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No, not really.

Do what Google tells you to do, and try to do more then that to get your trust back.

As Alan already said before: "And if that's true, you cannot easily work your way out of it by building good links"....

Here's my tip:

make a list of the lowest authority pages and their links. set your robots.txt for those pages where you get the traffic to (your page) and set that page to disallow or even delete that/those pages and create new ones and build up from there.

Create a from scratch campaign for your site! Build trust!.. and good customer content.

here's the official Google view:

Paid links

Google and most other search engines use links to determine reputation. A site's ranking in Google search results is partly based on analysis of those sites that link to it. Link-based analysis is an extremely useful way of measuring a site's value, and has greatly improved the quality of web search. Both the quantity and, more importantly, the quality of links count towards this rating.

However, some SEOs and webmasters engage in the practice of buying and selling links that pass PageRank, disregarding the quality of the links, the sources, and the long-term impact it will have on their sites. Buying or selling links that pass PageRank is in violation of Google's Webmaster Guidelines and can negatively impact a site's ranking in search results.

Not all paid links violate our guidelines. Buying and selling links is a normal part of the economy of the web when done for advertising purposes, and not for manipulation of search results. Links purchased for advertising should be designated as such. This can be done in several ways, such as:

• Adding a rel="nofollow" attribute to the <a>tag</a>
  <a>* Redirecting the links to an intermediate page that is blocked from search engines with a robots.txt file</a>

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<a>Google works hard to ensure that it fully discounts links intended to manipulate search engine results, such as excessive link exchanges and purchased links that pass PageRank. If you see a site that is buying or selling links that pass PageRank,</a> let us know. We'll use your information to improve our algorithmic detection of such links.

1. It depends on how many links you are going to get for your sponsorship/s

2. yes it will pass, if followed

If there are not hundreds of links, then it should be safe for you, but see at google's official view:

Paid links

Google and most other search engines use links to determine reputation. A site's ranking in Google search results is partly based on analysis of those sites that link to it. Link-based analysis is an extremely useful way of measuring a site's value, and has greatly improved the quality of web search. Both the quantity and, more importantly, the quality of links count towards this rating.

However, some SEOs and webmasters engage in the practice of buying and selling links that pass PageRank, disregarding the quality of the links, the sources, and the long-term impact it will have on their sites. Buying or selling links that pass PageRank is in violation of Google's Webmaster Guidelines and can negatively impact a site's ranking in search results.

Not all paid links violate our guidelines. Buying and selling links is a normal part of the economy of the web when done for advertising purposes, and not for manipulation of search results. Links purchased for advertising should be designated as such. This can be done in several ways, such as:

• Adding a rel="nofollow" attribute to the <a>tag</a>
  <a>* Redirecting the links to an intermediate page that is blocked from search engines with a robots.txt file</a>

<a></a>

<a>Google works hard to ensure that it fully discounts links intended to manipulate search engine results, such as excessive link exchanges and purchased links that pass PageRank. If you see a site that is buying or selling links that pass PageRank,</a> let us know. We'll use your information to improve our algorithmic detection of such links.

hi

most of these notice are relating to your comment system and not to the robots.txt file.

If you have 'no follow' active, that means for search engine robots: not to follow links!

If that's the only issue and was intentionally, then the notice can be ignored.

the example below reveals that all your comments are set to "no follow".

example page -comment: http://www.jobshadow.com/interview-with-a-neurosurgeon/#comment-4168

the html source:

<span class="<a class="attribute-value">comment_time</a>"><a href="[#comment-4268](view-source:http://www.jobshadow.com/interview-with-a-neurosurgeon/#comment-4268)" 
title="<a class="attribute-value">Permalink to this comment</a>" _**rel="<a class="attribute-value">nofollow</a>">**_April 29, 2012 at 4:19 pma>span>

sometimes less is more and you might want to check your low domain authority links!

and remember Goggle does not care how the site looks it only cares for  text and links.

