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You could try fetching a few of the the pages manually as googlebot to see how they are performing.  5xx errors can often be random/intermittent glitches.

Hi there,

This is from the OSE page:

"Sorry that you still haven't been able to see your links in Linkscape. Most new sites and links will be indexed by our spiders and available in Linkscape and Open Site Explorer within 60 days, but some take even longer for many of reasons, including the crawl-ability of sites, the amount of inbound links to them, and the depth of pages in subdirectories.

Just so you know, here's how we compile our index:

1. We grab the most recent index.
2. We take the top 10 billion URLs with the highest MozRank (with a fixed limit on some of the larger domains).
3. We start crawling from the top down until we've crawled 59,000,000,000 pages (which is about 25% the amount in Google's index)."

You can read more here: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/about

If you can see backlinks to your site in GWT then they definitely exist.

Hope this helps.

I think I might be misunderstanding something here but here goes.

In an ideal world Google would index the white papers. > Users would reach your site on keyword searches that are within your white papers (now indexed by Google). > before seeing papers they have to compete the form?

This is what you want to achieve?

Cheers

Able Skills is ranked number 2 when I run the search.  The number 1 spot is taken by a site site which has the keywords in the domain name which is probably why its number 1.

I'd recommend using hyphens as its better for humans when the URL is punctuated.  So this version

realthread.com/products/american-apparel-2001

nothing comes back when I run this

site:www.royaloakshomesfl.com

So looks like its not indexed

You can see it here:

http://royaloakshomesfl.com/robots.txt

So its in the webroot of your hosting.  You can change it via FTP to and change it to the following to grant full access until you have figured out robot access rights.  I think you need at least one Disallow: line without the / slash in your existing configuration to make it work.

User-agent: *
Disallow: 

I think the pest control space offers huge potential for link bait and viral marketing as well! The papers here in London are always writing articles on the rat population exploding and "taking over the city".  I guess people just love reading about that stuff.

Would be cool to hear how things go - might make for a good YouMoz post

How far have they dropped in ranking and has traffic also dropped off completely?  I'd wonder what your competitors (e.g. the sites now above you) are doing - may be worth checking out their pages etc.  Just curious as I know this question will come up for every SEO someday!

I'd be tempted to first look at your competitors and evaluate their link profiles and link strategy amongst other things to get a handle on why they are currently ahead of you.  Once you have this info you can decide on your next move.

Information architecture is important from a usability and search engine prospective.

I'd say go for the categories divided by the /

www.example.com**/**accounts/titanium
www.example.com/accounts/open-demo-account

This makes more sense and lends itself to scalability etc.

hope this helps.

there are some really good articles on information architecture on the seomoz and the web

super difficult to answer but I agree it would be good to be able to attach a cost to a link.

Depends on the link builder and approach being taken by them.

Its pays to make contact with people in the niche and build a relationship with them before asking them for a link.

not quite sure what you mean exactly - can you expand with and example?

Thanks

Interesting problem.  Its possible that a user will click your ad multiple times, I'm sure you have already considered this.

What's the level of discrepancies with FB?

More information can be found here regarding this setting and how it is used by Google.  It will help answer your question.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=44231

To be honest though I'd just update the GWT setting or the 301 so they are both the same...

Thought you were talking about "Java".  Needless to say JavaScript can cause all sorts of issues with SEO.

Yeah I agree the work-around sounds like it may be interpreted as black hat cloaking and get you in trouble.

Can you explain further how your application is working and why its not SEO friendly?

Cheers

Have a gander at these:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-article-marketing-submission-for-seo

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/article-marketing-mostly-a-scam-whiteboard-friday

If I remember correctly they should give you a good idea about articles etc.

I'd concentrate on creating great articles for your own site, which will attract links.

But as far as your onsite efforts go are you targeting keywords e.g. are your pages optimised?  If not then I'd recommend doing this first before changing any anchor text.

Beyond this I would start slowly only changing  few existing backlinks from sites with high mR/mT etc and changing the anchor text on these while also focusing on building new links from high mR/mT sites.