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One thought is that it would add legitimacy to the comment, and get it approved. On some systems, the first comment needs to be manually approved, and after that the person can freely comment.

Have you checked out the link building section of the SEOmoz blog at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/category/4? The ten best link building places for your site are the ones that matter to your site. What's going to do well for your new website (in whatever niche it is) is going to be different than what would do well for my site about model battleships that shoot and sink each other. For me, a link from Geek Dad or ThinkGeek would be golden. If your site is a B2B site for city streetlamps, those links are going to do nothing for you.

I also would have fixed this with a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file. In addition, you have calusacrossinganimalhospital.com and www.calusacrossinganimalhospital.com that resolve independently, so you likely have at least six URLs for your home page.

Let us know if you'd like a hand finding the right rewrite code, or if your website developer is OK with just taking this instruction and fixing things for you.

We have had a known issue with the CSV export that we're working on resolving. I'll have the help desk chime in here when they get in in the morning. So sorry about the troubles!

If you're able to give us a little more information that would help.

Has the organic traffic dropped from all of the search engines, or just one?

Has it dropped for all of your pages or just some of your pages?

Has it dropped for all of your keywords or just some of your keywords?

Have you verified the site in Google and Bing Webmaster tools and looked for any messages and warnings?

When you redesigned, did you put in redirects from the old pages to the new pages (if your URL structure changed)?

If you search for Angela Paul backlinks you'll find info about a backlink building service. It's not usually of the type often recommended on the SEOmoz forums, but a search will tell you a little more about it.

Given that you're new to everything, I'd suggest reading through the Beginner's Guide to SEO at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo, especially the sections on links, and read blog posts here as well. It'll help give you an idea of what works and what are cheap shortcuts that may bite you.

It might actually have been Google's fault this time. They misclassified some sites as parked domains and they dropped out of the index. See the Search Engine Land post at http://searchengineland.com/dropped-in-rankings-google-mistake-over-parked-domains-118979.

We are all in the same situation right now. The Linkscape update has been delayed, which has affected teh competitive link analysis. We wrote a blog post on it at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/linkscape-index-delay-explained.

The redirects are necessary for pages that are indexed in the search engines (so people coming from a search result can get to the right page) and for pages that are linked, bookmarked, etc. You generally want to make sure that most pages you change get a redirect.

If you're looking on forums for opinions, you'll likely find that the opinions vary depending on the forum and the type of people that frequent each forum. I don't use Warrior Forum myself, but the people that go to that forum generally have a different viewpoint than the people who go to the SEOmoz forum. Around SEOmoz, some of those types of link building tactics might get you the same type of response that a sales rep for Omaha Steaks might get at a vegan supermarket.

Searching the SEOmoz blog itself can turn up some interesting resources. This is a site audit checklist for looking at an existing site: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-do-a-site-audit.

Hi Chris and everyone else,

Thanks for the comments. I noticed some slow response times yesterday. Right now things seem fine from where I am, but I'll drop a note to the developers and have them take a closer look at things and see if we can make sure the slow response times don't happen again.

Thanks!

Keri

It depends on what that one hour of work will get you. Is that one hour of work total, or are they prepping with an audit then spending an hour to explain it to you?

What have they said you'll get out of that hour?

Our guide to linkbuilding at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links can also be of help.

If your traffic, conversions, and rankings haven't changed, I wouldn't sweat losing a few green pixels on a toolbar.

Hey everyone,

I wanted to highlight today's blog post in case you missed it. In short, we're using a different algorithm to detect duplicate pages. http://moz.com/blog/visualizing-duplicate-web-pages

If you see a change in your crawl results and you haven't done anything, this is probably why. Here's more information taken directly from the post:

1. Fewer duplicate page errors: a general decrease in the number of reported duplicate page errors. However, it bears pointing out that:

• **We may still miss some near-duplicates. **Like the current heuristic, only a subset of the near-duplicate pages is reported.
• **Completely identical pages will still be reported. **Two pages that are completely identical will have the same simhash value, and thus a difference of zero as measured by the simhash heuristic. So, all completely identical pages will still be reported.

2. Speed, speed, speed: The simhash heuristic detects duplicates and near-duplicates approximately 30 times faster than the legacy fingerprints code. This means that soon, no crawl will spend more than a day working its way through post-crawl processing, which will facilitate significantly faster delivery of results for large crawls.

We had an excellent post about that from a YouMoz author in January. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-handle-downtime-during-site-maintenance should tell you everything you need to know!

Hi Ben,

I've assigned this question to our help desk, who should be looking at it soon. It looks like Roger is seeing a redirect in there when he crawls, yet the redirect isn't showing for a regular viewer.

Ritu, you can still click the link that says view the information for the original domain. Have you gone into Google Webmaster Tools and fetched the page as Googlebot to see if Google's crawler is also seeing the redirect?

I'd take a step back and stop building links, and start cleaning up the links that have already been built that are a bit fishy.

There's an article directory on a site with a domain about best pet insurance that links to the shoe store (http://bestpetinsurance.org/myarticledirectory/). A UK SEO directory has a link to the same shoe site, under the category of flowers (http://www.seoukdirectory.com/index.php?search=Internet).

If these links were built with your knowledge and you have access to the list of links that were built, go and remove the ones that were bought to just be links and serve no purpose to a reader. Also go through Google Webmaster Tools, Bing Webmaster Center, and Open Site Explorer to look at incoming links and remove those bad links.

Look at the content in those websites. Clean out the junk and make the content good enough that someone would link there without prompting.

In short, think about if you were sitting down with someone from Google and explaining why these sites should be included in the index and have a high ranking. Make sure that everything under your control can be explained and is not embarrassing or going against their guidelines. Clean things up, then ask for a reinclusion request.

You may want to step back and remember that search engines do not buy from you, they don't fill out your forms, sign up for your newsletters, etc. Real people are the ones who will be visiting your website. Do those 16 pages answer their questions? Do they convince readers to take a desired action?

Before you start doing everything for search engines, make sure that your site is set up for people. After that, as Eblan suggested, the Beginner's Guide to SEO is a good resource (as well as the other suggestions).