You can learn from your competitors, do you want to!?

try google >> -inlink seomoz.org -site:seomoz.org

hi

if you want your site indexed on google.fr then leave it with french, but if you want both, so with englisch translation and on google.com, then I'd suggest the following structure:

www.site.fr/nourriture & www.site.fr/en/food

it's up to you in which language you create your site... Google does not care, they can translate

cheers

Or try RSS into your personal site:-)

Taysir,

here you are:

http://drupal.org/project/seo_checklist or nodewords as above

here's link to the modules related to seo.

http://drupal.org/project/modules?filters=drupal_core%3A87%20bs_project_sandbox%3A0&solrsort=sis_project_release_usage%20desc&text=seo

for further info look here: http://drupal.org/documentation

I agree with Ben on managing 3 sites if it is the same content or products|services.

There are other possible solution, which will depend on:

1.Do you sell the same products/services on each domain?

Yes: Well you can do that, without any issues, but if the content is duplicate and you are going to link all 3 domains together, can and possibly will cause issues.

No: Then, there's nothing to be worried about "cross sell on 3 domains".

There are other possibility's, which only you can answer, that is why it's always a good idea to provide more info when asking for input!

Identify and actively report those sites/links to Google.

Here are some links to help understand and to report your issues:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/negative-seo-myths-realities-and-precautions-whiteboard-friday

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2010/11/how-to-help-google-identify-web-spam.html

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/calling-for-link-spam-reports/

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEVxdmdRWFJRTjRoLWZVTHZkaTBQbkE6MQ

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164734

Here's a link to the validator on W3.org: http://validator.w3.org/ . Run your site through.

I haven't come across the ID tag for the head attributes yet, nor has W3.org.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.4.4.2

The CMS might me miss-configured or has a bug!

Link farming could be added to the list as well. Check your low PA & DA links!

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no worries.

As of some of the previous answer were suggesting that it depends on many other things too, for example:

• Are you selling those 'hammers' online or do you have shops in each city?

If Online only, then having a page for hammer/s and add tags for the city's. The question to ask then: what is the user experience and what content do I have for the city tags page?

Have a look at the below document from SEOmoz, if you haven't read it yet.

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/how-usability-experience-and-content-affect-search-engine-rankings

If there are shops in each City, then you will have the information for those shops in the tag page for the City... Address, phone opening hours etc....

hope this helps you further.

Here's the link for Google to report WebSpam:

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?hl=en

They will ask you the following:

• **Address of specific webpage that is misbehaving: (Required)**Example: http://example.org/veryspammywebpage.html
• Exact query that shows a problem (copy this from the Google search box): (Optional)Example: hotels in Paris
• Additional details: (Optional) (300 character maximum)Feel free to read our blog post about how to write actionable webspam report comments.

Here's the official Google  how-to:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2010/11/how-to-help-google-identify-web-spam.html

Those are so named IDN domains, but more to worry about the usage and how to stop them,right?!

So actually**, they are the reason for the drop, as they are spam link farms!**

Not much chance to stop them doing it, but making sure Search Engines realize you are aware of it and doing something against it!

This discussions and general info might help you, as others were fighting with similar or same problems too:

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/C-OoaJfb0Yg

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-change-launched/

http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/pissedconsumer-link-farm-dominating-google-serps

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_farm

May I suggest you an additional CMS for your consideration ,which provides you with all your requirements too.

Drupal from Drupal.org

Just out of curiosity.

What has this to-do with SEO?

Don't you think that you'll be better off with the community, who has built your E-commerce software?

To answer your question, no, but I do know where to look for Themes for each Ecommerce product, mainly open-source!

good luck

I am not sure if it's possible with the publishing system you are working with, but there are CMS systems on the market who have solved this issue.

They have done the following approach:

Create your main Article, Blog etc., tag them with your keywords and on your keyword page show the Article content as a teaser with a ''Read More" link to the full content page.

This is not considered as duplicate content!

Hope this helps!

Save the money or help for saving The Whales!

There are many other good Directory's around, yes Yahoo has 100 PA, but other are good enough too.

As always, content comes first, usability too!

A good approach in cases like these is to link the content via Tags to your City's.

So you will be able to link content to locations!