sites as well. Give it a week or so for Google to adjust to the new algorithm changes before making any extreme moves.

More info on the algorithm change on Matt Cutt's blog here http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/penguin-2-0-rolled-out-today/

Great question! I would love to hear answers as I have a similar situation.

My suggestion would be to sign up for Google Local (make sure to merge Google Places and Google Plus) and have each driver verify the location by having Google send confirmation to their home. You can opt to not show the address on the Local page. This will make it so your company shows up on Google Local and Google Maps for each location where each driver lives.

let me know if I need to explain that concept more.

My Opinion: Change to longer branded username for consistent brand identity. If you brand properly they will remember your name anyway, regardless of how long it is.

Personally I have done this for clients and had great success.

Hope that helps

I agree with donford, A few is ok as long as they are relevant and it looks natural. I would never recommend it from directories.

If you or your friend have 2 websites, do a tri-link instead. i.e. you link to his from site 1, he/she links to your 2nd site

in my experience, ALL paid links should be no-folow. Also they may have penalized you for having all the same few keywords. A good link building strategy Must look natural to Google. Otherwise it's just a matter of time before you get penalized.

Sorry this happened to you, i feel your pain!

Hello Everyone,

So we have a problem. There is another business with the same name as ours showing up on Google Local/ Google maps when I type in our business name in Google. Our name is Brighton College, and the other business is Brighton College, however they are from the UK. They are showing up on the right hand side with their wikipedia page and on Google Maps and we aren't, but I'm searching in Canada on Google.ca across the street from our college. Any idea on how to fix this?

Thank you!

Here's some ideas...

free advertising (no follow link) such as banner ads, etc.

if you have more than one website, offer them a link from a different website

a free guest blog post for their website with a link back to your pdf

a link from your twitter or facebook pages

if you have free Google Ads coupons you could offer one of those, or offer to do some ads for them on your account with a free Google Ads coupon

I'll post more ideas if I come up with them

I think it depends more on the quality of the blog, domain age, links pointing to it, etc. If its a wordpress or blogspot blog that was obviously put up a week ago just to make one blogpost for a link then it will have little or no authority. However there are some great, high ranking blogs from blogspot and wordpress that have been around a long time, and a link in a guest post from those would help quite a bit. I would say it matters more how trustworthy the site is, not so much where its hosted.

Having said that, if two sites had the same ranking factors, same domain age, same links, etc. and one was hosted privately and the other on wordpress, I would think they would give the edge to the privately hosted one. I would think otherwise it wouldn't have much of an effect at all.

I thought this was weird and was wondering if anyone knows the answer to this...

I attached the image so you can see what I mean.

How does this company get away with having more characters than what Google Adwords allows? And why is there a "block ads from" thing underneath this ad, but not the others?

Sorry for the bad arrow, I'm on Windows XP lol

Thanks you

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I agree with Webdeal, go with the 301

article directories aren't as effective since the major panda update a while ago.

social bookmarking has its place, just like anything else. Do not bookmark from hundreds or thousands of low quality, PR 0 social bookmarking sites. It;s unnatural and Google will know what you are doing. Instead focus on fewer, high quality social bookmarks. Major social bookmarking sites help you get crawled and indexed faster, as long as you do it naturally

Hey everyone, How do I print off Google Adwords Certification certificate through Google Partners?

I have a ton of websites on Bluehosts servers... are my sites slow because I have so many sites on there? Or is Bluehost slow for everyone?

Hey everyone,

Just wondering, do pingbacks in Wordpress help or harm SEO? Or neither?

Haha no worries!

Penguin 2.0 was officially released today. I'm sure we've all seen Matt's video.

http://searchengineland.com/penguin-4-with-penguin-2-0-generation-spam-fighting-is-now-live-160544

Ideas for building sharable, linkable content? New strategies? What to avoid, what not to do, etc?

Let's get a discussion going!

yes it does thank you!