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Keri

Will the links be nofollowed?

AdRoll is the culprit it seems. If you've seen increased spend, contact them, they are quite aware of the issue. More in a new post by Barry at http://www.seroundtable.com/adroll-invalid-traffic-18922.html

This would be great feedback for our Feature Request forum at https://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-seomoz-pro-feature-requests. Thanks!

You can hyperlink the artwork itself back to the source site.

Again, if you're linking just for SEO purposes, and you're trying to hide links from the search engines, it's not the best course of action, and goes against multiple search engine guidelines.

Just checking to make sure that there aren't any problems with the analytics code itself. Have you made sure that tracking is still on all the pages? If you have access to server log files, like awstats, do you see the same drop?

This actually goes against Google's guidelines (more information at https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66353?hl=en&ref_topic=6001971). I would personally not implement such links, and if you already have them, remove them ASAP.

If I'm reading this correctly, you're wanting a link to show to the search engines but you don't want your visitors to easily see it

Our Beginner's Guide to SEO has a section about links that should be helpful and get you started in the right direction.

http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links

Welcome, LoveSavings. Just wanted to make sure you knew this post is a year old, and that all of the links in Q&A are automatically nofollowed. Thanks for the thoughtful answer!

Thanks for pointing this out. It appears that a YouMoz post was made a year ago by someone working for Fat Joe, and is referenced at http://fatjoe.co/blogger-outreach/#buzz. To the best of my knowledge, they have no special arrangement with of us any type, and I will have our legal department reach out regarding the use of the logo on the front page.

Do the individual pages with the definitions have additional information on them, or are they just from a third party, with other parts of the site having the unique information?

Lots of people are seeing this at the moment. Still no reason has been identified, but you're not alone. Barry has a few more details on SER at http://www.seroundtable.com/direct-traffic-ie7-analytics-18897.html.

I notice there's no date of publication or last review on the SEJ post. Things change very frequently in SEO, both in terms of tactics, and in terms of the sites themselves. Things that Moz posted five years ago may now have broken links, or may now be against Google guidelines, even when they were just fine at the time.

Thomas, could you review your response and edit with a keyboard? Some of the formatting is off, making it a bit confusing to understand. Thanks!

Moz, Ahrefs, and any other site all use their own crawlers, and don't use Google's index. None of us also have the number of computers that Google does to crawl. We all have our own ways of crawling and looking for links, and at Moz, we try to focus on the highest quality links.

The part where you state that you have made 10,000 links on 45 domains is of a bit of concern. That's a lot of links from just a few sites, and the fact that you made them could mean they're not of the same quality as they would be if you had gotten them as an editorial reference from another site.

Can you tell us more about what these links are like? My first guess is that they don't have much quality, and thus aren't helping you much in the search engines.

I've got a question back for you that's more of a meta question. Why would the search engines want to index your pages? If all the page is doing is grabbing information from another source, your site isn't offering any additional value to the users, and the search engine algos aren't going to see the point in sending you visitors.

Has your traffic also dropped? Are you searching in an incognito browser, to try to minimize any personalization?

Without knowing your URL, it's a little difficult to diagnose.

Hi! Thanks for your detailed feedback. I believe we are changing our campaign limits soon, and when our help teamsters are back on Monday, they'll be able to add and confirm any details.

I'm concerned to hear about the removal of a comment or question. We very rarely remove questions, even when asked to, and only do so if they are exact duplicates, or in gross violation of our terms of service. If you can PM me your username for Moz Local, I'm happy to see what I can find out about the question and make sure we didn't have any problems in our system.

[edited to add:] You do need to have a Moz Pro account to ask a question in Q&A. If this was a local account without Pro, there shouldn't have been the option to ask a question here, and that's something we'll need to fix. Again, let me know, and I'll investigate.

If you search site:domain.com in Google do you show up? Do you show up in Bing?

First step is making sure you're still indexed, and it's not something where there's accidentally a robots.txt involved.

Anything of interest in Google Webmaster Tools?